Dr. Francesco Berna and Stephanie Simms Discovery News Article
Mayans Cooked Food With Clay Balls Rounded clay balls found in Mexico reveal an ancient Mayan cooking technique. By Rossella Lorenzi Discovery News Thu Nov 29, 2012 Planning a last supper party on December 21? To celebrate the Mayan way, you might need several clay balls. That’s one way the Maya cooked their food, according […]
Professor William Saturno BU CAS arts+sciences Magazine
The Writing on the Wall by Courtney Humphries In a former Maya city in the Guatemalan rain forest, a team of BU researchers discovered a buried room whose walls hold paintings and hieroglyphs dating from the ninth century. The writing includes complex numerical calculations for the Maya calendar. It was the first time such paintings […]
Skeletal remains found at site add to mystery…
Franco Rossi and Aviva Cormier find fragment of a human skull at the Professor William Saturno site in Xultún, Guatemala. Click here for the BU Today article dated 08/09/2012.
Goldberg’s Laboratory of MicroStratigraphy confirms pottery find in China as world’s oldest
BU Today article dated 8/2/2012.
William Saturno Discovers Maya Mural that Contradicts 2012 “Doomsday” Myth
Geographic News Published May 10, 2012 In the last known largely unexcavated Maya megacity, archaeologists have uncovered the only known mural adorning an ancient Maya house, a new study says—and it’s not just any mural. Click here for National Geographic News story. To hear Science Magazine Podcast Interview with Professor Saturno click here.
Archaeology Professors Goldberg and Berna Make Discovery of Earliest Fire
Professor Paul Goldberg and Research Assistant Professor Francesco Berna published their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science today. For abstract with link to PDF of full article click here. For BU Today story Playing With Fire click here.
Professor Mary Beaudry Interviewed for BU Today article entitled “A Brothel Reveals Its Secrets”
In the January 31st article in BU Today Professor Beaudry talks about the surprising finds excavated from a 19th Century brothel’s outhouse in Boston’s North End. To hear the interview, see the slide show and to read the full article click here.