Professor Curtis Runnels seafaring research on the news
Professor Curtis Runnels, Chair Boston University Department of Archaeology, has published an article on his seafaring research in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 42 (2016), 140-153, titled “Middle Pleistocene sea-crossings in the eastern Mediterranean?”. Click here for the article. Professor Runnels also had a story that ran on Suddeutsche Zeitung (a major German newspaper) about […]
Kathryn Bard and Norman Hammond honored in China
Two members of the Department of Archaeology were honoured in China recently. At the Second Shanghai Archaeology Forum, organized by the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing but held at the University of Shanghai, Professor Kathryn Bard was the first of eight scholars invited to speak in the SAF […]
Fifth Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology: Ex Oriente Lux: Reflections on the Origins of Maya Civilization by William L. Fash, Jr.
Professor William Fash, Jr., Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology & Ethnology Harvard University, was invited to Boston University on October 7th to meet with Archaeology Department Faculty, Graduate Students, and to give the prestigious Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture Endowed in Honor of BU Professor Emeritus Norman Hammond.
Professor Paul Goldberg awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Grant
Congratulations to Professor Paul Goldberg, he is the recipient of a Research Grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn to carry out research with colleagues in Tübingen and elsewhere in Germany.
Goldberg’s Laboratory of MicroStratigraphy confirms pottery find in China as world’s oldest
BU Today article dated 8/2/2012.
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.
Inaugural Raymond & Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology endowed in honor of Professor Emeritus Norman Hammond
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation has endowed a Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology at Boston University in honor of Professor Norman Hammond, whose research on the Maya civilization in Central America has been supported by the Foundation for more than a decade. The Inaugural Raymond & Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology to be given […]
Norman Hammond, Distinguished Archaeologist, Retires
Congratulations to Professor Norman Hammond for a most distinguished career. It was with great pleasure that the Department of Archaeology celebrated his outstanding achievements at a gala retirement party on May 18, 2011, at The Castle, Boston University. Hammond’s entrance to the Castle was announced by an original musical fanfare where later in the celebration […]