Events

Eating Archaeology in BU Today

BU Today 6/9/2016 Cooking Up the Past BU students re-create ancient recipes, and eat them too The sponge cake favored by 19th-century prostitutes was dense, cloyingly sweet, and pretty much inedible to someone with today’s palate. That’s according to a group of BU archaeology, gastronomy, and culinary arts students who found the century-old recipe and […]

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Kaoru “Kay” Ueda contributes to “Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age” at Peabody Essex Museum

“Co-organized by the Peabody Essex Museum and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, this exhibition of 170 superlative Asian and Dutch works of art explores the transformative impact that Asian luxuries had on Dutch art and life in the 17th century, bringing new perspectives on the Dutch Golden Age and its relationship to Asia.” (PEM website) On view […]

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Archaeology Open House! Wednesday, November 4 from 4-5:30PM.

Please visit us in the Archaeology Department on Wednesday, November 4 from 4-5:30PM. We would like to meet you and tell you about what we are doing in Archaeology and how you can be involved through classes and volunteer activities. The Open House will be in the Gabel Museum of Archaeology (675 Commonwealth Avenue, room […]

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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.

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Environmental Archaeology Laboratory launches website

The Boston University Environmental Archaeology Lab is devoted to the study of human interactions with past environments, focusing on the analysis of archaeological plant and animal remains from sites worldwide spanning the Paleolithic to the recent historical period.  Click here to go to the site and check it out.

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