Alumna Margo Brooks, New Resource Planning Specialist, NPS Northeast Regional Office
Margo Brooks is a new resource planning specialist in the NPS Northeast Regional Office. In 2005, Brooks began a career with the NPS and moved to the Denver Service Center in 2009 to provide compliance support to both the Transportation and Line Item Construction divisions. Brooks has worked closely with project managers and parks to […]
Justin Holcomb teaching a six-week Geoarchaeology Field School
Justin Holcomb will be teaching a six-week Geoarcheaological Field School with the University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History (syllabus attached). For those students interested in getting unique hands on experience in the field with geoarchaeological training at a Paleoindian archaeological site in Oregon, please visit the following website and contact Justin Holcomb […]
Archaeology plans the menu for an Alumni Association Event – Eating Archaeology: Cooking up the Past
***SOLD OUT EVENT*** photo gallery of the evening(CLICK) The event was held on Tuesday, December 13, 6:30pm, Food & Wine Program, 808 Commonwealth Ave. Join us for an evening of food and wine with a menu researched by BU graduate students in the Department of Archaeology. Our chefs will re-create dishes from Prehispanic Aztecs, Bronze Age […]
New Plimouth Plantation Discovery by two of our Alum!
Boston Globe Article Remains of Pilgrims’ Plymouth settlement unearthed By Brian MacQuarrie Globe Staff November 23, 2016 On Tuesday, archeologists from the University of Massachusetts Boston said they have discovered what is believed to be part of the original settlement, a conclusion reached through calf’s bones, musket balls, 17th-century ceramics, and brownish soil where a […]
Mary Clarke recipient of a GRAF
Congratulations to Mary Clarke, recipient of the GRS Long Term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship to support her travel and dissertation research in Guatemala.
Alum, Kathryn Ness to publish monograph.
Archaeology PhD Kathryn L. Ness, Curator of Collections at Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts, is about to publish a monograph based on her 2015 dissertation, Setting the Table: Ceramics, Dining, and Cultural Exchange in Andalucia and La Florida with University Press of Florida. Due out in January, 2017, the book is already being promoted widely […]
BU Today coverage of BU Archaeology Cabinet of Curiosity & Unrolling of the Mummy
BU Today 10/31/2016 by Amy Laskowski Event director Ilaria Patania (GRS’17), a PhD candidate in archaeology, said unveiling parties were very fashionable occasions, hosted by those who could afford to buy a mummy as “entertainment for their house party,” and also by professors or hospitals, who would examine the relic in the name of science. […]
BU Student Veronica Joseph Hooded in Honolulu
Veronica Joseph was unable to attend the BU hooding ceremony. Her forensic anthropology lab at the US Dept. of Defense’s Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency held a surprise hooding for her there, with mother and son Xavier in attendance! Here’s a brief description from Dr. Denis To, Veronica’s lab manager: “…We actually had TWO hooding ceremonies, which you can […]
Veronica Joseph secures a position with the DPAA
Congratulations to Alum Veronica Joseph, PhD graduate 2016. She secured a permanent Forensic Anthropologist position at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) based in Honolulu.
Alum Luke Pecoraro and the Lost Colony of Ronoke
Do take a look at BU Today where there is a feature story on the work of the First Colony Foundation that is searching for the 1587 Roanoke “Lost Colony,” along with a great interview with our own Luke Pecoraro, an Archaeology alum who earned his doctorate in 2015. Luke is the Director of Archaeology […]