Professors West and Marston Climate Change and Archaeology Radio Interview
Climate Change and Archaeology April 12, 2017 Hosted by Dr. Joseph Schuldenrein – Indiana Jones: Myth, Reality and 21st Century Archaeology Click here for podcast. Episode Description In this episode we explore the role of archaeology in climate science, examining contemporary and ancient climate change. Our guests, Assistant Professor Dr. John Marston at Boston University’s […]
Professor Carballo Teotihuacan Project in Science Magazine
Professor David Carballo Teotihuacan in Science Magazine. The candidate for political office stood in a plaza, naked, bracing himself against the punches and kicks. The crowd roared, pulsing around him like a beating heart. People for whom he had risked his life in war after war hurled blows and insults from all directions. The candidate […]
Professor Catherine West articles about her squirrel research!
Eureka Alert Global Source for Science News Public Release: 15-Dec-2016 OU, BU and Smithsonian researchers investigate ancient species in Gulf of Alaska Courtney Hofman, professor in the Department of Anthropology, OU College of Arts and Sciences, collaborated with Catherine West, professor in the Department of Archaeology, Boston University, to find that the current population of squirrels […]
Professor Catherine West Alaska radio interview
New squirrels on the block? Not so fast, researchers say By Shahla Farzan, KBBI-Homer, December 19, 2016 Featured News, Outdoors, Science & Tech, Southcentral, Wildlife Catherine West, a research assistant professor in the Archaeology Department at Boston University, said Arctic ground squirrels are voracious grazers and can strip an area of vegetation. “They’ll prey on bird eggs […]
Professor Catherine West article on Conservation Biology is receiving some press coverage
The article coverage on EurekAlert! December 15, 2016 “The archaeological record in the Gulf of Alaska provides us with a long-term look at human-environmental interactions, where Native Alaskans have harvested resources for thousands of years. This relationship can help us understand the complexity of contemporary human-environmental interactions and what this means for conservation,” said West. […]
Professor David Carballo The Daily Beast interview
Tangled History Mexico Is Hiding The World’s Largest Pyramid In the city of Cholula in central Mexico there stands a hill with a giant church on top which hides a man made pyramid filled with secrets. Excerpt from interview with William O’Connor, 12/4/16 Click here to read entire interview. During the peak period of the […]
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 […]
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. […]
Catherine West quoted in National Geographic
Professor Catherine West quoted in National Geographic The Plate. “The past has this incredible database that tells us what the landscape looked like when there were [Native Americans] harvesting resources differently than we do today,” says Catherine West, an archaeologist at Boston University who wasn’t involved with the research. “It might give us some ways […]
Dan Fallu discovered fragment of Ancient “Throne of Agamemnon”
“I treat this find no differently than any other: I simply want to extract as much information as possible and have worked to find the similarities and dissimilarities between this and the only unequivocally known Bronze Age Greek throne, at Knossos,” says Fallu, who has been working at Mycenae and near Corinth and Sparta as […]