Ilaria Patania interview by BYUradio
Ilaria Patania, ABD graduate student, was interviewed by BYUradio show Top of Mind with Julie Rose. Recreating and Trying Out Ancient Recipes Guest: Ilaria Patania, Graduate Student in the Department of Archaeology, Director of the “Eating Archaeology” Project at Boston University One of the most important parts of traveling is tasting the local food. If […]
Alumna Dr. Donna Yates (CAS’04) exclusive SAFE interview
1. Please describe your professional and educational background for our readers. I have always wanted to be an archaeologist, but I thought I was just going to be a regular Maya archaeologist. While studying at Boston University, I worked in Belize and Guatemala for six months. There, I was working at a site that had […]
BU archaeology students in the news
Students in Professor Catherine West’s spring course – Archaeology 308: Archaeological Research Design and Materials Analysis – learned to do hands-on archaeological research using collections on loan from the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, Alaska. The goal of the course is to give students real archaeological experience as they move on to field school, lab-based research, […]
Eating Archaeology in the Boston Globe
The dinner, aptly named “Eating Archeology,” was the brainchild of Ilaria Patania, a graduate student who is as passionate about food as she is about archeological science. Food is practically Patania’s native tongue; her parents run a hotel and restaurant in her native Italy. “To me, cooking is such an important part of who I […]
Alumna, Dr. Donna Yates member of the Trafficking Culture Project
Dr Yates is one of our foremost authorities in the subject. She lectures in Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime at Glasgow University’s Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, and is also part of the Trafficking Culture Project, an international grouping that does deep research into the contemporary global trade in looted cultural objects. Read […]
Maccabees Project is in the Boston Globe
The following appeared on BostonGlobe.com: Headline: Boston University project attempts to understand the Maccabees – The Boston Globe Date: Apr 12, 2016 The Maccabees are a complex, but ongoing symbol of Jewish nationalism. But, were they really great ancient warriors or has their heroism been exaggerated? http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2016/04/12/project-attempts-understand-maccabees/5zz0EwooWFR3ZY7FD4uaKN/story.html?s_campaign=8315
Marni Blake Walter, alumna, article in Western Pennsylvania History
Alumna, Marni Blake Walter (GRS’09) published a recent article, “An Unlikely Atomic Landscape: Forest Hills and the Westinghouse Atom Smasher,” featured as the cover story in Western Pennsylvania History (the magazine of the Senator John Heinz History Center), Fall 2015, pages 36-49. As the Westinghouse Electric Company’s earliest venture into nuclear physics, the atom smasher is […]
#CultureUnderThreat: Ricardo J. Elia urges countries to reduce the demand for stolen cultural property
Ricardo J. Elia, Associate Professor of Archaeology at Boston University, discusses the global nature of the antiquities market and urges countries to reduce the demand for stolen cultural property.
Profs. Carballo and Runnels discuss the role of imitation and instruction in prehistory for an article in The Daily Free Press
http://dailyfreepress.com/2015/12/01/imitation-proves-to-be-valuable-learning-tool-throughout-human-history/
Feature story BU-BC Maccabees Project
If you are interested in learning more about the BU-BC Maccabees Project, please visit the project website: http://sites.bu.edu/maccabees/