John Marston | Archaeology

John Marston Boston Globe interview

‘Your materials have been incinerated.’ The confounding process of traveling with scientific samples.

John Marston new article

The new article tilted, “Politics of Resilience and Materialism in Archaeological Explanation” in American Anthropologist. http://doi.org/10.1111/aman.70002 Here is a news post about in on Mac’s lab website: https://sites.bu.edu/ealab/2025/07/22/marston-publishes-article-in-american-anthropologist/

John Marston quoted on national NPR and in the NYTimes

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Mac was quoted as an expert in two articles.

Angela Zhang, Peter Kovacik, Kathryn Bard and John Marston co-authored an article

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Angela Zhang, Peter Kovacik, Kathryn Bard and John Marston are authors of a just-published article. Alumna Angela Zhang (CAS ’24), graduate student, Peter Kováčik, and John Marston co-authored with Kathryn Bard, Professor Emerita of Archaeology and Classical Studies, a new article: “Wood Fuel Use in the Predynastic Upper Egypt Nile Valley” in Journal of Archaeological Science: […]

John Marston interview of the Agora of Athens

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John Marston interview of the Agora of Athens was recently published by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Here is the link to the video: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/news/newsDetails/agora-scholars-speak-mac-marston

John Marston published a new article in Current Anthropology 65

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Agricultural Entanglements, Niche Construction, and Low-Level Food Production

John Marston quoted

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The research “provides just a really solid case study in how nondomesticated plants … are manipulated and used in many of the same ways that domesticated plants are,” says environmental archaeologist John Marston of Boston University, who was not involved with the study.