John Marston

John Marston CISS Affiliate of the Month

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January 2026: John “Mac” Marston (CAS/Archaeology & Anthropology) John “Mac” Marston is a professor of Archaeology and Anthropology. He is the director of Boston University’s Archaeology Program and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an environmental archaeologist who studies the long-term sustainability of agriculture and land use, with a […]

John Marston new article

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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/

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 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.