John Marston

Marston publishes with PhD student Peter Kováčik and alumna Nami Shin

John M. Marston is lead author on a new article about the Bronze Age site of Kaymakçı in western Turkey, along with Anthropology PhD student Peter Kováčik, alumna Nami Shin (CAS ’15), and editor of the Journal of Field Archaeology, Christina Luke. Find the article, “Agropastoral Economies and Land Use in Bronze Age Western Anatolia,” […]

John Marston and Emily Johnson (CAS’17) publish article in Journal of Archaeological Sciences

Alumna Emily Johnson (CAS’17) publishes research based on her BU undergraduate honors thesis, which received the Michael A. Sassano III and Christopher M. Sassano Award for Writing Excellence in the Social Sciences in 2017, under the supervision of her advisor and co-author of the article, Professor John (Mac) Marston. Click here for the article Abstract: […]

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John Marston and Catherine West are co-authors on a paper published in Science

The article is a reconsideration of the entire history of land use of the Earth. It was sourced by asking regional experts to contribute their areas of expertise and thus represents an expert consensus on land use histories. Marston and West are among those experts who contributed as authors. The primary finding of the article […]

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John Marston awarded an NSF Grant

The National Science Foundation Archaeology Program has funded the proposal “Spatial Analysis of State Agropastoral Economies”, which is directed by John M. Marston (Boston University, lead PI) and David Meiggs (Rochester Institute of Technology). Over the two-year award, Marston and Meiggs will conduct research to examine how societies manage sustainable agricultural production across the varied landscapes under their […]

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