Alumna Nami Shin (CAS’15) and John M. Marston author article
Alumna Nami Shin (CAS 2015) and John M. Marston are lead authors on a new study of botanical remains from Kaymakçı, a Late Bronze Age site in Western Anatolia. The article is available via this link. Congratulations to Nami and Mac!
Marston publishes new article on agricultural economies
John M. Marston’s latest article, “Archaeological Approaches to Agricultural Economies” has been published online in the Journal of Archaeological Research. The article is available here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-020-09150-0
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: […]
Professor John Marston research on The Brink
Click here to read the entire article, What can we Learn from ancient peas?
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 […]
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 […]
John (Mac) Marston receives Tenure and promotion to Associate Professor!
John Marston was notified May 13th by Stan Sclaroff, Interim Dean of Arts and Science, that he had been granted tenure and promotion to associate professor. Congratulations Mac! We are so proud of you, you are so deserving of the promotion and tenure.
John Marston recipient of Fulbright Scholar Awards to Australia in the “All Disciplines” competition
Congratulations to Professor Marston! He has been selected as the recipient of one of six Fulbright Scholar Awards to Australia in the “All Disciplines” competition. This will allow him to spend the Spring 2020 semester at the School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, to collaborate with Dr. Andrew Fairbairn on a project […]
Wroth (GRS’18), Marston, and Goldberg publish a paper
“Neanderthal plant use and pyrotechnology: phytolith analysis from Roc de Marsal, France”, paper published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, written by, Archaeology alumna, Kristen Wroth (GRS’18), Professor John M. Marston, Professor Emeritus, Paul Goldberg, et al. Read the paper. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12520-019-00793-9 Congratulations Kris, Mac, and Paul! Image, Kristen Wroth and John Marston
AIA Award Recipients
Prof. John Marston the 29th James R. Wiseman Book Award for Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion. Professor Curtis Runnels received the Gold Medal Award at the annual meeting. Congratulations, well deserved!