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Professor John Marston recipient of the AIA James R. Wiseman Book Award!
Archaeological Institute of America has selected Professor John Marston to be the twenty-ninth recipient of the James R. Wiseman Book Award for his 2017 book, Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion. He will receive the award at the meeting in January 2019 (alongside Curtis Runnels receiving the Gold Medal award!). Congratulations Mac!
Sydney Hunger (CAS’19) recognized as an Outstanding Student Researcher
Archaeology Major, Sydney Hunter (CAS’19) recognized by BU UROP as an Outstanding Student Researcher. Sydney conducted her research in Uzbekistan, taking soil samples for phytolith analysis. 2018 Symposium Awards
Anna Goldfield (GRS’17) dissertation article published in the Journal of Human Evolution
Anna Goldfield is lead author on an article just published in the Journal of Human Evolution. “Modeling the role of fire and cooking in the competitive exclusion of Neanderthals” by Anna Goldfield, Ross Booton, and Professor John (Mac) Marston was generated originally as part of Anna’s dissertation. Read the article here. Congratulations Anna!
Professor John Marston quoted in Science Magazine
Animal fat on ancient pottery reveals a nearly catastrophic period of human prehistory By Michael Price Aug. 13, 2018 , 3:05 PM, Sciencemag.org Read article: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/animal-fat-ancient-pottery-shards-reveals-nearly-catastrophic-period-human-prehistory
Summer 2018 Uzbekistan field work
Professor John Marston, undergraduate student, Sydney Hunter, and a few other students are in the field in Uzbekistan this summer.
Professor John Marston receives Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching
Wednesday, May 9 at the College of Arts and Sciences faculty meeting Professor John Marston was awarded the Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching. Congratulations Mac!
Professor Marston’s “Office Artifacts” featured in BU Today
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Paleoethnobotany Lab (CAS AR516) featured in BU Today Close Up
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Assistant Professor John Marston has book published!
Congratulations to Professor Marston! Now Available from Penn Press Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion: Gordion Special Studies 8 John M. Marston This book publishes the results of 220 botanical samples from the 1993-2002 Gordion excavations directed by Mary Voigt. Together with Naomi Miller’s 2010 volume (Gordion Special Studies 5), this book completes the […]