Four alumni publish in Advances in Archaeological Practice
Regional Ways of Seeing: A Big-Data Approach for Measuring Ancient Visualscapes Natalie M. Susamann (GRS’19) Published online in Advances in Archaeological Practice: 16 April 2020, pp. 1-18 Affording Archaeology: How Field School Costs Promote Exclusivity Laura E. Heath-Stout (GRS’19), Elizabeth M. Hannigan (CAS’19) Published online in Advances in Archaeological Practice: 13 April 2020, pp 1-11 […]
David Carballo, new evidence from both Teotihuacan and the Maya region in Science Magazine
“Maya travelers visiting Teotihuacan during the fourth century would have encountered a city like no other they had ever seen. Three enormous pyramids loomed over the main street, now known as the Avenue of the Dead, their shapes reflecting snow-capped volcanoes visible in the distance. An orderly grid of roads extended from the avenue, and the […]
Curtis Runnels published article in The Concord Saunterer
Professor Runnels has published a new article “Henry David Thoreau, Archaeologist?” in The Concord Saunterer 27 (2019): 42-67. Thoreau had a famous ability to find stone tools, like arrowheads, around Concord. In light of recent studies of his contributions to scientific fields like river hydrology, ecology, and the succession of forest trees, did Thoreau also […]
Sara Belkin (GRS’18) the journal manager for Geoarchaeology at Wiley Publishing!
Sara, who earned a PhD in Archaeology in 2018, will be working with the Editors-in-Chief to publish the journal Geoarchaeology. She is excited that her day-to-day work will include archaeology again. Sara said, “I really wouldn’t have been able to be so successful at Wiley without BU Archaeology and all the opportunities and things I […]
Anna Goldfield (GRS’17) compilation of articles about Neanderthals
Anna has been writing for Sapiens.org, an online anthropology journal, and has created a project. An interactive, clickable Neanderthal, where each body part is linked to an article she wrote focused on that part of the anatomy, Neanderthal behavior, and how we know what we know about our closest ancient relatives. The link is here: https://www.sapiens.org/column/field-trips/neanderthal-anatomy/
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: […]
Joshua Robinson published in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
Josh’s report titled “A Holocene paleoenvironmental record based on ungulate stable isotopes from Lukenya Hill, Kenya” Elsevier author-share link (good until January 16th) is: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1a852,rVDBReaX, Click here for paper PhD. Congratulations Josh!
Justin Holcomb (GRS’21) co-authored an article in Science Advances
The Science Advances, the open-source journal of Science! The article is titled, “Earliest occupation of the Central Aegean (Naxos), Greece: Implications for hominin and Homo sapiens’ behavior and dispersals”. The site represents the core of his dissertation research, so it is an exciting development. Link: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/10/eaax0997 Daily Mail coverage: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7580023/Early-humans-travelled-Greek-islands-tens-thousands-years-earlier-believed.html?fbclid=IwAR2tURo6H7l6ukAS3HTbWMx-SS_MAORGpX0NC0rzMhNYiuXr4NvTXumJNOo Eureka! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/mu-sfe_1101519.php Science Daily: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191016153642.htm Abstract: We […]
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 […]
Justin Holcomb (GRS’21) published a new paper in Geoarchaeology!
Justin Holcomb (GRS’21) published a new paper with Dr. Takis Karkanas (American School, Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science) in the Geoarchaeology, titled “Elemental Mapping of Micromorphological Block Samples using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (pXRF): Integrating a Geochemical Line of Evidence”. Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/gea.21741 Abstract: Archaeological soil and sediment micromorphology represent the most efficient way […]