Alumna, Veronica Joseph Keyes (GRS’16) in North Korea retrieving DPRK remains
2016 Archaeology PhD Veronica Joseph (now Veronica Keyes) has been employed at DPAA (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency) in Honolulu for several years, work that she is enjoying very much. She is was one of the archaeologists/anthropologists on the delegation that recently went to North Korea to retrieve 55 sets of remains from DPRK, which will […]
BU Archaeology Program Inaugural Event
Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are pleased to welcome you to attend an open house and keynote lecture on the future of archaeology on the afternoon of Friday, September 21st. Additional information will be forthcoming, but we want to make sure you save the date and come spend some time with us. The open house, […]
Professor Amalia Perez-Juez in the field summer 2018
Professor Amalia Perez-Juez excavating in #Menorca with Amics del Museu de Menorca (Ana, Cecilia, Carlos and Borja). Amazing #megalithic structures built in the first millennium BC.
Professor Carballo and Daniela Hernandez Sarinana keeping the Teotihuacan community informed
Professor David Carballo and graduate student, Daniela Hernandez Sarinana, in San Pedro Tlajinga, Teotihuacan with the families from the community to explain their project goals and their progress. #archaeology #Mexico #proyectoarqueologicotlajingateotihuacan
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.
Emma Schlauder summer 2018 field work
Archaeology undergraduate student, Emma Schlauder, excavating at the medieval cemetery of Hågerup, Denmark alongside Dr. George Milner. The last photo was identified as the first Slavic Temple Ring to be found in Denmark. Thank you Emma for the photos and sharing your summer work with us.
Alumna, Elizabeth Hannigan (CAS’18), Maya society research featured in BU Today.
Alumna, Elizabeth Hannigan (CAS’18), Maya society research features in BU Today. Click here to read entire article. “Xultún, located in one of Guatemala’s national parks, is at least a three-hour drive from the nearest town, “depending on whether it’s a muddy day,” says Hannigan, who spent two months at the dig site in 2016. For […]
The Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP)
The Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP) is an open, interactive website focused on ceramics produced in the Levant from the Neolithic era (c. 5500 B.C.E.) through the Ottoman period (c. 1920 C.E.). Here you can submit and find information—whether long published or newly discovered—about ceramic wares, shapes, specific vessels, scientific analyses, kiln sites, and chronology. The […]
Professor Berlin’s LCP Project receives a $55,000 grant
LCP got some good news this week! We’ll be receiving $55,000 over the next two years from the Austrian FWF, which is the country’s Science Fund (sort of the equivalent of our NSF) in conjunction with their new Open Research Data Project. We are partners with the Austrian Archaeological Institute in this grant, which will fund not […]
Professor Andrea Berlins’ Levantine Ceramic Project LCP is the top feature in the Biblical Archaeology Society’s daily email blast!
Archaeological Views: Pottery in the Computer Age As published in the September/October 2016 Biblical Archaeology Review Andrea Berlin • 10/03/2016 BAR readers know there is no place on Earth more intensively investigated archaeologically than the Levant. As a corridor between east and west, north and south, as well as the center of gravity for […]