Archaeology in the News – Email from the Chair
In case you have not seen it, the spring issue of Boston University’s news magazine arts & sciences has two great pieces about activities in our department. On page 5, “Hands on the Past,” there are pictures of our Jonathan Bethard and Mac Marston making presentations at the Alumni College gathering in the Gabel Museum […]
Catherine West invited to participate in the National Science Foundation’s Arctic Horizon’s workshop
The purpose of the workshop was: “Bringing together members of the Arctic social science and indigenous communities to reassess the goals, potentials, and needs of these diverse communities and ASSP within the context of a rapidly changing circumpolar North.” Click here for more information.
Dan Fallu in World Archaeology News
Archaeologists working in Mycenae, seat of the mythical King Agamemnon, have discovered what they believe to be the site’s only known royal throne. The international team, led by president of the Mycenaean Foundation, Prof. Christofilis Maggidis of Dickinson College, USA, made the find in June 2014. Erik DeMarche and Dan Fallu were taking palaeo-hydrological measurements […]
Professor Curtis Runnels seafaring research on the news
Professor Curtis Runnels, Chair Boston University Department of Archaeology, has published an article on his seafaring research in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 42 (2016), 140-153, titled “Middle Pleistocene sea-crossings in the eastern Mediterranean?”. Click here for the article. Professor Runnels also had a story that ran on Suddeutsche Zeitung (a major German newspaper) about […]
Christine Mikeska successfully defends Archaeology honors thesis
Congratulations to BU senior Christine Mikeska, who successfully defended her honor thesis “Food or Fur: A Systematic Analysis of Dog Bones Cutmarks from the Uyak Site on Kodiak Island, Alaska.” We will miss you in the lab, Christine!
Maccabees Project is in the Boston Globe
The following appeared on BostonGlobe.com: Headline: Boston University project attempts to understand the Maccabees – The Boston Globe Date: Apr 12, 2016 The Maccabees are a complex, but ongoing symbol of Jewish nationalism. But, were they really great ancient warriors or has their heroism been exaggerated? http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2016/04/12/project-attempts-understand-maccabees/5zz0EwooWFR3ZY7FD4uaKN/story.html?s_campaign=8315
Professor John Marston recipient of an American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) award
Professor Marston received an award of $5,000 from the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) for his upcoming summer fieldwork. The project is entitled “Empire and Environment in Late Bronze and Iron Age Anatolia”. Congratulations!
Prof. Mary Beaudry delivered a keynote address, “Gastronomical Archaeology: Food, Mealtimes, and the Material Aesthetics of Dining” at the 2016 Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food
Prof. Mary Beaudry delivered a keynote address, “Gastronomical Archaeology: Food, Mealtimes, and the Material Aesthetics of Dining” at the 2016 Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food, held at the University of Amsterdam on January 15 & 16 on the theme of “Fire, Knives and Fridges: The Material Culture of Cooking Tools and Techniques” (http://bijzonderecollectiesuva.nl/foodhistory/amsterdam-symposium-on-the-history-of-food/#Programme). […]
Kathryn Bard and Norman Hammond honored in China
Two members of the Department of Archaeology were honoured in China recently. At the Second Shanghai Archaeology Forum, organized by the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing but held at the University of Shanghai, Professor Kathryn Bard was the first of eight scholars invited to speak in the SAF […]
Profs. Carballo and Runnels discuss the role of imitation and instruction in prehistory for an article in The Daily Free Press
http://dailyfreepress.com/2015/12/01/imitation-proves-to-be-valuable-learning-tool-throughout-human-history/