Central Asian Archaeology and Cultural Heritage delegation visits BU
“21st Century ChangeMakers: Preserving and Protecting Cultural Heritage and Identities”
BU Archaeology Colonial Cemeteries Visit
Professor Robert Murowchick and some undergrads visited two colonial cemeteries in downtown Boston.
Robert Murowchick coauthors articles in Education About Asia
Robert Murowchick co-wrote articles in the the Fall 2020 issue of the journal Education About Asia, published by the Association for Asian Studies. His contribution “China, Global History, and the Sea: Pedagogical Perspectives and Applications” can be read Here This special issue of Education About Asia focuses on Teaching Asia’s Giants: China, and includes: Education […]
CAS AR101, Introduction to Archaeology, students visit two late 17th/18th c. burial grounds in Boston
Professor Robert Murowchick took some students from CAS AR101 (ones interested in a meet up – going on their own time, on a Saturday) to visit two late 17th/18th c. burial grounds in Boston, the Granary Burial Ground and King’s Chapel Cemetery, to look first-hand at the the type of archaeological seriation that Edwin Dethlefson […]
National Science Foundation Grant Award Recipients
Professors Christopher Roosevelt and Christina Luke, co-Principal Investigators, awarded National Science Foundation for their research, Cultural Dynamics and Overlapping Interaction Spheres in the Marmara Lake Basin, Western Turkey, $202,124 Professor David Carballo, awarded National Science Foundation Grant for his research, Urbanism, Neighborhood Organization, and Domestic Economy at the Tlajinga District, Teotihuacan, Mexico, $188,238 Research Assistant […]
Professor Robert Murowchick Washington Post interview
Chinese terra cotta warriors had real, and very carefully made, weapons By Jennifer Pinkowski, Published: November 26 The 7,000 soldiers buried with Qin Shi Huang in 210 B.C. were made of clay. But the bronze weapons the terra cotta army carried into the enormous tomb complex near Xi’an in western China were the real things: tens […]