Photos of CAS AR 101 visiting our Zooarchaeology Laboratory.
Teaching Fellows, Mary Clarke and Guzin Eren take Professor Rebecca Bria’s CAS AR101 students to visit with Samantha Kelley, laboratory assistant in the Zooarchaeology Lab. They helped students with identifying bones and assembling them into complete skeletons. Click here to view the photos.
Rebecca Bria takes her CAS AR101 class to the cemetery
The CAS AR101 cemetery lab downtown at the Granary and King’s Chapel burying grounds. Click here for photos.
Congratulations to the Archaeology Program Class of 2019!
Photo album can be viewed via https://photos.app.goo.gl/oW1rEq8kxeESEYih7
CAS AR410 digs a historic site in the North End with City of Boston Archaeologist
CAS AR 410, Archaeological Research Design and Materials Analysis, taught by Professor Catherine West and teaching assistant, Kathleen Forste (GRS’21), worked on material from a historic site in Boston’s North End. The students wrote blog posts reflecting on their analysis of 17-19th century artifacts from a possible privy at the Pierce-Hichborn House. https://www.boston.gov/news/studying-artifacts-pierce-hichborn-house https://www.instagram.com/bostonarchaeo/ https://www.instagram.com/bu_archaeology/
Sydney Hunter awarded Fulbright Scholarship
Sydney Hunter (CAS’19) Archaeology Senior, has been awarded a J. William Fulbright Scholarship to attend the University of Liverpool for a Master’s of Arts in Archaeology. At Liverpool, she’ll be taking classes on the archaeology of the Near East and various materials analyses, emphasis on archaeobotany for the MA thesis work. Sydney will be conducting research […]
Emma Schlauder wins Fulbright Scholarship
Archaeology senior Emma Schlauder (CAS’19) has been awarded a J. William Fulbright Scholarship for study in the United Kingdom. A double major in Archaeology and History, with a minor in Classical Civilization, Emma will use the prestigious award to attend the University of Sheffield’s MSc program in Human Osteology and Funerary Archaeology in fall 2019. […]
Sydney Hunter (CAS’19) receives an award
Sydney Hunter (CAS’19) awarded the Undergraduate Ethnobiologist Award by the Society of Ethnobiology. Sydney will receive the award at the May 2019 Society of Ethnobiology conference in Vancouver, Canada. Congratulations Sydney!
Alumna, Jessica MacLellan (CAS’09) recipient of PhD in Anthropology, University of Arizona
Jessica received her BA in Archaeology, May 2009 and has gone on with her interests in archaeology. Jessica is the recipient of a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Arizona. She studies the role of household ritual in the development of ancient Maya civilization at Ceibal, Guatemala. Congratulations Jessica!
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
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 […]