Photos from the Archaeology Seminar Series Talk 10/30: “Reconstructing a Hellenistic Temple at Tel Dor”
Becky Martin, Boston University & Ilan Sharon, Visiting Scholar, Hebrew University, talk Wednesday, October 30th. Click here to view the photos.
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 […]
Photos of the Archaeology Lecture 10/16: “Make place for thy kings!”: Monumental terraces of Lydian Sardis
Guzin Eren (GRS’ 20), Boston University Archaeology Program lecture Wednesday, October 16th.
Joe Bagley (CAS’06) on Bostonia
“It’s armchair archaeology,” Bagley says, sitting at the Boston City Archaeology Lab in West Roxbury. The lab is tucked away off the Jamaicaway, and inside, the ever-approachable and enthusiastic Bagley will show you a large room neatly stacked with acid-free boxes. Inside are relics from digs Bagley and his predecessors have unearthed, like pottery and […]
Archaeology outreach to 300 6th graders at a Middle School in Canton
Amanda Grace Santos and Abby Schofield, both in the BA/MA in Archaeology Program, visited the Galvin Middle School, Canton, MA, on Friday October 4, 2019. Mr. Anthony Natale, Social Studies Department Coordinator, reached out to us. He wanted to present archaeology to the sixth grade class of 300 students. Thank you Mr. Natale for hosting us, […]
Professor John Marston research on The Brink
Click here to read the entire article, What can we Learn from ancient peas?
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.
David Carballo named Assistant Provost for General Education
“One of the nation’s preeminent scholars in Mesoamerican archaeology, focusing particularly on the prehispanic civilizations of central Mexico, David Carballo has been known to teach students such topics as ancient tool-making with rocks. Now he’s turning his scholarly gaze forward, having been tapped by BU to oversee the future of one of its major classroom […]
Photos of Archaeology Lecture 10/2: “Paleoecology of Plio-Pleistocene biological evolution and behavioral change: A context for deciphering African multiregionalism”
Dr. Joshua Robinson, Boston University Archaeology Program lecture, Wednesday, October 2nd.
Kailun Jiang (GRS’19) working for the Center of Social Sciences, SUSTech, China
Kailun (Kellen) Jiang, recipient of our BA/MA in Archaeology, started her new position as Research Assistant in the Heritage Lab, Center for Social Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology (Nanfang Keji Daxue) in Shenzhen, China. She is currently working on projects involving Shang bronzes and oracle bones, and is beginning a major GIS project to […]