Photos of Archaeology Program Open House – September 20th
Learn about BU’s Archaeology Program with hands-on activities, including tours of the Environmental Archaeological Laboratory (Room 348) to see how archaeologists study ancient climate change and diets through the study of plant remains (Paleoethnobotany), and a visit to Flintknapping and Wine (Room 253) to make primitive stone tools, the civilized way. Visit the Zooarchaeology Laboratory […]
Photos of the Archaeology Welcome Reception – September 4, 2019
Photo credits to Michael Hamilton. Thank you Michael!
Photos of the 9/18 Archaeology Lecture: The Levantine Ceramics Project
12:20 pm, Wednesday, September 18, 2019 Talk by Dr. Andrea Berlin, Boston University, Archaeology Program. History is a lock-box – but we archaeologists have a magic key: pottery! Pottery makes people and their activities visible. The LCP is a digital tool devoted to pottery made anywhere in the Levant, anytime from the Neolithic period to […]
John Marston and Catherine West are co-authors on a paper published in Science
The article is a reconsideration of the entire history of land use of the Earth. It was sourced by asking regional experts to contribute their areas of expertise and thus represents an expert consensus on land use histories. Marston and West are among those experts who contributed as authors. The primary finding of the article […]
Madeline Duppenthaler (GRS’19) new Development Associate at The House of the Seven Gables
Madeline will work closely with the Director of Development and the Development Operations Manager on their fundraising activities including donor relations, direct mail appeals, grant writing, special events, as well, as recruitment and retention. Congratulations Madeline!
David Carballo’s excavation team uncover a narrow wealth gap in the ancient city of Teotihuacán
Boston University archaeologists to excavate this mural and other structures in order to help decipher how working class people lived on the periphery of this ancient city. Read entire Marketplace.org article here.
Chieh-Fu “Jeff” Cheng awarded a PhD of Archaeology
Jeff defended his dissertation successfully today, titled, “The Archaeology of Trails in the Batongguan Region of Taiwan, Landscape, People, and Mobility, From the Early Seventeenth Century to the Present” Congratulations Jeff!
Professor Carballo speaks about the Gods in Ancient Skies, Gods and Monsters
Ancient Skies Gods and Monsters Episode 1 | 55m 15s In this episode we explore the origins of our relationship with the skies. From our earliest ancestors we discover how we used the skies to navigate and tell time, and how we gave religious significance to the things we saw in it. We finish on […]
Laura Heath-Stout accepts postdoctoral fellowship at Rice University
Laura Heath-Stout (GRS’19) accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in Anthropology and Museum & Heritage Studies at Rice University, Houston! In the fall, she’ll be mentoring Museum & Heritage Studies minors who are doing practica in museums and in the spring, teaching two classes. Congratulations Laura!
John Marston awarded an NSF Grant
The National Science Foundation Archaeology Program has funded the proposal “Spatial Analysis of State Agropastoral Economies”, which is directed by John M. Marston (Boston University, lead PI) and David Meiggs (Rochester Institute of Technology). Over the two-year award, Marston and Meiggs will conduct research to examine how societies manage sustainable agricultural production across the varied landscapes under their […]