John M. Marston’s Publications and Presentations
- Works in Progress
- Books
- Edited Journal Issues
- Journal Articles
- Book Chapters
- Popular Articles and Editorials
- Technical Reports
- Conferences / Presentations
- Invited Lectures
(* = coauthored with graduate student; † = coauthored with undergraduate student)
Works in Progress
*Castellano, Lorenzo, and John M. Marston. Wood charcoal from Kınık Höyük KH-P II: insights on landscape, vegetation, and wooden resources exploitation in southern Cappadocia during the Hellenistic period. In Kınık Höyük I: Kınık Höyük and the archaeology of the Hellenistic kingdom of Cappadocia. Edited by Lorenzo d’Alfonso, Maria Elena Gorrini, and Burak Yolaçan. ISAW and NYU Press, New York. Submitted manuscript.
*Forste, Kathleen, John M. Marston, and Tracy Hoffman. Urban agricultural economy of the Early Islamic southern Levant: A case study of Ashkelon. In review with Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.
Marston, John M., and *Lorenzo Castellano. Archaeobotany in Anatolia. In The Archaeology of Anatolia, Volume IV: Recent Discoveries (2019-2020). Edited by Sharon R. Steadman and Gregory McMahon. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge. In press.
Marston, John M., and Kali R. Wade. Macrobotanical remains: seeds and fruits. In Megiddo VII: Decoding Death: The Shmunis Family Foundation’s Investigation of Two Elite Bronze Age Tombs. Edited by Melissa S. Cradic, Matthew J. Adams, Mario Martin, and Israel Finkelstein. Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv. Submitted manuscript.
Santini, Lauren, Sadie Weber, John M. Marston, and Astrid Runggaldier. First archaeological identification of nixtamalized maize, from two pit latrines at the ancient Maya site of San Bartolo, Guatemala. In preparation for Journal of Archaeological Science.
*Slim, Francesca G., Canan Çakırlar, Max Price, Cheryl A. Makarawicz, and John M. Marston. Thirty centuries of pig husbandry at Gordion on the semi-arid central Anatolian plateau. In preparation for Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
†Tang, Yiyi, John M. Marston, and Xiangming Fang. Diversity and seasonality in cultivation and wild plant use at Neolithic Anle, Lower Yangtze, China. In review with The Holocene.
Wade, Kali R., and John M. Marston. Microbotanical remains: phytoliths. In Megiddo VII: Decoding Death: The Shmunis Family Foundation’s Investigation of Two Elite Bronze Age Tombs. Edited by Melissa S. Cradic, Matthew J. Adams, Mario Martin, and Israel Finkelstein. Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv. Submitted manuscript.
Books
Marston, John M. 2017. Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion. University of Pennsylvania Museum Press. Gordion Special Studies 8. 224 pp. http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15706.html
Marston, John M., Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, and Christina Warinner (editors). 2014. Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany. University Press of Colorado. 548 pp. http://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/2023-method-and-theory-in-paleoethnobotany
Edited Journal Issues
Marston, John M., Chantel White, and Alan Farahani (guest editors). 2019. Special issue: “Agropastoralism and plant communities across the millennia: papers in honor of Naomi F. Miller” Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 28(3), May 2019.
Marston, John M., and Melissa Rosenzweig (guest editors). 2018. Special issue: “Archaeologies of empire and environment” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 52, Dec 2018.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Marston, John M. 2021. Archaeological approaches to agricultural economies. Journal of Archaeological Research 29:327-385. Link
Marston, John M. and Kathleen J. Birney. 2021. Hellenistic agricultural economies at Ashkelon, southern Levant. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany online before print. Link
Marston, John M., Canan Çakırlar, Christina Luke, *Peter Kováčik, *Francesca G. Slim, *Nami Shin, and Christopher H. Roosevelt. Agropastoral economies and land use in Bronze Age western Anatolia. Environmental Archaeology online before print. Link
Marston, John M., *Peter Kováčik, and Ulf-Dietrich Schoop. 2021. Environmental reconstruction and wood use at Late Chalcolithic Çamlıbel Tarlası, Turkey. Quaternary International 593-594:178-194. Link
*Shin, Nami, John M. Marston, Christina Luke, Simone Riehl, and Christopher H. Roosevelt. 2021. Agricultural practices at Bronze Age Kaymakçı, western Anatolia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 36:102800. Link
von Bayer, Madelynn, and John M. Marston. 2021. Best practices for digitizing a wood slide collection: the Bailey-Wetmore wood collection of the Harvard University Herbaria. Quaternary International 593-594:50–59. Link
Wade, Kali R., Lisa-Marie Shillito, John M. Marston, and Clive Bonsall. 2021. Assessing the potential of phytolith analysis to investigate local environment and prehistoric plant resource use in temperate regions: a case study from Williamson’s Moss, Cumbria, Britain. Environmental Archaeology 26:295-308. Link
†Johnson, Emily S., and John M. Marston. 2020. The experimental identification of nixtamalized maize through starch spherulites. Journal of Archaeological Science 113:105056. Link
Çakırlar, Canan, and John M. Marston. 2019. Rural agricultural economies and military provisioning at Roman Gordion (central Turkey). Environmental Archaeology 24(1):91-105. Link
Ciftci, Asiye, Funda O. Değirmenci, Christina Luke, Christopher H. Roosevelt, John M. Marston, and Zeki Kaya. 2019. Ancient DNA (aDNA) extraction and amplification from 3500-year-old charred economic crop seeds from Kaymakçı in Western Turkey: comparative sequence analysis using the 26S rDNA gene. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 66(6):1279–1294. Link
Graff, Sarah R., Scott Branting, and John M. Marston. 2019. Production requires water: water management in an ancient Anatolian city. Economic Anthropology 6(2):234-249. Link
Stephens, Lucas, Dorian Q Fuller, Nicole Boivin, Torben Rick, [116 contributing authors, including John M. Marston], and Erle Ellis. 2019. Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use. Science 365:897-902. Link
*Wroth, Kristen N., Dan Cabanes, John M. Marston, Vera Aldeias, Dennis Sandgathe, Alain Turq, Paul Goldberg, and Harold Dibble. 2019. Neanderthal plant use and pyrotechnology: phytolith analysis from Roc de Marsal, France. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11:4325–4346. Link
*Goldfield, Anna E., *Ross Booton, and John M. Marston. 2018. Modeling the role of fire and cooking in the competitive exclusion of Neanderthals. Journal of Human Evolution 124:91-104. Link
Roosevelt, Christopher H., Christina Luke, Sinan Ünlüsoy, Canan Çakırlar, John M. Marston, Caitlin R. O’Grady, Peter Pavúk, Magda Pieniazek, Jana Mokrisová, Catherine Scott, †Nami Shin, and Francesca Slim. 2018. Exploring space, economy, and interregional interaction at a second-millennium B.C.E. citadel in central western Anatolia: the 2014–2017 excavations at Kaymakçı. American Journal of Archaeology 122:645-688. Link
Rosenzweig, Melissa, and John M. Marston. 2018. Archaeologies of empire and environment. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology online before print. Link
Marston, John M., Simon J. Holdaway, and Willeke Wendrich. 2017. Early and Middle Holocene wood exploitation in the Fayum basin, Egypt. The Holocene 27:1812-1824. Link
Brite, Elizabeth B., Ghairadin Khozhaniyazov, John M. Marston, Michelle Negus Cleary, and Fiona J. Kidd. 2017. Kara-tepe, Karakalpakstan: agropastoralism in a central Eurasian oasis in the 4th/5th century A.D. transition. Journal of Field Archaeology 42:514-529. Link
Milman, Anita, John M. Marston, Jessica Bolson, Sarah D. Godsey, Holly Jones, and C. Susan Weiler. 2017. Scholarly motivations to conduct interdisciplinary climate change research. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 7:239-250. Link
Marston, John M. and Scott Branting. 2016. Agricultural adaptation to highland climate in Iron Age Anatolia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 9:25-32. Link
Marston, John M. 2015. Modeling resilience and sustainability in ancient agricultural systems. Journal of Ethnobiology 35:585-605. Link
Marston, John M. and Naomi F. Miller. 2014. Intensive agriculture and land use at Roman Gordion, central Turkey. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 23:761-773. Link
Brite, Elizabeth Baker, and John M. Marston. 2013. Environmental change, agricultural innovation, and the spread of cotton agriculture in the Old World. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 32:39-53. Link
Marston, John M. 2012. Agricultural strategies and political economy in ancient Anatolia. American Journal of Archaeology 116:377-403. Link
Miller, Naomi F., and John M. Marston. 2012. Archaeological fuel remains as indicators of ancient West Asian agropastoral and land-use systems. Journal of Arid Environments 86:97-103. Link
Marston, John M. 2011. Archaeological markers of agricultural risk management. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 30:190-205. Link
Marston, John M. 2009. Modeling wood acquisition strategies from archaeological charcoal remains. Journal of Archaeological Science 36:2192-2200. Link
Damiata, Brian N., John K. Papadopoulos, Maria Grazia Amore, Sarah P. Morris, Lorenc Bejko, John M. Marston, and John Southon. 2009. The absolute chronology of Albanian archaeology: radiocarbon dates from Apollonia and Lofkënd (in English and Albanian). Iliria 33:135-186.
Marston, John M. 2007. Language of ritual cursing in the binding of Prometheus. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 47:121-133. Link
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Book Chapters
Marston, John M. 2021. Archaeobotany. In Ashkelon 9: The Hellenistic Period. Edited by Kate Birney, pp. 439-449. Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Cambridge.
Branting, Scott, Joseph Lehner, Sevil Baltalı Tırpan, Dominique Langis-Barsetti, Tuna Kalaycı, Sarah R. Graff, Lucas Proctor, Nilüfer Baturayoğlu Yöney, Burak Asıliskender, Canan Çakırlar-Oddens, and John M. Marston. 2019. The Kerkenes Project 2017-2018. In The Archaeology of Anatolia, Volume III: Recent Discoveries (2017-2018). Edited by Sharon R. Steadman and Gregory McMahon, pp. 99-111. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge.
Branting, Scott, Yasemin Özarslan, Joseph Lehner, John M. Marston, and Sarah R. Graff. 2019. Kerkenes and Phrygia: old and new directions of research. In Phrygia in Antiquity: From the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Period. Edited by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, pp. 539-559. Peeters, Leuven.
Brite, Elizabeth B., and John M. Marston. 2019. New endeavors to understand agriculture in ancient Khorezm: a contribution in honor of G. Khozhaniyazov. In History and Archaeology of the Aral Area. Edited by T. Shirinov, pp. 56-70. Karakalpak Department of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Nukus.
*Forste, Kathleen M., and John M. Marston. 2019. Islamic and Crusader era agriculture at Ashkelon. In Ashkelon 8: The Islamic and Crusader Periods. Edited by Tracy Hoffman, pp. 649-669. Harvard Semitic Museum, Cambridge.
Branting, Scott, Joseph Lehner, Sevil Baltalı Tırpan, Sarah R. Graff, John M. Marston, Tuna Kalaycı, Yasemin Özarslan, Dominique Langis-Barsetti, Lucas Proctor, and Paige Paulsen. 2017. The Kerkenes Project 2015-2016. In The Archaeology of Anatolia, Volume II: Recent Discoveries (2015-2016). Edited by Sharon R. Steadman and Gregory McMahon, pp. 154-175. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge.
Marston, John M. 2017. “Consequences of agriculture in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Levant,” in Oxford Encyclopedia of Environmental Science: Agriculture and the Environment. Edited by Peter Bogucki. 46 pp. Oxford University Press. Link
Willeke Wendrich, Rebecca Phillipps, Simon Holdaway, Veerle Linseele, Joshua Emmitt, and John M. Marston. 2017. “Kom K,” in The Desert Fayum Reinvestigated: The Early to Mid-Holocene Landscape Archaeology of the Fayum North Shore, Egypt. Edited by Simon Holdaway and Willeke Wenrich, pp. 165-212. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, Los Angeles.
Marston, John M. 2014. “Environmental archaeology at the Lofkënd tumulus: results of zooarchaeological, flotation, and wood charcoal analyses,” in The Prehistoric Burial Tumulus of Lofkënd in Albania. Edited by John K. Papadopoulos, Sarah Morris, and Lorenc Bejko, pp. 483-498. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, Los Angeles.
Marston, John M. 2014. “Ratios and simple statistics in paleoethnobotanical analysis: data exploration and hypothesis testing,” in Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany. Edited by John M. Marston, Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, and Christina Warinner, pp. 1-15. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
Marston, John M., Christina Warinner, and Jade d’Alpoim Guedes. 2014. “Paleoethnobotanical method and theory in the 21st century,” in Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany. Edited by John M. Marston, Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, and Christina Warinner, pp. 163-179. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
Marston, John M. 2012. “Reconstructing the functional use of wood at Phrygian Gordion through charcoal analysis,” in The Archaeology of Phrygian Gordion, Royal City of Midas. Edited by C. Brian Rose, pp. 47-54. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia.
Papadopoulos, John K., Brian Damiata, and John M. Marston. 2011. “Once more with feeling: Jeremy Rutter’s plea for the abandonment of the term Submycenaean revisited,” in Our Cups are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age. Edited by Walter Gauss, Michael Lindblom, Angus Smith, and James Wright, pp. 187-202. Archaeopress, Oxford.
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Popular Articles and Editorials
Andrew Flachs, Elizabeth A. Olson, John M. Marston, and Maria C. Bruno. 2021. Ethnobiology after four years of socioecological violence. Ethnobiology Letters 12(1):16-18. Link
Andrew Flachs, Elizabeth A. Olson, John M. Marston, and Andrew Gillreath-Brown. 2019. Mentoring is an intellectual pillar of ethnobiology. Ethnobiology Letters 10(1):104-108. Link
White, Chantel E., John M. Marston, and Alan Farahani. 2019. Applied archaeobotany of Southwest Asia: a tribute to Naomi F. Miller. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 28(3):209-214. Link
Marston, John M., Andrew Flachs, and Elizabeth A. Olson. 2018. Publishing in Ethnobiology Letters in 2018. Ethnobiology Letters 9(2):283-288. Link
Welch, James R., John M. Marston, and Elizabeth A. Olson. 2016. Plurality in ethnobiology: a look towards 2017. Ethnobiology Letters 7(1):106. Link
Marston, John M. 2016. Unlocking ancient environmental change with the help of living trees. Arnoldia 74(1):14-22. Link
Marston, John M. 2015. Science joins history: new insights into migration, diet, and disease in Near Eastern archaeology. Biblical Archaeology Review: Digging Deeper 3:68.
Marston, John M. 2014. Navigating the interdisciplinary academic job market in archaeology. The SAA Archaeological Record 14(1):18-21. Link
Marston, John M. 2012. Navigating the academic job market in archaeology. Backdirt: Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA 2012:150-154. Link
Marston, John M. 2010. Risk and agriculture in ancient Anatolia. Backdirt: Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA 2010:14-17. Link
Marston, Mac. 2001. The grass is always greener in the boma. Expedition 43(3):5-6. Link
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Technical Reports
Wade, Kali R., and John M. Marston. 2020. A synthesis report of phytoliths from Tel Shimron. Report prepared for Tel Shimron Excavations.
†Brown, Emily, Kali R. Wade, and John M. Marston. 2019. Using morphometrics to identify cereal phytoliths in Tomb 50 at Tel Megiddo, Israel. Report prepared for Tel Megiddo Excavations.
*Kováčik, Peter, †Emily Brown, and John M. Marston. 2019. Identification of charcoal from Kaymakçı, Turkey. Report prepared for Kaymakçı Archaeological Project.
*Kováčik, Peter, and John M. Marston. 2019. Identification of charcoal from Çamlıbel Tarlası, Turkey. Report prepared for Çamlıbel Tarlası Project, University of Edinburgh.
Wade, Kali R., *Kathleen Forste, and John M. Marston. 2019. Islamic Shimron phytoliths report 2017/2019. Report prepared for Tel Shimron Excavations.
Wade, Kali R., and John M. Marston. 2018. Preliminary phytolith results from Tomb 50, Tel Megiddo. Report prepared for Tel Megiddo Excavations.
†Shin, Nami, and John M. Marston. 2015. Agriculture and Environment at Kaymakçı, Turkey: Report from the 2014 Field Season. Report prepared for Gygaia Projects.
Marston, John M. 2014. Report on Neolithic charcoal samples from Kom K and Kom W. Report prepared for URU Fayum Project.
Marston, John M. 2013. Report of Catalina Island (CA-LA-3593) wood charcoal analysis. Report prepared for Wendy Teeter, UCLA.
Marston, John M. 2011. Agriculture and environment at Kara-Tepe, Uzbekistan. Report prepared for Elizabeth Brite, UCLA.
Marston, John M. 2009. Karanis charcoal samples excavated in 2009. Report prepared for UCLA/RUG Fayum Project.
Marston, John M. 2009. Kom W charcoal samples excavated in 2008. Report prepared for UCLA/RUG Fayum Project.
Marston, John M. 2009. E29H1 charcoal samples excavated in 2008. Report prepared for UCLA/RUG Fayum Project.
Marston, John M. 2008. Playa Vista wood charcoal analysis. Report prepared for Statistical Research, Inc., Woodland, CA.
Marston, John M. 2007. Karanis charcoal samples excavated in 2007. Report prepared for UCLA/RUG Fayum Project.
Marston, John M. 2007. Kom K charcoal samples excavated in 2007. Report prepared for UCLA/RUG Fayum Project.
Marston, John M. 2003. Plant remains from Middle and Late Phrygian domestic contexts at Gordion, Turkey (1993-1994). MASCA Ethnobotanical Laboratory Report 34. University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia.
Marston, John M. 2000. “Ipomoea” and “Vitis.” In Laboratory Guide to Archaeological Plant Remains from Eastern North America, edited by Gayle J. Fritz. 2nd ed. http://artsci.wustl.edu/~gjfritz/
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Conferences and Presentations
(* = coauthored with graduate student; † = coauthored with undergraduate student; ‡ = received award for best paper or poster)
Oral Presentations
“Imperial agency versus individual autonomy in the dispersal of cultigens” First Millennium CE Crop Diffusion in the Middle East and Mediterranean Symposium, University of Cambridge, 2022
* “The archaeobotany of Anatolia in the first millennium CE” (first author, with *Lorenzo Castellano) First Millennium CE Crop Diffusion in the Middle East and Mediterranean Symposium, University of Cambridge, 2022
“Mapping land use with integrated environmental archaeological datasets” 87th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2022
“The role of environmental archaeology in reconstructing agricultural adaptation to climate change” Coping with Changing Climates in Early Antiquity Symposium, University of Chicago, 2021
“Agricultural dynamics of imperial ‘pauses’: a case study from Iron Age Anatolia” (first author, with Canan Çakırlar and David Meiggs) 27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, 2021
* “Agricultural patterns of Bronze Age Kaymakçı, Gediz Valley” (first author, with *Nami Shin) Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2020
* “Wood use at Chalcolithic Çamlıbel Tarlası” (first author, with *Peter Kováčik) Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2019
“Environmental legacies of imperial agricultural systems in ancient Anatolia” Environmental Entanglements Colloquium, University of Western Ontario, 2019
* “Wood use at Chalcolithic Çamlıbel Tarlası, Turkey” (first author, with *Peter Kováčik) anthraco2019 Conference, University of Liverpool, UK, 2019
“Comparative sequence analysis of 3500-year-old charred crop seeds from Kaymakcı in western Turkey with their contemporary relatives using chloroplast and nuclear gene regions” (last author, with Zeki Kaya, Asiye Çiftçi, Funda Özdemir Değirmenci, Çiğdem Kansu, Christina Luke, and Christopher H. Roosevelt) SARA Seed Science and Archaeobotanical Research in Anatolia symposium, 2019
† “Provisioning the flood-prone city: the urban center of Kath (Kat) in Khorezm” (third author, with Elizabeth Baker Brite, Gairatdin Khozhaniyazov, and †Sydney Hunter ) Deutsches Archäeologisches Institut, Berlin, international conference “Beyond the Walls: Provisioning Cities in Ancient Eurasia,” 2019
* “The 2018 Season of the Kerkenes Project, Turkey” (trailing author, with Scott Branting, Joseph Lehner, Sevil Baltalı Tırpan, *Dominique Langis-Barsetti, Tuna Kalaycı, *Yasemin Özarslan, Sarah Graff, *Lucas Proctor, Nilüfer Baturayoğlu Yöney, Burak Asiliskender, Canan Çakırlar, and Paige Paulsen) Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2018
“Rural agricultural strategies in the Roman eastern Mediterranean” Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2018
“Microbotanical and macrobotanical remains from Middle Bronze Age Tomb 50, Tel Megiddo” (first author, with Kali R. Wade and Melissa S. Cradic) Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2018
“Production requires water: water management in an ancient Anatolian city” (third author, with Sarah R. Graff and Scott Branting) Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Meeting, 2018
“Hellenistic agricultural economy in the southern Levant: new evidence from Ashkelon” (first author, with Kathleen J. Birney) Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2017
“Provisioning and agricultural economy at Roman Gordion: integrating archaeobotany and zooarchaeology” (second author, with Canan Çakırlar) 13th Meeting of the Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia Working Group, International Council for Archaeozoology, 2017
“Phrygian cuisine at Kerkenes: a synthesis of ceramic and botanical evidence for food storage and cooking” (second author, with Sarah R. Graff) 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2017
“Provisioning and agricultural economy at Roman Gordion: integrating archaeobotany and zooarchaeology” (first author, with Canan Çakırlar) 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2017
“Naomi F. Miller and applied paleoethnobotany of the ancient Near East” (third author, with Chantel White and Alan Farahani) 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2017
* “Animal and plant economies at Islamic and Crusader Ashkelon” (first author, with Deirdre Fulton and *Kathleen Forste) Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2016
* “Modeling the role of fire in the competitive exclusion of Neanderthals” (third author, with *Anna Goldfield and *Ross Booton) 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2016
“Woodland ecology and wood fuel use in the Epipaleolithic and early Neolithic Fayum, Egypt” 39th Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology, 2016
* “Investigating economic and social impacts of agricultural production and consumption at Islamic Ashkelon” (first author, with *Kathleen Forste) Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2015
* “New evidence for agriculture and economy at Crusader Period Ashkelon” (third author, with Tracy Hoffman and *Kathleen Forste) Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2015
† “Reconstructing Late Bronze Age agriculture at Kaymakçı, western Turkey” (second author, with †Nami Shin) 38th Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology, 2015
“Reconstructing agricultural decision making from paleoethnobotanical remains” 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2015
* “Paleoethnobotanical investigations of the economy of Islamic Ashkelon” (second author, with *Kathleen Forste) 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2015
“Archaeological perspectives on desert adaptation in the Roman Fayum, Egypt” American Academy in Rome conference Diet and Environment in the Roman World, 2014
“Agricultural adaptation to climate change in central Turkey, 1500 BCE – 500 CE” 36th Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology, 2013
“People, agriculture, and climate in the ancient eastern Mediterranean,” DISCCRS VII Symposium, 2012
“Ratios and simple Statistics in paleoethnobotanical analysis” 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2011
“Intensive agriculture and landscape degradation at Roman Gordion” (first author, with Naomi F. Miller), 112th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, 2011
‡ “Assessing the long-term sustainability of agricultural systems: an archaeological case study” 33rd Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology, 2010
‡ “Identifying agricultural risk management using paleoethnobotanical remains” 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2010
“Archaeobotanical applications of VPSEM” UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology symposium “From the Field to the Microscope: in situ Scanning Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis in Conservation, Art and Archaeology” 2010
‡ “Agricultural strategies and risk management at Gordion” 111th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, 2010
“Reconstructing the functions of wood in domestic and industrial space through charcoal analysis” 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2007
“An ethnoarchaeological model for the acquisition of wood resources at Gordion, Turkey” 30th Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology, 2007
“The human behavioral ecology of wood acquisition and deposition at Gordion” University of Pennsylvania Museum symposium “The Archaeology of Phrygian Gordion” 2007
Posters
† “Phytolith perspectives on agriculture in the Islamic Golden Age city of Kath” (last author, with †Sydney A. Hunter, Kali R. Wade, and Elizabeth Baker Brite) 42nd Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology, 2019
† “Macrobotanical perspectives on agriculture in the Islamic Golden Age city of Kath” (first author, with †Sydney A. Hunter and Elizabeth Baker Brite) 42nd Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology, 2019
† “Plant use and elite burial customs at Middle Bronze Age Tel Megiddo, Israel” (last author, with Kali R. Wade, †Emily Brown, and Melissa S. Cradic) 42nd Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology
† “A microbotanical study of landscape use by enslaved communities at James Madison’s Montpelier” (third author, with †Sydney A. Hunter and Kali R. Wade) 41st Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology, 2018
‡ † “Elite feasting and monumental dedication at Early Phrygian Gordion, central Turkey” (second author, with †Emily Johnson) 40th Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology, 2017
† “Morphometric measurements of wheat and barley at ancient Gordion, Turkey” (first author, with †Emily Ubik) 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2016
† “Food offerings and feasting in Middle Bronze Age burial contexts from the Körös region, Hungary” (second author, with †Kayla Pio) 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2016
† “Agricultural implications of wheat and barley grain measurements at ancient Gordion, Turkey” (second author, with †Emily Ubik) 38th Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology, 2015
“Agricultural adaptation to climate variation in Iron Age Central Anatolia” Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2013
“Agricultural adaptation to highland central Anatolia: new data from the Iron Age city of Kerkenes” 78th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2013
Conferences and Workshops Organized
Third Meeting of the Northeast Environmental Archaeology Network (NEEAN), Boston University, September 30, 2017
Charcoal identification workshop, Environmental Archaeology Laboratory, Boston University, August 21-25, 2017
Charcoal identification workshop, Environmental Archaeology Laboratory, Boston University, August 15-19, 2016
Second Meeting of the Northeast Environmental Archaeology Network (NEEAN), Boston University, October 3, 2015
Charcoal identification workshop, Environmental Archaeology Laboratory, Boston University, August 17-21, 2015
Charcoal identification workshop, Environmental Archaeology Laboratory, Boston University, August 11-15, 2014
First Meeting of the Northeast Environmental Archaeology Network (NEEAN), Boston University, April 5, 2014
“The past and present of human interactions with coastal environments: towards a new interdisciplinary graduate training program” Symposium Organizer, Brown University Environmental Change Initiative, October 8, 2011
Conference Sessions Organized
“Archaeologies of empire and environment” Session Organizer and Chair (with Melissa Rosenzweig), 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology [Selected for sponsorship by AAA AD; finalist for SAA-Amerind Seminar award], 2017
“2017 Fryxell Award symposium: papers in honor of Naomi F. Miller” Session Organizer (with Alan Farahani and Chantel White), 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2017
“Current methods in paleoethnobotany” Session Organizer and Chair (with Jade d’Alpoim Guedes and Christina Warinner), 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2011
Discussant
Discussant for Wiener Lab Colloquium “Agriculture in the prehistoric Aegean: data vs. speculation, three decades on” (Susan Allen and China Shelton, chairs), Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, 2018
Discussant for “Archaeoethnobotany and household contexts” (Lauren Santini and Sadie Weber, chairs), 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2016
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Invited Lectures and Workshops
“Woodland ecology and wood use in the prehistoric and Roman Fayum, Egypt” Archaeological Institute of America, annual endowed Braidwood Lecture, Denver Chapter, 2021
“Towards reconstructing an Achaemenid agricultural policy in central Anatolia” Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2020
“Agricultural strategies and environmental change in the ancient eastern Mediterranean” Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney [cancelled due to COVID-19 closure], 2020
“Agricultural strategies and environmental change in the ancient eastern Mediterranean” Department of Archaeology, Macquarie University [cancelled due to COVID-19 closure], 2020
“Environmental legacies of imperial agricultural systems in ancient Anatolia” School of Social Science, University of Queensland, 2020
“Agricultural strategies and environmental change in the ancient eastern Mediterranean” Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University , 2019
“Agricultural strategies and environmental change in the ancient eastern Mediterranean” Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2019
“Agricultural strategies and environmental change in the ancient eastern Mediterranean” Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley, 2019
“Agricultural strategies and environmental change in the ancient eastern Mediterranean” Department of Classics and Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies, Cornell University, 2019
“Agricultural strategies and environmental change in the ancient eastern Mediterranean” Department of Anthropology, Yale University, 2019
“Agricultural strategies and environmental change in the ancient eastern Mediterranean” Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, 2019
Invited Panelist, “Digging the Past for the Future: Using Archaeology to Confront Current Issues” Mini- Conference, University of Massachusetts, Boston, 2018
“Agricultural strategies and environmental change in the ancient eastern Mediterranean” Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 2018
“Woodland ecology and wood fuel use in the Epipaleolithic and early Neolithic Fayum, Egypt” American Research Center in Egypt, Tucson AZ chapter, and University of Arizona Tree-Ring Laboratory, 2018
“Agricultural strategies and environmental change in ancient Anatolia” Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University, 2018
“Archaeobotanical research in Late Bronze and Iron Age Central Anatolia” Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, 2017
“Agricultural strategies and environmental change in ancient Anatolia” Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 2017
“Plant ecology and agricultural sustainability in ancient central Turkey” Harvard University Herbaria Research Symposium, 2017
“Agricultural sustainability and environmental change in the ancient eastern Mediterranean” Program in Biogeoscience, Boston University, 2016
“Agricultural sustainability and environmental change in the ancient eastern Mediterranean” Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College, 2016
“Agricultural sustainability and environmental change in the ancient eastern Mediterranean” Quinnipiac University, 2015
“Agricultural sustainability and climate-change adaptation in ancient Anatolia” School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Australia, 2015
“Wood anatomy and archaeological charcoal analysis” Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, 2015
“Plant ecology and agricultural sustainability in ancient Turkey” Arnold Arboretum Research Symposium, Boston, 2014
“Agricultural sustainability and climate-change adaptation in ancient Anatolia” Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, 2014
“Agropastoral strategies as climate-change adaptation in ancient Anatolia” Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 2014
“Agricultural sustainability and climate-change adaptation in the ancient eastern Mediterranean” Junior Faculty Research Seminar (Tertulia), Boston University, 2014
“Agricultural sustainability and climate-change adaptation in the ancient eastern Mediterranean” University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2014
“Agricultural sustainability and climate-change adaptation in the eastern Mediterranean” Connecticut College, 2013
Invited Panelist, Mixed Methods and Interdisciplinary Research Practice Mini-Conference, University of Massachusetts, Boston, 2012
“Agricultural sustainability and cultural resilience in the ancient eastern Mediterranean,” Department of Anthropology, Boston University, 2012
“Towards a regional perspective on agricultural sustainability in the imperial eastern Mediterranean,” Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University, 2012
“Paleoethnobotanical analysis and reconstructing environmental change in the ancient eastern Mediterranean,” Department of Classics, Union College, 2012
“Long-term environmental sustainability and cultural resilience in the eastern Mediterranean,” Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park, 2012
“Long-term environmental sustainability and cultural resilience in the eastern Mediterranean,” Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 2012
“Long-term environmental sustainability and cultural resilience in the eastern Mediterranean,” Department of Anthropology, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, 2012
“Long-term environmental sustainability and cultural resilience in the eastern Mediterranean,” Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012
“Agriculture and long-term environmental sustainability in the eastern Mediterranean,” Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College, 2012
“Agricultural risk and sustainability in the ancient eastern Mediterranean,” Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham, 2011
“Long-term agricultural sustainability in the ancient Mediterranean,” Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Whittier College, 2011
“Agriculture, risk, and sustainability in ancient Anatolia,” Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, 2011
“Archaeological perspectives on agricultural risk and sustainability,” Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 2011
“The environmental archaeology of agricultural sustainability in ancient Anatolia,” Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, University of Massachusetts, Boston, 2011
“Archaeological perspectives on climate adaptation,” Environmental Change Initiative, Brown University, 2010
“Land use and abuse in ancient Anatolia,” Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University, 2010
“Risk, sustainability, and decision making: evaluating agricultural strategies in ancient Anatolia,” Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010
“Modern ecology and ancient environments at Gordion, Turkey,” Anatolia Research Interest Group, UCLA, 2008