Marston and EAL alumna Sydney Hunter publish Uzbekistan research
Marston and EAL alumna Sydney Hunter (CAS ’19) are co-authors on a new study, “Climate change and world history: Evidence from the site of Sym-Ota 1 in the Aral Sea Basin,” published open-access in Quaternary Science Advances. In the article, available here, Marston and Hunter identified micro- and macrobotanical remains from the site of Sym-Ota 1 in western Uzbekistan and reconstruct riparian agricultural strategies, which indicate that inhabitants were able to modify the main channel of the Amu Darya 700 years earlier than previously known, by ca. 300 BCE.