Vinisha Agarwal, a high school student in the Boston area with a passion for archaeology, just posted an interview with Marston on her Sculpting Change blog. Such a pleasure to talk with a young future archaeologist—read the interview here!
Congratulations to Dr. Trevor Lamb, who successfully defended his dissertation “Culinary Roots: Root Vegetables for Food and Flavor in the Aleutian Islands and Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska”! We can’t wait to see the results of your innovative research in print.
On Friday, March 20, Marston will present the Annual Malcolm H. Wiener Lecture of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, titled “Agricultural Strategies and Environmental Change in Ancient Anatolia.” The event will be live-streamed for remote audiences. More details are here.
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 […]
In an article just published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, lead author Audrey Crabbé and co-authors, including Marston, present the first isotopic data on pathological cattle foot bones, which indicate their status as draught animals. Comparing pathological and non-pathological cattle bones from Gordion, isotopic evidence reveals that draught cattle received specific diets with more […]
The 20th conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany (IWGP), held in Groningen, Netherlands, included nearly 300 participants and presentations. Three of these were contributed by EALab members! Dr. Karen Stewart gave a presentation titled “The Future of Archaeobotanical Data Sharing in New England: Bridging Generational Gaps,” Trevor Lamb contributed the presentation “Roots as Food […]
Marston contributed to a special section in American Anthropologist, titled “Archaeology, Politics, and Environmental Crisis,” which addresses the role of archaeology in addressing contemporary environmental crises. Marston’s contribution, titled “Politics of Resilience and Materialism in Archaeological Explanation,” argues for better uses of resilience thinking and materialist perspectives in explanation of the past, with the integration […]
Congratulations to Dr. Karen Stewart, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation in Anthropology, titled “Rethinking Recovery, Preservation, and Practice in Historical Archaeobotany in New England.” In this study, Karen argues for the underappreciated potential of waterlogged plant remains from historical period sites in New England, and demonstrates differences in plant macroremain preservation between site types […]
EALab director Marston and alumnae Emily Brown (CAS ’19) and Kali Wade (former EALab Lab Supervisor) contributed three chapters to the recently published monograph Megiddo VII: The Shmunis Excavations of a Monumental Middle Bronze Tomb and its Environs, edited by Matthew J. Adams, Melissa S. Cradic and Israel Finkelstein. Our chapters include analysis of macrobotanical […]
Alumna Angela Zhang (CAS ’24), along with lab member Peter Kováčik and lab director Marston, are co-authors with Kathryn Bard, Professor Emerita of Archaeology and Classical Studies, on a new article: “Wood Fuel Use in the Predynastic Upper Egypt Nile Valley” in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. This article, based on analyses by Zhang and […]