See my new article in the Jan 2014 issue of SAA Archaeological Record—”Navigating the Interdisciplinary Academic Job Market in Archaeology”—which offers advice for graduate students and recent PhDs on the academic job search. PDF version linked here
Heather Trigg, of the University of Massachusetts Boston Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, has made available a comprehensive, searchable, image database of their pollen collections. It already contains images of more than 800 taxa. http://www.fiskecenter.umb.edu/Research/Pollen_Database.html
Nami Shin (CAS’15) and John Marston, a CAS archaeology and anthropology assistant professor, examine ancient seeds from Turkey, which can yield clues to agricultural norms during the Iron Age. Photo by Cydney Scott. Click here to see.