New Marston book in print!
Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany (edited by John M. Marston, Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, and Christina Warinner) is now in print and available from University Press of Colorado and Amazon!
Author: John M. Marston
Climate-change adaptation in Holocene Egypt
Human adaptation to Early to Mid-Holocene climate change in the Western Desert of Egypt discussed by Marston in recent blog post for Open Quaternary, the open-access journal of quaternary science.
Comparative collection database online
The comparative collection database is now online! Please visit Collections Database for instructions on viewing the database.
Seed images online
Seed images from the EA Lab collections are now online! View them at Collections Image Gallery
Mesoamerican Ethnobotanical Database at FMNH
The Field Museum of Natural History now hosts an open-access repository of plant images, including voucher specimens, for Mesoamerica. Visit the online resource at: http://emuweb.fieldmuseum.org/botany/search_mesoamerican.php
Marston et al. paleoethnobotany book available for pre-order
Exciting news! Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany, edited by John M. Marston, Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, and Christina Warinner in now in press and available for preorder on Amazon.com, for only $31.46! Preorder a copy from Amazon here Learn more about the book from the University Press of Colorado here
Marston article in SAA Archaeological Record
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
New pollen database at UMB
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
Environmental Archaeology Lab Close Up in BU Today
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.