Forste wins Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award
Kathleen Forste received the 2018 Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award for her inspirational work in the classroom. Congratulations, Kathleen!
Author: John M. Marston
Congratulations Dr. Wroth!
Kristen Wroth successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Neanderthal Plant Use and Phytolith Taphonomy in the Middle Paleolithic of Southwest France.” Congratulations, Dr. Wroth!
Hunter wins CAS Honors Research Travel Award
Sydney Hunter has been selected as a recipient of an Honors Research Travel Award from CAS to support her summer field research at the ancient city of Kath, Uzbekistan, this summer. Congratulations, Sydney!
Marston featured in “Office Artifacts”
Marston is featured in today’s issue of BU Today in the series “Office Artifacts” – check out the bronze ding replica ice bucket!
Marston new article on Roman Gordion available open access
In the open-access article “Rural Agricultural Economies and Military Provisioning at Roman Gordion (Central Turkey)”, recently published in Environmental Archaeology, Marston teams up with Canan Çakırlar (University of Groningen) to present for the first time faunal data from the Roman period at Gordion, when the site was a military encampment. Integrating botanical and faunal data, […]
Marston co-author on new article in JFA
Marston is a co-author on a newly published article in the Journal of Field Archaeology, alongside lead author and longtime collaborator Liz Brite: “Kara-tepe, Karakalpakstan: Agropastoralism in a Central Eurasian Oasis in the 4th/5th century A.D. Transition”. Download the article here.
Marston book published
Marston’s latest book, Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion, has been released by the University of Pennsylvania Press and is now available for purchase; the book is also available through Amazon. The raw, sample-by-sample data on which the book is based are archived through the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) and available for download here. Note that Naomi […]
Marston book available for pre-order through Penn Press
Marston’s forthcoming book Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion is available for preorder through the University of Pennsylvania Press here. It should ship in August.
Marston review article on agriculture in the Near East published open access
Marston’s latest review article, “Consequences of Agriculture in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Levant”, has just been published online in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Agriculture and the Environment and is available open access here in both html and PDF formats. Take a look!
New article on early Holocene Egyptian woodlands by Marston et al.
A new article by Marston, together with colleagues Willeke Wendrich (UCLA) and Simon Holdaway (U Auckland), entitled “Early and Middle Holocene wood exploitation in the Fayum basin, Egypt” has just been published in The Holocene. This paper explores woodland use by early agropastoral groups prior to the mid-Holocene desertification of the Sahara.