Emily S. Johnson and John M. Marston received the best poster award at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology, for the poster entitled “Elite Feasting and Monumental Dedication at Early Phrygian Gordion, Central Turkey”. This was the result of research Emily did as a UROP project with Prof. Marston in Spring 2017. Congratulations […]
Two members of the EALab will be presenting on recent research at the SAA meeting in Vancouver, BC. Anna Goldfield is giving a paper entitled Fat of the Land: An Energetics Approach to Paleolithic Bone Fat Exploitation in the session “Recent Zooarchaeological Research II” on Friday, March 31st, at 4:15 pm. John Marston is a co-organizer of […]
The poster presented by Kayla Pio (undergraduate, University of Michigan) and John M. Marston based on their collaborative work last summer during the 2015 NSF REU-sponsored BAKOTA field school season is now available on the BAKOTA website here.
Marston will present new research on Early and Middle Holocene wood acquisition and woodland ecology from the Fayum of Egypt at the 2016 annual conference of the Society of Ethnobiology in Tucson, Arizona. Read more here. #SoE2016
Marston is quoted in the Naturecultures series on the role of plastic in the archaeology of the modern age.
Marston’s recent article in Journal of Ethnobiology has been selected for open access and is freely available here.
New Marston article published in the Journal of Ethnobiology entitled “Modeling Resilience and Sustainability in Ancient Agricultural Systems”. Find it here.
Maria Codlin’s research on faunal remains from Teotihuacan is profiled as part of an interactive article on the BU Research website. Scroll down to the section “Meet the students” and click on Maria. She is also featured in a video accompanying the article, available on YouTube as well.
Smiti Nathan, doctoral candidate at NYU and participant in the 2015 Wood Charcoal Workshop at BU, writes about her experience on her blog Habits of a Traveling Archaeologist. Her post about the workshop can be found here.
A new post by Kayla Pio (undergraduate student, University of Michigan) is available on the blog site of the Bronze Age Körös Off-Tell Archaeological (BAKOTA) project. Check out Kayla’s post and a demonstration of our flotation team in action! Also look for Pio and Marston’s poster at the 2016 SAA Meeting, titled “Food offerings and feasting […]