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 […]
Registration is now open for the 2015 meeting of the Northeast Environmental Archaeology Network. This year’s meeting will be hosted by the Boston University Dept. of Archaeology on Saturday, October 3, 2015. Register here!
New article entitled “Scholarly motivations to conduct interdisciplinary climate change research”, co-authored by Marston and five others. Find it online here.
Nami Shin and Emily Ubik presented results of their research last week at the Society of Ethnobiology Annual Conference in Santa Barbara, CA. The research and travel were both supported by the Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. Nami presented an oral presentation (co-authored with John M. Marston) entitled “Reconstructing Late Bronze Age Agriculture at […]