John M. Marston has been appointed co-editor of Ethnobiology Letters, an online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Society of Ethnobiology. Steve Wolverton and James Welch continue as co-editors of the journal. To learn more about Ethnobiology Letters, browse articles, or to submit to the journal, visit its website.
Anna Goldfield and Ross Booton’s (former volunteer, Environmental Archaeology Laboratory, and current Ph.D. student, University of Sheffield) recent poster presentation at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting used mathematical modeling to consider how differential rates of meat cooking between Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans might lead to differential survival of the two species. It has gained considerable […]
We are happy to announce that Open Quaternary, the only gold open-access journal for Quaternary science, published its inaugural issue on March 9th, 2015. The issue features an editorial and three original research & methods papers, available at openquaternary.com. John M. Marston is a member of the editorial board for Open Quaternary.
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!
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.
The comparative collection database is now online! Please visit Collections Database for instructions on viewing the database.
Seed images from the EA Lab collections are now online! View them at Collections Image Gallery
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
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
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