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
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
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.