The 20th conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany (IWGP), held in Groningen, Netherlands, included nearly 300 participants and presentations. Three of these were contributed by EALab members! Dr. Karen Stewart gave a presentation titled “The Future of Archaeobotanical Data Sharing in New England: Bridging Generational Gaps,” Trevor Lamb contributed the presentation “Roots as Food […]
Congratulations to Dr. Karen Stewart, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation in Anthropology, titled “Rethinking Recovery, Preservation, and Practice in Historical Archaeobotany in New England.” In this study, Karen argues for the underappreciated potential of waterlogged plant remains from historical period sites in New England, and demonstrates differences in plant macroremain preservation between site types […]
EALab director Marston and alumnae Emily Brown (CAS ’19) and Kali Wade (former EALab Lab Supervisor) contributed three chapters to the recently published monograph Megiddo VII: The Shmunis Excavations of a Monumental Middle Bronze Tomb and its Environs, edited by Matthew J. Adams, Melissa S. Cradic and Israel Finkelstein. Our chapters include analysis of macrobotanical […]
Alumna Angela Zhang (CAS ’24), along with lab member Peter Kováčik and lab director Marston, are co-authors with Kathryn Bard, Professor Emerita of Archaeology and Classical Studies, on a new article: “Wood Fuel Use in the Predynastic Upper Egypt Nile Valley” in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. This article, based on analyses by Zhang and […]
Owen Lannon (CAS ’24) has started a new position at the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility (NOSAMS) at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Falmouth, MA. Owen’s work involves processing organic carbon samples for their radiocarbon AMS. Congratulations, Owen, on the new job!
EAL alumna Kathleen Forste (GRS ’20) and John M. Marston are co-authors on a new article, “Urban agricultural economy of the Early Islamic southern Levant: a case study of Ashkelon” just published in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. This article publishes the full Islamic- and Crusader-period archaeobotanical assemblage from Ashkelon, which provides robust evidence for the […]
Lab alumna Yiyi Tang (CAS ’21, GRS ’21) and Marston are co-authors on a new article, “Early millet cultivation, subsistence diversity, and wild plant use at Neolithic Anle, Lower Yangtze, China,” published in The Holocene (access it here). In the article, which is based on Yiyi’s MA project, we present evidence for a diversified agricultural […]
Kathleen Forste (GRS ’21) and Maria Codlin (GRS ’22) both were recognized for their doctoral degrees at Boston University’s annual doctoral hooding ceremony. Here are the two graduates with Marston, their (co-) advisor. Congratulations to Kathleen and Maria!
Kathleen Forste (GRS ’21) has earned a P.E. MacAllister Scholarship for Fieldwork Participation from the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR). This award will support her research in Menorca, Spain this summer. Congratulations Kathleen!
Lab alumna Anna Goldfield (GRS ’17) is the writer for a recent episode of the PBS series Eons on her dissertation research on Neanderthal energetics. The episode describes the recent finds of Neanderthal remains from El Sidrón cave in the context of Neanderthal extinctions of the late Pleistocene, a topic addressed by Goldfield in this […]