BU Today has an article on the BU Marine Program course “Scientific Diving”, which lab volunteer Mollie Yacano recently completed. Read about her adventures in cold, murky waters and her harrowing tale of surviving a crab attack here.
Kay Ueda, who completed her Ph.D. in Archaeology at BU in 2015, is now Curator of the Japanese Diaspora Initiative at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Congratulations Kay!
John Marston and Kathleen Forste are part of the Ashkelon excavation team, who for the last three years have quietly excavated the first Philistine cemetery every discovered. Read about it in detail on the Harvard Gazette, in shorter pieces in the New York Times and National Geographic, or other news venues worldwide (all linked on the Ashkelon […]
Kathleen Forste received the ASOR Heritage Excavation Fellowship for her research in Israel this summer! She is investigating agricultural practices and plant-use in the Levant during the Early Islamic era (c. 640-1099 CE). Information about the fellowship is available 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
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 […]
New article entitled “Scholarly motivations to conduct interdisciplinary climate change research”, co-authored by Marston and five others. Find it online here.