Lab alum Kay Ueda now Curator at Stanford University
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!
Category: News
Marston and Forste part of team discovering first Philistine cemetery
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 […]
Forste receives ASOR Heritage Excavation Fellowship
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 to present at Society of Ethnobiology Conference
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 quoted in article on the “next age” of humanity
Marston is quoted in the Naturecultures series on the role of plastic in the archaeology of the modern age.
Codlin research profiled by BU Research
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.
Review of 2015 Wood Charcoal Workshop
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.
BAKOTA flotation blog post and video
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 Marston article studies climate change researchers
New article entitled “Scholarly motivations to conduct interdisciplinary climate change research”, co-authored by Marston and five others. Find it online here.
Undergraduate researchers present at national conference
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 […]