Kathleen Forste is a co-author of a newly published article in the Journal of Ethnobiology entitled “Disturbing Developments: An Archaeobotanical Perspective on Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Fire Ecology, Economic Resource Production, and Ecosystem History.” Read it here: Sullivan, Berkebile, Forste, and Washam 2015 JOE Congratulations, Kathleen!
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
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