Marston contributed to a special section in American Anthropologist, titled “Archaeology, Politics, and Environmental Crisis,” which addresses the role of archaeology in addressing contemporary environmental crises. Marston’s contribution, titled “Politics of Resilience and Materialism in Archaeological Explanation,” argues for better uses of resilience thinking and materialist perspectives in explanation of the past, with the integration […]
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 […]
John M. Marston and Lorenzo Castellano (UCLA) have published a new open-access article in Antiquity, titled “Climate, political economy and agriculture in first and second millennia AD Anatolia”. In this article, Marston and Castellano draw on a comprehensive synthesis of published archaeobotanical data from Anatolia (modern Turkey), as well as integrated palynological and zooarchaeological evidence, […]
Nicole Hultquist is first author on a new article in the Journal of Archaeological Science, titled “Strontium isotopes and the geographic origins of camelids in the Virú Valley, Peru”. This paper, based on her MSc research at Trent University, uses strontium isotopes to confirm that camelids (llamas and alpacas) were raised locally in coastal Peru […]
Nicole Hulquist is the second author on a recently published study that sources atmospheric methane production using “clumped” stable isotopes (molecules containing multiple heavy isotopes). The article appears in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, a publication of the AGU. Read more in the article here. Congratulations, Nicole!
Marston and collaborator Dr. Petra Vaiglova (Australian National University) have authored an article in the latest issue of the Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association. This special issue, titled “Finding Fields: The Archaeology of Agricultural Landscapes”, addresses methods for locating fields using archaeological methods. Marston and Vaiglova combine archaeobotanical and stable isotope analyses to […]
Nicole Hultquist is a co-author on the recently published article “Tracing sources of atmospheric methane using clumped isotopes” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS). In this article, Nicole and her colleagues used novel isotopic methods on rare isotopic forms of methane to understand better the sources of […]
Environmental Archaeology Lab alumna Kathleen M. Forste (GRS ’21) and John M. Marston are co-authors on a new article, “Cultivating the Hills and the Sands: A Comparative Archaeobotanical Investigation of Early Islamic Agriculture in Palestine”, in Environmental Archaeology. In this article, Forste et al. integrate archaeobotanical assemblages from a range of settlements across Early Islamic […]
Marston, together with co-author Dr. Lorenzo Castellano, have published a comprehensive survey of first millennium agricultural change in Anatolia, modern Turkey, in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. Read the article here or view it (only) for free here.