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.
The article authored by Marston, Kováčik, and Shin, along with several other colleagues, titled “Agropastoral Economies and Land Use in Bronze Age Western Anatolia” was published in Environmental Archaeology in 2022. The article was selected as a finalist for the 2022 Don Brothwell Prize by the Association for Environmental Archaeology, given to the best article published […]
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 […]
A new article in the Journal of Archaeological Science, co-authored by Marston, provides the first direct archaeological evidence for maize nixtamalization. Samples from two chultunes, rock-carved pits, from the Classic Maya site of San Bartolo, Guatemala, yielded abundant quantities of starch spherulites, which Marston and EAL alumna Emily Johnson (CAS ’17) previously identified as a […]
John M. Marston and Lorenzo Castellano (PhD candidate at NYU ISAW) have co-authored a chapter in the just-released Archaeology of Anatolia, Volume IV titled “Archaeobotany in Anatolia”. This is the first comprehensive survey and integration of published quantitative archaeobotanical seed remains from Anatolia in nearly 30 years, spanning the Paleolithic to the Ottoman period. The […]
Marston has been named editor for a new book series from Cambridge University Press, titled Elements in Environmental Archaeology. Elements are short, digital-born books that convey expert perspectives on focused topics. This series, set to total 30 volumes over the next five years, will include volumes focused on methods, theory and interpretation, critical topics of […]
A new article in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, authored by Marston and Kate Birney of Wesleyan University, describes the agricultural system of Asheklon during the Hellenistic period. Surprise: they loved their emmer! Learn more here (full article) or here (free read-only).
A new article in Environmental Archaeology is the culmination of Marston’s 10 years of involvement in the Kaymakçı Archaeological Project, with EAL member Peter Kováčik and alumna Nami Shin as co-authors. In the article, “Agropastoral economies and land use in Bronze Age western Anatolia,” we combine wood charcoal, seed, and faunal data to reconstruct agricultural […]