Marston’s latest review article, “Consequences of Agriculture in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Levant”, has just been published online in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Agriculture and the Environment and is available open access here in both html and PDF formats. Take a look!
A new article by Marston, together with colleagues Willeke Wendrich (UCLA) and Simon Holdaway (U Auckland), entitled “Early and Middle Holocene wood exploitation in the Fayum basin, Egypt” has just been published in The Holocene. This paper explores woodland use by early agropastoral groups prior to the mid-Holocene desertification of the Sahara.
An article by Marston “Unlocking Ancient Environmental Change with the Help of Living Trees” appeared recently in Arnoldia, the magazine of the Arnold Arboretum. In the article, Marston explains archaeological applications of wood charcoal analysis, as well as the ongoing partnership between the Arnold Arboretum and the Environmental Archaeology Laboratory, and highlights the role this partnership plays […]
A new article by Marston and Scott Branting, director of the Kerkenes archaeological project, has been recently published in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. The article can be downloaded for free until August 26, 2016, using this link.
Marston’s recent article in Journal of Ethnobiology has been selected for open access and is freely available here.
New Marston article published in the Journal of Ethnobiology entitled “Modeling Resilience and Sustainability in Ancient Agricultural Systems”. Find it here.
New article entitled “Scholarly motivations to conduct interdisciplinary climate change research”, co-authored by Marston and five others. Find it online here.
We are happy to announce that Open Quaternary, the only gold open-access journal for Quaternary science, published its inaugural issue on March 9th, 2015. The issue features an editorial and three original research & methods papers, available at openquaternary.com. John M. Marston is a member of the editorial board for Open Quaternary.
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!