The 20th conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany (IWGP), held in Groningen, Netherlands, included nearly 300 participants and presentations. Three of these were contributed by EALab members! Dr. Karen Stewart gave a presentation titled “The Future of Archaeobotanical Data Sharing in New England: Bridging Generational Gaps,” Trevor Lamb contributed the presentation “Roots as Food […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Dr. Karen Stewart, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation in Anthropology, titled “Rethinking Recovery, Preservation, and Practice in Historical Archaeobotany in New England.” In this study, Karen argues for the underappreciated potential of waterlogged plant remains from historical period sites in New England, and demonstrates differences in plant macroremain preservation between site types […]
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!
EAL lab member Karen Stewart won the student paper competition at the annual meeting of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology this past weekend for her paper “Small But Not Forgotten? Plant Remains from CRM Excavations of Historical Sites.” Congratulations, Karen!
Claire Mukigi, a rising senior at Natick High School, joined the Environmental Archaeology Laboratory as part of the BU Greater Boston Area Research Opportunities For Young Women (GROW) program, an internship that places high school students from the Boston area in BU labs for the summer, sponsored by the CAS Office of STEM Outreach & […]