Kathleen Forste was one of 10 students selected to receive ASOR’s student conference travel grant to attend the 2016 annual meeting in San Antonio, TX! She is co-author on a presentation with Professoss Mac Marston of Boston University and Deirdre Fulton of Baylor University. Their talk is titled “The Animal and Plant Economies at Islamic […]
Professor John M. Marston and Kathleen Forste will be presenting a paper will Professor Deirdre Fulton of Baylor University at the ASOR 2016 Annual meeting in San Antonio, TX. They will present their recent analysis of plant and animal economy at Ashkelon during the Crusader era.
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.
Kathleen Forste received the ASOR Heritage Excavation Fellowship for her research in Israel this summer! She is investigating agricultural practices and plant-use in the Levant during the Early Islamic era (c. 640-1099 CE). Information about the fellowship is available here.
The poster presented by Kayla Pio (undergraduate, University of Michigan) and John M. Marston based on their collaborative work last summer during the 2015 NSF REU-sponsored BAKOTA field school season is now available on the BAKOTA website here.
Emily Ubik and John M. Marston will present a poster titled “Wheat and Barley Morphometrics: A New Method for Quantifying Ancient Cereal Varietals” at the SAA conference Friday, April 8 at 1:30pm.
Maria Codlin will be presenting at on “Social Landscapes and Kapu in the Hawaiian Islands: A Case Study from the Ka’û district, Hawai’i Island” at the Society for American Archaeology in the general session “Archaeology of Oceania” at 10:45 am Saturday 9th April.
Anna Goldfield will present her research on Neanderthal fire use and extinction in the general session “European Zooarchaeology” on Thursday, April 7 at 4:30pm.
Marston will present new research on Early and Middle Holocene wood acquisition and woodland ecology from the Fayum of Egypt at the 2016 annual conference of the Society of Ethnobiology in Tucson, Arizona. Read more here. #SoE2016
Marston’s recent article in Journal of Ethnobiology has been selected for open access and is freely available here.