New Marston article on resilience in agricultural systems
New Marston article published in the Journal of Ethnobiology entitled “Modeling Resilience and Sustainability in Ancient Agricultural Systems”. Find it here.
Category: Research
Codlin research profiled by BU Research
Maria Codlin’s research on faunal remains from Teotihuacan is profiled as part of an interactive article on the BU Research website. Scroll down to the section “Meet the students” and click on Maria. She is also featured in a video accompanying the article, available on YouTube as well.
New Marston article studies climate change researchers
New article entitled “Scholarly motivations to conduct interdisciplinary climate change research”, co-authored by Marston and five others. Find it online here.
Undergraduate researchers present at national conference
Nami Shin and Emily Ubik presented results of their research last week at the Society of Ethnobiology Annual Conference in Santa Barbara, CA. The research and travel were both supported by the Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. Nami presented an oral presentation (co-authored with John M. Marston) entitled “Reconstructing Late Bronze Age Agriculture at […]
Goldfield research on Neanderthal cooking gains publicity
Anna Goldfield and Ross Booton’s (former volunteer, Environmental Archaeology Laboratory, and current Ph.D. student, University of Sheffield) recent poster presentation at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting used mathematical modeling to consider how differential rates of meat cooking between Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans might lead to differential survival of the two species. It has gained considerable […]
Climate-change adaptation in Holocene Egypt
Human adaptation to Early to Mid-Holocene climate change in the Western Desert of Egypt discussed by Marston in recent blog post for Open Quaternary, the open-access journal of quaternary science.
Comparative collection database online
The comparative collection database is now online! Please visit Collections Database for instructions on viewing the database.
Seed images online
Seed images from the EA Lab collections are now online! View them at Collections Image Gallery
New pollen database at UMB
Heather Trigg, of the University of Massachusetts Boston Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, has made available a comprehensive, searchable, image database of their pollen collections. It already contains images of more than 800 taxa. http://www.fiskecenter.umb.edu/Research/Pollen_Database.html
Professor John Marston recipient of the 2013-2014 Career Development Professorship Award
Each year, Boston University has the pleasure of recognizing a handful of talented junior educators emerging as future leaders within their respective fields through the award of Career Development Professorships. Made possible through the generous support of BU Trustees Peter Paul, Stuart Pratt and his wife Elizabeth, Richard Reidy and his wife Minda, and the […]