News
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.
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.
Review of 2015 Wood Charcoal Workshop
Smiti Nathan, doctoral candidate at NYU and participant in the 2015 Wood Charcoal Workshop at BU, writes about her experience on her blog Habits of a Traveling Archaeologist. Her post about the workshop can be found here.
BAKOTA flotation blog post and video
A new post by Kayla Pio (undergraduate student, University of Michigan) is available on the blog site of the Bronze Age Körös Off-Tell Archaeological (BAKOTA) project. Check out Kayla's post and a demonstration of our flotation team in action! Also look for Pio and Marston's poster at the 2016 SAA Meeting, titled "Food offerings and feasting in Middle Bronze Age burial contexts from the Körös region, Hungary."
NEEAN 2015 registration now open!
Registration is now open for the 2015 meeting of the Northeast Environmental Archaeology Network. This year's meeting will be hosted by the Boston University Dept. of Archaeology on Saturday, October 3, 2015. Register here!
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 Kaymakçı, Western Turkey".
Emily presented a poster (co-authored with John M. Marston) entitled "Agricultural Implications of Wheat and Barley Grain Measurements at Ancient Gordion, Turkey".
Congratulations Nami and Emily!
Marston named co-editor of Ethnobiology Letters
John M. Marston has been appointed co-editor of Ethnobiology Letters, an online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Society of Ethnobiology. Steve Wolverton and James Welch continue as co-editors of the journal.
To learn more about Ethnobiology Letters, browse articles, or to submit to the journal, visit its website.
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 media attention, including coverage in the Daily Mail, Archaeology magazine, and Discovery News.
This work is a component of Anna's dissertation research into differences in reindeer carcass processing between Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans during glacial periods of the Pleistocene.
First issue of Open Quaternary published
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.