News
Forste recipient of ASOR conference travel
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 and Crusader Ashkelon,” and will be given Saturday, November 19.
http://www.asor.org/fellowships/annual-meeting/student-travel.html
Marston and Forste to present at ASOR 2016
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.
Marston and Forste part of team discovering first Philistine cemetery
John Marston and Kathleen Forste are part of the Ashkelon excavation team, who for the last three years have quietly excavated the first Philistine cemetery every discovered. Read about it in detail on the Harvard Gazette, in shorter pieces in the New York Times and National Geographic, or other news venues worldwide (all linked on the Ashkelon project website, together with exclusive images of the excavation).
New Marston article on Kerkenes available free online
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.
Forste receives ASOR Heritage Excavation Fellowship
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.
Pio and Marston poster available online
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.
Ubik to present poster at 81st Annual SAA meeting
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.
Codlin presenting at 81st Annual SAA meeting
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.
Goldfield presenting at 81st Annual SAA Meetings
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 discussant at SAA session on household archeobotany
Marston will be a discussant for the session "Archaeoethnobotany and Household Contexts" at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology on Thursday morning, April 7.