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Marston 2017 book receives AIA’s Wiseman Book Award
Marston's 2017 book, Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion, published by the University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, was selected as the 2019 recipient of the James R. Wiseman Book Award by the Archaeological Institute of America. The award will be presented at the January 2019 Annual Meeting of the AIA in San Diego.
Sydney Hunter recognized as Outstanding Student Researcher by UROP
Sydney Hunter (CAS '19) has been recognized by the Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program as a 2018 Outstanding Student Researcher, one of seven students selected from all students conducting research across the entire university for this honor. Congratulations Sydney!
Marston, Shin co-authors on new Kaymakçı article in AJA – available open access!
John M. Marston is a co-author, along with lab alumna Nami Shin (CAS '15), on the first article publishing results of excavations at the site of Kaymakçı, in western Turkey, from the years 2014-2016. The article was just published in the American Journal of Archaeology and is available open access: it can be download here.
Goldfield and Marston article on Neanderthal energetics published in JHE
The article "Modeling the role of fire and cooking in the competitive exclusion of Neanderthals" by Dr. Anna Goldfield (2017 PhD), Ross Booton (former lab volunteer, now Ph.D. student at the University of Sheffield), and John Marston has just been published in the Journal of Human Evolution. In this article, originally part of Anna's dissertation, we argue that underlying differences in metabolic rates between Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans are likely to have played a large role in Neanderthal extinction, and that differential fire use would have exacerbated these differences and sped up that process. Get the article here. This is Anna's first lead-authored peer-reviewed article. Congratulations Anna!!
Wroth receives postdoctoral fellowship at University of Tübingen
2018 PhD Kristen Wroth has been selected for a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Tübingen, to work with Dr. Christopher Miller (Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen) and Dr. Michael Toffolo (Bordeaux Montaigne University). Their project, "Geoarchaeology of a Middle Stone Age paleo-landscape in the central interior of South Africa: paleoenvironments and foraging practices during the transition to behavioral modernity" is sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Congratulations, Kris!!
Marston comments on article for Science Magazine
Marston was interviewed for Science Magazine regarding a recent PNAS article on Çatalhöyük. Read the Science piece here and the original article here.
CAORC celebrates 25 years of Multi-Country Fellowships, highlights Marston
Marston's 2010-2011 CAORC Multi-Country Fellowship is the focus of a profile highlighting fellows over the 25 years of the program's history. See the post on his fellowship here.
Forste wins Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award
Kathleen Forste received the 2018 Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award for her inspirational work in the classroom. Congratulations, Kathleen!
Marston wins 2018 Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching
The Gitner Award is one of three endowed awards given annually by the College of Arts and Sciences to those professors who excel not only in successful classroom teaching, but in the fullest and most comprehensive aspects of the teaching experience. These activities include collaborative scholarship with students, curriculum development, mentoring and advising students and teaching fellows, and demonstrating excellence in classroom instruction. Congratulations to Prof. Marston for winning this year's Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching!
Congratulations Dr. Wroth!
Kristen Wroth successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, "Neanderthal Plant Use and Phytolith Taphonomy in the Middle Paleolithic of Southwest France." Congratulations, Dr. Wroth!