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Marston’s new book featured on CAS News
Check out the latest CAS Newsletter featuring Marston's new book Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion: Gordion Special Studies 8. Marston examines botanical remains from nine years of excavation at Gordion, synthesizing archaeobotanical works from previous seasons. This book makes Gordion one of the best published agricultural datasets from the entire Near East; allowing comparative work for fellow researchers as well as illustrating a new approach investigating long-term social and environmental change. Click here to see their coverage: CAS News - August 15
Marston book published
Marston book available for pre-order through Penn Press
Marston's forthcoming book Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion is available for preorder through the University of Pennsylvania Press here. It should ship in August.
Marston review article on agriculture in the Near East published open access
Marston's latest review article, "Consequences of Agriculture in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Levant", has just been published online in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Agriculture and the Environment and is available open access here in both html and PDF formats. Take a look!
New article on early Holocene Egyptian woodlands by Marston et al.
A new article by Marston, together with colleagues Willeke Wendrich (UCLA) and Simon Holdaway (U Auckland), entitled "Early and Middle Holocene wood exploitation in the Fayum basin, Egypt" has just been published in The Holocene. This paper explores woodland use by early agropastoral groups prior to the mid-Holocene desertification of the Sahara.
Congratulations to Dr. Anna Goldfield and Emily Johnson, class of 2017!
Two members of the Environmental Archaeology Laboratory are graduating from BU: Dr. Anna Goldfield and Emily Johnson.
Congratulations to Dr. Anna Goldfield, who defended her doctoral dissertation entitled "The Role of Physiology and Behavior in the Replacement of Neanderthals by Anatomically Modern Humans in Europe". Anna will spend the summer of 2017 managing the BU Zooarchaeology Laboratory.
Congratulations to Emily Johnson, who graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Archaeology and as a member of the Kilachand Honor's College. Emily's impressive research earned her the Archaeology Department's Trowel Award and the Michael A. Sassano III and Christopher M. Sassano Award for Writing Excellence in the Social Sciences. Emily will travel to Turkey this summer to manage archaeobotanical recovery at the site of Gordion.
We applaud these scholars and wish them the very best of luck in their future endeavors!
Frontiers in Archaeological Sciences Workshop at Rutgers University this Fall
Rutgers University's Department of Anthropology is offering an exciting, three-day workshop called Frontiers in Archaeological Sciences, highlighting the interdisciplinary research of archaeologists, "hard scientists," and everyone in between. Featuring leading international researchers, this collaborative workshop promises to be an inspiring event. Check out their website for more details!
Johnson and Marston win best poster award
Emily S. Johnson and John M. Marston received the best poster award at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology, for the poster entitled "Elite Feasting and Monumental Dedication at Early Phrygian Gordion, Central Turkey". This was the result of research Emily did as a UROP project with Prof. Marston in Spring 2017. Congratulations Emily!
Maria Codlin and Kathleen Forste recipients of GRAF awards
Maria Codlin and Kathleen Forste have both been awarded Short Term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowships from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at BU! Maria will use it to continue her dissertation research on animal consumption through the analysis of faunal remains from Teotihuacan, Mexico, and Kathleen will use it to continue her dissertation research on agricultural change through the analysis of archaeobotanical remains from sites in Israel. Congratulations to you both, and good luck with the research!
Emily Johnson awarded for writing excellence
Congratulations to our own Emily Johnson for winning an Alumni Award for Writing Excellence in the College of Arts and Sciences! Her exemplary honors thesis explored the effects of nixtamalization of maize starch grains, earning her the Michael A. Sassano III and Christopher M. Sassano Award for Writing Excellence in the Social Sciences. Well done Emily!