Congratulations to BU senior Christine Mikeska, who successfully defended her honor thesis “Food or Fur: A Systematic Analysis of Dog Bones Cutmarks from the Uyak Site on Kodiak Island, Alaska.” We will miss you in the lab, Christine!
Boston University graduate student Aviva Cormier presented her work “A Case Study of Skeletal Dysplasia Inheritance and Maternal/Fetal Health from a Middle Woodland Context at the Elizabeth Site (11PK512), Illinois” in collaboration with Dr. Jane Buikstra. The poster may be viewed here: Cormier Buikstra AAPA Poster 4-12-2016 …and look for an upcoming publication, as well!
Catherine West spoke in the University of Massachusetts Department of Environmental Conservation’s spring seminar series and shared her work on invasive species management and archaeology in a talk entitled “Applied Archaeology? Zooarchaeology, Genetics, and Landscape Reconstruction in the Arctic.”
Dr. Torrey Rick of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History visited the Department of Archaeology on Wednesday, February 17, to present his work on oyster management and historical ecology in the Chesapeake Bay.
The Stable Isotope Working Group (part of the International Council of Archaezoology) will have its first meeting at the University of Georgia from March 3-5. Please see our website for more information: https://zooarchisotopes.wordpress.com/about/program-and-abstracts/ If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the group coordinators, Suzanne Pilaar Birch [sepbirch@uga.edu] or Catherine […]
Wednesday, February 10 at 12 noon: Aviva Cormier’s Brown Bag lecture on “The Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability: Skeletal Dysplasia during the Middle Woodland Period in the Lower Illinois Valley.” Lunch will be provided.
Catherine West and Christine France recently published “Human and Canid Dietary Relationships: Comparative Stable Isotope Analysis from the Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska” in the Journal of Ethnobiology, issue 35.
Congratulations to lab manager Laura Masur, who advanced as a PhD Candidate in the Boston University Department of Archaeology by successfully defending her proposal!
Please join us for the second annual meeting of the Northeast Environmental Archaeology Network. This year’s meeting with be hosted by the Boston University Department of Archaeology on Saturday, October 3. Register here!
Watch as BU archaeology major Rachel Gill and professor Catherine West are interviewed about the Alutiiq Museum Community Archaeology Project for KTVA in Anchorage, Alaska! https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31357416/heathers-kodiak-story-archy-dig.mp4