Jessica Buckley & Oliver Goss summer research on BU Today
BU Student Archaeologists Headed to Peru and Hungary This Summer
AR/AN291 People of the Arctic featured in BU Today
Looks at “diverse and thriving communities” of the region, using archaeological, oral history, historic, and ethnographic data, exploring how the past can be used to highlight contemporary issues in the region
Evan McDuff (GRS’25) awarded a Fulbright
Focuses on the use of botanical remains from the archaeological record to illuminate culinary practices and the use of imported spices in the Roman Empire.
David Carballo named Assistant Provost for General Education
“One of the nation’s preeminent scholars in Mesoamerican archaeology, focusing particularly on the prehispanic civilizations of central Mexico, David Carballo has been known to teach students such topics as ancient tool-making with rocks. Now he’s turning his scholarly gaze forward, having been tapped by BU to oversee the future of one of its major classroom […]
Professor Beaudry’s student a contestant on Survivor
Congratulations to Lyras Torres! We will be watching and cheering! Here is the BU Today article with all the wonderful details. /today/2018/lyrsa-torres-competes-on-hit-cbs-show-survivor/
Alumna, Elizabeth Hannigan (CAS’18), Maya society research featured in BU Today.
Alumna, Elizabeth Hannigan (CAS’18), Maya society research features in BU Today. Click here to read entire article. “Xultún, located in one of Guatemala’s national parks, is at least a three-hour drive from the nearest town, “depending on whether it’s a muddy day,” says Hannigan, who spent two months at the dig site in 2016. For […]
Professor Marston’s “Office Artifacts” featured in BU Today
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Paleoethnobotany Lab (CAS AR516) featured in BU Today Close Up
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BU Today coverage of BU Archaeology Cabinet of Curiosity & Unrolling of the Mummy
BU Today 10/31/2016 by Amy Laskowski Event director Ilaria Patania (GRS’17), a PhD candidate in archaeology, said unveiling parties were very fashionable occasions, hosted by those who could afford to buy a mummy as “entertainment for their house party,” and also by professors or hospitals, who would examine the relic in the name of science. […]
Alum Luke Pecoraro and the Lost Colony of Ronoke
Do take a look at BU Today where there is a feature story on the work of the First Colony Foundation that is searching for the 1587 Roanoke “Lost Colony,” along with a great interview with our own Luke Pecoraro, an Archaeology alum who earned his doctorate in 2015. Luke is the Director of Archaeology […]