David Carballo coauthor on an article in Science Advances
David Carballo coauthor on an article in Science Advances dealing with issues of comparative governance viewed in deep time for the newsletter. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec1426 The takeaway is that relatively democratic institutions arose in a number of societies across the globe (as did autocratic ones) that can be seen not only through texts but also the archaeological record.
Catherine West on BU Today
BU Today Scene at BU: So, What’s a Hindlimb?
Wade Campbell on BU Today
BU Today Scene at BU: Dendrochronology in the Navajo Chuska Mountains.
Marston and alumna Sydney Hunter publish Uzbekistan research
Climate change and world history: Evidence from the site of Sym-Ota 1 in the Aral Sea Basin
Joshua Robinson published in PLoS One
Seabirds shaped the expansion of pre-Inca society in Peru
Joshua Robinson co-authored an article
Generalized additive mixed models of carbon enamel isotopes implicate climate change in the southern African Middle to Later Stone Age transition
Alumna, Georgia Fanthorpe, co-authored a publication
Interannual and seasonal trends in abundance, sex ratios, and size of the invasive European green crab, Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758) (Brachyura: Portunoidea: Carcinidae), in the Great Marsh, Massachusetts, USA
John Marston co-authored a new article in Journal of Archaeological Science
Fueling draught power: A multi-isotopic study of draught cattle husbandry in Bronze and Iron Age Gordion (Central Anatolia, Türkiye)
Catherine West’s research was featured by the National Science Foundation article
Ursus spp. in Unalaska: Bear Remains and Neoglacial Expansion in the Aleutian Islands
Andreana Cunningham has a new article
Atlantic Crossings: Biosocial Interventions in African Diasporic Bioarchaeological Thought and Practice