Alum, Justin Holcomb (GRS’20) started a new subfield – Planetary Geoarchaeology
To turn geoarchaeological attention towards the study of space heritage as our material footprint continues to expand across our solar system.
Sara Belkin (GRS’18) the journal manager for Geoarchaeology at Wiley Publishing!
Sara, who earned a PhD in Archaeology in 2018, will be working with the Editors-in-Chief to publish the journal Geoarchaeology. She is excited that her day-to-day work will include archaeology again. Sara said, “I really wouldn’t have been able to be so successful at Wiley without BU Archaeology and all the opportunities and things I […]
Justin Holcomb (GRS’21) published a new paper in Geoarchaeology!
Justin Holcomb (GRS’21) published a new paper with Dr. Takis Karkanas (American School, Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science) in the Geoarchaeology, titled “Elemental Mapping of Micromorphological Block Samples using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (pXRF): Integrating a Geochemical Line of Evidence”. Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/gea.21741 Abstract: Archaeological soil and sediment micromorphology represent the most efficient way […]
Alum, Dan Fallu accepts a five-year postdoc!
Alum, Dan Fallu (GRS’17) accepted a five-year postdoc at the Tromsø University Museum in Norway to research soil DNA and the Geoarchaeology of agricultural terraces across Europe. Congratulations Dan!
Alumna, Kristen Wroth, recipient of a post directorial researcher position
Kristen Wroth, (GRS’18) accepted a three year post doctoral position as a researcher with the Geoarchaeology Working Group at the University of Tübingen in Germany to study several sites in South Africa. Congratulations Kristen!
Justin Holcomb teaching a six-week Geoarchaeology Field School
Justin Holcomb will be teaching a six-week Geoarcheaological Field School with the University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History (syllabus attached). For those students interested in getting unique hands on experience in the field with geoarchaeological training at a Paleoindian archaeological site in Oregon, please visit the following website and contact Justin Holcomb […]
Emeritus Professor Paul Goldberg co-edited Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology
Congratulations to Paul Goldberg and his co-editors at the published Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology, Springer, 2017. As excerpted from the Springer website: Geoarchaeology is the archaeological subfield that focuses on archaeological information retrieval and problem solving utilizing the methods of geological investigation. Archaeological recovery and analysis are already geoarchaeological in the most fundamental sense because […]
Congratulations to Justin, Alicia, Ilaria, and Dan for a great presentation of innovative geoarchaeological research at Boston University
Frontiers in Geoarchaeology Geological Society of America’s Annual Meeting: Baltimore, MA November 1 – 4, 2015 Presided by Dr. Laura Murphy (Far Western Anthropological Research Group) and Justin A. Holcomb (Boston University) At this year’s annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Justin A. Holcomb (GRS ’19) co-presided a session titled: “Frontiers in Geoarchaeology” […]
Dan Fallu appointed Geoarchaeology Fellow at the Wiener Laboratory
Congratulations to Dan Fallu, who has been appointed as the Geoarchaeology Fellow at the Wiener Laboratory of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for the 2013–14 academic year.