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Archaeology

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Archaeology

What Ancient Pottery Can Teach Us About Everyday Lives in the Time of Jesus and Herod the Great

January 14, 2025

Research

Best of The Brink 2024: 10 Inspiring Inventions and Discoveries—All from BU Researchers

December 13, 2024

Undergraduate Research

For BU Undergrad, Meal Leftovers Aren’t Trash—They’re Glimpses into the Past

October 24, 2024

Photo: A white woman crouched down to dust of archaeological findings on the ground.

Archaeology

BU Student Archaeologists Headed to Peru and Hungary This Summer

September 6, 2024

Photo: A picture of Andreana (Andree) Cunningham, a CAS assistant professor of archaeology, standing in front of bookshelves that feature books as well as small skull and human body statues.

Bioarchaeology

The Histories of Enslaved People Were Written by Slavers. A BU Researcher Is Working to Change That

August 13, 2024

Archaeology

Secrets of Ancient Egyptian Nile Valley Settlements Found in Forgotten Treasure

April 16, 2024

Photo: Adriana Craciun, a CAS professor of English, outside Mine 3, a shuttered coal mine near Longyearbyen in Svalbard. A white woman bundled up in black winter gear stands and poses in front of an old coal railway in a snowy landscape. Snowy mountains can be seen in the distance.

Arctic Classes

Two New BU Classes to Offer a Wider, Deeper Look at the Arctic

December 1, 2023

Photo: An overhead shot of a few items on display at the Mary C. Beaudry Community Archaeology Center. An old glass medicine bottle is featured in the center of a black table.

Archaeology

Explore Cannonballs, Shipwrecks, and More at Boston’s Newly Renamed Mary C. Beaudry Community Archaeology Center

November 28, 2023

Photo: The view from the 4-seat floatplane of Kodiak Island, where The Alutiiq/Sugpiaq people have lived for over 7,500 years. A lush green island surrounded by water can be seen from a plane.

Archaeology

Archaeology Student Trevor Lamb Found Some of Alaska’s Oldest Woven Textiles on Kodiak Island

October 26, 2023

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2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: 10 Amazing Discoveries and Mind-Blowing Facts

December 12, 2022

John M. Marston sits and smiles at the camera in a blue collared shirt. There is a wooden desk and bookcase nearby.

Maya Archaeology

What Ancient Toilets Can Teach Us about Maya Life—and Tamales

June 5, 2022

A WWII era plane flies through the sky with a vapor trail behind

WWII History

One BU Professor Helps Another Bury a War-Hero Relative, 75 Years Later

June 3, 2022

A photo of Dragon Man's skull

Paleoanthropology

Is “Dragon Man” a Missing Link in Human Evolution?

July 9, 2021

A photo of the Old State House in Boston

Books

City Archaeologist Joe Bagley’s New Book Digs Deep into Boston’s Oldest Buildings

June 9, 2021

Portrait of professor Mary Beaudry, who died unexpectedly on October 20. She wears a orange colored scarf and purple sweater in her study.

Obituaries

BU Mourns the Loss of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Gastronomy Professor Mary Beaudry

October 22, 2020

Joe bagley holding a Chinese lantern artifact found in an archaeological dig of Boston's Chinatown neighborhood.

Archaeology

The Alum Digging Up Chinatown’s Archaeological Treasures

October 9, 2019

Archaeologist John "Mac" Marston holds a vile of ancient seeds found at an archaeological dig.

Environmental Archaeology

What Can We Learn from an Ancient Pea?

October 7, 2019

Photo: Student researcher Elizabeth Hannigan, a white woman with long red hair tied into a braid and wearing a black tee shirt and jeans, poses at an archaeological site.

Science & Technology

Examining a Woman’s Role—1,300 Years Ago

July 5, 2018

Archaeology

Office Artifacts: John Marston

January 24, 2018

Professor of Archaeology Catherine West holds a clamshell in Dutch Harbor middens where she studies ancient climate change adaptation in the Aleutian Islands.

Archaeology

Clamshells and Climate Change

November 14, 2017

Clamshells and Climate Change