TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview ........................................................................................................... 1 Highlights .................................................................................................... 1 Archaeology's Global Perspective ....................................................................... 4 Conferences ................................................................................................ 4 First Workshop on Levantine Ceramic Production and Distribution ........ 5 CHAT Comes to Boston ......................................................................... 7 Visiting Scholars ......................................................................................... 8 Archaeology in the News ................................................................................... 9 Professor Runnels on Solutreans in America ................................................ 9 Tory's Story ................................................................................................. 9 High School Archaeologists Dig In! .............................................................. 9 Teeth and Foodways of the Maya ............................................................... 10 Archaeologists Return to Iraq ................................................................... 11 Excavating Tel Kedesh .............................................................................. 11 Research Highlights......................................................................................... 11 First Evidence of Fire ................................................................................. 11 The Wonders of Punt ................................................................................. 11 Murals of the Ancient Maya ....................................................................... 12 Proyecto Arqueologico La Laguna ............................................................. 13 Grants, Initiatives, and Awards......................................................................... 14 Grants ....................................................................................................... 14 ii | P a g e
New Grants & Gifts 2011/12 ............................................................... 14 Continuing Grants & Gifts 2011/12 ..................................................... 16 New Research Initiatives ............................................................................ 17 Environment, Landscape, and the CLAS Project .................................... 17 Archaeology and Computational Thinking ........................................... 18 Google EarthTM and Paleolithic Settlements in the Mediterranean ........ 18 New Research at Teotihuacan ............................................................. 19 Survey and Excavation at Gird-e Dasht, Kurdistan ..............................
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Awards ..................................................................................................... 20 Faculty Awards & Accolades ................................................................ 20 Student Awards ................................................................................... 20 Community Life .............................................................................................. 22 Raymond & Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture Series .......................... 22 Undergraduate Highlights ......................................................................... 23 2012 Study Abroad Guatemala Program .............................................. 23 UROP Awards ...................................................................................... 25 Graduate Highlights .................................................................................. 25 Tenth Biennial Open Forum for Graduate Students .............................. 26 Papers Delivered at the Tenth Biennial Open Forum Conference .......... 26 Involvement in the Broader Archaeological Community ............................. 27 Student Publications ........................................................................... 27 Student Conference Participation ........................................................ 28 Undergraduate Degrees and Honors ............................................................... 31
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Graduate Degrees Awarded............................................................................. 32 Doctoral Degrees Awarded ........................................................................ 32 Outreach ........................................................................................................ 33 Curriculum Developments ............................................................................... 34 New Courses ............................................................................................. 35 Guest Teaching ......................................................................................... 36 Facilities and Infrastructure.............................................................................. 37 Looking Forward ............................................................................................. 38 Our PhDs: Where Are They Now? .................................................................... 39 Archaeology Department Faculty ..................................................................... 43 Research Faculty ........................................................................................ 48 Affiliated Researchers ................................................................................ 49 Faculty Publications ......................................................................................... 51
This report was prepared by Mary C. Beaudry and Evelyn LaBree, with contributions from Michael Hamilton and Maria Sousa, and a special acknowledgement of the creative talents of Travis Parno. Submitted June, 2012.
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OVERVIEW It is impossible to recount in full all that the faculty, staff, and students of the Department of Archaeology have accomplished in the past year. In our 2011–2012 annual report we’ve distilled news of exciting developments in teaching and research, department-sponsored conferences, and of faculty and student awards and publications.
We’ve included a new
section, “Our PhDs: Where Are They Now?” that we plan as a regular feature of the annual report, tracking the whereabouts of a selection of our PhDs to illustrate the range of successful career paths open to our alumni. For faculty and students alike, it has been a highly productive year. Media coverage of research undertaken by our faculty and PhD students has been widespread online, in print, and on television and radio. Through their outstanding discoveries and intellectual contributions to the discipline, our faculty have raised the visibility of our department to unprecedented levels and have burnished our reputation for excellence in fieldwork, archaeological science, and scholarly contributions. As we move towards our 30th anniversary as a department, we continue to grow and to plan for the future.
HIGHLIGHTS This year we welcomed Prof. Andrea Berlin as the first scholar to occupy the endowed chair created to honor our founder, Professor James R. Wiseman. As the James R. Wiseman Professor of Archaeology, Professor Berlin offers courses in Classical archaeology, ceramic analysis, and the archaeology of Israel. In October department members spent a day at the beach—we had a marvelous view of Nantasket Beach through the windows of a conference room at the Nantasket Beach Resort. With funding from Dean Sapiro, we held our first retreat in recent memory in order to talk about curriculum reform and other matters pertaining to the department’s future. Our discussions were highly productive; we came away with a good notion of what direction we should take in reformulating our curriculum and degree programs. For details of this initiative, see “Looking Forward” on page 34.
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Right: Faculty members and friends relaxing after a lengthy and productive day at the department retreat— (clockwise from left) Ricardo Elia, Christopher Roosevelt, Rafique Mughal, Kathryn Bard, Professor of Ethiopian Archaeology and Antiquities at the Istituto Universitario Orientale Rudolfo Fattovich, and Christina Luke
Retirements and necessary renovations prompted both a need to reassign offices and to establish a position for someone to oversee the operations and safety of our many laboratories. Michael Hamilton stepped into that position and has made huge strides in reorganizing our labs and storage areas and insuring that our research and teaching labs run smoothly. We were delighted over the course of the past year to be able to develop closer relationships with other departments, schools, and programs. Highlights of this include sharing a teaching lab with Anthropology and creating affiliated appointments for archaeologists whose primary appointments are outside the department.
Summary of highlights: •
Andrea M. Berlin joined us as the James R. Wiseman Professor of Archaeology and as Director of Graduate Studies in Archaeology
•
Michael Hamilton, for 18 years our department photographer and visual resources curator, in September 2011 stepped into a full-time position as Laboratory Coordinator
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•
Our archaeological science teaching laboratory (CAS335) was expanded and renovated and is now shared by Archaeology and Anthropology for teaching lab sections and for courses in Archaeological Science and Bioanthropology
•
Prof. Christina Luke, Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program, became affiliated with the department as Senior Lecturer in Archaeology
•
Prof. Jonathan Bethard, Instructor in the School of Medicine, became affiliated with the department as Instructor in Archaeology
Below: BU Archaeology students surveying ruins as part of the Central Lydia Archaeological Survey (CLAS) project
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ARCHAEOLOGY'S GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Our department has always emphasized archaeology as a global, comparative study of both the distant and recent past. Our faculty and students work both in places like Greece and Egypt that immediately come to mind when people think about archaeology, but they also work in Turkey, Spain, Israel, South Africa, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Peru, Italy, Ethiopia, Mali, Syria, Pakistan, Montserrat and Guadeloupe (West Indies), France, Italy, the United States, Bermuda, Guatemala, Mexico, Jordan, Taiwan, China, Japan, Indonesia, Panama, and Ireland.
Through Boston
University’s Study Abroad, we offer archaeological field schools in Spain and Guatemala, and our students also receive training through participation in ongoing faculty research projects around the globe.
CONFERENCES Our faculty and students often present papers at international conferences.
In December, 2011, for example, Prof. Mary
Beaudry delivered the invited keynote address at a conference titled “Dialogue between the Aboveground and Below Ground,” held at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.
At this first
conference on historical archaeology to be held in Taiwan our PhD students Kaoru Ueda and Cheih-Fu Cheng also delivered papers, and our former major Lim Chen Sian (BA 2002) gave a presentation on the consulting work conducted throughout the region by the Archaeology Unit of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, where he is a Visiting Research Fellow. Above: Archaeology Department alum Lim Chen Sian reviews some notes at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan
Right: Department Chair Mary Beaudry and graduate student Kaoru Ueda enjoy
xiaolongbao (soup dumplings) at the
"Dialogue between the Aboveground and Below Ground" conference in Taipei, Taiwan
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FIRST WORKSHOP ON LEVANTINE CERAMIC PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION, DANISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, ATHENS, FEBRUARY 4–5, 2012 In February 2011, in Athens, Greece, Prof. Andrea Berlin chaired the first in a series of international workshops on Levantine ceramics (http://levantineceramics.org/workshops/). There were 45 participants—ceramic specialists, archaeologists, historians, petrographers and other archaeometrists—representing 14 countries. The workshop was developed in conjunction with a new website, both first steps in an ambitious new project to bring together all archaeological data related to ceramic production and distribution from 5000 years of Levantine history, from the third millennium BCE until the present day. The idea is to craft a new kind of research-based resource, a deep pool of interlocking and overlapping data that will encourage broad comparative studies of Levantine social and economic history. In Athens sessions were organized according to the Levant’s geographic sub-zones: the CiliciaHatay region of southern Turkey; Cyprus; coastal Syria and northern Lebanon; central Lebanon; southern Lebanon and the northern coast of Israel; and the central and southern coasts of Israel. Each session focused on ceramic wares of all periods: shapes, chronology, and analytical components, both petrographic and chemical. Since the underlying geology within a region does not change, analysis of ceramic fabrics of one age helps pinpoint clay sources for ceramics of other periods. Participants discussed how to coordinate the results of different analytical techniques, how to craft clear, consistent scientific descriptions, and how to coordinate analytically-defined groups with recognizable wares—in other words how to connect scientific conclusions to ceramic reality. The workshop was an enormous success. It was the first time that analysts met together with archaeologists, and that scholars focusing on different periods had the opportunity to compare information directly. The common venue demonstrated the need to make abstruse data comprehensible to all researchers, and allowed a full view of the state of the field. All participants expressed strong support for annual workshops and for the continued development of the accompanying website. Organizers and Moderators: Andrea M. Berlin, Boston University
Jeroen Poblome, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven
John Lund, National Museum of Denmark
Paul Reynolds, ICREA, University of Barcelona
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Above: Participants at the first conference on Levantine ceramic production and distribution (Image courtesy of levantineceramics.org)
Conference Participants Austin Alexander, Boston University
Severine Lemaitre, Université de Poitiers
Björn Anderson, Minnesota State University
Phil Mills, University of Leicester
Caroline Autret, Université Paris I Panthéon-
Leah Minc, Oregon State University
Yasemin Bagci, University of Amsterdam
Barak Monnickendam-Givon, Hebrew
David Ben-Shlomo, Weizmann Institute of
Dominique Pieri, Université Paris 1, Panthéon-
Philip Bes, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven
Despo Pilides, Department of Antiquities,
Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros, ICREA, University
Marco Ricci, Università degli studi di Roma “La
Stefano Costa, University of Siena
Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom, Israel
Sorbonne
Science, Israel
of Barcelona
University of Jerusalem Sorbonne Cyprus
Sapienza”
Antiquities Authority
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Patrick DeGryse, Katholieke Universiteit,
Helga Seeden, American University of Beirut
Stella Demesticha, University of Cyprus
Anastasia Shapiro, Israel Antiquities Authority
Maria Dikomitou, University of Cyprus
Ilan Sharon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sandrine Elaigne, Université de Lyon
Edna Stern, Israel Antiquities Authority
Smadar Gabrieli, University of Western
Peter J. Stone, University of Cincinnati
Adele Federica Ferrzolli, Università degli studi
Joe Uziel, Albright Institute of Archaeological
Gerald Finkielsztejn, Israel Antiquities
Nairusz Haidar Vela, Université Paris 1,
Dimitris Grigoropoulos, Deutsches
Agnès Vokaer, CReA, Université Libre de
Hanna Hamel, DAI Orientabteilung, Berlin
Joanita Vroom, University of Amsterdam
Anthi Kaldeli, University of Cyprus
Paula Walman Barak, University of Haifa
Olga Karagiorgou, Academy of Athens
Yona Waksman, Maison de l’Orient
Michalis Karambinis, University of Leiden
Ula Wicenciak, University of Warsaw
Gunnar Lehmann, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Kristina Winther-Jacobsen, University of
Leuven
Australia
di Roma “La Sapienza” Authority
Research, Jerusalem Panthéon-Sorbonne
Archäologisches Institut
Bruxelles
Méditerranéen, Lyon
Copenhagen
CHAT COMES TO BOSTON The Archaeology Department was delighted to host the 2011 meeting of the Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory group from November 11 to November 13.
This
year's conference, funded in part by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, was the ninth annual meeting of CHAT and marked the first time that the conference was held outside of the United Kingdom. The theme was "People and Things in Motion." The meeting drew over 100 attendees from across the globe and
Above: Archaeology Department graduate student Chieh-Fu Cheng presents about paper about military dependents villages in Taiwan.
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featured three days of papers capped by a keynote address delivered by University of Chicago Associate Professor of Anthropology and 2010 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Shannon Dawdy. An additional highlight of the conference was a panel discussion showcasing some of the key figures in contemporary archaeology. Session papers were presented by speakers from six continents, highlighting the truly global nature of the CHAT organization. Led by department chair Mary Beaudry, a committee of Archaeology Department graduate students were key in the planning, organization, and execution of this successful conference. The department was also well-represented in the conference sessions as four of our graduate students delivered papers.
Left to right: CHAT
conference committee chair Mary Beaudry, CHAT Committee Chair Rodney Harrison, keynote lecturer Shannon Dawdy, and CHAT conference committee members and Archaeology graduate students Travis Parno and Brent Fortenberry.
VISITING SCHOLARS The department and ICEAACH hosted a number of outside-funded scholars who have spent varying lengths of time at BU studying and making use of BU’s academic resources, presenting their own research, and interacting with students and faculty at BU and in the greater Boston area. Visiting Researchers have included scholars from the US, United Kingdom, Italy, Korea, Vietnam, China, and Japan.
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ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE NEWS Throughout the year, faculty and students from the Archaeology Department have made news for their research and discoveries. Here are just a few examples; the major research projects discussed in Research Highlights also received a tremendous amount of press coverage.
PROFESSOR RUNNELS ON THE SOLUTREANS IN AMERICA Prof. Curtis Runnels, as our leading expert on the archaeology of the Palaeolithic era (Stone Age), fields many questions about early humans and the tools they used. On March 18, 2012, Runnels was interviewed by Gareth Cook of The Boston Globe about the “Solutrean hypothesis” that posits that humans came to the Americas some 20,000 years not by walking across “land bridges” but by putting to sea in sealskin boats. Read the full story here.
TORY'S STORY Archaeology undergraduate major Tory Sampson was interviewed by BU Today about learning Arabic so that she can fulfill her dream of specializing in the archaeology of ancient Egypt. Meet Tory here.
Above: Tory Sampson responds to a professor's question (Image courtesy of BUToday)
HIGH SCHOOL ARCHAEOLOGISTS DIG IN! In
summer,
2011,
Boston
University
Archaeology
Graduate Students Sara Belkin, Alexander Keim, and Jenny Wildt trained high school students in all the phases of archaeological excavation at the High School Archaeology Institute on the Wakefield Estate in Milton, MA. The high school program will continue for its 4th year in Summer, 2012. To learn more about the Institute, click here.
Above: Graduate student Alexander Keim looks for artifacts in a screen with a High School Archaeology Institute participant at the Wakefield Estate in Milton, MA (Image
courtesy of the Wakefield Estate).
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Left: Still from the National Geographic film "Quest for the Lost Maya," featuring Archaeology PhD student Stephanie Simms (Image courtesy of
National Geographic)
TEETH AND FOODWAYS OF THE MAYA PhD student Stephanie Simms was featured in a National Geographic television special titled "Quest for the Lost Maya." The show included a vignette highlighting Stephanie's role in the Bolonchén Regional Archaeology Project, currently underway in the Puuc Maya region of Yucatán, Mexico.
Stephanie detailed her study of human teeth from burials at the site and
described what she had learned about the diet of the Maya who lived there. See a clip from the video featuring Stephanie here.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS RETURN TO IRAQ PhD student Demetrios Brellas, with project directors Elizabeth Stone and Paul Zimansky (Adjunct Professor of Archaeology at BU) and the rest of their Western/Iraqi joint team, have returned to Iraq to conduct excavations at Tell Sakhariya. Theirs is one of the first Western archaeological expeditions in Iraq since the 1990s Gulf War. An article describing the excavations appears at here and a 30-minute documentary can be viewed here.
EXCAVATING TEL KEDESH Professor Andrea Berlin and her colleague Sharon Herbert, in the May/June 2012 issue of
Archaeology magazine, reflect on more than a decade’s worth of excavations at the mound site of Tel Kedesh in the Upper Galilee of Israel. What they found was very different from what they expected. See the story online here. Above: Aerial view of a large administrative building at the site of Tel Kedesh (Image courtesy of Archaeology.org)
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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS FIRST EVIDENCE OF FIRE In the May 15th 2012 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Professors Berna, Goldberg, and colleagues reported the finding of microscopic fragments of burnt bone and ashed plants in one-million-year-old archeological deposits at Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape province, South Africa. This evidence of fire occurs associated with Acheulian stone tools, usually considered the handiwork of Homo erectus. Their discovery suggests that the habitual use of fire by humans is double the accepted antiquity, and highlights the benefits of using microscopic and molecular techniques to identify “cryptic combustion” at sites of human occupation—whatever their age. Read the PNAS article: Berna F., Goldberg P., Kolska Horwitz L., Brink J., Holt S., Bamford M., and Chazan M. (2012) “Microstratigraphic evidence of in situ fire in the Acheulean strata of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape province, South Africa.” Proceedings of the National Academy
of Science vol. 109 no. 20 7593-7594. Below: View inside Wonderwerk Cave (left); images of microscopic ashed plant remains (right) (Images courtesy of Francesco Berna and Michael Chazan)
THE WONDERS OF PUNT The Boston University Office of the Provost selected professor Kathryn Bard to deliver the 2011 University Lecture.
Bard's lecture, titled "The Wonderful Things of Punt: Excavations at a
Pharaonic Harbor on the Red Sea," detailed her excavations at the site of Mersa/Wadi Gawasis in 11 | P a g e
Egypt.
Bard and her team of colleagues,
have discovered artifacts associated with seafaring.
The storerooms housed ship
timbers, rope, limestone anchors, linens, ceramic
vessels,
and
wooden
crates,
including one bearing the hieroglyphic label meaning "Wonderful Things of Punt." Bard's research
highlights
the
importance
of
nautical travel and trade in the world of the pharaohs. More on Bard's research can be found here.
Above: Kathryn Bard and her father, Robert Bard, at a reception at the Castle following her University Lecture.
MURALS OF THE ANCIENT MAYA Assistant Professor William Saturno's excavations at the ancient Maya site of XultĂşn, Guatemala, have caused quite a stir. Saturno and his team have found a mural painted on the wall of a house, the first of its kind. What's more, the mural appears to depict calendrical calculations, calculations that contradict popular misinterpretations regarding a Mayan prediction of the end of the world.
While such concerns have never been grounded in academic study, Saturno's
discoveries put the worries to rest, illustrating that the Maya believed time would extend for thousands and thousands of years into the future (Maya scholars have long known that the end so many feared was actually just the restarting of a cycle, equivalent to the modern-day New Year's Eve).
Left: William Saturno brushes the surface of a mural at the site of XultĂşn (Image courtesy of National Geographic)
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Saturno speculates that the room in which the calendrical mural was found was a workroom, a place in which Maya scribes practiced their craft on walls and in books. This discovery was part of a larger project designed to survey the bounds of the ancient city and target excavations at significant locations. The Archaeology Department hosts an annual field school at XultĂşn and several graduate students are researching aspects of the site as part of their doctoral work. More on these exciting discoveries can be found here.
PROYECTO ARQUEOLOGICO LA LAGUNA Professor David Carballo has been wrapping up the Proyecto Arqueologico La Laguna in Tlaxcala, Mexico, including editing and co-authoring a 430 page final technical report written in Spanish. Archaeological investigations at La Laguna tell the story of a pre-Hispanic community whose inhabitants were connected to other regions of Mesoamerica through trade and exchange; who differed in socioeconomic status, but not to the degree that characterized later societies; who participated in shared domestic and public rituals, including the Mesoamerican ballgame; and who eventually abandoned the town when urban civilizations such as Teotihuacan began to flourish and expand during the Classic period (c. AD 100-600). This research will form the basis of an MA thesis and planned publication for MA/PhD student Laura Heath and a planned publication by PhD student David Walton. Left: Anthropomorphic effigy vessel from the site of La Laguna (Image
courtesy of PALL)
Below: Overhead view of a building used for the storage and preparation of food at La Laguna (Image courtesy of PALL)
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GRANTS, INITIATIVES, AND AWARDS GRANTS Archaeology faculty have been successful in obtaining funding from a range of donors and agencies: new grant and gift totals for archaeology faculty total $487,341 for 2011–2012. This includes $187,042 in grants from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities, and $300,299 from private foundations, individual donors, and other sources.
Continuing grants and gifts
awarded in previous years total an additional $2,038,027 in funding for the Department of Archaeology
and
the
International
Center
for
East
Asian
Archaeology
&
Cultural
History. The following lists of grants and gifts show the range of research efforts and activities supported through grants and gifts.
NEW GRANTS & GIFTS 2011/12 PI
Title
Agency
Amount
Mary Beaudry
Contemporary and
Center for the
$5,000
Center for the
$5,000
Rafik B. Hariri Institute
$45,000
Private Donor,
$15,000
National Science
$106,042
Historical
Archaeology
Humanities
Conference
10th Biennial
Student
Archaeology Open
Humanities
Forum
Andrea Berlin
Computing and Computational Science &
Engineering Ceramic
Encyclopedia
Project, Athens Ksenija Borojevic
Multiscalar
Approach to the
Study of Vegetation
Ms. Sharon Herbert
Foundation
and Plant Use
during the Neolithic Period in the
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Michael Danti
Hasanlu Publication
Iran Heritage
$4,600
Department
Support for
Holden B. Williams
$1,000
Project
Graduate Student
Foundation
Research in
Mesoamerican Archaeology Francisco Estrada-Belli
Holmul Guatemala
Alphawood
$85,495
Norman Hammond
Endowed Lecture
Raymond & Beverly
$5,100
Christina Luke
Preservation of
National Endowment
$37,000
Center for the
$14,814
Private Donors
$10,200
Central Lydia
Private Donor
$35,000
Central Lydia
Charitable Foundation
$24,420
Central Lydia
Private Donor
$2,000
Christopher Roosevelt and
Central Lydia
Loeb Classical Library
$35,000
Curtis Runnels
Lithic Artifacts
Project Series
Heritage Landscape in Central Lydia,
Foundation Sackler Foundation for the Humanities
Western Turkey Robert Murowchick
ESAF Lecture Series Support of
ICEAACH Programs Christopher Roosevelt
Project, Turkey Project, Turkey Project, Turkey
Christina Luke
Project, Turkey from the Plakias Mesolithic and
Humanities
Foundation
Institute for Aegean Prehistory
$6,170
Paleolithic Survey in Greece William Saturno
Saving the Xultun
National Geographic
$11,000
Xultun Palace
National Geographic
$33,000
Conservation
Council Grant
Mural, Guatemala Complex Project
James Wiseman
Archival projects
Foundation
Society’s Expedition
Private Donor
$6,500
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CONTINUING GRANTS & GIFTS 2011/12 PI
Title
Agency
Amount
Kathryn Bard
Archaeological
National Geographic
$17,064
Private Donors
$8,574
National Science
$81,579
Henry Luce Foundation
$450,475
National Science
$331,738
Investigations at Mersa/Wadi
Gewasis, Egypt Mary Beaudry
Spencer Pierce
Little Archaeology Project
David Carballo
The Evolution of
Community Ritual
and Effects of State
Foundation
Expansion in
Central Mexico at La Laguna, Tlaxcala Ricardo Elia
A New East Asian Archaeology
Curriculum for
Boston University Paul Goldberg
Improvement to Soil Micromorphology Lab
Foundation
Norman Hammond
Maya Research
Private Donors
$95,602
Robert Murowchick
The Development
Henry Luce Foundation
$190,000
Andrew Mellon
$600,000
East Asian
Boston University
$3,500
Forum
Humanities
of Bronze
Metallurgy in the
Context of Chinese Civilization
Web-based
Bibliographic
Database for East
Foundation
Asian Archaeology Archaeology Grant in support of the purchase of Taiwan
Center for the
Ministry of Education, Taiwan
$4,000
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Christopher Roosevelt
Environmental and Cultural Dynamics in central Lydia,
National Science
$183,221
Private Donors
$52,274
National Science
$20,000
Foundation
Western Turkey Turkey
Archaeology Project William Saturno
Doctoral
Dissertation
Improvement
Foundation
Grant (Stephanie Simms - "Maya
Household at the Microscale:
Foodways in the
Puuc Hill, Yucatan, Mexico") James Wiseman
Stobi Project
$7,894
NEW RESEARCH INITIATIVES ENVIRONMENT, LANDSCAPE, AND THE CLAS PROJECT Professors Christopher Roosevelt and Christina Luke are planning a new phase of their long-term Central Lydia Archaeological Survey Project (CLAS; for details, see the project's website); this will involve excavations at the large fortified Bronze Age site of Kaymakรงi in the Ismir province of western Turkey. CLAS aims to develop an understanding how populations adapt to local conditions dictated by environmental and landscape constraints and to explore how social complexity and the organization of communities change over time, from initial periods of settlement, to early signs of urbanism, and to fully developed state and Left: CLAS Project team members teach local children about indigenous bird species
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subsequent imperial systems.
Excavations at Kaymakçi will explore elements of the city
identified through field survey and geophysical prospecting; the 8.6 ha citadel of Kaymakçı contains a number of different features and sectors within its bastioned and gated fortifications: lower southern and southeastern sectors, potentially small houses nestled in streets and/or workshop areas; a central sector characterized by additional circuits of fortification and at least two gates defining an inner citadel and abutting terraces; and a western sector containing the remains of large buildings, possibly including a building of megaron form. Beyond the citadel there are additional houses and a cemetery of pithos and cist graves. Planning for the excavations includes raising the funds necessary to do the work and to build a “dig house” that will house the excavators during the work and serve as a museum after the work is completed.
Roosevelt and Luke have received some funds from
private donors, a $35,000 grant from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, and are submitting proposals to granting agencies in hopes of mounting a international, interdisciplinary project at Kaymakçi that, in addition to providing rich evidence of urban life in Bronze Age Turkey, will provide training in archaeological excavation, environmental analysis, heritage management, materials analysis, and community outreach for Boston University students.
ARCHAEOLOGY AND COMPUTATIONAL THINKING Professor Andrea Berlin was recently awarded $45,000 from the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing
and
Computational
Science
&
Engineering to fund her explorations into the relationships between archaeological data and computational thinking.
Specifically, Berlin will
create a web application that will organize vast quantities of excavated archaeological material in a way that will be comprehendible for nonarchaeologists. She sees the potential for archaeology to inform many other disciplines, such as international relations, economics, political science, sociology, art history, and more. Through her research, Berlin hopes to make archaeological data available and useful to more than just practicing archaeologists. More on Berlin's work can be found here.
GOOGLE EARTHTM AND PALEOLITHIC SETTLEMENTS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN Professor Curtis Runnels is again extending our knowledge of the extent of exploitation of the Mediterranean region by Paleolithic hunter-gatherers. In 2008 and 2009, he participated in surface survey on the southwestern coast of Crete in the region of Plakias and discovered 28 18 | P a g e
pre-ceramic lithic sites.
Twenty sites were identified with artifacts of Mesolithic type, and nine
had earlier assemblages of Lower Palaeolithic Acheulean type. The island of Crete has been isolated from the mainland of Greece, Turkey, and Africa for five million years, and these finds indicate that early hominins and, later, modern humans, have repeatedly crossed the open Mediterranean to reach the island.
Now, from his office at Boston University he has been
exploring the island of Cyprus using Google Earthď›› on his laptop computer and has located sites on Cyprus that share characteristics of the early sites on Crete. He and his colleagues plan to visit Cyprus in person to study stone tools from the sites there as possible further proof of sea travel and occupation by early humans.
NEW RESEARCH AT TEOTIHUACAN Professor David Carballo, with Co-Director Luis Barba from Mexico's National University (UNAM), have proposed to the Mexican government a new project investigating a southern neighborhood within Teotihuacan, the UNESCO World Heritage site and most visited archaeological site in the Americas. If approved, the 2012 summer season would serve as a seed project aimed at obtaining preliminary results to then apply to the National Science Foundation for two to three years of research funding. The planned research will focus on diverse topics including the urban expansion of the city, neighborhood organization, domestic economy, and household ritual.
SURVEY AND EXCAVATION AT GIRD-E DASHT, KURDISTAN Professor
Michael
Danti
and
Richard
Zettler of the University of Pennsylvania have proposed a new project at the site of Gird-E Dasht in Rowanduz, Kurdistan. Their work will include an excavation of the large mound that dominates the site, as well as a detailed survey in the nearby Zagros Mountains to investigate early Iron Age occupation.
Danti has spent
much of the last year traveling around Kurdistan, meeting with various local
Above: The mound at the site of Gird-E Dasht, Kurdistan
government officials, in addition to the staff of the US Consulate in Erbil.
Archaeological fieldwork will begin in 2013 after the
completion of the permitting process in the fall of 2012.
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AWARDS FACULTY AWARDS & ACCOLADES Kathryn Bard was named University Lecturer; on October 12, 2011, she presented a talk titled
"The Wonderful Things of Punt: Excavations at the Pharaonic Harbor on the Red Sea."
Mary Beaudry delivered an invited keynote address at a conference titled "Dialogue between the
Aboveground and Below Ground" at Academic Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.
Andrea Berlin, before joining the faculty in September, was on sabbatical in 2010–2011 as a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellow at Albright Institute in Jerusalem.
Michael Danti was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Francesco Estrada-Belli was named a National Geographic Explorer for his work in the Maya
region of Guatemala.
STUDENT AWARDS Philip S. Cook was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and received the Alumni Association Michael A.
Sassano III and Christopher M. Sassano Award for Writing Excellence in the Social Sciences. He also won the Department of Archaeology CAS College Prize for Excellence.
Abby Crawford received a Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship in support of her dissertation research.
Brent Fortenberry received a Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship in support of his dissertation research on the island of Bermuda.
Harris Greenberg received an award from the Department of Archaeology’s Creighton Gabel
Memorial Scholarship Fund to support his dissertation research in Israel.
Emory Holland was awarded the Department of Archaeology’s Trowel Award for Excellence. Veronica Joseph received a Long-Term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship from the Boston
University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for her dissertation research in Mongolia and China.
Jessica Striebel Maclean was chosen by The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) to be
awarded its most recent Site Preservation Grant to the Little Bay Plantation Archaeology Project
on the Caribbean island of Montserrat.
Kathryn Ness received the Angela J. and James J. Rallis Memorial Award and the Helen G. Allen
Humanities Award from the Boston University Center for the Humanities to support her
dissertation research in Spain.
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Pinar Ozguner received a British Institute at Ankara (BIAA)- Koc University Research Center for
Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) Junior Residential Fellowship at RCAC in support of her
dissertation research in Turkey.
Travis Parno received an award from the Department of Archaeology’s Creighton Gabel
Memorial Scholarship Fund to support his dissertation research at the Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts.
Ilaria Patania was chosen by the department as the Outstanding Archaeology Teaching Fellow
for the Academic Year 2011-2012.
Luke Pecoraro received the Alice M. Brennan Humanities Award and the Angela J. and James J.
Rallis Memorial Award from the Boston University Center for the Humanities as well as an award from the Department of Archaeology Creighton Gabel Memorial Scholarship Fund in support of
his dissertation research in Ireland and Virginia.
Franco Rossi was awarded a 2012 Summer Residential Fellowship at the American Philosophical
Society in Philadelphia. There he will be studying the notes made by Sylvanus Morley during his
fieldwork in the early 20th century at the ancient Maya city of Xultun, Guatemala, Franco’s
dissertation site. For his dissertation research at Xultun, Franco also received a Long-Term BU
Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship from the Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Stephanie Simms received a BU Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship in support of her
dissertation research in the Maya region of Central America. She also received a Dissertation
Improvement grant from the National Science Foundation for the completion of her dissertation. Professor William Saturno was the Principal Investigator on the NSF grant.
Kaoru Ueda received an award from the Department of Archaeology’s Creighton Gabel Memorial
Scholarship Fund to support her dissertation research at the site of Bantem Lama, Indonesia.
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COMMUNITY LIFE Throughout the academic year, we host many lectures and brown-bag lunch talks that bring BU faculty, students, and guests from elsewhere in Boston together.
Each year we co-sponsor
several lectures with the Boston chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America and ICEAACH through its East Asian Archaeology Forum, funded by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, offers a series of lectures and informal talks given by visiting scholars working in Asia. In 2012 we launched a new distinguished lecture series, described below..
RAYMOND & BEVERLY SACKLER DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation endowed a Distinguished Lecture Series in
Archaeology at Boston University in honor of Professor Emeritus Norman Hammond, whose
research on the Maya civilization in Central America has been supported by the Foundation for more than a decade.
The Inaugural Raymond & Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology, “The Maya
Murals of Bonampak: Life and Death of a Royal Court,” was delivered on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 by Dr. Mary Miller, Dean of Yale College.
For more information about Prof. Hammond’s eventful career and the Sackler endowment, visit http://www.bu.edu/cas/magazine/spring12/hammond/.
Above: Murals from the site of Bonampak, the subject of Dr. Miller's lecture
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UNDERGRADUATE HIGHLIGHTS Professor David Carballo stepped into the role of Director of Undergraduate Studies in September, 2011; he has been an energetic and highly active advocate for our undergraduates. Our undergraduates, too, are very active and participate in the life of the department in many ways; they help out at the annual Majors Fair and with Archaeology Month events, attend lectures and talks by visiting job candidates, volunteer in our labs, secure UROP funds for research and for travel to conferences, and garner many awards, all while taking part in a wide array of extracurricular activities, among them ballroom dancing, rowing, and broom ball.
2012 STUDY ABROAD GUATEMALA PROGRAM Each even-numbered spring a select cohort of BU undergraduate students embarks on an archaeological adventure in Guatemala. Following a month of intensive language training, travel and orientation they head deep into the tropical forests of Petén, where they spend 3 months in a remote field station studying archaeology “hands-on” while they take part in the ongoing investigations at the sites of San Bartolo and Xultun. Beyond general training in archaeological methodology, surveying and excavation practices— learning through guided experiences in a variety of archaeological settings—students are given Below: Undergraduates Dillon Brown, Leah Hammon, Megan Thibodeau, and Zach Alles eat lunch with graduate student supervisor Aviva Cormier and volunteer Jon Roll.
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the opportunities to build on their own special skill sets and interests, to collaborate with faculty and graduate assistants, and to produce independent research. This season was a particularly exciting one as they took part in the excavations to contextualize a rare Maya mural (recently featured in National Geographic), uncover the elaborate stucco façades of early Classic ancestral shrine, survey and map previously unexplored terrain, document the unusual sculptural façade of an ancient sweatbath, and witness first-hand the excavation of the unlooted offerings of a royal tomb. Currently four Guatemala Program alumni are working on Independent Works for Distinction ranging in interests from water management and plaster
micromorphology
to
the
art
and
architecture surrounding the earliest Maya kings. Leah Hammond became a key artist onsite, applying her abilities in the drawing of five important burials discovered during the Ph.D. dissertation work being conducted by Franco Rossi—work that was more broadly assisted by Dillon Brown and Zack Nakashian who were responsible for running and documenting their Above: Undergraduate Megan Thibodeau takes
own sub-excavations as part of the broader
floor samples to test for organic residues.
plan.
Other
students entered the field with
specialized knowledge in hand, such as Megan Thibodeau who used her experience working on micromorphological analysis in the BU Archaeology Department’s lab to drive her original IWD research. At Xultun she took over 30 samples of stucco floors and walls from across the site for cross-comparison at the micro level, helping to answer a variety of archaeological questions relating to stucco production and its use in Maya architecture. Working in the northern extent of the site, Emily Bushold assisted BU graduate student Jenny Wildt in her dissertation research—helping to document the architecture of a looted tomb as well as the elaborate sweatbath façade previously mentioned. Omar Alcover, a native Spanish speaker, worked closely with Guatemalan archaeologists on the largest structure at Xultun, meaningfully contributing to the ongoing, multi-year research of this structure. Undergraduates Alex Kara and Josue Nieves took on the multiple roles of surveying, mapping and excavating—often alternating roles from day to day—as they assisted graduate student, Jonathan Ruane, in his dissertation research on water management and use at this ancient city. At the nearby site of San Bartolo, Ryann Dear worked closely with Dr. Astrid
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Runggaldier (alumnus of BU’s Archaeology Program herself) re-mapping and initiating excavations on several residential groups previously uninvestigated archaeologically.
UROP AWARDS Name
Title
Dates
Advisor
Megan Thibodeau
Development of a Protocol for
Fall 2011-Spring
Francesco Berna
Summer 2012
Francesco Berna
Summer 2012
Christopher
Studying the Effects of
Pyrotechnology on Calcium
2012
Carbonate Polymorphs
Fourier Transform Infared
Microscopic Analysis of Preclassic and Classic Mayan Plaster Floors from Xultun, Guatemala Nicolas Gauthier
Mapping Responses to Climate Change in Bronze Age Lydia
Roosevelt
GRADUATE HIGHLIGHTS PhD student Sara Belkin served as President of the Archaeology Graduate Student Association in 2011–2012 and oversaw their meetings and allocations of grad student funds for travel to conferences; she also attended department meetings, reported graduate student concerns to faculty and relayed the gist of our deliberations to her fellow graduate students. PhD student Chad DiGregorio served as a member of the Search Committee for an Archaeological Scientist; he and his fellow grad students met with all job candidates and attended their talks. They also provided input to the search committee, and their opinions were taken quite seriously. Graduate students host all departmental receptions following talks and play a large role on our Lecture Committee; they have their own outreach program and provide lectures and demonstrations for the public schools in the Greater Boston area. Our PhD students’ research has been featured in several media outlets (see Archaeology in the News); many received prestigious awards to support their research, and an impressive number published on their work and gave papers at professional conferences. Our grad students, especially those who have served as Teaching Fellows, under the mentorship of Professor Runnels, are co-authoring an archaeology textbook for use in introductory archaeology courses. Four of our students successfully defended their dissertations this past year and have embarked on the post-PhD phase of their careers.
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TENTH BIENNIAL OPEN FORUM FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS One of the major highlights of the graduate student year was the success of the Tenth Biennial Open Forum for Graduate Students held February 17–19, 2012.
This conference featured
papers inspired by the conference's theme, "Found Objects/Past Lives: Archaeological Perspectives on Material and Materiality" (see the list of papers below).
It also included a
keynote address delivered by Dr. Carl Knappett, the Walter Graham/Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory at the University of Toronto, and a panel discussion between Dr. Knappett, Archaeology Department Chair Mary Beaudry, and the seventy-four conference attendees.
PAPERS DELIVERED AT THE TENTH BIENNIAL OPEN FORUM CONFERENCE Name
Affiliation
Paper Title
Rebecca
University of
Pottery in the Landscape: Ceramic Analysis at the City-
Bartusewich Adrienne Frie
Massachusetts– Amherst
University of WisconsinMilwaukee
Jill Bierly
University of
Massachusetts–
Kingdom of Idalion, Cyprus
Object Trajectories: tracing values in Western Hallstatt Europe
From Artifact to Narrative
Amherst Florence Liard
Université
The Minoan Melting-Pot : the Material, the Technique
Louvain
of Bronze Age Cretan Ceramics Since the Sixties
Catholique de
and the Culture. Divergences in Processual Approaches
Kyra Kaercher
Boston
Trade or Migration?: A Study of Red Black Burnished
Allison Cuneo
Boston
Exotica: The role of foreign luxury goods in the
Thaddeus
Stony Brook
Material Choice and Labor Requirements in Iron Age
Katherine
Boston
Agency, Apotropaism, and Material Culture in Early
Lisette Jimenez
University of
Family Ties: Constructions of Identity and Materiality of
Nelson French
University University University University California – Berkeley
Sarah Newman
Brown University
Ware at Tell Qarqur, Syria
emergence of Mycenaean palatial administration Spindle Whorls: An Experimental Approach Medieval Gaul
the Mummy Shrouds of Deir el Medina
Awl the Small Things: The Ritual Deposition of Worked Bone Objects at the Acropolis of El Zotz, Peten, Guatemala
Stacey Whitacre
University of
A Study of rifle ammunition frequency variation from 26 | P a g e
Cameron Pearson Martin
Schmidheiny
South Carolina
five Revolutionary War sites: Evidence for individual
City University of
The Reinscription and Digitization of one Athenian
New York–
Graduate Center University of
Massachusetts– Amherst
agency? Stele
Seeing Red: Brick Variation and Industrial Architecture at Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, NY AD 1650–1690
Paola Di
University of
Digital Objects Representation in Research and
Di Franco
Merced
in Archaeology
Giuseppantonio
California–
Education: The Value of 3D for Knowledge Acquisition
INVOLVEMENT IN THE BROADER ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMMUNITY Our students were also very active in the archaeological community outside of Boston University. Below are lists of student publications and papers presented at conferences.
STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Student
Publication(s)
Chad DiGregorio
Strasser, T. F., Runnels, C., Wegmann, K., Panagopoulou, E., McCoy, F., DiGregorio, C., Karkanas, P., and Thompson, N., 2012, Dating Palaeolithic Sites in Southwestern Crete, Greece. Journal of
Quaternary Science 26: 553–560. Brent Fortenberry
Fortenberry, B. and M. Brown, Bermuda’s Archaeology in Context.
Post-Medieval Archaeology 45(1): 1–6.
Fortenberry, B. and M. Brown, "Concluding Comments: The Future of
Archaeology in Bermuda." Post-Medieval Archaeology 45:1, 233–234. A Lost Bermudian Governor: George James Bruere’s Burial in Context.
Post-Medieval Archaeology 45(1): 183–196.
Fortenberry, B. and L. McAtackney, Materials Modern: An
Introduction. In Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory
Conference 2009 Conference Proceedings. British Archaeological Reports: Contemporary and Historical Archaeology Series. Archaeopress, Oxford.
Fortenberry, B. and M. Brown, editors, Bermuda: Celebrating 400
Years of History (thematic issue) Post-Medieval Archaeology 45(1). B. Fortenberry and L. McAtackney, editors, Contemporary and
Historical Archaeology in Theory Conference 2009 Conference Proceedings. British Archaeological Reports: Contemporary and 27 | P a g e
Historical Archaeology Series. Janet Kay
Norse in Newfoundland: A Critical Examination of Archaeological Research at the Norse Site at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland.
British Archaeological Reports International Series. Archaeopress, Oxford.
Brandon Olson
Olson, B.R. and A.E. Killebrew, A Latin Graffito on a Recently
Discovered Eastern Sigillata A Sherd from Dalbaz Höyük, Bay of İskenderun, Turkey. Near Eastern Archaeology 74(2): 116-119.
Franco Rossi
Saturno, W.A., D. Stuart, A.F. Aveni, and F. Rossi, "2012 Ancient Maya
Astronomical Tables from Xultun, Guatemala," Science 336(6082),714-717.
Stephanie Simms
Simms, S., E. Parker, G.J. Bey, & T.G. Negrón, "Evidence from Escalera
al Cielo: Abandonment of a Terminal Classic Puuc Maya Hill Complex in Yucatán, Mexico," Journal of Field Archaeology. In press.
STUDENT CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Student
Organization
Date & Location
Paper Title
Allison Cuneo, with
Archaeological
Jan. 5, 2012;
AROURA 2011: Methods,
Aravantinos, T.J.
America
M.F. Lane, V.
Horsley, & W.S. Bittner
Institute of
Philadelphia, PA
results, and prospects of geophysical and surface survey around the
Mycenaean fortress of Glas, Viotia, Greece
Brent Fortenberry, with J. Carlson
Society for Historical
Archaeology
Laura Heath, with
Society for
Aveni
Archaeology
D.M. Carballo & A.F.
Karen Hutchins
American
Contemporary and Historical
Archaeology in
Jan. 4-8, 2012;
The Bermudian-Bovine
Baltimore, MD
Relationship: Evidence from
Apr. 19, 2012;
Public Architecture and
Memphis, TN
Whitehall
Ritual Offerings during Central Mexico’s Later Formative Periods
Nov. 11-13, 2011; Boston, MA
Theory
Coming to New England: The Demographics and
Mechanics of the Slave Trade and What That Means for
Archaeologists Studying the African Diaspora
Society for Historical
Jan. 4-8, 2012; Baltimore, MD
From What to Choose?: An
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Archaeology
and Ceramic Availability at Parting Ways, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Alexander Keim
Contemporary and Historical
Archaeology in
Nov. 11-13, 2011; Boston, MA
Theory Hank Lutton
Society for Historical
Archaeology Karen Necciai
Classics Goes Green
Conference,
In the Street: Personal
Adornment and Embodied Movement in the Urban
Landscape of Boston’s North End Jan. 4-8, 2012; Baltimore, MD
Apr. 21, 2012; Cincinnati, OH
University of
The Other Towns: Town
Planning and Urban Forms in Early Virginia, 1680–1706 Geoarchaeological
Investigations into Bronze Age Agricultural Practices
Cincinnati Brandon Olson, with
CAARI
Crowley, D. DeForest,
Workshop
W.R. Caraher, J. R.S. Moore, &
Archaeological
June, 2012;
Nicosia, Cyprus
UMass Amherst
Quartermaine, & A.E.
Heritage and
R. Placchetti, J. Killebrew
Travis Parno
Center for
May, 2012;
Amherst, MA
Society
Contemporary and Historical
Archaeology in
Historical
Archaeology
Excavations at Pyla-Vigla in
New Directions in Real Time 3-D Recording and Spatial
Documentation
at Tel Akko, Israel
Nov. 11-13, 2011; Boston, MA
Theory
Society for
Archaeological Project: 2012
D.K. Pettegrew Brandon Olson, with
Pyla-Koutsopetria
The Mosaic and the
Interruption: An Approach to Material Aesthetics at Historic House Sites
Jan. 4-8, 2012; Baltimore, MD
Archaeology, Material
Culture, and Ethnography at the Fairbanks House Museum, Dedham, Massachusetts
Alexandra Ratzlaff
American
Schools of Oriental
Nov. 16-19, 2011;
The Caesarea Mithraeum
Nov. 11-12, 2012;
Stocking the Puuc Maya
San Francisco, CA
Interior: A Micro-Cosmos
Research Stephanie Simms
Eighth Biennial
Graduate Group Symposium
Bryn Mawr, PA
Kitchen: Prehispanic Culinary Equipment and Cuisine
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Stephanie Simms,
Society of
Bey
Archaeology
with F. Berna & G. J.
Kate Swanson
American
Global Pottery 2012
Apr. 18-22, 2012; Memphis, TN
A Prehispanic Maya Piib?:
Archaeological Evidence for a New Cooking Technology in the Puuc Region
May 6-9, 2012;
Barcelona, Spain
Ceramics of the Late
Spanish-Atlantic World
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UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES AND HONORS BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREES AWARDED Name
Latin Honors
Other Awards
Lily-Kathryn Ames Elizabeth I. Anderson
Cum Laude
Letizia Bemberg Andrew Clifford Cooper Bream
Magna Cum Laude
Elizabeth Anne Christian Andrew Anthony Clark Philip S. Cook
Summa Cum Laude
Cheryl Copson
Cum Laude
College Prize for Excellence Phi Beta Kappa
Srivatsa Gopala Dattatreya Julie Noelle Flynn
Cum Laude
Emory Jane Hennig Holland
Magna Cum Laude
Archaeology Trowel Award
Summa Cum Laude
Phi Beta Kappa
Elizabeth Anne Jerome Jennifer Greene Kalik Anna C. Kalil Krista Shizuko Kano
Cum Laude
Ludwig Koeneke
Cum Laude
Peter Alan Litman Carlos L. Lu Alexander "Teddy" Mazurek
Cum Laude
Caitlin Marie Meagher
Magna Cum Laude
Elizabeth Monroe
Summa Cum Laude
Benjamin Jacob Navarro-Miller Josue Roberto Nieves
Magna Cum Laude
Pamela A. Rerko Jorge Rivera Robles Maria K. Sarkissian Holly Swanson
Cum Laude
Kevin Chang Velasquez Preston Reeves Weir II
Magna Cum Laude
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GRADUATE DEGREES AWARDED DOCTORAL DEGREES AWARDED Name
Dissertation Title
Advisor
Myriam Arcangeli
For Water, Food, Tables, and Health: The
Mary C. Beaudry
Colonial Ceramic Culture of Guadeloupe, French West Indies
Brent R.
Fortenberry†
Church, State, and the Space in Between: An
Archaeological and Architectural Study of St.
Mary C. Beaudry
George’s, Bermuda Ellen Moriarty
Classic Maya Ceramic Technology and Power
Dynamics in The Central Peten Lakes Region,
William Saturno
Guatemala Chantel White†
The Emergence and Intensification of
Cultivation Practices at the Pre-Pottery
Ksenija Borojevic
Neolithic Site of el-Hemmeh, Jordan: An Archaeobotanical Study
† - Dissertation successfully defended, degree to be awarded in January 2013.
Below: Myriam Arcangeli (left) and Ellen Moriarty (right) receive their doctoral hoods at the 2012 hooding ceremony
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OUTREACH Our faculty and students' commitment to public outreach is demonstrated through the many lectures they deliver to public schools.
Prof. Murowchick, for example, serves on the Asian
Studies Steering Committee for the Needham Public schools, and regularly lectures in schools in
Needham and elsewhere; ICEAACH has an outreach program to the K–12, museum, and media
communities. These programs promote awareness of serious problems facing our field today,
including the accelerating destruction of archaeological sites and other forms of cultural heritage through poorly-planned construction projects, urban sprawl, and looting. Profs. Roosevelt and Luke work extensively with regional museums and local communities in rural Turkey, with the aims of increasing international understanding of local perspectives on
material culture heritage and archaeological landscapes, and to increase local understanding of the value of preserving these.
They also work with local Chambers of Commerce and with
villagers and offer ecological and art workshops for children aged 10–15 to encourage local
community members to see, value, and preserve the landscapes in which they live for their cultural and natural values. Prof. Runnels gave a public lecture at the Museum of Science, and
he and Research Fellow Priscilla Murray during the academic year hold an open house every Friday in the department’s Gabel Museum for undergraduates and others who wish to gain
hands-on experience working with artifacts and preparing interpretive exhibits for the display cases in the department’s hallways.
Our graduate student Outreach Committee is always ready to send a team of graduate students,
artifact specimens in hand, to speak to primary and secondary schools, and every October, as part of Archaeology Month in Massachusetts, they sponsor Archaeology Day at Boston University, providing tours of our laboratories and demonstrations of how archaeologists study seeds and bones to learn about ancient diets and of artifact mending and other activities in which visitors are invited to participate.
Like us on Facebook!
This year the Department of Archaeology
launched itself into social networking by creating a Facebook page, Archaeology BU, so that we can share information about events and
good things that happen to BU archaeologists. Friend us, like us at http://www.facebook.com/archaeology.bu.
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CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENTS Over the course of the past year, the Chair’s Advisory Committee on Graduate Curriculum, led by Director of Graduate Studies Andrea Berlin, met regularly, several times with faculty from other departments, schools, and programs, to follow up on the deliberations of our one-day faculty retreat. Our goal is to overhaul the graduate curriculum in ways that, we hope, will streamline the required core and provide more meaningful outcomes, in terms of employment opportunities and placement, for our MA and PhD graduates. To this end, we are proposing to consolidate content of our core courses in order to reduce the number of required core courses from five to four, and to offer a course on research design and proposal development. We will accomplish the latter by co-teaching and cross-listing Anthropology’s course “Proposal Writing for Social Science Research,” beginning in spring, 2013. We have also begun developing a comprehensive proposal for new degree programs (BA, MA, BA/MA, and MAT concentrations and a BA minor) in Archaeology & Heritage Studies, featuring tracks in Environment and in Sustainable Tourism, in collaboration with the Department of Earth and Environment, the School of Hospitality Administration, and the School of Education. Our East Asian archaeology curriculum continues to evolve as we envisioned: a full program of undergraduate and graduate course offerings in East and Southeast Asian archaeology and closely-related fields; supporting graduate education and professional training in this area; and promoting and expanding collaborative teaching, research, and outreach between the Department of Archaeology and its International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History (ICEAACH), and other related departments and programs at Boston University, in New England, and around the world. The fourth year of our institutional enhancement grant from the Henry Luce Foundation allowed us to work toward these goals in several critical ways, including (1) supporting the work of Robert Murowchick, who holds a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in our department; (2) additional new courses to enhance our Asian archaeology academic curriculum at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, complementing existing courses in archaeology and in other departments; (3) providing funding for student research and travel; (4) supporting program enrichment activities, including public outreach activities and ongoing Asian archaeology-related library acquisitions for the publicly-accessible ICEAACH library.
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NEW COURSES Prof. Berlin, as a new member of our faculty, proposed several courses that she will teach—“Life is a Bowl,” on ceramic analysis, has already proved highly popular. Profs. Berlin and Roosevelt developed a new sequence of Classical archaeology courses that will be taught regularly beginning in 2012–2013. Profs. Murowchick and Saturno are offering new topical courses on metallurgy and cultural collapse, respectively, and Prof. Luke initiated a new course on Cultural Heritage and Diplomacy that is cross-listed with International Relations.
Course
Course Title
Course Description
CAS AR337/
The Wine Dark Sea:
Examines the interconnected cultures of the eastern
Individual Identity in
1200 BCE) through the Achaemenid period (c. 5–4th C.
Number GRS AR737
Material Culture and the World of Homer
CAS AR338/ GRS AR738
GRS AR793
BCE), with a focus on the material correlates of identity. Prof. Roosevelt
Mare Nostrum:
Examines the interconnected cultures of the eastern
Individual Identity
(4th century BCE) through the Roman emperors period
Material Culture and after Alexander
CAS AR393/
Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age (c. 1400–
Mediterranean from the era of Alexander the Great
(c. 2nd-3rd centuries CE), with a focus on the material correlates of identity. Prof. Berlin
Out of the Fiery
Examines the development and impact of metallurgy in
Metallurgy of the
technical issues of mining, smelting, casting, and
Furnace: Early
Pre-industrial World
ancient and pre-industrial societies, considering
finishing, as well as changing ritual, military, social,
and economic roles that this technology fulfilled. Prof.
Murowchick CAS AR396/ GRS AR796
Cultural Heritage and Diplomacy
Considers place of heritage in archaeology and cultural diplomacy; art architecture as cultural ambassadors; culture representation in museums and cultural
landscapes; international art law; cultural affairs in U.S. embassies; the State Department; strategic impact of
heritage in promoting U.S. foreign policy. Cross-listed with CAS IR396/GRS IR796. Prof. Luke CAS AR430/ GRS AR830
The End of Days:
Seminar on the archaeology, anthropology, mythology
Complex Societies
provides students with an in-depth understanding of
Analyzing Collapse in
and history of collapse in complex societies. Course major issues and challenges in studying the
dissolution and reformulation of complex societies in the ancient world. Prof. Saturno
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CAS AR593
Memory in 3-D:
Societies craft their histories and identities via
now
In this course, we analyze the historical context, form
Memorials, then and
memorials, thereby firming up the past for the future. and message of important memorials in modern America and classical antiquity. Prof. Berlin
CAS AR590
Life is a Bowl:
Before plastic, there was pottery—pots & pans, cups &
Archaeology
We learn how archaeologists use pottery to elucidate
Ceramic Studies in
dishes, crocks & jars—in every culture & in abundance. everything from personal habits to large-scale social,
economic, & political developments; common forms of scientific analyses (e.g., mineral & clay identification,
chemical composition); how pottery in the Levant from the Bronze Ages through the Ottoman empire has
been used to reconstruct social, economic, cultural, & political processes; use of ceramic analysis in the
archaeologies of Oceania, Africa, the early Americas, and historic America. Prof. Berlin
GUEST TEACHING In fall of 2011, Dr. Astrid Runggaldier (Lecturer and Research Fellow in Archaeology) taught AR251, Ancient Maya Civilization. The 26 students enrolled in the course had rave reviews of the course and wrote that the assignments and readings were engaging and that Prof. Runggaldier is “enthusiastic,” “knowledgeable about the field,” and always available to help students. Dr. Amalia Pérez-Juez, Director of Studies of BU’s Study Abroad Madrid Programs, Co-Director of the Menorca Field School in Archaeology and Heritage Management, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Archaeology, spent the academic year in Boston as Acting Director of Academic Affairs for Study Abroad. In the fall, she also taught AR580, Studies in Archaeological Heritage Management: Public Outreach, Site Presentation, Cultural Tourism.
The course emphasized
places that present aspects of heritage to the public, such as archaeological sites, historical sites, and art centers. Students learned how to prepare a site for tourism, how to design and implement programs for all kinds of publics, and how to reach the community and involve it in the task of preserving its cultural heritage.
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FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE The
suite
of
rooms
(CAS
355A–D)
comprising our Archaeological Science teaching
lab
and
paleoethnobotany
extraction lab and research workspace was renovated and expanded over the summer of 2011; we have been sharing the teaching lab with Anthropology most happily.
The
renovation
increased
student desk space from 20 to 31 seats, and Above: The newly renovated lab space in CAS 355A-D
involved
installation
cabinetry,
a
high-quality
projection
system
with
a
of
new
computer document
camera, as well as all-new lab desks and stools. The result is a bright, roomy, and efficient work and teaching space. We were able to replace or repair old student scopes and purchase several new teaching and research microscopes. We also acquired for teaching and research purposes a portable XRF (x-ray diffraction) analyzer and sponsored training workshops for interested students and faculty to be licensed as users of this device. This instrument will allow us to provide training in compositional analysis of ceramics, glass, pigments, and other archaeological materials as part of the Archaeological Science course. Michael Hamilton, Laboratory Coordinator, reorganized our labs and storage spaces and has even made headway in rehabilitating our storage area in the sub-basement of Stone Science. He’s also inventoried and rationalized many of the research collections the department has inherited from former faculty members and, working with Prof. Roosevelt, inspected, repaired, or refurbished our geophysical prospecting, GIS, and surveying equipment to insure everything is working properly. In summer of 2012, the department’s former darkroom and visual resource center—no longer needed because our image collection, now digitized, has been sent to “the cloud”—will be converted into a laboratory for incoming faculty member John “Mac” Marsden.
Thus our
number of labs, and responsibilities for our Lab Coordinator, will increase, and we will be able to provide Professor Marsden with state-of-the-art facilities in which to conduct his research.
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LOOKING FORWARD We look forward to welcoming our new colleague, Prof. John M. (Mac) Marsden, an archaeological scientist whose major areas of teaching and research interest are environmental archaeology, archaeological science, sustainability and resilience, risk management, theory, ecology, environmental anthropology, and the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. His major field projects are in central Turkey: the Kerkenes Ecology and Environmental Archaeology Project at the site of Kerkenes Dağ, and, at the ancient city of Gordion, an interdisciplinary project aiming to reconstruct the history of cultural and environmental change in the region over the past 5000 years. Marston’s other active field projects include analysis of ancient wood use and woodland ecology in the Fayum of Egypt, with the UCLA/RUG Fayum Project, and in northern Turkey, at the Chalcolithic site of Çamlıbel Tarlası. He is also working to use cultural heritage management in Turkey as a tool for education and economic development as a member of the Heritage as Bridge team, part of the Partnerships for a New Beginning program of the US Department of State, and as the Managing Director of Environmental Research for the Kaymakçı Archaeology Project, Lydia, Turkey, collaborating with Profs. Christopher Roosevelt and Christina Luke. The upcoming year marks our 30th anniversary as a department; we remain the sole selfstanding Department of Archaeology in the US. Through our roster of upcoming events and activities we will draw attention to the impact the department has made on teaching and practice in archaeology. We will also consider our paths for future growth. •
Prof. Susan Alcock, Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University, will deliver the 2nd Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology on November 8, 2012.
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Upon submitting for review our proposed revisions to our graduate curriculum and proposals for a new degrees in archaeology and heritage studies, we will begin planning in earnest for the enriching collaborations these changes will set in motion.
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The number of graduate students who have made excellent progress on dissertation writing leads us to expect a bumper crop of PhDs next year.
We look forward to an interesting and eventful anniversary year during which we will enhance our course offerings, expand our collaborations with colleagues at BU and beyond, continue to make exciting discoveries and contributions to archaeological knowledge, and provide opportunities for our students to participate in archaeological research at home and abroad. 38 | P a g e
OUR PHDS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Stephen A. Brighton (PhD 2005)
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland
Christopher Dayton (PhD 2008)
Principal Investigator for Archaeological Research,
Cox|McLain Environmental Consulting, Inc., Austin, TX
Daniel Finamore (PhD 1994)
Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art and History
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
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Eleanor Harrison-Buck (PhD 2007)
Assistant Professor of Archaeology, Department of
Anthropology, University of New Hampshire
Alan Kaiser (PhD 1999)
Associate Professor of Archaeology, Department of
Archaeology and Art History, University of Evansville, IN
Melissa M. Morison (PhD 2000)
Associate Professor of Classics, Grand Valley State University,
Allendale, MI
Akin Ogundiran (PhD 2000)
Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology, & History
Chair and Professor, Africana Studies Department, University
of North Carolina, Charlotte
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Elizabeth S. Pe単a (PhD 1990)
Interim Chair, John F. Kennedy University Museum Studies Department
Shannon Plank (PhD 2003)
Founder, Director of Project Passport, Montana
Alexia Smith (PhD 2005)
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut
Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir (Ph, 2005)
Director of Science & Technology Museum; Lecturer, Graduate Program of Architectural History, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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Thomas Tartaron (PhD 1996)
Associate Professor of Classical Studies, University of
Pennsylvania
Carolyn L. White (PhD 2002)
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Mamie Kleberg Chair in
Historic Preservation
Director of Historic Preservation Program & of Anthropology Research Museum, University of Nevada, Reno
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ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT FACULTY Kathryn A. Bard
Professor of Archaeology kbard@bu.edu
Areas of interest: Late prehistory of Egypt; the origins of complex societies and early states in northeast Africa: Egypt, Nubia, and northern Ethiopia/Eritrea; the Red Sea trading network in the Bronze & Iron Ages. Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Mary C. Beaudry
Chair, Department of Archaeology
Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Gastronomy beaudry@bu.edu
Areas of interest: historical and industrial archaeology of the Americas and British Isles, comparative colonialism, culture contact, gender and equity issues in archaeology, the archaeology of historical households and homelots, documentary archaeology, landscape, ceramic analysis and typologies Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Post-Medieval
Archaeology, Vestigios: Revista Latinoamericana de Arqueologia Historica, and Cultural Landscapes
Andrea M. Berlin
James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology Director of Graduate Studies aberlin@bu.edu
Areas of Interest: Archaeology and history of the Achaemenid, Hellenistic, and Roman East, Ceramic Studies; Second-Temple Judaism; Archaeology of Israel. Member of Editorial Boards: Bulletin of the American
Schools of Oriental Research and Tel Aviv.
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Jonathan Bethard
Instructor of Anatomy and Neurobiology jbethard@bu.edu
Dr. Bethard is a biological anthropologist with research foci in forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology.
Ksenija Borojevic
Assistant Professor of Archaeology boro@bu.edu
Areas of interest: Palaeoethnobotany, Ancient Diets and Environments, Archaeology of South and East Europe.
David Carballo
Assistant Professor of Archaeology Director of Undergraduate Studies carballo@bu.edu
Areas of interest: Mesoamerican archaeology; households; ritual; political evolution; urbanism; cooperation and conflict; craft production and exchange; GIS; archaeometry; lithic analysis.
Clemency C. Coggins
Professor of Archaeology and Art History coggins@bu.edu
Areas of interest: Mesoamerican, especially Maya, archaeology, epigraphy, art; the preservation, collecting, and uses of ancient art Member, Editorial Board: International Journal of Cultural
Property
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Michael D. Danti
Assistant Professor of Archaeology mdanti@bu.edu
Areas of interest: Ancient Near East, emergence of complex societies, agropastoral economies, tribe-state relations and pastoral nomadic societies. Editor, Religious Studies Review
Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of London
Consulting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania Museum
Michael C. DiBlasi
Adjunct Associate Professor of Archaeology mdib@bu.edu
Areas of Interest: Late Holocene archaeology of eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya); environmental history and human ecology; archaeological palynology; development of complex societies. Associate Director, Program for the Study of the African Environment
Editor, International Journal of African Historical Studies
Ricardo J. Elia
Associate Professor of Archaeology elia@bu.edu
Areas of interest: International archaeological heritage management, U.S. cultural resource management, archaeology and the law, archaeological ethics, and public archaeology.
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Paul Goldberg
Professor of Geoarchaeology and Archaeology Director, Microstratigraphy Laboratory paulberg@bu.edu
Areas of interest: Geoarchaeology, Micromorphology, Site Formation processes, Palaeolithic archaeology Associate Editor of Journal, Geoarchaeology
Editorial Boards: Palaeo, Eurasian Prehistory
Fred Kleiner
Professor of Archaeology and History fsk@bu.edu
Areas of interest: History of Roman art Chair, Department of History of Art and Architecture Christina Luke
Senior Lecturer cluke@bu.edu
Areas of interests: Heritage Studies, International Cultural Policy and Law, and Cultural Diplomacy. Archaeology of Complex Societies, Balkans, Anatolia and Central America Co-director, Central Lydia Archaeological Survey, W. Turkey

Chair, Cultural Heritage Policy Committee, AIA
Co-editor, Archaeological Heritage & Ethics, Journal of Field
Archaeology
Patricia McAnany
Adjunct Professor
mcanany@email.unc.edu
Area of Interest: Cultural Heritage and Indigenous Communities; Ancestor Veneration; Cultural Logic of Noncapitalist Economies; Identity and Gender Constructs; Cacao Production and Use; Social Reproduction of Technology; Maya Studies; Archaeology of Mesoamerica.
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Rafique Mughal
Professor of Archaeology mughal@bu.edu
Areas of interest: South Asian Archaeology, Indus Valley Archaeology, International Heritage Management
Robert Murowchick
Assistant Professor of Archaeology
Director, International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History
remurow@bu.edu
Areas of interest: development of early metallurgy in China and Southeast Asia, archaeological remote sensing (particularly the use of aerial and satellite imagery), and the relationship among politics, nationalism, and archaeological research.
Amalia Perez-Juez
Adjunct Associate Professor of Archaeology
Associate Director, Archaeology Field School, Menorca Spain amaliapj@bu.edu
Areas of interest: archaeology of Spain, dissemination of research, cultural heritage management
Christopher Roosevelt
Associate Professor of Archaeology Director of Graduate Admissions chr@bu.edu
Areas of interest: Classical Archaeology; Landscape Archaeology; Cities and topography of Asia Minor; Bronze and Iron Age Anatolia Archaeology; Lydian, Persian, and Greek interaction in western Anatolia; Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications in archaeology. 47 | P a g e
Curtis Runnels
Professor of Archaeology
Editor, Journal of Field Archaeology runnels@bu.edu
Areas of interest: Prehistoric archaeology of the Aegean, lithic technology.
William Saturno
Assistant Professor of Archaeology saturno@bu.edu
Areas of interest: New World archaeology and Mesoamerican civilization Research Scientist: Marshall Space Flight Center & National Space Science and Technology Center
Director, Proyecto San Bartolo, Guatemala
Research Associate: Peabody Museum, Harvard Paul E. Zimansky
Adjunct Professor of Archaeology Paul.zimansky@stonybrook.edu
Areas of interest: ancient Near Eastern complex societies of the second and first millennia B.C.
RESEARCH FACULTY Francesco Berna
Research Assistant Professor
Co-Director, Microstratigraphy Laboratory berna@bu.edu
Areas of interest: Archaeology of Fire, Ancient Pyrotechnologies, Use of Space, Site Formation Processes Associate Editor, Geoarchaeology 48 | P a g e
Farouk El-Baz
Research Professor of Archaeology
Director, Center for Remote Sensing farouk@bu.edu
Areas of interest: remotes sensing, underground water, NASA
assisting in the planning of scientific exploration of the Moon,
including the selection of landing sites for the Apollo missions and the training of astronauts in lunar observations and photography.
Francisco Estrada-Belli
Research Assistant Professor of Archaeology fncesbl@bu.edu
Areas of interest: early emergence of state society in the Maya Lowlands, settlement patterns studies, GIS & Remote Sensing, an (occasionally) underwater archaeology.
AFFILIATED RESEARCHERS Christopher Dayton Research Fellow
cdayton@gmail.com Jody M. Gordon
Visiting Researcher gordonj@bu.edu
Ilean Isaza Aizpurua Visiting Researcher
Ilean.isaza@gmail.com Karen Metheny
Visiting Researcher
Lecturer , MET MLA in Gastronomy kbmetheny@aol.com
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Priscilla Murray
Visiting Researcher
Gabel Museum of Archaeology Curator pmurray@bu.edu
Astrid Runggaldier Research Fellow astrid@bu.edu
Benjamin Thomas
Visiting Researcher bthomas@bu.edu James Symonds
Visiting Researcher
James.symonds@york.ac.uk Benjamin Vining
Postdoctoral Associate bvining@bu.edu
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FACULTY PUBLICATIONS Name
Publications (books, articles written)
Kathryn Bard
Journal Article (Refereed):
C. J. Hein, D.M. FitzGerald, G. A. Milne, K. Bard & R. Fattovich, 2011. Evolution of a Pharaonic harbor on the Red Sea: Implications for coastal response to
changes in sea level and climate. Geology 39: 687–690 (Online 24 May 2011 at doi:10.1130/G31928.1).
Journal Article (not refereed):
K. A. Bard & R. Fattovich, 2011. Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, An Egyptian Harbor on the Red Sea: An Update. Newsletter of the Society for the Study of Egyptian
Antiquities 2(Spring 2011): 1-3. Mary C.
Beaudry
Journal Article (Refereed):
Walker, John, Mary C. Beaudry, and Diana DiZeriga Wall, 2011. Poverty in
Depth: A New Dialogue. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 15(4): 629-636. (Online 07 Oct 2011 via SpringerLink.)
Book Chapter:
North America: Historical Archaeology of North America. In The Oxford
Companion to Archaeology, 2e, edited by Neil Ascher Silberman. Oxford
University Press, Oxford, forthcoming Sept 2012. Andrea Berlin
Book:
A. M. Berlin and S. C. Herbert, eds. Excavations at Tel Anafa. Final Reports.
Vol. III, including: “The Pre-Hellenistic, Hellenistic, Roman, and Islamic Glass
Vessels,, “ by David Grose; “ The Lamps,” by John Dobbins; “The Metal Finds,” by Gloria Merker; and “ Groundstone and Other Stone Tools, Vessels, and
Miscellaneous Objects,” by Martin Wells, Keith Cogshall, Erin Haapala, and Jessie Weaver. Forthcoming in the Kelsey Museum Fieldwork Series.
Book Chapters:
“Identity Politics in Early Roman Galilee,” The Jewish Revolt Against Rome:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of
Judaism vol. 154. M. Popovic, ed. Brill, Leiden. Pp. 69-106.
“Manifest Identity: from loudaios to Jew. Household Judaism as anti51 | P a g e
Hellenization in the late Hasmonean era,” in R. Albertz and J. Wohrle (eds.),
Between Cooperation and Hostility: Multiple Identities in Ancient Judaism and the Interaction with Foreign Powers, Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplements (Gottingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht)
“The pottery from Strata 8-7 (The Hellenistic Period).” In Excavations in the
City of David Directed by Yigal Shiloh, Area E. A. de Groot and H. Greenberg, eds. Qedem 54. Hebrew University, Jerusalem. pp. 5-29.
“Fluted and Floral Bowls,” “Grooved Rim Bowls,” “Linear-Cut Bows,” and “
Ribbed Bowls,” shape studies in “The Pre-Hellenistic, Hellenistic, Roman and Islamic Glass Vessels,” in Excavations at Tel Anafa. Final Reports. Vol. III. A Berlin and S. Herbert, eds. Kelsey Museum Fieldwork Series.
Article (Non-Refereed):
Andrea Berlin and Sharon Herbert, Archaeology, "Excavating Tel Kedesh" 65(3): 24–29. Ksenija
Borojevic
Articles (Refereed):
Borojevic, K. and Mountain, R. The ropes of Pharaohs: The source of cordage from “ Rope Cave” at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, Revisited. Journal of
Archaeological Research in Egypt 47.
Borojevic, K. (together with Borojevic Katarina) Promemoria. Reminiscence on Norman Borlaug (1914-2009), Nobel Prize winner and great plant breeder.
Contemporary Agriculture 60(3-4): 465-473.
David M. Carballo
Book: Obsidian and the Teotihuacan State: Weaponry and Ritual Production at the Moon Pyramid. La obsidiana y el Estado Toetihuacano: La produccion militar y ritual en la Piramide de la Luna. University of Pittsburgh Memories in Latin American Archaeology No. 21. Center for Comparative Archaeology,
Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, the Institute de
Investigaciones Antropologicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Pittsburgh and Mexico, D.F.
Articles (refereed):
“Advances in the Household Archaeology of Highland Mesoamerica.” Journal
of Archaeological Research 19: 133-189.
Carballo, David M., Luis Barba, Agustin Ortiz, Jorge Blancas, Jorge Humberto Toledo Barrera, and Nicole Cingolani “ La Laguna, Tlaxcala: Ritual y
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Urbanizacion en el Formativo. Revista Teccalli: Estudios Puebla-Tlaxcala 1 (2): 1-11. Michael Danti
Book Chapters:
“The Monochrome Burnished Ware and Late Buff Ware Horizons in Iranian
Azerbaijan and Kurdistan,” in Daniel T. Potts, ed. The Oxford Handbook of
Iranian Archaeology. New York: Oxford University Press.
“Preface.” In Samaad Alioun and Oscar W. Muscarella, eds. Individual Finds
from Hasanlu Tepe, Iran. (In Persian) Tehran: Iranian Center for Archaeological
Research.
Articles (Refereed):
“The ‘Artisan’s House’ of Hasanlu Tepe, Iran.” Iran XLIX: 11-54. Ricardo J. Elia
Article (Refereed):
Ricardo J. Elia and Marta Ostovich, “Heritage Management,” Oxford
Bibliographies Online: Classics, ed. Dee Clayman.
http://oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/view/document/obo-
9780195389661/obo-9780195389661-0019.xml. Refereed, annotated bibliography with 108 references in 12 subject categories.
Book Chapters:
“History and Basics of International Conventions pertaining to Heritage Policy,” in C. Smith, ed., Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. New York: Springer. Substantive article for forthcoming print and online encyclopedia project. “Cultural Heritage Management in the United States,” in C. Smith, ed.,
Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. New York: Springer. Substantive article for forthcoming print and online encyclopedia project.
“Charter for the Protection and Management of the Archaeological Heritage (1990),” in C. Smith, ed., Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. New York:
Springer. Minor article for forthcoming print and online encyclopedia project. “Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine,” in C. Smith, ed.,
Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. New York: Springer. Paul Goldberg
Articles (Refereed):
Turq, A., H. L. Dibble, P. Goldberg, S. P. McPherron, D. Sandgathe, H. Jones, K. Maddison, B. Maureille, S. Mentzer, J. Rink, and A. Steenhuyse. 2011. Les fouilles récentes du Pech de L'Azé IV (Dordogne). Gallia Préhistoire 53.
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Albert, R. M., Berna, F., and Goldberg, P., 2012. Insights on Neanderthal fire use at Kebara Cave (Israel) through high-resolution study of prehistoric
combustion features: Evidence from phytoliths and thin sections. Quaternary
International 247: 278-293.
Goldberg, P., Dibble, H., Berna, F., Sandgathe, D., McPherron, S. J. P., and
Turq, A., 2012. New Evidence on Neandertal Use of Fire: Examples from Roc de Marsal and Pech de l'AzĂŠ IV. Quaternary International 247: 325-340. Speth, J.D., Meignen, L., Bar-Yosef, O., Goldberg, P., 2012. Spatial
organization of Middle Paleolithic occupation X in Kebara Cave (Israel):
Concentrations of animal bones, Quaternary International 247: 85-102. Wadley, L., Sievers, C., Bamford, M., Goldberg, P., Berna, F., Miller, C., 2011. Middle Stone Age bedding construction and settlement patterns at Sibudu, South Africa, Science 334: 1388-1391.
Sandgathe, D. M., Dibble, H. L., Goldberg, P., McPherron, S. P., Turq, A.,
Niven, L., and Hodgkins, J. 2011. Timing of the appearance of habitual fire use. PNAS 108: E298.
Sandgathe, D. M., Dibble, H. L., Goldberg, P., and McPherron, S. P. 2011. The Roc de Marsal Neandertal child: A reassessment of its status as a deliberate burial. Journal of Human Evolution 61: 243-253.
Rebollo, N. R., Weiner, S., Brock, F., Meignen, L., Goldberg, P., Belfer-Cohen, A., Bar-Yosef, O., and Boaretto, E., 2011. New radiocarbon dating of the
transition from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic in Kebara Cave, Israel.
Journal of Archaeological Science 38, 2424-2433.
2011. Micromorphological analyses of selected samples from the depression around Tell Mozan. Subartu XXVIII: 61-72.
Bar-Yosef, O., Belfer-Cohen, A., Mesheviliani, T., Jakeli, N., Bar-Oz, G.,
Boaretto, E., Goldberg, P., Kvavadze, E., Matskevich, Z., 2011. Dzudzuana: an Upper Palaeolithic cave site in the Caucasus foothills (Georgia). Antiquity 85: 331-349.
Pustovoytov, K., Deckers, K., and Goldberg, P., 2011. Genesis, age and
archaeological significance of a pedosediment in the depression around Tell Mozan, Syria, Journal of Archaeological Science 38: 913-924.
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Micromorphology and site formation at Geißenklösterle Cave, Germany. In: N.J. Conard and S. Münzel (Eds), Geißenklösterle II: Naturwissenschaftliche
Analysen. Theiss Verlag: Stuttgart. Christina Luke
Article (Refereed):
2012 The Science behind United States Smart Power in Honduras:
Archaeological Heritage Diplomacy. Diplomacy & Statecraft 23(1): 110–139.
Book Chapter:
2012 Materiality and Sacred Landscapes: Ulua Style Marble Vases in Honduras. In Beyond Belief: Archaeology of Religion and Ritual, edited by Yorke M.
Rowan. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 21. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ. Mohammad
Book Chapters:
Mughal
Perspectives.” In Seman, Mahmood, State Vandalism of History in Pakistan.
Rafique
“Heritage Preservation in Pakistan from National and International Lahore/Karachi/Islamabad: Vanguard Books, Ltd., pp. 104-128.
“Preliminary Observations on the Ceramics Collected by A. Ghosh from
Rajasthan in 1950.” Dikshit, K. N. (ed)., S. P. Gupta Commemoration Volume. Delhi: Indian Archaeological Society.
“The Ceramic Sequence of an Early Islamic City of Banbhore in southern Sindh, Pakistan.” Bhuiyan, Mokammal H. (ed)., M. Harunur Rashid Commemoration
Volume. Dacca, Bangladesh.
“The Stratigraphy of Paharpur Monastic Cells: Unpublished Results of
Excavations.” Tripathi, A. (ed)., J. B. Bhattacharjee Felicitation Volume. Silchar:
Assam University. Robert
Murowchick
Monograph 2012 Kwang-Chih Chang 1931–2001: A Biographical Memoir. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Book Chapters:
‘Despoiled of the Garments of her Civilization’: Problems and Progress in
Archaeological Heritage Management in China. In Anne Underhill (ed.), A
Companion to Chinese Archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Cohen, David J. and Robert E. Murowchick. Early Complex Societies in
Northern China. In Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn (eds.), The Cambridge World 55 | P a g e
Prehistory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Christopher Roosevelt
Book Chapters:
“Iron Age Western Anatolia: The Lydian Empire and Dynastic Lycia.” In A
Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, edited by D. Potts.
Oxford: Blackwell.
Luke, C., and C. H. Roosevelt. “Memory and Meaning in Bin Tepe, The Lydian Cemetery of a “Thousand Mounds.” In Tumulus as Sema: Proceedings of an
International Conference on Space, Politics, Culture, and Religion in the First Millennium BC, edited by O. Henry and U. Kelp. TOPOI Excellence Cluster
series. Berlin: De Gruyter. Curtis N. Runnels
Article (Refereed):
Thomas F. Strasser, Curtis Runnels, Karl Wegmann, Eleni Panagopoulou, Floyd McCoy, Chad DiGregorio, Panagiotis Karkanas, and Nich Thompson, “Dating Palaeolithic Sites in Southwestern Crete, Greece,” Journal of Quaternary
Science 26: 553-560. Book Chapter:
“The Mediterranean Stone Age.” Reviewed and accepted for publication in The
Oxford Companion to Archaeology, 2e, edited by Neil Ascher Silberman. Oxford University Press, Oxford, forthcoming Sept 2012. William
Saturno
Article (Refereed):
Saturno, William, David Stuart, Anthony Aveni, and Franco Rossi,
2012. Ancient Maya Astronomical Tables from Xultun, Guatemala. Science 336(6082): 714-717.
Book Chapter:
Saturno, William and Franco Rossi, “Changing Stages: Royal Legitimacy and
the Architectural Development of the Pinturas Complex at San Bartolo,
Guatemala.” In Pathways to Complexity: A View from the Maya Lowlands,
edited by George Bey and Kathryn Brown. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, forthcoming.
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