Making Linear B Tablets
Anna P. Judson, who recently finished her Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the BSA, reports on her experimental work in the Fitch Laboratory into how the Linear B tablets from Late Bronze Age Pylos were made.
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Exploring Ceramic Technology and Aegean Interactions at Prehistoric Samos, East Aegean
Fitch Laboratory Bursary holder (2019-20) Sergios Meleaou, explores ceramic technology and Aegean interactions at prehistoric Samos, East Aegean.
The Geoarchaeology of Classical Greek Housing
Fitch Laboratory Bursary holder (2019-20) Mara Schumacher, integrates geoarchaeology and Classical Greek archaeology to investigate domestic life at Olynthos.
Distant Seas, connected worlds: Tintagel, Britain and Greece in Late Antiquity
Earlier this year the BSA hosted a half day international symposium titled “Distant Seas, connected worlds: Tintagel, Britain and Greece in Late Antiquity”. In this blog post Jacky Nowakowski (Project Director TCARP) and Win Scutt (English Heritage) share their experience of the event and their time at the BSA.
Visiting traditional potters in Volos, Greece
A short account of Bartek Lis’ visit to traditional potters in the Volos area.
Investigating pottery production and exchange patterns at Ayia Irini, Kea
Natalie Abell (University of Michigan) reports on her study of ceramics from Ayia Irini (Kea) at the Fitch Lab that provided new insights into both exchange and local production of pottery over ca. 1000 years, from mid-Early Bronze Age to mid-Late Bronze Age.
Exploring biodistances but always staying close to the Fitch lab
Assistant Professor Efi Nikita outlines her recent collaboration at the Fitch exploring human mobility through the study of dental nonmetric traits.
A mild winter at the Fitch: the Lousoi project of the Austrian Archaeological Institute
In the winter of 2018 I spent six weeks at the Fitch Laboratory analysing Late Geometric to Archaic pottery from the Sanctuary of Artemis Hemera, in Arcadian Lousoi.
Experimenting with textile tools at the Fitch Lab
A database of c. 10 000 loom weights and spindle whorls from across the north Mediterranean can bring much knowledge, as well as new questions about ancient cloth manufacture. This is some of the data our team at the ERC project PROCON have collected over the past five years in order to study textile production in Mediterranean Europe between c. 1000–500 BC.
Publication news: 13th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics
The proceedings of the 13th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics (EMAC) have just been published!
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