The Countdown is on! Celebrating 50 Years of the Fitch Laboratory (1974-2024)
The Marc and Ismene Fitch Laboratory for Archaeological Sciences will mark its 50th anniversary on November 29th, 2024.
Fitch News
Four centuries of cooking wares at Priene (Western Turkey)
A newly published paper on a diachronic and multidisciplinary study of cooking pottery from the famous site of Priene, western Turkey, reveals that manufacturing technologies and the origins of imports trace important historical developments in this region during the Classical, Hellenistic and early Roman periods.
The International Day of Women and Girls in Science: questions to our Scientific Research Officer, Noémi Müller
In celebration of The International Day of Women and Girls in Science we have asked Noémi Müller, our Scientific Research Officer about how she entered the world of archaeological science and a little about her career highlights!
Glass Course – Registration Extended, 13th March 2023
GLASS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE NEAR EAST Archaeology and Archaeometry from the Late Bronze Age to the early Medieval period This five-day training course provides an introduction to […]
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.
Williams Fellowship in Ceramic Petrology
The Fitch Laboratory of the British School at Athens invites applications for the post of Williams Fellow in ceramic petrology.
Early-Stage Research Fellowship in Ceramic Analysis
Research project title: Culinary traces of the past: Aegean-Balkan mobility and interaction at the dawn of urbanisation in late 2nd and early 1st millennium BC through an interdisciplinary study of […]
MSCA-ITN program PLACE to be launched on 23 March 2021
The BSA is excited to be part of the new 4-year, EU-funded, research and training network PlaCe-ITN.
Ceramic Petrology Course 2021 announced
Course and application details for the 2021 Fitch Lab Ceramic Petrology Course can now be found on the course page. The two-week postgraduate training course is scheduled to run from […]
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.