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.
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.
The BSA congratulates long-time member Prof. David Braund on the publication last year of his important book on the Black Sea region.
The BSA was saddened to learn of the passing on 1 December of Justin Davies, BSA Treasurer in the 1990s.
The BSA is pleased to announce a new five-day course at the Fitch Laboratory, Glass in the Mediterranean and the Near East: Archaeology and Archaeometry from the Late Bronze Age to the early Medieval period.
From 13-24 May 2019, the Fitch Laboratory will hold a two-week postgraduate training course providing an introduction to ceramic petrology, building upon the Laboratory’s expertise on ceramic petrology applications and its extensive reference collections of geological and ceramic thin sections.
It is a great pleasure to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with this fourth issue of our newsletter offering up to date news of our activities.
The proceedings of the 13th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics (EMAC) have just been published!
The 2018 Ceramic Petrology Group Meeting was hosted by the Competence Center Archaeometry – Baden-Wuerttemberg University of Tübingen. It was a wonderful event at which a series of excellent papers and posters were presented and with plenty of opportunities to meet new students, returning friends, and colleagues.
BSA Early Career Fellow 2017-8 Dr Eirini Karamouzi devoted part of her time in Athens as a scientific curator for an exhibition entitled ‘Fighting for Peace in the 1980s: Greece-Italy-Spain’, organised by the Hellenic Parliament Foundation. The exhibition opens on 15 November and runs until March 2019.