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.
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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!
The Ceramic Petrology Group meeting, 2018 – Tübingen
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.
Punic amphoras in Classical Corinth
Punic amphorae found in the ancient city of Corinth are the focus of a research initiative that is being carried out at the Fitch Laboratory this year. Leandro Fantuzzi, Ceramic Petrology Fellow for the ‘Corinth Punic Amphora Building Project’ is conducting petrographic and elemental analysis of these amphorae, in collaboration with Noemi S. Müller and Evangelia Kiriatzi.