Between the 10th and 14th of April, Evangelia Kiriatzi and Bartek Lis participated in the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. During a Saturday […]
Maria Duggan has just joined the Fitch Laboratory to undertake research on the project ‘Tintagel: Trans-European Connections in the Post-Roman World’.
New article on Late Hellenistic colour-coated pottery by members of the Fitch.
Efthymia Nikita’s new project, ‘People in Motion’, aims to investigate human mobility in the Mediterranean during the Byzantine period.
Applications are invited from graduate students or young scholars for an award to support research at the Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens (BSA) for up to 3 months in the academic year (September 2019-June 2020).
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 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.
The proceedings of the 13th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics (EMAC) have just been published!