Full Program  |  State of the Field 2023 Home | Speakers Abstracts: Leah Bernardo Ciddio (Michigan) “From Its Depths: Archaeology and Colonialism through the Adriatic Mirror” This paper explores the silences and gaps of Adriatic archaeology and situates them in an historiographic context. I incorporate inquiry into the Venetian “flavour” of the Adriatic (as remarked upon by Braudel), identify both Venetian and Roman legacies as underpinning Liberal and Fascist Italian claims to the Adriatic space, and demonstrate that those legacies are less frequently extended into th ..read more

Full Program  |  State of the Field 2023 Home Biographies for Speakers and Discussants Cicek Tascioglu Beeby is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University. She specializes in the art, archaeology, and social history of Greece. At the center of Cicek’s research lies the human body. She has done extensive work on funerary contexts and the manipulation of the human body after death, including bioarchaeology, funerary adornment, cremation, and secondary practices involving human bones. Her interest in the epistemology of the ..read more

Archaeologies of the Mediterranean Friday, 14 April 2023 Introductions and Keynotes 16:00-16:30: Peter van Dommelen (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology) and Tyler Franconi (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology): Introduction 16:30-17:15: Lin Foxhall (Liverpool): Keynote Address 17:15-18:00: Elizabeth Fentress (UCL): Keynote Address Saturday, 15 April 2023 Session 1: Perspectives 9:30-9:50: Eva Mol (York), Andrew Gardner (UCL), Lindsey Allen (KCL), and Corinna Riva (UCL): “New Agendas in Decolonised Mediterranean Archaeologies?” 9:50-10:10: Benjamin Luley (Gettysburg): “Comparing Colonialism: B ..read more

CALL FOR PAPERS State of the Field 2023: Archaeologies of the Mediterranean Friday, 14 April – Saturday, 15 April 2023 Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Abstract deadline: 31 January 2023 Mediterranean Archaeology sits at an often complex intersection of the fields of Archaeology, Classics, Anthropology, History, and Art History. While several of these fields, in particular Classics and Anthropology have begun periods of significant critical self-reflection that explicitly question their present and future, Mediterranean Archa ..read more

Object Number: 185 Object Title: Ceramic cup Object Type: cup (drinking vessels) Material: ceramic (material) This light brown, buff colored vessel with dark brown geometric designs may seem fairly innocuous at first glance.  However, its production, shape, and decoration are all tied to dramatic shifts in trade and exchange in the Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1650-1050 BCE). The Late Bronze Age Mediterranean, particularly the eastern Mediterranean, was characterized by heightened amounts of contact between different regions. The Hittite and Egyptian empires were vying f ..read more

Join us Wednesday, November 6 at 6:00 PM EST for an informal conversation and Q&A with Archaeology concentrators, the DigDUG, and Professor Felipe Rojas ..read more

Please join us Tuesday, November 8 at 4:00 pm EST for a lecture by Katina Lillios (The University of Iowa) titled “The Islamic Lives of Iberian Megaliths: Some Initial Explorations” in Rhode Island Hall, Room 108. Reception to follow. Katina Lillios is an anthropological archaeologist interested in the ways people used material culture, the remains of the dead, and monuments to create, enhance, and challenge sociopolitical difference and inequality. She is intrigued by the ways that social phenomena and cultural values come to be materialized, and how their materiality triggers social action ..read more

Please join us on Tuesday, November 15 at 4 PM for a lecture by Philipp Stockhammer (Ludwig-Maximilians University) titled “Bioarchaeology in the Bronze Age Levant: Novel Insights into Mobility, Food, and Philistines.” The lecture will take place in Rhode Island Hall Room 108 with reception to follow ..read more

Brown Bag talks are held Thursdays from 12:00-12:50pm in RI Hall 108. These talks are free and open to the public. Information about each talk will be provided below. October 13, 2022: Daniel Everton (Public Humanities, Brown University) Re-imagining the Predynastic Man Exhibit at Museo Egizio October 20, 2022: Amanda Gaggioli (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University) Women’s Agency, Decolonialism, and Mediterranean Archaeology: the case for the Aegean prehistory/history divide November 17, 2022: Christina Hodge (Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University) Title T ..read more

Brown Bag talks are held Thursdays from 12:00-12:50pm in RI Hall 108. These talks are free and open to the public. Information about each talk will be provided below. October 13, 2022: Daniel Everton (Public Humanities, Brown University) Re-imagining the Predynastic Man Exhibit at Museo Egizio October 20, 2022: Amanda Gaggioli (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University) Women’s Agency Decolonialism and Mediterranean Archaeology: the case for the Aegean prehistory/history divide November 17, 2022: Christina Hodge (Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University) Title TBA ..read more