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There has been little large scale study of the biological signatures of growth, aging, and disease patterns in Medieval Italian skeletal remains from peasant communities, or how these signatures of everyday life intersect with aspects of social identity such as gender or status.

In 2019, the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology excavated for the fifth season at the Late Bronze Age site of Aidonia in Greece, in collaboration with Dr. Konstantinos Kissas of the Korinthian Ephorate of Antiquites.

The Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology excavated, in the 2018 season, at the Late Bronze Age site of Aidonia in Greece, in collaboration with Dr. Konstantinos Kissas of the Korinthian Ephorate of Antiquites. Kim Shelton and her team of graduate and undergraduate students completed excavation of one Mycenaean chamber tomb and explored several graves and domestic features dating to the Late Roman and Byzantine periods.

Although the Mediterranean islands produced some of the most sophisticated cultures of the ancient world, until recently there was little evidence that these islands were occupied prior to the Neolithic. This perception has radically changed over the past decade. New research indicates that some remote islands, such as Crete and Naxos, may have been occupied by Neanderthals, and certainly by the Epipaleolithic it appears that continental-island voyages were far more common than previously believed.

Funding from the Stahl Endowment of the Archaeological Research Facility at the University of California, Berkeley is making possible the essential work of managing the archaeological collections from the ancient Moche (ca. 200–850 CE) site of Pañamarca on the north coast of Peru. This work builds upon Stahl-funded activities in 2014 that allowed for the AMS dating of sixteen samples of organic materials recovered from architectural construction and botanical offerings excavated at Pañamarca.

The Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology excavated, in the 2017 season, at the Late Bronze Age site of Aidonia in Greece, in collaboration with the director of the Korinthian Ephorate of Antiquites, Dr. Konstantinos Kissas. Kim Shelton and her team of graduate and undergraduate students excavated three chamber tombs, one of which was heavily looted. The largest tomb contained seven primary burials, on the floor or in cists in the floor, within a collapsed bedrock chamber. The burials range in date from the 15th to the 13th centuries BCE.