Research at the archaeological site of Ancient Nemea (Sanctuary of Zeus) in 2024 included the architectural study of the Early Christian Basilica (5thc. CE), the installation and opening of the exhibit Nemea 100 commemorating 100 years of excavation at the site, and the study of unpublished legacy finds from the sanctuary.
The Pompeii Artifact Life History Project (PALHIP) carried out its tenth and final fieldwork season at Pompeii (Napoli), Italy, between June 30 and July 27, 2024.
The PALHIP team, which consisted of four persons (Ted Peña, Aaron Brown, Susanna Faas-Bush, Francesca LaPasta), completed its description of the portable artifacts recovered in the various residences in the block identified as Regio I, Insula 11 (I.11 in the Pompeii address system), expanding its coverage to include the items from residences I.11.11, I.11.12, I.11.13, I.11.14, I.11.15.9 and I.11.16.
For its ninth field season the Pompeii Artifact Life History Project advance its research on the residential properties in Insula (block) I.11 at Pompeii on various fronts. The team completed its evaluation of the portable artifacts and furniture components from the Casa della Venere in Bikini (I.11.6.7) and the unnamed bar/residence at I.11.1.2 stored at the Casa di Bacco storage facility.
My research focuses primarily on the archaeology and history of Greece and the Aegean in the first millennium BCE. My current book project investigates economic inequality, social differentiation, and rural communities in Early Iron Age, Archaic, and Classical Crete. Other published and in-progress work includes contributions on statistical approaches to survey data, Crete in the Homeric epics, the contemporary archaeology of the Greek countryside, the gender sociology of Mediterranean survey archaeology, and conservatism in Cretan material culture.
Jeffrey received his BA in Archaeology from the University of Saskatchewan, and MSc in Skeletal and Dental Bioarchaeology from University College London. He is interested in applying a biocultural approach and integrating new materialisms into studies of health, disease, and embodiment. He hopes to examine patterns of early life stress and its effects on health over the life course in the context of cultural and political changes in Medieval Italian society, with particular reference to notions of eschatology, sex, and gender roles.
The multi-year project of the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology (DAGRS), the Excavation and Conservation of the Early Christian Basilica, at the Sanctuary of Zeus in Ancient Nemea, Greece, began in 2022. The west end of the 5thc. CE building was investigated including the
Thanks to the Stahl Award, I was able to travel to complete fieldwork in Sperlonga, Italy in June 2022. The project in Sperlonga involves the digital documentation of thousands of marble fragments from the so-called “Grotto of Tiberius” – an ancient cave decorated in the Roman period with an elaborate sculptural program depicting scenes from the Iliad and Odyssey. This year, my work in Sperlonga involved the sorting, counting, categorization, and documentation of sculptural fragments related to a sculpture known as the Pasquino Group.
ARF Professor emeritus Stephen Miller has passed away at age 79 in Greece where he conducted archaeological research over many years. In addition to his research in the Peloponnese he is known for having worked to establish the modern international Nemean Games.
Read more about Stephen Miller's contributions.
I began my academic career at Yale, where I majored in Classical Civilization and graduated magna cum laude with Distinction in the Major in 2016. My senior thesis examined the Lokrian tribute, delving into literary, epigraphic, and archaeological source material to trace how and why this small historical ritual became a metaphor for female voicelessness and Roman hegemony in later literature.
As an interdisciplinary scholar, I am both a papyrologist and an archaeologist! I excavate at two sites in Egypt (NYU's Amheida excavations and UC Berkeley's el Hibeh excavations), and I work regularly with the archives and collections in the Hearst Museum at UC Berkeley. My primary interests include Greek and Demotic papyrology, the archaeology of Greco-Roman Egypt, and the materiality of ancient textual artifacts. I am passionate about diversifying the fields of Egyptology and Archaeology to include those accounts of people who have been historically oppressed.
