Christian Hall

Graduate Student
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I received a B.A. from UC Berkeley in 2017, where I majored in the History of Art. My undergraduate research focused primarily on Greek art and architecture of the Archaic period and, more specifically, on Attic pottery. My desire to understand the connections between the images on Attic pottery and the socio-political climate of the period, led to a close examination of the Attic Black-Figure collection in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

Region(s): 
Mediterranean
Research Theme(s): 
Late Bronze Age Greece

TAPHOS 2018 Season in Aidonia Greece

Excavations at Aidonia

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.

TAPHOS. Tombs of Aidonia Preservation, Heritage, and explOration Synergasia

Tomb 102 in the lower cemetery. View of stomion entrance from the dromos.

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.