Above: Excavations at Lusakert I Palaeolithic archaeological site along the Hrazdan River in Armenia
Recent Research & Fieldwork
| Work Package 7 of the Marie Curie network NARNIA: New Archaeological Research Network for Integrating Approaches to Ancient Material Studies in the Eastern Mediterranean • Cyrus and Greece |
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Work package co-director with Roger Doonan, University of Sheffield |
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Collaborators include Vassilis Kilikoglou, NCSR Demokritos; Peter Day, University of Sheffield |
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Obsidian sourcing at stratified Bronze-Age Peloponnese settlements: non-destructive sourcing of obsidian artifacts using portable XRF, exploring diachronic variations in obsidian source use and tool types during the Early Helladic Period • spatial articulation of copper production and activity areas • smelting experiments using local materials • ceramic technology in different site contexts |
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Project: 2012-Present, Fieldwork: 2012 and planned for 2013 |
| Obsidian Resources and Landscapes of Palaeolithic Armenia |
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Co-director with Daniel S. Adler, University of Connecticut and Boris Gasparyan, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Armenia |
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Collaborators: Khachatur Meliksetian and Sergei Karapetian, Institute of Geological Sciences, Armenia; Keith Wilkinson, University of Winchester; Simon Blockley and Simon Armitage, Centre for Quaternary Research, Royal Holloway, University of London |
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Obsidian sourcing to reconstruct mobility, exchange, and hominin-environment interactions as well as site activity areas, knapping floors, and quarry use-histories in Palaeolithic Armenia |
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Project: 2011-Present, Fieldwork: 2011 and 2012 and planned for 2013 |
| Hrazdan Gorge Palaeolithic Project • Armenia |
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Project Directors: Daniel S. Adler, University of Connecticut and Boris Gasparyan, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Armenia |
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On-site sourcing of obsidian artifacts from Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Lusakert-1 cave and Lower Palaeolithic Nor Geghi-1 open air site using portable XRF; assisting in excavations, surveying, and artifact processing |
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Project: 2011-Present, Fieldwork: 2011 and 2012 and planned for 2013 |
| Stone Age of the Vorotan River Valley Project • Armenia |
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Directors: Andrew Kandel, ROCEEH (Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans) Research Center, Universität Tübingen; Boris Gasparyan, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Armenia |
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Non-destructive sourcing of Upper Palaeolithic Aghitu-3 obsidian artifacts using portable XRF |
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Dates/Timeline:Project: 2012-Present, Fieldwork: planned for 2013 |
| Obsidian Magnetic Sourcing and Palaeoenvironments • Southwest Asia and American West |
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Co-director with Joshua M. Feinberg, Institute for Rock Magnetism, University of Minnesota |
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Sourcing obsidian artifacts to particular quarries; magnetic-based lithic technology studies, including use of magnetic properites in minimum analytical nodule analysis (MANA); obsidian sourcing as a means of landscape reconstruction and identifying environmental shifts |
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Project: 2008-Present, Fieldwork: 2009, 2010, 2011, and planned for 2013 |
| Bronze-Age Obsidian Industry of Tell Mozan (Urkesh) • Syria |
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Site directors: Giorgio Buccellati, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA; Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, California State University |
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Sourced Bronze-Age obsidian artifacts; excavated, processed artifacts in the field laboratory, data analysis; documented the obsidian and chert lithic assemblages; created stone-tool reporting forms |
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Project: 2006-2011, Fieldwork: 2006 |
| Ceramic Technology and Chronology at Tell Mozan (Urkesh) • Syria |
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Site directors: Giorgio Buccellati, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA; Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, California State University |
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Collaborators: Marianna Nikolaidou, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA (ceramic technology); Joshua M. Feinberg and Michele Stillinger, Institute for Rock Magnetism, University of Minnesota (ceramic archaeomagnetism) |
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Ceramic technology and magnetic dating: study of vessel forms and tempers using image analysis and scanning electron microscopy as well as direct archaeomagnetic dating of ceramic sherds |
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Project: 2006-2011, Fieldwork: 2006 |
Below: Copper smelting evidence is found at Maroni on Cyprus, but the context of production is unknown
Updated: April 2013
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