During Spring Break, Dr. Kyle Jazwa began an Experimental Archaeology collaboration with Dr. Caroline Jeffra, a Postdoctoral Research for the “Tracing the Potter’s Wheel” project at the University Amsterdam. Our project will reconstruct Mycenaean (ca. 1600-1050 BCE) ceramic roofing tiles to better understand production methods, cross-craft interaction in the Late Bronze Age, the identities of the producers, and the scales of production. In March, we made miniature examples to serve as models for our upcoming, scale reconstructions. We will then compare our tiles with specimens that were recently excavated in Greece.
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