The 2027 Meeting will be held in Boston, MA from January 7-10. The Boston Marriott Copley Place is the official hotel for the Annual Meeting and will host the exhibit hall, all academic sessions, the opening night reception, and most related events. The meeting will kick off on Thursday, January 7th with the Opening Night Reception. Academic sessions will start on the morning of Friday, January 8th and conclude on the afternoon of Sunday, January 10th. Sessions were scheduled within morning, midday, and afternoon blocks. Paper order within a session may not reflect the final time slots. Please check the annual meeting app and printed program for exact order and times.
Organizer(s): David Yoon, American Numismatic Society
Discussant: Sebastian Heath, New York University
Spatial Integration of Legacy Data Using GIS: Ceramics and Animal Bones at Psalmodi
David Yoon, American Numismatic Society, Kirsten Koehler, Independent Scholar, and Taylor Zaneri, University of Siena
The Funerary Turn: The Unexpected Discovery of the Late Antique Origins of Psalmodi
Bailey Young, Eastern Illinois University
Examining the Devotional Life at Psalmodi: Evidence from the Sculpture
Susan Stoddard, University of Maine at Augusta
An Experiment in the Early Gothic: the 13th Century Abbey Church at Psalmodi
Elizabeth Riorden, University of Cincinnati
Organizer(s): Erica Venturo, University of Michigan
Discussant: J. Theodore Peña, University of California, Berkeley (Emeritus)
Meaning in Mending: Repairs on Two Cycladic Figurines from Ayia Irini, Kea
Lauren Alberti, University of Michigan
Beyond Salvage: Sculptural Upcycling and Increasing Hierarchies of Value from Roman to Post-Antiquity
Allison Kidd, The British Museum
Recycle and Reuse in Concrete Construction at Imperial Gabii
Caitlyn Pallas, University of Missouri
The Usefulness of Reuse: Repurposing Amphoras in Domestic Pompeii
Erica Venturo, University of Michigan
Encoded Memory: Repair, Reuse, and Meaning in Late Antique Egyptian Tunic Appliqués
Clara Pinchbeck, Case Western Reserve University
Caring for Archaeological Heritage: Public Archaeology and the Interpretation of Prehistoric Landscapes
Valentina Tania Luisa Molozzu, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Roman Centuriation as Green Heritage: Reimagining Zadar’s Ancient Agrarian Landscapes for a Climate-Resilient Future
Gregory Zaro, University of Maine, Josipa Baraka Perica, University of Zadar, Filipa Jurković Pešić, University of Zadar, Tomislav Zojčeski, Ruina Ltd., and Eva Buća, Ruina Ltd.
Empowering Communities, Preserving Heritage Values: Viminacium As a Living Space for Education, Culture, and Engagement
Jelena Anđelković Grašar, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia, Ljubomir Jevtović, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia, Emilija Nikolić, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia, and Nemanja Mrđić, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia
Who Cares for the Archaeologists? Institutional Responsibility, Structural Precarity, and Mutual Aid in Montenegrin Archaeology
Dušan Medin, University of Donja Gorica/Association for Cultural Development “Bauo”
Beyond the Custodial Paradigm: The Conservation-Management Gap at Archaeological Sites in Italy and Greece
Antonio Amleto Melillo, American University of Rome
The Value of Community-Centered Qualitative Research Approaches in Madaba, Jordan
Barbara Anglisz, Independent Researcher
Organizer(s): Natalie M. Susmann, Brandeis University, and Antonio Lopiano, Boston College
Sponsored by: First-Generation Low-Income Federation
Organizer(s): Ashley Eckhardt, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and Katie Tardio, Bucknell University
Politics at Port: Social and Commercial Considerations of Portus Iulius at Puteoli
Milo K. Pilgrim, University of Texas at Austin, and Rabun Taylor, University of Texas at Austin
Mapping Belonging: Land Registration, Civic Integration, and Reciprocal Obligation in Roman Transpadana
Agnese Rosadoni, University of Helsinki
A View from the Outside: the Saïss Plain and Zerhoun Massif Project
Jared Benton, University of Nebraska, Mohamed Belatik, Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine (INSAP), Mustapha Atki, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Mehdi Ben Yassine, Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Pa
Exploring Landscapes of Roman Marble Exploitation in Portugal: The Estremoz Anticline Survey
Gil Vilarinho, University of Évora
Economic Change in Western Anatolia at the End of Antiquity (6th–8th centuries C.E.): An Archaeological Reassessment
James Gross, Texas Tech University
An Early Archaic Metallurgical Workshop at Ancient Methone
Debby Sneed, CSU Long Beach, Vanessa Muros, UCLA, and Camille Reiko Acosta, UC Irvine
Seeing Through the Silver Screen: Rethinking the Social and Economic Roles of Metals in Archaic Aegean Thrace
Kari M. Fossum, Bryn Mawr College
The Crescent and the Turtle: Minting as Mutual Aid in Archaic Kydonia
Jesse J. Obert, University of South Florida
Will It Whorl? Determining the Purpose of Ancient Greek Perforated Lead Discs
Laura Gawlinski, Loyola University Chicago
The 2026 Excavation Season at Nemea: Tsoungiza
Lynne A. Kvapil, Butler University, Kim Shelton, University of California Berkeley, Sophie Cushman, University of California Berkeley, Elizabeth Keyser, University of California Berkeley, Rebekah McCay, University of Evansville, and David Wheeler, Univers
2026 Excavations at Ancient Eleon in Eastern Boeotia
Bryan E. Burns, Wellesley College, Brendan Burke, University of Victoria, Trevor Van Damme, University of Warwick, and Alexandra Charami, Ephorate of Antiquities of Boeotia
Bodies in Motion: Secondary Treatment and the Curated Dead, a Preliminary Analysis of Tomb 100 from the Late Bronze Age Cemetery at Aidonia
Madolyn Hyytiainen-Jacobson, UC Berkeley
The Early Iron Age Graves at Mycenae: A Community of Care
River Ramirez, UC Berkeley
Organizer(s): Marcello Mogetta, University of Missouri, Columbia
Discussant: Massimo Osanna, Italy Ministry of Culture
Big Digs and Methodological Advancement: Digital Lessons from the Gabii Project
Nicola Terrenato, University of Michigan
Environmental Archaeology at Gabii: Sampling and Analyzing Ecofacts in an Urban Context
Laura Motta, University of Michigan, Victoria C. Moses, Brown University, and Nicholas Cullen, Stanford University
Public Archaeology at Gabii: Bridging Research, Conservation, and Valorization
Anna Gallone, John Cabot University, and Martina Almonte, Museums and Archaeological Parks of Praeneste and Gabii
Toward a New Corpus of Inscriptions from Gabii
Andrew Johnston, Yale University, and Marjolaine Benaïch, Sorbonne University
The Legacy Data Project: Finding Late-Antique and Post-Antique Gabii
Parrish Wright, University of South Carolina, Laura Banducci, Carleton University, and J. Marilyn Evans, Kalamazoo College
The Gabii Project Reports: New Evidence for Urban Transformation at Gabii
Tyler D. Johnson, University of Michigan, and Marcello Mogetta, University of Missouri
Trasimeno Regional Archaeological Project (TRAP): Excavations at Via Belvedere 2023-2026
Rebecca Schindler, DePauw University, Stefano Spiganti, Associazione Acqua, Pedar Foss, DePauw University, and Giampiero Bevagna, The Umbra Institute
The Northwest Bolsena Archaeological Project: Results of the 2024–2026 Excavation Seasons
Lea Cline, Illinois State University, and Kathryn Jasper, Illinois State University
The Queen’s Latrine: A Roman Sewage System from the 2026 Casa della Regina Carolina Excavations
Danielle Vander Horst, Cornell University, Fabio Fiocchi, Independent Researcher, Gemma Jansen, Independent Researcher, Roberta Ferritto, Università di Bologna, and Emily Lime, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Nodes of Urban Engagement: Pompeii’s Piazzas
Matthew D. Selheimer, University of Leicester / Lone Star College
The Falerii Novi Project (Civita Castellana, Italy): Results from the 2025-2026 excavations
Margaret M. Andrews, Harvard University, Seth Bernard, University of Toronto, Emlyn Dodd, Adelaide University, and Stephen Kay, British School at Rome
Beyond Warehouses and Shops: In Search of Ostia’s Neighborhood Markets
Adeline Hoffelinck, Namur & Ghent University
Living in the Bronze Age Sibaritide: Insights from the 2026 Excavations at Torre Mordillo
Mattia D’Acri, Princeton University, Ilaria Battiloro, Mount Allison University, Nicholas Cullen, Stanford University, Olivia Foran, Queen’s University, Giuseppe Lucarelli, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Simone Giosué Madeo, Università di Genova, an
Hillforts of the Black Sea Iron Age: the case of Stâncești
Owen P. Doonan IV, California State University Northridge, Alexandru Berzovan, Iași Institute of Archaeology, Nicole Rose, Northern Arizona University, and Berk Suleyman, University of Pennsylvania
New Evidence for Oenotrian Domestic Architecture at Incoronata “Greca” (Italy): Results of the 2026 Excavation Season
Sveva Savelli, Saint Mary’s University, and Spencer Pope, McMaster University
Fieldwork at Rocchicella di Mineo, Sicily (ancient Palikè)
Brian E. McConnell, Florida Atlantic University, Laura Maniscalco, Florida Atlantic University, Michela Ursino, Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA. di Catania, Emma Buckingham, University of Missouri Columbia, Katelin McCullough, Hollins University, and Abigail Chap
The Slings of Outrageous Fortune: Mapping an Archaic Shift from Ceramic to Stone Sling Bullets at Poggio Civitate
Joseph A.P. Wilson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Noah-Raizel Bromberg, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Organizer(s): Emily C. Egan, University of Maryland, and Maryl B. Gensheimer, University of Maryland
Manifesting Cult: The Aura Acroterion As Representation of Medicinal Winds and Cult Promises at the Temple of Asclepius, Epidaurus
Alexa A. Davidson, University of Oregon
On the Ancient Use of Liquorice: New Archaeochemical Evidence from Falerii Novi, Italy
Andrew Koh, Yale University, Margaret Andrews, Harvard University, Seth Bernard, University of Toronto, Tommaso Bertoldi, Università degli studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Letizia Ceccarelli, Politecnico di Milano, Alison Crandall, Yale University, Emlyn Dodd,
Reconstructing Care in the Roman Periphery: A Comparative Medical Approach to Severe Kyphosis in Fourth-Century Roman Britain
Andrew N. Williams, University of Leicester
Sickness, Marginalization, and Care in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Thebes, Greece: the Ismenion Hill Cemetery
Stephanie Larson, Bucknell University, Kevin Daly, Bucknell University, and Maria Liston, University of Waterloo
Sacred Solicitude in the Tonalamatl of the Borgia Group
Sreekishen Nair, University of MN, College of Design
The Contrada Drago Complex at Morgantina: Investigating Subaltern and Middle-Class Perspectives in Archaeological Legacy Data
Benjamin J. Menard, University of Texas at Austin
Calculated Care: Household Economic Strategies and Unequal Aid in Hellenistic Highland Cities
Kevin S. Lee, The University of Texas at Austin
A Hellenistic House and Its Neighborhood at Notion
Christina DiFabio, University of Kansas
Dining in the Late Hellenistic Period: A Table Ware Assemblage from Notion
Caroline Everts, University of Michigan
Dining Near the Knot: Eating after Alexander at Early Hellenistic Gordion
Hannah Hoffman, Harvard University, and Brigitte Keslinke, Bowdoin College
Hunting for Hartapu: Iron Age Occupation(s) at Türkmen-Karahöyük, Türkiye
Nathan Lovejoy, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Field Report: Two Remarkable Finds from Sardis, Türkiye
Nicholas Cahill, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Acholla Archaeological Project: Urban Survey at a Coastal Site in Tunisia
Susan E. Alcock, University of Oklahoma, J. Andrew Dufton, Dickinson College, Nesrine Nasr, Institut National du Patrimoine, and Nichole Sheldrick, University of Leicester
Imports in Late Byzantine Pergamon: A Study of the Ceramics
Sofia Kane, Koç University
Finding Roman Farmers: Reconstructing the Seasonal Workforce of Roman Spain’s Olive Oil Industry
Andrew Welser, Duke University
Finding the Craftworkers in the Craft: The Creation and Use of Retrograde and Erroneous Tile and Brick Stamps at the Legionary Fort of Isca (Caerleon, Wales)
Elizabeth C. Robinson, University of Dallas Rome Program
The Impact of the Quarries of the City of Rome on the Ancient and Modern Urban Landscape
Daniel P. Diffendale, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Collective Labor and Shared Knowledge: Construction Processes, Techniques, and Materials at Ostia Antica
Sarah Vyverman, University of Cincinnati
An Augustan Revival at Notion
Christopher Ratté, University of Michigan
Actium: The Consecrated Camp
Roy W. Lewis, Independent Researcher
Delegated Empire: Power, Patronage, and Local Agency in Roman Malta
Kevin Gallagher, University of South Florida
New Severan Imperial Statues from Perge, Pamphylia: Family of Caracalla Displayed on Arch?
Esen Ogus, Utah Valley University
Constructing Imperial Memory: The Monopteral Tholos and Socio-Spatial Identity at Pisidian Antioch
Tarryn Andrews, Western University
Sponsored by: The Mountaintop Coalition
Organizer(s): Najee Olya, College of William & Mary, and Christopher Gipson, Loyola Marymount University
Organizer(s): Leigh A. Lieberman, Princeton University, and Christine Johnston, Western Washington University
The Function of Scale: Miniature Vessels in Greek Non-Funerary Contexts
Jasper Chen, Columbia University
The Chryselephantine Statues from Delphi: A Reassessment of Iconography and Display
Giovanni Cheli, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Unraveling the Ancient Loom: An Ongoing Experiment in Ancient Weaving Technique
Ava G. Reese, Emory University
From Excavation to Education: Caring for South Africa’s Past Through the Archaeology of Thulamela
James Bloom, African Leadership Academy
Archaeology’s “Love Affair:” A Retrospective on the Rise and Fall of Iris Cornelia Love
Grace A. Coyne, Smith College
Out of Pharsalus: A Note on the Western Pharsalian Network
Robert S. Wagman, University of Florida, Andrew G. Nichols, University of Florida, and William N. Bruce, University of Kansas
The Quest for God: Cult in the Early Bronze Age
Margaret Chaney, Loyola Marymount University
It’s Weighing On Me: A Phylogenetic Analysis Examining The Evolution of Archaic Period Hunter-Gatherer Bannerstone Technology
Carolina Hannon, University of Montana
The State of Archaeobotanical Research for Ancient Tunisia
Anne-Marie Laroche, University of British Columbia, and Virginia Rufina Marquez-Pacheco, University of British Columbia
Of Echini and Abaci: A Short Cultural History of Doric and Doricizing Capitals in Italic Monumental Architecture
Lukas Reimann, University of Trier
To See and Be Seen: Exploring Elite and Non-elite Interactions Through Viewshed Analysis of the Orientalizing Complex of Poggio Civitate (Murlo)
Sarah E. Grenier, Brock University
Visiting the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Hellenistic Samothrace: the Concurrence of Physical and Religious Journeys at an Island Sanctuary
Kathryn M. Keiserman, Bryn Mawr College
“Big Dig” Data Democratization and Equity in the Digital Age
Prentiss Cooper, Bard College, Anne Chen, Bard College, and Eleanor Martin, Yale University
The Archaeology of Provisioning: Material Evidence for Care and Mutual Aid Across Prehistoric Communities
Veralise V. Perunovic, iCademy Middle East, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Obai Elharrif, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
Running Reality: Building an Auditable “Time Machine” from Archaeological GIS
Garth Henning, Running Reality
From Legacy Archives to New Excavations: Integrating Historical Excavation Records in the Torre Mordillo Archaeological Project
Charlotte Bergen, Mount Allison University, Ilaria Battiloro, Mount Allison University, Mattia D’Acri, Princeton University, Nicholas Cullen, Stanford University, Olivia Foran, Western University, Giuseppe Lucarelli, Università degli studi della Tuscia, S
Messy Pottery at Segesta: Quantitative Approaches to Mixed Fills in a Domestic Zone
Alena Wigodner, University of Maryland, Emma Blake, University of Arizona, Robert Schon, University of Arizona, and Lauren Tomanelli, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Flaked Stone Evidence from the Kea Archaeological Survey Project: Preliminary Assessment|
Ava Dunnigan, College of Charleston, Sabrina Bauer, College of Charleston, James Newhard, College of Charleston, Joanne Murphy, University of North Carolina-Greensboro and The Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens.
In the Eye of the Beholder: Comparing Uses of Cultural Heritage Among Community Members, Archaeologists, and Tourists in the Archaeological Park of Selinunte
Ava A. Coates, University of Maryland, College Park
Spoliation and Reuse in Domestic Spaces: A Case Study in the Late Fourth to Mid-Third Centuries B.C.E. at Selinunte
Morgan Eriksen, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Infant Feeding Vessels and the Mycenaean Cult at Mount Lykaion
Delaney Fisher, University of Texas at Austin
Borrowed Icons: Connectivity and Hybridity in Archaic Greek-Egyptian Vase-Painting
Chloe Gupta, Independent Scholar
From Farm to Table, From Table to Tomb: Tracking Archaeological Change through Subsistence During the Late Bronze Age (LBA) – Early Iron Age (EIA) Transition in the Corinthian Gulf
Daniel D’Elia, Bryn Mawr College
Looking Closely: Catoptromancy and Lecanomancy in Paestan Red-Figure Vase Paintings
Gizelle Winter, Yale University
Cultivating Resilience: The Plant Economy of Postpalatial Karphi
Carly Henkel, The Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete; The Cyprus Institute
Organizer(s): Aleydis Van de Moortel, University of Tennessee, and Astrid Lindenlauf, Bryn Mawr College
Edifice and Artifice: Reinventing the Sacred Landscape of Late Antique Heliopolis (Baalbek, Lebanon)
Ian S. Wilson, Harvard University
“The Metamorphosis of Faith in Philia, Thessaly: The Sanctuary of Itonia Athina from Polytheism to Christianity.” Field Report for the 2026 Season.
Mark D. Hammond, Case Western Reserve University, Katerina Ragkou, Philipps University of Marburg, Maria Vaiopoulou, Karditsa Ephorate of Antiquities, and Foteini Tsiouka, Karditsa Ephorate of Antiquities
The Anonymous Late Antique City at Golemo Gradište, Konjuh, Kratovo, North Macedonia. Excavations 2025-2026
Carolyn S. Snively, Gettysburg College, and Goran Sanev, Archaeological Museum, Skopje
New Excavations at Rusellae: The Cathedral Cemetery, the Hadrianic Baths, and Mapping the Underground City
Alessandro Sebastiani, University at Buffalo
The Archaeology of a Medieval Islamic Village at Torre d’en Galmés, Menorca, Spain
Alexander J. Smith, SUNY Brockport, and Amalia Pérez-Juez, Boston University
Ottoman Policies and the Visual Reconfiguration of a Caucasian Frontier City: Derbent as a Case Study
Muhammad Aboelkhier, Fayoum University in Egypt
Sponsored by: AIA Archaeology of North Africa Interest Group
Organizer(s): Reed Morgan, Harvard University, and Katelin McCullough, Hollins University
Urban Transformation and Islamisation in Early Islamic North Africa: Archaeological Evidence from the High Tell and Tunisian Dorsal (7th–10th Centuries)
Chokri Touihri, INP Tunisia
Kairouan (Ifriqiya): Urban Morphogenesis, Material Culture, and Social Interactions in a Major Center of Early Islamic Settlement in the Maghreb (7th–11th Centuries)
Sahir Garouia, INP Tunisia
Coastal Power and Transformation in Early Islamic North Africa (7th–10th Century): An Archaeological Perspective
Anna Leone, Durham University
Porous Legal Boundaries? A Comparison of Ibadi and Maliki Legal Rulings in the Early Islamic West
Antonia Bosanquet, Utrecht University
Tree Crops and Hulled Wheats: Moroccan Agriculture in the Early Islamic Period
Anne-Laure White, University of Pennsylvania
The Archaeology of Gardens: Madinat al-Zahra’, al-Rummaniya, and Monteagudo
Felix Arnold, DAI Madrid
A New Mountain City in Central Anatolia: Report on the First Season of the Aladağ Urban Survey Project (AUSP)
Elizabeth P. Baughan, University of Richmond, Peri Johnson, University of Illinois Chicago, Ömür Harmanşah, University of Illinois Chicago, and Julia M. Koch, German Archaeological Institute [DAI], Istanbul
Making It Public: New Research on the Bouleuterion and Triporticus at Teos
Mantha Zarmakoupi, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Beyond the Greco-Persian Bind: Bricolage and the Politics of Image-Making in the Funerary Monuments of Dynastic Lycia
Samantha Richter, Harvard University
An Evaluation of the Hellenistic Rural Fortifications around the Hales River Valley
Volkan Topal, University of Michigan
Fieldwork at Phoenix and Thyssanous in Carian Chersonese (Rhodian Peraea)
Asil Yaman, Izmir University of Economics
The Construction of Space and Law in Hellenistic Poleis
Zi Xuan Qin, University of Pennsylvania
Stratified Deposits of Archaic Roof Tiles from Amarynthos and some Methodological Implications
Philip Sapirstein, University of Toronto
The Naxos Quarry Project 2026: Intensive Survey & Architectural Study on the Islet of Palatia
Evan Levine, University of Cambridge, Rebecca Levitan, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, Demetrios Athanasoulis, Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades, Makis Mauroeidopoulos, Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cycladesm Jessica Paga, Col
Sourcing Lead for Construction on Samothrace
Samuel Holzman, Princeton University, Brittany D. Dinneen, Emory University, and Bonna D. Wescoat, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
The Altar of Horns at Delos: The Archaeological Identification of a Forgotten Wonder
Janric (J.Z.) van Rookhuijzen, Leiden University
Bassai Redux: Re-examining Helper Iconography and Technical Anomalies on the Ionic Frieze of the Temple of Apollo Epikourios
Rebecca Levitan, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
Megara and Thesmophoria: Reconsidering the Lucian Scholion
Allaire B. Stallsmith, Towson University
The Parthenon in Communist China: A Study of the Parthenon in Chen Zhihua’s A History of World Architecture
Yuzhe Qin, University of Texas at Austin
Organizer(s): Ann Glennie, College of the Holy Cross, and Nora Donoghue, Christopher Newport University
An Excavation at 60: Poggio Civitate Past, Present, and Future
Nora Donoghue, Christopher Newport University
New Discoveries after Six Decades of Excavation at Poggio Civitate
Anthony Tuck, University of Massachusetts Amherst
New Data, Old Collections: Zooarchaeological Research at Poggio Civitate after 60 Years of Excavation
Sarah Kansa, Alexandria Archive Institute
Linguistic and Geospatial Analysis of Alpha Sigla on Poggio Civitate’s Rooftiles
Rex Wallace, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Brad Lidge, AIA Boulder Society
Aristocratic Status and Power Symbols at Poggio Civitate
Katherine Matthews, AIA Philadelphia Society
Life Goes On? Investigating the Impact of the Abandonment of Poggio Civitate (Murlo) on Its Surrounding Territory.
Eóin O’Donoghue, Brandeis University
Sponsored by: AIA Maritime Archaeology Interest Group
Organizer(s): Lana Radloff, University of Toronto Mississauga, Savannah Bishop, Western Washington University, James Gross, Koç University, and Nicole Constantine, Stanford University
Limen or Liminal? Coastal Religious Spaces as Borders in the Peloponnes
Shannon M. Dunn, American Journal of Archaeology/Bryn Mawr
Justinian’s Tree: Unlocking Multi-Scalar Harbor Biographies at Byzantine Lechaion, Corinth
Brita Lorentzen, University of Georgia
Building the Shore: Ottoman Coastal Architecture and the Making of Harbor Space at al-Mukhā (Mocha), Yemen
Mohamed Enab, Fayoum University
Saving the Candace: The Gold Rush Era Discovery of the Ship, Candace, Illuminates San Francisco Harbor’s Evolution as a Major World Maritime Trading and Industrial Center
Ellen Johnck, Independent Scholar
Towards a Framework for Reading the Ancient Harbour Floor: Material Patterns, Activity Zones, and the Archaeology of Maritime Life
Mieke Kassulke, University of Haifa, Emmanuel Nantet, University of Haifa, and Gil Gambash, University of Haifa
Organizer(s): Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta, New York University, and Peter De Staebler, Pratt Institute
Organizer(s): Jordan Christopher, Loyola Marymount University
Discussant: Jinyu Liu, Emory University
Personalized Power in Rome: From Republican Visibility Culture to the Parasociality of Imperial Representations
Jordan Christopher, Loyola Marymount University
Pater Patriae and the Parasocial Paradigm
Kathleen Coleman, Harvard University
Cheering (and Remembering) the Emperor in a Roman Town
Rebecca Benefiel, Washington and Lee University
Parasocial Politics: Civic Celebrity and the Illusion of Intimacy in the Imperial Greek Polis
Geoffrey Harmsworth, Columbia University
Images of Animals Performing as Humans and Humans Performing as Animals in Roman Art: Performance, Precarity, and Parasocial Relationships in the Roman Empire Material Evidence
Maggie Popkin, Case Western Reserve University
My Friend Plutarch: Parasocial Approaches to Plutarch’s Lives
Christopher Gipson, Loyola Marymount University
(Re)Building Ancient Fires: An Experimental Approach to Fire Installations in Western Anatolia
Catherine B. Scott, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, and Tunç Kaner, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University
Making Marks: An Eighth Century BCE Theban Stamp Seal as Communication Technology
Katherine B. Harrington, UNC Greensboro
The Masses of Loose Fragments on the Slopes: Reassessing what we know about Coroplastic Production at Sardis
Frances Gallart Marqués, Sardis Expedition
Comparing P.Cair.Zen. 3.59445 and Rhodian Wall Paintings: Limits and Possibilities
Styliani Skaltsa, Queen’s University
New Evidence from Gold Artifacts for Shifting Interaction Networks on Prehistoric Kea
Natalie Abell, University of Michigan, Borja Legarra Herrero, University College London, and Marcos Martinon-Torres, Cambridge University
Fancy Feet: Boots, Shoes, and Sandals in the Bronze Age Aegean
Jason Earle, INSTAP
The Ahmosids and the Aegean? Reconsidering Art and Influence at the Dawn of the New Kingdom
Karen Polinger Foster, Yale University
As The Wheel Turns: The Adoption of Rotative Kinetic Energy on Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age
Gregory A. Kintzele Jr., University College London
Sponsored by: AIA Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology (MAPMA) Interest Group
Organizer(s): Justin Mann, Eastern Michigan University, and Andrew Donnelly, Texas Tech University
Rural Christianity in Context: Modeling Mobility in Late Antique Asia Minor
Elizabeth Davis, Brown University
The Utility of Surface Mapping and No-Impact Survey: A Case Study from Early Medieval Kalymnos
Drosos Kardulias, University of Michigan
Reimagining Archival Studies: Reconstructing the Byzantine Court through Seals
Aristotelis Nayfa, Dumbarton Oaks
Typologizing the Cross: New Approaches to the Study of Middle Byzantine Sculpture in Greece
Allison Grenda, University of Michigan
Medieval Sipontum (Apulia, Italy): Tracking Artisanal Activity and Urban Change, 11th-14th centuries CE.
Darian Marie Totten, McGill University, Roberto Goffredo, Università di Foggia, and Martina Scarcelli, McGill University
Sponsored by: AIA Ancient Figure-Decorated Pottery Interest Group
Organizer(s): Bice Peruzzi, Rutgers University, Mark Stansbury-O’Donnell, University of St. Thomas, and Jennifer Tafe, Suffolk University
Joking Around in the Kerameikos: Phallic Feet and In-Jokes in the Circle of Andokides
Abigail Allan, University of Oxford
The Group of Vienna 116: Ontological Innovations and the End of “Figure”
Will Austin, J. Paul Getty Museum
Mothers of Invention: Rethinking Women’s Impacts on the Athenian Ceramic Industry
Sheramy Bundrick, University of South Florida
Invention versus Imitation: Early Greek Representations of Composite Beings and Ancient Art Theory
Guy Hedreen, Williams College
In Defense of Bad Art: The Awkward Inventiveness of Early Six’s Technique
Jennifer Tafe, Suffolk University
Mercenaries, Migrants, and Community in Death in Ptolemaic Alexandria
Helen Wong, University of Cincinnati
Death Was Not the End: Postmortem Care and the Transformation of Personhood in Ancient Maya Child Burials
Yolanda Xinyue Yuan, University of Pittsburgh, Joshua T. Schnell, University of Pittsburgh, Finn Yanrong He, University College London, and Whittaker Schroder, University of Florida
From Soma to Sema: Change, Continuity, and Ptolemaic Dynastic Engineering
Pieter Broucke, Middlebury College, Timothy Howe, St. Olaf College, and Landon Lockwood, Independent Scholar
Care and Mutual Aid in the Borderlands: Archaeological and Anthropological Research at the Aga Khan Necropolis, West Aswan
Patrizia Piacentini, Università degli Studi di Milano
A Necropolis in Archaeological Time: Hacı Oğlan and the Necropoleis of Sardis
Leyla Uğurer, Cornell University
Organizer(s): Gretel Rodríguez, Brown University, and Francesca D’Andrea, Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy)
Discussant: Eve D’Ambra, Vassar College
Vox Precantum: Female Prayer and Oratory in the Roman Republic
Lewis Webb, University of Gothenburg
Feminizing Roman Peace: Women from Symbols to Agents of Concordia Through Materiality (First Century B.C.E.– Second Century C.E.)
Carmen Maria Ruiz Vivas, Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Curated in Stone, Embedded in Brick: Imperial Women and Material Presence in Second-Century Rome
Margaret Woodhull, University of Colorado, Denver
Empress Julia Domna and the Shattered Mirror of Roman Portrait Studies
Kimberly Cassibry, Wellesley College
Archaeological Methods for Identifying Women’s Monasteries in the Late Antique East
Grace Stafford, University of Vienna (Institut für Klassische Archäologie)
Reassembling Roman Women: Authenticity, Aesthetic Bias, and the Myth of Classical Femininity
Robyn Walsh, University of Miami
Sponsored by: Hellenic Ministry of Culture
Organizer(s): Anastasia Gadolou, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Archaeological Musuem of Thessaloniki, and Andreas Vlachopoulos, University of Ioannina
Discussant: Nathan Arrington, Princeton University
The Petralona Cave: A Landmark of Human Evolution and Cultural Heritage
Andreas Darlas, Hellenic Ministry of Culture
Care for the Protection of Archaeological Heritage during the Construction of the Ionia National Road in Greece. The Benefits of the Community regarding a Safer Road Network and a New Museum
Olympia Vikatou, Hellenic Ministry of Culture
Care as Practice, Care as Institution: Archaeological Stewardship in the Ancient Agora of Athens and the Kerameikos
Eleni Kountouri, Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, and Nikolaos Petrocheilos Head of the Department of Prehistoric and Classical Archaeological Sites and Monuments and Museums of the Ephorate of the City of Athens
Bringing to Light Thessaloniki’s Ancient History . Excavation and Protection of the City’s Hellenistic and Byzantine Past
Ioulia Papageorgiou, Directorate of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Antiquities, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Eleni Kountouri. Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities. Hellenic Ministry of Culture, and Themistokles Vlachoulis, Directorate for the Restoration of Ancient Monuments and the Directorate for the Restoration of
Organizer(s): Brian Daniels, Penn Cultural Heritage Center
Caring for Conservators and Archaeological Collections
Lisa Pilosi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Care Work”: Repatriating Indigenous Object Kin in Museum Collections
Stephanie Mach, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
From Palmyra to Kabul: Toward a Proactive Practice of Care in Heritage Protection
Corinne E. Muller, University of Pennsylvania
Fieldwork and Families: Accommodations for Research and Personal-life Balance
Kim Shelton, University of California, Berkeley
Caring about Ceremonial Stone Landscapes in Northeastern North America
Laurie Rush, U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield
Organizer(s): Corinne E. Muller, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsored by: AIA Museums and Exhibitions Committee
Organizer(s): Carolyn Laferriere, Princeton University Art Museum
Across Wine-Dark Seas: From the Pillars of Herakles to the Pontos Axeinos in under 200 Objects
Alexis Belis, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Anatolia and the Classical World
Kenneth Lapatin, J. Paul Getty Museum
Reaching a New Audience with the Exhibition: The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy
Renée Dreyfus, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Celtic Art Across the Ages at the Harvard Art Museums
Susanne Ebbinghaus, Harvard Art Museums
Re-Excavating Antioch: Archive, Object, and Public Narrative
Nicole Berlin, Wellesley College, and Elizabeth Molacek, Independent Scholar
Sponsored by: AIA Cultural Heritage Committee
Organizer(s): Ömür Harmansah, University of Illinois Chicago
Discussant: Nick Cahill, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Future of the Anatolian Past
Bülent Gönültaş, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Türkiye
From Repatriation to Prevention: Türkiye’s Evolving Cultural Property Cooperation with the United States
Zeynep Boz, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkiye, Illicit Trafficking Office
Taştepeler Project: The Land of Great Transformation
Necmi Karul, Istanbul University, Turkiye
Preserving to Excavate, Excavating to Preserve: A Post-Disciplinary, Heritage-Oriented Field Practice Model at Tell Atchana, Alalakh, in Times of Geopolitical and Environmental Stress
Murat Akar, Mustafa Kemal University, Turkiye
Anatolian Landscapes: Archaeological Stories Without Excavation
Ömür Harmansah, University of Illinois Chicago
Rethinking Mycenaean Thebes
Theodore M. S. Nash, Independent
New Data Concerning the Production and Consumption of Mycenaean Pictorial Style Pottery in West Attica in the 12th Century BCE
Trevor Van Damme, University of Warwick, and Johannes Sterba, TU Wien
The Pylos Wall-Painting Study: Results from the 2026 Season
Emily C. Egan, University of Maryland, and Christian F. Cloke, University of Maryland
Branching Out: Wood Use and Timber Imports at Late Helladic and Protogeometric Mitrou, Central Greece
Peyton Slocumb, University of Tennessee, and Aleydis Van de Moortel, University of Tennessee
The Community of Plataian War Refugees in Fourth Century B.C.E. Athens: Mortuary Archaeology in the Aftermath of Wartime Displacement
Victoria Greene, Yale University
Survey Synthesis: A Comparative Model for Re-Examining Rural Settlement in Third-Century Basilicata, Italy
Eric Del Fabbro, McMaster University
Headhunting Monuments and Social Life in Iron Age France
Rachel Wood, University of California, Los Angeles
The Social Dynamics of Latinization in Republican Italy: Insights from the Epigraphic Evidence
Claudia Paparella, University of St Andrews
Banquets, Captives, and Gifts on the Sperandio Sarcophagus: Near Eastern Iconography and Elite Ideology in Late Archaic Etruria
Giovanni Lovisetto, Emory University
Hinthial Figures and the Visual Language of Death in Etruscan Sarcophagi
Karolina Sekita, Tel Aviv
Dying on the Right Side of the Bed: A Study on Etruscan Funerary Beds and their Architectural Nuance in the San Giuliano Necropolis
Anna C. Gibbs, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Pretty in Pink: The Significance of Purpurissum Canusinum Pigment in Polychrome “Late Canosan” Funerary Vessels
Kerry Joyce, Independent Scholar
Written in Ligature: New Light on Etruscan Pottery and Early Roman Coinage
Lora Holland Goldthwaite, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Looking Back at Frontal Combatants on Archaic Greek Ceramics
Monica Bulger, Columbia University
Women and Wartime Violence on a Classical Athenian Lekythos
Rachel Kousser, City University of New York
Continuity and Care: Athenian Images of Childrearing in the Fifth century BCE
Georgia E. Landgraf, The University of British Columbia
Styling Status: Using Hair to Explore Female Identity, Sexuality, and Agency in Sympotic Red Figure Vase Paintings
Madison Poole, Brock University
Writers on the Wall: Images of Individuals Reading and Writing on Attic Figured Pottery
Elizabeth Langridge-Noti, University of California, San Diego
Organizer(s): Alyson Roy, University of Idaho
Sex for Sale? Commodification and the Reproduction of Roman Sexual Hierarchy
Alyson Roy, University of Idaho
Performing Desire Under the Veil: The ‘’Baker Dancer’’ as a Case Study
Eleftheria Kallimani, CUNY
Ovid’s Syrinx and the Enslaved Reader: A Critical Fabulation
Miriam Kamil, Stanford University
Queer Magic: Erotic Curses and Female Sexual Agency at Karanis, Egypt
Olivia Angsten, Bryn Mawr College
Sunlight, Shadow, and Shared Space: Building Orientation and Communal Organization at Early Chalcolithic Kendale Hecala (ca. 5200–4500 B.C.E.), Upper Tigris Region
Şakir Can, Kocaeli University
Care, Communication, and Collective Memory in the Itsagir Petroglyphs of Armenia
Mariam Shakhmuradyan, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of Armenian Academy of Sciences, University of Cambridge
Radical Empathy: Caretaking and the Depiction of Kingship at Persepolis
Neville McFerrin, University of North Texas
Excavating Disaster: The Mother Church of Campanarazzu, Volcanic Catastrophe, and Community Care
Rosa M. Motta, Christopher Newport University
Care After Catastrophe: People-Centred Reconstruction of Syrian Heritage
Nour Munawar, University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Sponsored by: AIA Student Affairs Interest Group
Organizer(s): Allison A. Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Wendy Vencel, North Carolina State University
Sponsored by: AIA Roman Provincial Archaeology Interest Group (RPAIG) & AIA Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology (MAPMA) Interest Group
Organizer(s): James Kenneth, Western University, and Amelia Brown, McQuarie University
The Barbarian Conspiracy Revisited: Ammianus Marcellinus and the End of Hadrian’s Wall
James Kenneth, Western University
A Wall of Sod, Not of Stone: Building a Post-Roman Estuarine Landscape on the Firth of Forth, 350-750 CE
Trevor Wiley, Boston College
Is There Still Salt at the End of the World?: Coasts, Salt, People, and Pots at the End of Roman Britain
Avner Goldstein, Boston College
Inherited Desires: The Brazier from al-Fudayn and Roman Erotica in the Umayyad Caliphate
Alexander Brey, Wellesley College
Rethinking England’s Earliest “Anglo-Saxon” Century with the Aid of Horse Heads, Little Silver Coins, and Fish for Dinner
Robin Fleming, Boston College
Making and Re-Making: Mosaics in the Broader Craft Landscape of Africa Proconsularis
M. Claire Davis, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Feeling and Figuring Time: Late Roman Mosaic Calendars as Archives of Climate and Labor
Kaja J. Tally-Schumacher, Harvard University
Loose Ends: Rethinking Textile Production in the Roman Republic
Fenella Palanca, Stanford University
Hydraulic Dining at Pompeii: Infrastructure, Environment, and Labor in the Casa dell’Efebo
Rebecca Gaborek, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Locating the Laborers: A Hierarchy of Living Quarters and Personal Possessions in the Villa della Pisanella
Susanna Faas-Bush, UC Berkeley
Reconstructing Freedom: A Youth Documentary Film on Archaeology at Fort Mose
Will Moffett, Episcopal School of Jacksonville, Florida
Colonial Countrysides in Roman Dacia: Results from the Canadian-Romanian Apulum Roman Villa Project
Matthew McCarty, University of British Columbia, Mariana Egri, Insitute of Archaeology & Art History, Romanian Academy, Elizabeth Munro, Independent Scholar, Alex Hagler, University of British Columbia, Aurel Rustoiu, Insitute of Archaeology & Art History
Sea-ing is Believing: The Phenomenology of Marine Objects at the Temple of Isis, Berenike
Jordan Gaborik, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Illuminating Interior Spaces: Roman Lamps as Lighting at the Arizona Sicily Project
Caroline E. Keller, University of Arizona
A Tale of Two Bronzes: A Reinterpretation of Ebusus and Pseudo-Ebusus Coins at Pompeii
Aimee Thompson, Duke University
Hands-On Histories: Revitalizing Ancient World Outreach Sets from the NCMA Tactile Teaching Collection
Jessica A. Thorne, Tufts University
Reduction of Waste at Cures Sabini Excavations
Donald Koger, Rutgers University, Andrew McLean, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Gary D. Farney, Rutgers University-Newark, Dylan Boy, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and James Page, British School at Rome
3D Printing and Community Outreach: Introducing Public School Students in Massachusetts to Archaeology through Punic-Roman Materials
Anna Roche, Cornell University, and Eóin O’Donoghue, Brandeis University
Partage at Dura-Europos: Care and Colonial Authority
Kyran Blau, Yale University, Anne Hunnell Chen, Bard College, and Eleanor Martin, Yale University
A Curse Tablet from Roman Corinth (MF 86-44)
S Taborski, Hamilton College
The Materiality of Roman Shoes: Scientific Analysis, Provincial Manufacturing, and the Intentionality of Material Choice
Elizabeth M. Greene, University of Western Ontario, and Gillian Taylor, Northumbria University
A Circle of Life: Interdisciplinary Research on Viminacium’s Material Remains As a Pathway to Understanding Past Lives and Inspiring Futures
Ljubomir Jevtović, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia, Emilija Nikolić, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia, Nemanja Mrđić, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia, Jelena Anđelković Grašar, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia, Dr
Rus Numidiae: A Digital Survey and Investigation of the Bahiret el Oussera in Northeastern Algeria
Matthew Titzler, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tracing Lives in a Roman Frontier Capital: Viminacium
Nemanja Mrđić, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia, Jelena Anđelković Grašar, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia, Ljubomir Jevtović, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia, Emilija Nikolić, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia, Il
Iron Smelting in the Context of Crucible Steel Production in Northern Telangana, India
Suveena Sreenilayam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Antoine Allanore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Re-Evaluating Malaria in Ancient Italy
Sneha Adusumilli, George Washington University
Scarcity, Silence, and the Micro-Archive: Mobile Studio Practice as Heritage Care in the 1956 Hungarian Diaspora
Geraldine Dobos, Union Adventist University
Increasing Ancient Studies Accessibility via an Online Information Site
David Danzig, New York University, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, and John Haberstroh, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Excavations of a Monumental Water Basin at Gabii
Alison Rittershaus, Cornell University, Jason Farr, St. Mary’s University, and Federica Zabotti, Musei e Parchi Archeologici di Praeneste e Gabii
Place & Time in Livy’s Bacchanalian Conspiracy Episode: An Archaeological Approach
Alexis M. Christensen, University of Utah
Building the cella aedicula – Key to the Puzzle of the Architecture of the Roman Temple of Antiochia ad Cragum?
Myrsini Mamoli, Georgia Institute of Technology
Rethinking the Olive Oil Economy: Beeswax, Plant Oils, and Elite Storage Strategies in Late Bronze Age Cyprus
Rebecca F. Gerdes, Cornell University, Hanna Wiandt, Cornell University, Alison South, Independent Scholar, Kevin Fisher, University of British Columbia, Despina Pilides, Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, Jillian L. Goldfarb, Cornell University, and Stur
Techno-Archaeology of Landscape: Preliminary Report on the 2025–2026 Survey and Excavation Seasons at Cortona and the Valdichiana (Tuscany, Italy)
Maurizio Forte, Duke University, Antonio LoPiano, Boston College, and Nevio Danelon, Sapienza University
Sounds of the Lake: Details from a New Archaeoacoustic Study at the Etruscan Ritual Site, the Lago degli Idoli, Italy
Jacqueline K. Ortoleva, University of Oxford, and Corso Domincini, University of Oxford
The Roman Genome Database Project: Integrating Roman-Period Ancient DNA and Archaeological Data in a Spatial Framework
Victoria Moses, Brown University, Alison Barton, Harvard University, Santiago Pardo Sánchez, Harvard University, David Reich, Harvard University, and Michael McCormick, Harvard University
Preliminary Results of Geochemical Sourcing of Chert for Understanding Ancestral Maya Economies
Rachel A. Horowitz, Washington State University, and Charles Speer, Idaho State University
“Deeper Down” – Geophysical Studies of Two Prehistoric Rock Effigy Mounds, Georgia (USA)
Ervan G. Garrison, University of Georgia, Sergio Bernardes, University of Georgia, James F. Wilson, University of Georgia, and Abhijit Sharmah, University of Georgia
When Does Gender Inequality Become Patriarchy? A Material-Systems Framework
Eliza Ryus, DoubleXEconomy LLC, and Linda Scott, University of Oxford
Sponsored by: AIA Etruscan Interest Group
Organizer(s): Fabio Colivicchi, Queen’s University, and Cristiana Zaccagnino, Queen’s University
Discussant: Francesco de Angelis, Columbia University
Heirloom Mirrors in Etruria: Echoes of the Past in the Home and the Tomb
Alexandra Carpino, Northern Arizona University
Quiet Echoes: Terracotta Goddesses and the Persistence of the Past
Alexander Ekserdjian, Yale University
Griffin Vases and the Creation of an ‘Ancient’ Religious Landscape
Cristiana Zaccagnino, Queen’s University
The Long Life of an Etruscan Temple
Fabio Colivicchi, Queen’s University
Pater Gentis: Memory, Identity and Status in the Historical Development of the Etruscan Clan
Daniele Maras, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze
The New Old Imagery of the “Donna-fiore” in Central Italy
Sophie Crawford-Brown, Rice University
Sponsored by: AIA Eastern Europe/Eurasia Interest Group
Organizer(s): Caleb Hammond, Stanford University
Discussant: Owen Doonan, California State University, Northridge
Making Sense of the Caspian
Lara Fabian, University of California, Los Angeles
In the Mead of the Reedy River: Contextualizing Greek Colonization of the Black Sea through Wetlands
Erin Brantmayer, University of Texas at Austin
Within Apollo’s Eastern Altars: Remote Sensing Approaches to Hellenistic and Post-Hellenistic Rural Frontiers in Bactria and Sogdiana
Zachary Silvia, Stanford University
Beyond Osteology: Integrating Molecular and Skeletal Methods to Assess Sex and Health in Roman Children
Amber Kearns, University of Texas at Austin
Where the Streets Are Paved with Pots: Urban Planning, Amphorae, and the Circular Economy at Histria (Romania)
Cole Smith, University of Texas at Austin, Patricia Neuhoff-Malorzo, Independent Researcher, and Adam Rabinowitz, University of Texas at Austin
The Dynamics of Scythian Sedentarization
Caleb Hammond, Stanford University
Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Landscapes of Habit in the Islands of the Aegean and the Ionian Sea (Greece)
Peny Tsakanikou, University of Crete, and Nena Galanidou, University of Crete
Tracing Persistent Corridors: Recursive Ground Verification in the Samothrace Lidar Project, 2026
Christopher Witmore, Texas Tech University, Brody Manquen, University of Texas at Austin, Dimitris Matsas, Honorary Ephor, 19th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities (Komotini), Bonna Wescoat, Emory University and the American School of Clas
Southern Mani Archaeological Project 2026: Matapan
Chelsea A. M. Gardner, Acadia University, William A. Parkinson, Field Museum of Natural History and University of Illinois Chicago, Rebecca Seifried, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Shannon Dunn, University of Edinburgh, Sarah Murray, University of T
Five Years of Research in Western Samos, Greece
Anastasia Christophilopoulou, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Michael Loy, University of Durham
The Landscapes of Patmos Project 2026: A New Archaeological Survey in the Southeastern Aegean
Alex R. Knodell, Carleton College/American School of Classical Studies (ASCSA), Eleni Farmakidou, Ephorate of Antiquities of the Dodecanese, Bruce Hartzler, Packard Humanities Institute/ASCSA, and Anne McCabe, University of Oxford/ASCSA
Settlement Dynamics in the Eretria Plain: Results of the Eretria–Amarynthos Survey Project (2021–2025)
Chloé G. Chezeaux, Lausanne University (UNIL)/ Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (ESAG)
A Micro-Regional Approach to the Karystia from the Hellenistic to Imperial Roman Period
Brandon T. Baker, Elon University
Organizer(s): Michael Thomas, The University of Texas at Dallas
Discussant: P. Gregory Warden, Southern Methodist University
Twenty Years of Digital Archaeology at Oplontis: Evolving Strategies for Virtual Preservation and Contextual Analysis
Michael L. Thomas, The University of Texas at Dallas
Reconstructing the Poolside Pavilion at Oplontis Villa A: Architecture, Decoration, and Experience
Anna Marisol Shovlin, The University of Texas at Dallas
Reconstructing Third-Style Decoration in Room 22 at Oplontis Villa A
Mira Dali, The University of Texas at Dallas
Inhabiting the Row Houses at Oplontis B: Decorative Phases and Urban Development
Regina Gee, Montana State University
Above the Vaults: Reconstructing Apartments and Decoration at Oplontis Villa B
John R. Clarke, The University of Texas at Austin
New Geophysical Investigations at Pompeii’s Villa of Cicero
Ivo van der Graaff, University of New Hampshire, Michael L. Thomas, University of Texas at Dallas, Gianfranco Morelli, Geostudi Astier S.R.L., John. R. Clarke, University of Texas at Austin, P. Gregory Warden, Southern Methodist University, Nayla K. Muntasser, University of Texas at Austin, and Zoe Schofield, University of Leicester
Rediscovering the Santuario del Vallo at Herakleia (Policoro, Italy): New Perspectives on the Religious Landscape of a Greek City in Magna Graecia
Ilaria Battiloro, Mount Allison University, Carmelo Colelli, National Archaeological Museum of Siritide, Mattia D’Acri, Princeton University, and Giuseppe Lucarelli, Università degli Studi della Tuscia
Delimitating Sacred Space: The Peribolos Wall and the Southwest Corner of the Main Urban Sanctuary at Selinunte.
Kate Minniti, Pratt Institute / The Cooper Union, and Rebecca A. Salem, Institute of Fine Arts – New York University
New Evidence for Selinunte’s Changing Ritual Landscape in the Seventh and Sixth Centuries BCE
Megan B. Gatton, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Giovanni Lovisetto, Emory University
Well-Trodden/Newly Uncovered: A Scalalogical Approach to the Temples at Selinus
Rebecca A. Salem, Institute of Fine Arts – New York University
Archival and Digital Documentation for Architectural Remains: The Central Sanctuary at Morgantina
Max Peers, Trinity College, and Leigh Anne Lieberman, Princeton University
Life on the Periphery in Inland Sicily: The Second Season of the Khora of Archaic Morgantina Project (KAMP)
Alex Moskowitz, Amherst College, Kevin Ennis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Helen Wong, University of Cincinnati, and Phoebe Thompson, University of Pennsylvania
Fragments in Context: Reflections on Figurine Fragments from Necropolis III at Morgantina
Claire Challancin, American University of Rome
Organizer(s): Tori Lee, Davidson College, Jason Morris, CripAntiquity, Jessica Mingoia, Rutgers University, and Julie Hruby, Dartmouth University
Sponsored by: AIA Ancient Figure-Decorated Pottery Interest Group
Organizer(s): Susanne Ebbinghaus, Harvard Art Museums, S. Rebecca Martin, Boston University, and Mark Stansbury-O’Donnell, University of St. Thomas
Cora Kennedy Sada’s “Museum of Antiquities”: A Case Study in Collections Research at the Harvard Art Museums
Caitlin Clerkin, Harvard Art Museums, and Riccardo Altieri, Harvard Art Museums
Douris in Orvieto, D.C., and Boston in the Late Nineteenth-Century
Agibail Allan, University of Oxford
Kolpos: A Visual Pun Hiding in the Folds at the MFA
Marina Haworth, North Hennepin Community College
Reassessing the Covered Cup: Scientific Analysis and Display Strategies for a Rare Type of Vase
Oliver Croker, British Museum
Story-telling and Embodied Realities on View: Curating a New Case in the Harvard Art Museums
Sarah Eisen, Northwestern University
Production and Persistence: New Discoveries at the Site of Coriglia
Amanda K. Chen, Kansas City Art Institute, and William Ramundt, Kansas City/Lawrence Society
Twenty-Five Years Later: New Excavations at the Villa Romana del Tellaro (Noto, Sicily)
Davide Tanasi, University of South Florida, Rosa Lanteri, Galleria Regionale di Palazzo Bellomo di Siracusa, Stephan Hassam, Randolph-Macon College, Mara McNiff, Florida State University, Lisa Shorts, University of South Florida, Gloria Lopez, University of South Florida, and Claudia Lamanna, University of Bologna
Results of the 2026 Season of the Sentinum City Archaeological Research Project
Matthew Notarian, Hiram College, Amanda Chen, Kansas City Art Institute, and William Ramundt, Kansas City/Lawrence Society
New Excavations at Roman Cures Sabini
Dylan Bloy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Gary Farney, Rutgers University-Newark, Andrew McLean, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and James Page, British School at Rome
Excavations at the so-called Villa di Tito (Castel Sant’Angelo, Rieti, Italy): the Fifth Interim Report
Myles McCallum, Saint Mary’s University, Rebecca Payne, Nova Scotia Community College, Erika Zane, Royal Holloway University, London, Erica Rowan, Royal Holloway, London, and Martin Beckmann, McMaster University
The Roman Deathbed
Jonathan Steward, University of Cambridge
Garbage and Graves at Rome and Beyond
Kevin Dicus, University of Oregon
Care for the Dead and the Outfitting of Roman Sarcophagus Interiors
Sarah Madole Lewis, City University of New York – BMCC
Beyond the Imperial Residence: New Evidence for Non-Elite Burials near the Macchiozzo Area of Hadrian’s Villa (Tivoli)
Joe Sheppard, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
A Tomb for Whom? Rock-Cut Tomb Reuse in Roman-Period Cyprus
Dustin Thomas, University of Virginia
Caring for the Transfigured Body and Personhood at Roman Baalbek-Heliopolis: A Shimmering Spectacle in the City of the Sun
Nicholas Aherne, University of Groningen
Molding the Emperor: Terracotta Emperor Figurines and Household Ritual in Roman Egypt
Alyssa Parrnelli, Case Western Reserve University
Back to the Drawing Board: Challenging the Chronology of the Marble Map of Rome
Elizabeth Wolfram Thill, IU-Indianapolis
New Light on the Dome of the Pantheon
Paolo Vitti, University of Notre Dame
From Dynasty to Duty: The Reinvention of Salonina in the Sole Reign of Gallienus
Lee Ann Riccardi, The College of New Jersey
Who Earned the Best Spots? Honorific Monuments, Civic Authority, and the Spatial Hierarchy of the Forum of Segobriga
Rachel L. Meyers, Iowa State University
The Making of an Assyrian Zeus: Visual Style and the Idaean Cave Tympanon
Andrew Harvin, Johns Hopkins University
Comparison of Two Near Eastern Figurines Found in Temples of Poseidon
Angela Burr, Texas A&M University
Two Palladia, Competing Traditions: Image, Text, and the Athenian Reception of a Trojan Myth
Francesca Sabbatini, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Reattributing the Medusa Rondanini
Gabriella Ramalho, Cuny Graduate Center
Archaic Handmade Terracotta Figurines from the North Slope of the Acropolis (1931-1940, 1998–2004)
Kevin T. Glowacki, Texas A&M University, and Vassiliki D. Georgaka, Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens, Hellenic Ministry of Culture
Pathos and the Distorted Body: Disability, Emotion, and Dionysian Cult in Hellenistic Terracotta Figurines
Daphne Chen, Columbia University
A New Copy of the Relief of Demokratia Crowning Demos and the Question of Duplicates of Record Reliefs
Olga Palagia, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Organizer(s): Neal Payne, University of Cambridge, and Chantel White, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Naomi Miller, University of Pennsylvania, and Susan Allen, University of Cincinnati
Reconstructing Classical Foodways: New Archaeobotanical Approaches to Cooking and Identity in Northern Greece
Chantel E. White, University of Pennsylvania, Neal Payne, University of Cambridge, and Nathan Arrington, Princeton University
Archaeobotany Beyond the Arable Economy: Perspectives from Roman Britain
Neal Payne, University of Cambridge
Fruit Trees as Markers of Place and Meaning in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Levant
Kathleen Forste, Brown University
The Archaeobotany of Byzantine through Ottoman Athens
John Marston, Boston University
Reframing Early Bronze Age Agriculture: Flax, Domestication, and Economic Diversification
Caroline Pope, Bryn Mawr College
Wood Charcoal Analysis of Legacy Samples from Kebara
Iona Hillman, University of Pennsylvania, Chantel White, University of Pennsylvania, Naomi Miller, University of Pennsylvania, and Erika Olsen, University of Pennsylvania
Organizer(s): Carl Knappett, University of Toronto, and Theotokis Theodoulou, Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, Ministry of Culture, Greece
Discussant: James Wright, Bryn Mawr
The Power of the Liminal: The Place of Harbours in Minoan Maritime Worlds
Elliott Fuller, University of Toronto
The Underwater Archaeology of Minoan Crete: Past and Recent Research.
Theotokis Theodoulou, Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, Ministry of Culture, Greece, and Alex Tourtas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/DIA, Greece
Malia and the Sea. Investigating the Underexplored Coastal Landscape of a Major Minoan Center
Maia Pomadère, Université Paris 1, Charlotte Langohr, F.R.S.-FNRS/UCLouvain-Aegis, and Laurent Lespez, Université Paris-Créteil
Recent Coastal and Underwater Research at Palaikastro, East Crete
Carl Knappett, University of Toronto, Canada, Theotokis Theodoulou, Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, Ministry of Culture, Greece, Andrew Shapland, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, Chrysa Sofianou, Lasithi Ephorate of Antiquities, Ministry of Culture, Gree
Middle and Late Bronze Age Maritime Coastscapes from the Perspective of Chryssi
Thomas Brogan, INSTAP Study Center for East Crete, Chrysa Sofianou, Lasithi Ephorate of Antiquities, Ministry of Culture, Kostas Chalikias, INSTAP Study Center for East Crete, Melissa Eaby, INSTAP Study Center for East Crete, and Dimitra Mylona, INSTAP St
Decoding the Minoan Maritime World: An Integrated On- and Off-Site Approach to Coastal Dynamics and Underwater Prospection at Palaikastro
Rena Veropoulidou, Ephorate of Antiquities of Thessaloniki City, Ministry of Culture, Greece, Athanasia Krahtopoulou, Ephorate of Antiquities of Karditsa, Ministry of Culture, Greece, Alexandros Tourtas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/DIA, Greece, H
Organizer(s): Stephanie Polos, University of Virginia, and Caroline Carter, University of Virginia
Discussant: Guy Hedreen, Williams College
Framing Trees: A Nested Landscape in the Toumba Building at Lefkandi
Collin Moat, University of California, Los Angeles
Human-Rock Entanglements: Revisiting the Cave Frame on Marble Votive Nymph Reliefs
Caroline Carter, University of Virginia
The Porous Ground of a Lucanian Krater
Savannah Sather Marquardt, Yale University
The Land(scape) of Hades: Nature and the Afterlife Passage
Stephanie Polos, University of Virginia
The Sacral-Idyllic Landscape in Fourth to Second Century B.C.E. Northern Greece
Ellen M. Archie, Washington and Lee University
Sponsored by: AIA Etruscan Interest Group
Organizer(s): Amelia Eichengreen, University of Michigan, and Fabio Colivicchi, Queen’s University
Discussant: Nicola Terrenato, University of Michigan
The Development of Domestic Architecture at Caere
Anton Strachan, University of Michigan, and Fabio Colivicchi, Queen’s University
“Domestic” architecture in Pyrgi, port of Caere. The Archaic Palace in the “Public-Ceremonial” Quarter
Laura M. Michetti, Sapienza University of Rome
Domestic Ideology: Orientation in Elite Household Design at Poggio Civitate
Antony Tuck, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Reassessing Domestic Architecture in Acquarossa
Maarten Sepers, Saxion University of Applied Sciences
A Chronological Reassessment of the Diffusion of Houses in Central Italy
Amelia Eichengreen, University of Michigan
Organizer(s): Steven Ellis, University of Cincinnati, and Peter van Dommelen, Brown University
Mining the Sulcis: Documenting Ancient Mining through Surface Reconnaissance by the Landscape Archaeology of Southwest Sardinia Project
Elizabeth Murphy, Florida State University
Concealed Rites: Architecture, Perception, and Ritual Debate at the Tophet of Monte Sirai
Sara Mura, Kiel University
Contextualizing West-Central Sardinia’s Rural Landscapes in the Roman Period: An Interim Report of the Sinis Archaeological Project
Linda R. Gosner, University of California, Berkeley, Katie Breyer, Bryn Mawr College, and Jessica Nowlin, University of Texas, San Antonio.
Iron Age Encounters and Punic Persistence at Nuraghe S’Urachi
Peter van Dommelen, Brown University
The Urban Excavations of Punic-Roman Tharros, in Context
Steven Ellis, University of Cincinnati
The Water Systems of Tharros
Eric Poehler, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Sponsored by: AIA Coroplastic Studies Interest Group
Organizer(s): Andrew Ward, Fairfield University, Alexandra Katherina Sofroniew, University of California, Davis, and Rebecca Ammerman, Colgate University
Function, Deposition, and Style of a Large-Scale Terracotta Figurine from the Acropolis of Gela, Sicily
Marina Albertocchi, Association for Coroplastic Studies
Defining the Scale of Terracotta Votive Statues in Latium Vetus: a Contextual Approach
Giulia Vannucci, Aarhus University
Imagining in Miniature: Scale and the Ritual Function of Figurative Terracottas in Greek Domestic Religion
Hannah Smagh, Pennsylvania State University
Beyond Molds: Scale and Alternative Production Techniques in Italic Figurative Terracotta Votives
Federico Corradi, Sapienza University of Rome
The Production of Figurines and Terracottas in the Iron Age Southern Levant
David Ben-Shlomo, Ariel University
Where The Wild Things Are: Investigating the Mobility of Mass-Produced Terracotta Votive Figurines
Carrie Murray, Brock University
The Digital Via Gabina: Rethinking Half-Century-Old Survey Data in the Roman Suburbium with GIS
M.C. Harder, University of Florida
A Spatial Analysis of the Built Environment Surrounding a Imperial Era Mosaic Pavement from Kos Town, Kos, Greece
Nikki Vellidis, University of Cambridge
“Re-Constructing” Activity in the Garden of the Casa della Regina Carolina: Applications of 3D GIS and Digital Data
Cole Warlick, UNC Chapel Hill
A Digital Twin for Villa di Casignana: The First Comprehensive 3D Digitization of the Largest Roman Villa in Calabria (Italy)
Sarah Hassam, University of South Florida, Aiden Eylward, University of South Florida, Davide Tanasi, University of South Florida, Andrea Gennaro, Soprintendenza ABAP per la città metropolitana di Reggio Calabria e la provincia di Vibo Valentia, Italy, Dario Calderone, University of Malta, and Paolino Trapani, Tekne Engineering
Reassessing the Casa della Regina Carolina: New Archival Evidence and the Politics of Royal Patronage at Pompeii
Emily Lime, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Viewed from Above: Aerial Photography, Military Reconnaissance, and the Colonial Appropriation of Roman Libya
Taylor Carr-Howard, University of California, Los Angeles
The Roman Legionary Base at Lambaesis during the Algerian War of Independence
Anna Walas, University of London (Institute of Classical Studies)
Antiquity by the Shipload: An American Commodore’s Collection, Consumption, and Marketing of the Ancient Mediterranean
Marguerite W. Packard, Bryn Mawr College
The Journals of James Skene: Archaeology and Improvement in post-Revolutionary Greece
Sebastian Marshall, University of St. Andrews
Drawing from the Archive: Alan Sorrell, Reconstruction Art, and the American School of Classical Studies
Peter A. Thompson, University of Oxford
Making the Looter: Colonial Archives, Subsistence Digging, and Contested Heritage in Cyprus
Erin Walcek Averett, Creighton University, Derek B. Counts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Michael K. Toumazou, Davidson College, Rowan L. Grider, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Annabel O. Averett, Washington University in St. Louis
Experimental AI Applications for Archaeological Legacy Data
John Wallrodt, University of Cincinnati, and Natalie Abell, University of Michigan
Sponsored by: Women’s Classical Caucus (SCS)
Organizer(s): Sarah Blake, York University, and Kate Cooper, Royal Ontario Museum
Woven Offerings to Artemis: Female Crafts, Textiles and Iconography in Leon. AP 286
Vittoria Dozzi, University of Bologna
Not A-Musing, But Exhausting? The Physicality of Female Artistry in Ancient Greece
Ricarda Meisl, New York University
Body of Work: Woman as Artist and Network
Ruth Allen, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
Women Garland Makers: Mediating and Naturalizing Art-Work in Roman Antiquity
Jessica Plant, University of Groningen, and Bettina Reitz-Joosse, University of Groningen
Signatures and an ad hoc Atelier: Finding Professional Women Glass Producers in the first to fifth centuries CE
Hallie Meredith, Washington State University
Asara of Thera, a Middle-grade Graphic Novel-in-progress about a Young Fresco Painter in the Bronze Age Aegean
Glynnis Fawkes, Center for Cartoon Studies
Wind, Orientation, and Design in Early Iron Age Greek Architecture: A Fluid-Dynamics Approach
Alessandro Pierattini, University of Notre Dame, Gianluca Blois, University of Idaho, Dimitrios Konstantinos Fytanidis, Argonne National Laboratory, and Mitsugu Hasegawa, Kanagawa University
Island Soundscapes at Two Sanctuaries of Apollo: Geophonies, Soundmarks, and Ritual Soundscapes at Despotiko and Ortygia
Erica Angliker, University of Palermo
Senses of the Sublime: Affective Encounters with Ancient Tombs on Crete
Sarah M. Norvell, Queens College, CUNY
Testing Spatial Narratives Through Digital Reconstruction: 3D Modeling and Viewshed Analysis at the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi
Tyler Gillis, The University of Central Florida
The Egadi Islands Maritime Survey 2016-26: New Finds and New Directions
Andrew L. Goldman, Gonzaga University, Justine Vernet, Ecole française de Rome (EFR) and Istituto per le Risorse biologiche e le Biotecnologie Marine, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IRBIM-CNR), and Mario Arena, Society for the Documentation of Submer
Maritime Symbolism in an Inland Sanctuary: Ship-Rhyta in the North Sanctuary at Morgantina
Gregory D. Freeman, University of Texas at Austin
Revisiting the Isis Sgraffito: Evidence for a Cimmerian Bosporus Naval Ram Design
Stephen DeCasien, Yale University
Yenikapı Shipwreck 23 (YK 23): An Interim Report on the Construction and Historical Context of a Byzantine Shipwreck from the Theodosian Harbor of Constantinople (Istanbul, Türkiye).
Michael R. Jones, Koç University, and Cemal Pulak, Texas A&M University, Institute of Nautical Archaeology
Dead among the Living: A Study of Ritual and Burial in Early Etruscan Townscapes
Lauren Tomanelli, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
Examination of an Early Iron Age Mass Commingled burial Bt Roca Vecchia
Megan Savoy, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Teodoro Scarano, University of Salento, and Giulia Saltini Semerari, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
The Neapolitan Hypogea: Local Traditions and Panhellenic Influence in the Funerary Landscape of Hellenistic Naples
Kyle Machado, Florida State University
The Necropolis of the Vallone di San Lorenzo, Montecchio, Italy: New Discoveries (2024–2026 Seasons).
Sarah M. Harvey, Kent State University, Gian Luca Grassigli, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Stefano Spiganti, Independent Researcher, Francesco Pacelli, Independent Researcher, Gabriele Scorrano, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Samantha
Organizer(s): Seth Estrin, Harvard University, and Patricia Eunji Kim, New York University
From Armor to Emotional Instruments: Greek and Italic Decorated Cuirasses and Helmets, Sixth–Fourth Century BCE
Raimon Graells i Fabregat, Universidad de Alicante
Joining Armor and Extending Bodies in Early Greece
Caspar Meyer, Bard College
The Thorax on the Parthenon Frieze
Seth Estrin, Harvard University
A Gallery of Shield Portraits at Hellenistic Delos
Patricia Eunji Kim, New York University
The Problem of Late Antique Art through the Eyes of the Younger Philostratus
Alice Bastianelli, University of Cambridge
Revisiting the Late Antique “Waiting Servant” Motif: A Reconsideration of the Projecta Casket and Sub-Elite Viewership
Jacqueline E Giz, University of Michigan
Reconstructing Bandiān: Digital Reconstruction, Regional Visual Culture, and Collective Memory in Late Sasanian Iran
Parisa Atighi, University of Minnesota
Painted Staurograms from Stobi, North Macedonia, and Images of Crucifixion in the Early Church
Caroline Downing, State University of New York Potsdam
Rider, Demon and Sign: Identifying A New Late Roman Amulet Workshop in West Asia
Abigail Staub, University of Michigan, and Shannon Ness, University of Michigan
Prehistoric Gourimadi in Southern Euboea: The Results of Recent Research (2025-2026)
Zarko Tankosic, University of Bergen, Paschalis Zafeiriadis, Norwegian Institute at Athens-University of Bergen, Fanis Mavridis, Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology-Speleology, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Denitsa Nenova, Norwegian Institute at Athens; Takin
Mochlos, Past and Present: New Perspectives of the Ceramic Assemblages from the Prepalatial Cemetery and Town
Luke F. Kaiser, Wake Forest University
Assessing Paleomobility in the Peloponnese through a Prototypical Interregional Communal Cult Site at Mt. Lykaion
Mary E. Voyatzis, University of Arizona, David Gilman Romano, University of Arizona, Jason Kirk, University of Arizona, Evangelia Kiriatzi, Fitch Lab Director, British School at Athens, Eleanna Prevedorou, Hellenic Center for Bioarchaeology, Britt Starkov
Lyktos Archeological Project (Crete): The Results of ISAW/NYU’s Fieldwork in 2025
Antonis Kotsonas (NYU), Valia Tsikritea (NYU), Christina Stefanou (NYU), Filippos Roussos (University of Oxford), Dominic Pollard (University of Cambridge), Cicek Beeby (Independent Researcher)
Sponsored by: AIA Roman Provincial Archaeology Interest Group (RPAIG)
Organizer(s): Kimberly Cassibry, Wellesley College, Ann Hunnell Chen, Bard College, and Lauren Curtis, Bard College
Prophetic Playthings: Etruscan Childrearing and the Role of Pets and Toys
Evan Joachim, Florida State University
Lavari, Ludere, Laborare: Evidence of Games and Gaming Equipment in Roman Bathhouses
Allison E. Smith, Davidson College
The Sword in the Stones: The Mâcon Gladiator Training Mosaic
Marlee Miller, Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University
The Rise and Fall of the Earliest Ballcourt Sites in the Puuc Region of the Northern Maya Lowlands
Ken Seligson, California State University Dominguez Hills
Archaeogaming Education to Increase Undergraduate Student Engagement
David Danzig, New York University, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Sponsored by: Friends of Numismatics
Organizer(s): Nathan Elkins, American Numismatic Society, and Roberta Stewart, Dartmouth College
Some Remarks on Two New Coin Types of Shapur I: King of Kings of Ērān and Anērān
Homayoun Khosheghbal, University of Iowa
Reinterpreting the Religious Imagery on the Reverse Field of Two Alexander Issues
Jarl Beck, Independent Scholar
Deliberate Deposition: Reverse Type Preferencing in Grave Deposits in Roman Dacia
Corey Ellithorpe, University of Central Oklahoma
Taking It on the Road? Portable Shrines on the Coins of Roman Syria
Jane Sancinito, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
“Said to Be from Antinoë”: Provenance, Dispersal, and the Afterlives of Care
Lissette Jiménez, San Francisco State University
The Barberini Faun: Restoration as Reception of the Antique
Elizabeth Bartman, New York Society
From Excavation to Collection: The Provenance Histories of Praenestine Bronze Acrobat Handles
Rebecca Tauscher, CUNY Grad Center
Exhibiting the Nation Abroad: Greek Art and Cultural Diplomacy in the Late Cold War
Yusi Liu, Bryn Mawr College
Looking Back to Look Forward: Displaying the Parthenon Sculptures
David Saunders, British Museum
