Publications & Presentations by the Kelsey Museum Community, 2024

Augenti, A., and N. Terrenato. “Un centre de gravité mobile. La dynamique du pouvoir aristocratique à Volterra entre l'âge du fer et le haut Moyen Âge.” Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire 102 (2024): 193–234.

Bagnasco, G., M. Marzullo, C. Cattaneo, L. Biehler-Gomez, D. Mazzarelli, V. Ricciardi, W. Müller, A. Coppa, R. McLaughlin, L. Motta, O. Prato, F. Schmidt, F. Gaveriaux, G. B. Marras, M. A. Millet, R. Madgwick, R. Ballantyne, C.A. Makarewicz, A. Trentacoste, P. Reimer, V. Mattiangeli, D. G. Bradley, C. Malone, C. Esposito, E. M. Breslin & S. Stoddart. “Bioarchaeology Aids the Cultural Understanding of Six Characters in Search of Their Agency (Tarquinia, Ninth–Seventh Century BC, Central Italy).” Scientific Reports 14, 11895 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61052-z.

Bradshaw, Rebecca, Tohamy Abulgasim, Suzanne Davis, Elmontaser Dafalla, Sami Elamin, El-Hassan Mohamed Ahmed, and Geoff Emberling. “Community-Engaged Archaeology at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Jebel Barkal.” In Cultural Heritage, Community Engagement and Sustainable Tourism: Archaeological Sites in the Global South, edited by Maria Rabbani, Steve Mithen, and Mubariz Rabbani. London: Routledge, 2024.

Braun, L., and J. Frankl. “Archaeology and the Interpretation of the Past in Cormac McCarthy’s Novels.” The Cormac McCarthy Journal 22, no. 2 (October 2024): 161–183. https://doi.org/10.5325/cormmccaj.22.2.0161. 

Diffey, Charlotte, Geoff Emberling, Amy Bogaard, and Michael Charles. “‘Cropping the Margins’: New Evidence for Urban Agriculture at Mid-3rd Millennium B.C.E. Tell Brak, Syria. Iraq.” Iraq 85 (2024): 151–174. https://doi.org/10.1017/irq.2023.3. 

Emberling, Geoff, and Suzanne Davis. “Community Heritage and Archaeology at El-Kurru, Sudan: Amplifying Local Voices and Histories.” In The Routledge Companion to Publicly Engaged Humanities Scholarship, edited by Daniel Fisher-Livne and Michelle May-Curry, 141–157. London: Routledge, 2024.

Emberling, Geoff, Tim Skuldbøl, El-Hassan Ahmed Mohamed, Sami Elamin, Gregory Tucker, Pawel Wolf, Burkart Ullrich, Suzanne Davis, Saskia Büchner-Matthews, Dobiesława Bagińska, Rebecca Bradshaw, Tohamy Abulgasim, Jan Peeters, Timotheus Winkels, Richard Redding, Anna den Hollander, Dorian Q Fuller, Abagail Breidenstein, Taylor Bryanne Woodcock, and Jochen Hallof. “Jebel Barkal 2018–2023: New Research on the Napatan and Meroitic City.” Sudan & Nubia (28): 78–93. 

James, S., W. Caraher, S. Gallimore, D. Nakassis, G. Erny, R. Fernandez, J. Frankl, A. Friedman, M. Godsey, and M. Gradoz. “Landscape Histories and Terrestrial Networks: Results from the Western Argolid Regional Project.” Hesperia 93, no. 1 (2024): 145–190.

Killgrove, K., J. Klunk, A. Acosta, M. Tapson, M. Mogetta, A. Gallone, M. Evans, L. Motta, S. Cohen, V. C. Moses, and N. Terrenato. “Mitochondrial DNA Evidence for Community Building and Population Dynamics at a Multi-Phase Roman Site (Gabii, Italy, 8th c. BC–2nd c. AD).” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 37, no. 2 (2024).

Motta, L., T. Johnson, S. Burton P. Reimer, P. Erdkamp, and F. Heinrich. “Re-Dating Roman Karanis, Egypt: Radiocarbon Evidence for Prolonged Occupation Until the Seventh Century AD.” Antiquity 98, no. 400 (2024): 954–972. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.69.

Nevett, L. “An Example of Changing Forms of Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration in Ancient Greek Contexts: From Domestic Architecture to Household Archaeology.” CAS Sofia Working Paper Series 14, no. 3 (2024): 59–75. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1235981.

Roberts, Caroline, ed. “Practical Approaches to Technical Research, Part 2.” Special issue, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 63, no. 3 (2024). https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yjac20/63/3. 

Root, Margaret Cool. “The Arc of the Horn Part II: Sacral Powers of the Ibex on the Seals of Persepolis.” Ash-sharq 8, no. 2 (2024): 201–242. https://archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/ash-sharq/article/view/2808. 

Stone, D. “Isolation and Connectivity: The Maghrib and the Mediterranean in the First Millennium BCE.” In Local Experiences of Connectivity and Mobility in the Ancient West-Central Mediterranean, edited by L. Gosner and J. Hayne, 215–239. Sheffield, United Kingdom: Equinox, 2024.

Stone, D. “The Ports of Mauretania Caesariensis: Iol Caesarea, Thalefsa, and Ras el Meskouta.” In Entre Mares: Emplazamiento, infraestructuras y organización de puertos romanos, edited by M. Urteaga and A. Pizzo, 339–348. Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. 

Talalay, Lauren E. “Entangled Bodies: Rethinking Twins and the Double in Mediterranean Prehistory.” In Gemini and the Sacred: Twins and Twinship in Religion and Myth, edited by Kimberley C. Patton, 247–267. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

Talalay, Lauren E. From the Motor City to the Mediterranean: Travels of a Truck, a Sedan, and an Inquisitive Photographer, 1924–1926. Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, 2024. https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/publications/all-publications/from-the-motor-city-to-the-mediterranean.html.

Terrenato, N. “Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion.” In The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion, edited by F. Colivicchi and M. McCallum, 535–545. London: Routledge, 2024. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003271895-37.

Terrenato, N., and R. Opitz. “The Creation of Falerii Novi and the Roman Conquest: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives.” In The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion, edited by F. Colivicchi and M. McCallum, 83–103. London: Routledge, 2024. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003271895-8. 

Tsigarida, E., L. Nevett, S. Nanoglou, and D. Stone. “Αρχαιολογικό Πρόγραμμα Πέλλας 2021–2025” (“Pella Archaeological Project, 2021–2025”). In Δέκα χρόνια Εφορεία Αρχαιοτήτων Πέλλας (Ten Years of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella), edited by S. Nanoglou, 42–45. Pella, Greece: Hellenic Ministry of Culture, 2024.

Tsigarida, E., S. Nanoglou, and D. Stone, “Επιφανειακή και γεωφυσική έρευνα στην αρχαία Πέλλα 2017-2019” (Surface and Geophysical Research in Ancient Pella, 2017–2019”). In Δέκα χρόνια Εφορεία Αρχαιοτήτων Πέλλας (Ten Years of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella), edited by S. Nanoglou, 38–41. Pella, Greece: Hellenic Ministry of Culture, 2024.

Talalay, Lauren E. “A Quiet (R)evolution: Changing Perspectives on Greek Neolithic Figurines.” In Figurine-Making in the Neolithic Aegean, edited by Stratos Nanoglou and Fanis Mavridis, 13–23. Leiden, Netherlands: Sidestone Press, 2024.

Tunmore, Heather, Suzanne L. Davis, Hamada Sadek Ramadan Kotb, and Caroline Roberts. “The Northeast Corner Pillar of Weni the Elder’s Tomb: From Discovery to Display in the Sohag Museum.” In No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Adventures in Egyptology, edited by Salima Ikram and Sue D’Auria. Leiden, Netherlands: Sidestone Press, 2024.

Wilfong, T. G. “Jim Cogswell: A lançar uma rede mais ampla” (“Jim Cogswell: Casting a Wider Net”). In Jim Cogswell: Mãos, redes e outros dispositivos (Hands, Nets and Other Devices), edited by Álvaro Moreira, 16–27. Santo Tirso, Portugal: Museu Internacional de Escultura Contemporânea/Museu Municipal Abade Pedrosa, 2024.

Wilfong, T. G. “The Last Buchis Bull(s) of Armant and the End(s) of an Indigenous Animal Cult in Late Roman Egypt.” In A Master of Secrets in the Chamber of Darkness: Egyptological Studies in Honor of Robert K. Ritner Presented on the Occasion of His Sixty-Eighth Birthday, edited by Foy Scalf and Brian Muhs, 527–538. Chicago: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, 2024. 

Barham, Nicola. Virtual lecture on Palmyrene sculpture, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, November 2024. 

Bernardo-Ciddio, Leah. “Without a Trace: Reexamining Relationships Between Matt-Painted Pottery in Albania and Italy.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Chicago, January 6, 2024.

Brocato, Paolo, and Nic Terrenato. “Nuovi studi sullar Regia di Roma.” Presentation, La Regia: Vecchi scavi e nuovi prospettive di ricerca, Rome, January 25, 2024.

Crocker, Andrew, and Katherine Raff. “A Head of an ‘African’ Youth in Chicago: New Approaches to Interpretation and Display.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Chicago, January 7, 2024.

Davis, Suzanne, Sami Elain, and Geoff Emberling. “Archaeology and Community During Wartime at Jebel Barkal, Sudan.” Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), Boston, November 22, 2024. 

Davis, Suzanne, Caroline Roberts, and Laurel Fricker. “Surprising Sophistication: The Colorful Textiles of Karanis, Egypt.” Presentation, Annual meeting of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC), Salt Lake City, May 2024.

Eichengreen, Amelia. “From Hut to Elite Complex: The Transformation of the North Slope of the Palatine in Archaic Rome.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Chicago, January 5, 2024.

Emberling, Geoff. “Cultural Heritage in Tumultuous Times: Collaborative Engagement at El-Kurru and Jebel Barkal, Sudan.” Virtual presentation, ASOR CHI Symposium: Cultural Heritage Initiatives in Africa Today, April 11, 2024. 

Emberling, Geoff. “Images of Nubia: Environment and Landscape Along the Nile and Beyond.” Workshop on the “Image of Nubia,” Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 9, 2024. 

Emberling, Geoff. “Kush and the Roman World: Warrior Queens Along the Nile.” Joukowsky Lecture, Archaeological Institute of America, Rockford University, Rockford, Illinois, October 22, 2024. 

Emberling, Geoff. “Mobilities in Ancient Kush, from Nomads to the Royal Court.” Virtual presentation, Ancient and Medieval Middle East (AMME) Seminar, University of Helsinki, May 23, 2024. https://youtu.be/dBkQjnvkfQY. 

Emberling, Geoff, S. Büchner-Matthews, and Tim Skuldbøl. “Trade at Napata: Insights from a Newly Found Non-Royal Settlement at Jebel Barkal.” Presentation, International Conference for Meroitic Studies, Universität Münster, September 2024. 

Emberling, Geoff, Saskia Buechner-Matthews, and Tim Skuldboel. “Varieties of Trade: Economic and Cultural Exchange along the Nile in the Empire of Kush.” Presentation, ASOR Annual Meeting, Boston, November 22, 2024. 

Emberling, Geoff, and Anwar Mahjoub. “Reevaluating Early 20th Century Excavations: A Critical Analysis of the El-Kurru Excavations (1918-1919).” Virtual presentation, International Conference: Bodies of Knowledge, Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, Egypt, November 21, 2024. 

Emberling, Geoff, Shannon Ness, Bailey Franzoi, and Anwar Mahjoub. “Narrating Nubia in Michigan.” Presentation, Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) Symposium on African Art, Art Institute of Chicago, August 11, 2024. 

Emberling, Geoff, and Sami Elamin. “Heritage Protection and Community Engagement at Jebel Barkal: Work of the NCAM-University of Michigan Team.” Virtual workshop: Update on Crisis Response, Risk Mitigation and First Aid for Sudan’s Heritage, UNESCO and NCAM, Cairo, Egypt, April 2024.

Emberling, Geoff, and Tim Skuldbøl. “A Comparative Perspective on Early Mesopotamian Cities: Jebel Barkal (Ancient Napata), an Urban Center of Ancient Kush (Northern Sudan).” Virtual presentation, British Association of Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA) 2024 Conference, Digital Session, January 12, 2024. 

Frankl, Joey. “Roman Period Porto Rafti: Results of the Bays of East Attica Regional Survey, 2019–2022.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Chicago, January 6, 2024. 

Moskowitz, Alex. “Breaking Bronze for Demeter? Identifying Indigenous Religious Practices in Archaic Greek Sicily.” Virtual presentation, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, September 6, 2024.

Moskowitz, Alex, Andrea Samz-Pustol, Kevin Ennis, Phoebe Thompson, Christy Schirmer, Anne Truetzel, and Alex Walthall. “The Agora Valley Project at Morgantina, Sicily: Report on the 2023 Field Season.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Chicago, January 5, 2024.

Motta, Laura. “Indagini di Archeologia Ambientale.” Presentation, Gli scavi sul Quirinale, spunti di riflessione, Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica, Rome, June 21, 2024.

Motta, Laura. “New Frontiers in Ancient Diet and Nutrition: Developing Innovative Methods for Quantitative Compositional Analysis of Desiccated Archaeobotanical Remains.” Presentation, Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 20, 2024.

Motta, Laura. “Path to New Horizons or Handmaiden to History? Isotopic Studies Across the Prehistoric-Historic Divide.” Round table, European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), Rome, August 28–31, 2024.

Motta, Laura. “Staple Resources Mobilization and Exchange at the Urban Transition in Central Italy (8th–6th c. BCE). The Isotopic Evidence from Gabii.” Organized session, European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), Rome, August 28–31, 2024.

Motta, Laura. “The Kelsey Museum Botanical Collections from Karanis: Challenges and Opportunities for Dating Legacy Material with Radiocarbon Analysis.” Virtual presentation, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, March 8, 2024.

Motta, Laura, F. Heinrich, and T. Johnson. “Dating Roman Karanis.”  Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Chicago, January 5, 2024.

Motta, Laura, and F. Schmidt et al. “Sampling Urban Sites for Archaeobotany: Insights from Tarquinia.” Presentation, European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), Rome, August 28–31, 2024.

Nash, Theodore. “Writing Beyond the Palaces? The Case of the Ivory Houses at Mycenae.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Chicago, January 7, 2024.

Nemechek, Caroline. “Not Always Black and White: The Transmission and Social Role of Black-and-White Mosaics in Roman Britannia.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Chicago, January 6, 2024.

Ness, Shannon, Heidi Hilliker, and Anwar Mahjoub. “Leaving Our Mark: A Collaborative Children’s Book Project in El-Kurru, Sudan.” Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), Boston, November 21, 2024. 

Nevett, Lisa. “From Houses to Households: Interdisciplinary Work at Classical Olynthos, Northern Greece. Invited lecture, Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology, SUNY Buffalo, 2024. 

Nevett, Lisa. Hanfmann Lecture. Madison Society National Lecture Program Lecture, Archaeological Institute of America, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 9, 2024. 

Nevett, Lisa. “New Field Work from Olynthos, Greece: Towards an Archaeology of Identity.” Lecture, Archaeological Institute of America, Rochester Museum of Art, Rochester, New York, March 28, 2024.

Nevett, Lisa, D. Stone, S. Nanoglou, E. Tsigarida, and N. Akamatis. “The Roman Colonia of Pella: A Preliminary Discussion of New Discoveries by the Pella Urban Dynamics Project.” Lecture, Macedonia in the Mediterranean Context: Ports, Connections, and Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington, September 6–7, 2024. 

Pestle, William. Carmen Laguer-Díaz, Matthew Schneider, Stephen Jankiewicz, and Clark Sherman. “Raiders of the Lost Arca: An Early Foraging Landscape in Cabo Rojo / Lajas, Southwestern Puerto Rico.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeologists (SAA), New Orleans, April 18, 2024.

Ratté, Christopher. “Archaeological Excavations at the Ionian City of Notion.” Presentation,  Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Chicago, January 7, 2024.

Ratté, Christopher. “Excavations at Notion, 2023.” Presentation, 44th Annual Symposium on the Results of Excavations, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Türkiye, Nevşehir, May 2024.

Ratté, Christopher. “The Bouleuterion at  Notion.” Conference, Political Meeting Places of Asia Minor, University of Stuttgart, November 2024.

Ross, Sam. “Re-Assembling the Stratigraphic Sequence of Three Monumental Conjoined Walls in Opus Quadratum at Palazzo Canevari, Rome.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Chicago, January 7, 2024.

Sabo, Allison, Daniel Koski-Karell, and William Pestle. “Acknowledging Behavior and Process in Early Caribbean Stone Tools: The Case of the Ortiz Site, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeologists (SAA), New Orleans, April 18, 2024.

Staub, Abigail. “Hiding in Plain Sight: Exploring Apotropaic Agency in the Gorgon Graffiti of Pompeii.” Paper, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Chicago, January 5, 2024.

Stone, D. “Civic Transformation and Landscape Change.” Lecture, Les villes de l’Antiquité tardive à l’épreuve d’une analyse comparée/Las ciudades tardoantiguas a prueba de análisis comparativos, Madrid, Spain, March 13, 2024.

Stone, D. “Passing the Salt: Archaeological and Historical Investigations of an Overlooked Commodity.” Lecture, Field Archaeology on Thursdays (FAST) Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, April 11, 2024.

Stone, D. “Rural Communities Between Sahara and Sea.” Panel presentation, RomanIslam Center for Comparative and Transcultural Studies, Universität Hamburg, Germany, January 2024.

Stone, D. “The Interdependence of Roman Provinces.” Lecture, Les villes de l’Antiquité tardive à l’épreuve d’une analyse comparée/Las ciudades tardoantiguas a prueba de análisis comparativos, Madrid, Spain, March 13, 2024.

Stone, D. “The Iron Age Connections between Africa and the Mediterranean.” Presentation, Material Interactions in the Mediterranean Iron Age, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, May 13–14, 2024.

Stone, Jessica, Reniel Rodriguez Ramos, William Pestle, and Maria Nieves-Colón. “Genomic Contributions to Understanding Early Caribbean Settlement.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeologists (SAA), New Orleans, April 18, 2024.

Terrenato, Nic. “Annual Grose Lecture: Central Italian Urbanism in the Age of the Roman Expansion.” Lecture, University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 25, 2024.

Terrenato, Nic. “La topografia più antica del Colle Quirinale alla luce dei recenti scavi.” Presentation, Gli Scavi sul Quirinale: nuovi spunti di riflessione, Museo Ninfeo, Rome, June 21, 2024.

Terrenato, Nic. Invited speaker, Giornate di studio Torelli, Perugia, 2024.

Terrenato, Nic. “Perspectives for the Digital Analysis of Complex Stratification.” Presentation, New Frontiers in Digital Field Archaeology: Reshaping Practices through Digital Strategies, Università di Bologna, Italy, June 6, 2024.

Terrenato, Nic. “The Archaeology of Early Rome and Central Italy: Methodological Challenges.” Presentation, Reconsidering Early Rome: Concepts and Contexts, Rome, June 13, 2024.

Terrenato, Nic. “The Possible Repatriation of the Flavian Monument Fragments at the Kelsey Museum.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Chicago, January 5, 2024.

Terrenato, Nic. “The Possible Repatriation of the Flavian Monument Fragments at the Kelsey Museum.” Lecture, Field Archaeology on Thursdays (FAST) Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, February 8, 2024.

Terrenato, Nic. “‘Zoning’ Decisions in Early Central Italian Urbanism.” Presentation, Larissa Bonfante Workshop of Etruscan and Italic Arts: “Shaping Spaces,” NYU Center for Ancient Studies, New York, November 15, 2024.

Terrenato, Nic. “The Topography of the Quirinal Hill in Light of Recent Excavations.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Chicago, January 7, 2024.

Venturo, Erica. “The Sum of Its Parts: The Relationship Between Pottery Workshops and Urban Spaces.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Chicago, January 7, 2024. 

Venturo, Erica, Chloe Morris, Ginny Miglierina, and Hannah Edwards. “Updates from the Field.” Lecture, Field Archaeology on Thursdays (FAST), Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, November 7, 2024.

Worden, Bruce. “Creating Figures for Scientific Publications, From A to Z.” Lecture, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series, Ann Arbor, November 22, 2024.