Publications & Presentations by the Kelsey Museum Community, 2025–2026

Abell, N. “A Community of Practice Perspective on Craft Production and Culture Change in the Bronze Age Cyclades.” In Identities in Antiquity, edited by V. Manolopoulou, J. E. Skinner, and C. Tsouparopoulou. Routledge, 2025.

Abell, N. “Brokering Change in Southern Aegean Networks. A Comparison of Communities of Practice in the Cyclades and Mainland Greece in the Era of Minoanization.” In Social Groups and Production in Mycenaean Economies. Papers from the Langford Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 24–25 February 2023, edited by D. J. Pullen. Sidestone Press, 2025.

Abell, Natalie. “Forging Connections: Metallurgy on the Island of Kea.” Virtual presentation, Flash Talk, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, September 12, 2025.

Abell, N., T. Nash, J. R. Baxley Craig, and M. Georgakopoulou†. “Bullets from Ayia Irini and Their Possible Implications for the Military History of Modern Kea.” Presentation, NESTOR: Celebrating the Work of Wise Jack Davis. 21ème rencontres égéennes internationales/21st International Aegean Conference (Aegaeum),” Athens, June 8–11, 2026.

Abell, N., J. R. Baxley Craig, L. Alberti, and C. Weber. “No Need to BYOC: An Analysis of Handleless Cups, Tripod Cookpots, and Commensality at Bronze Age Ayia Irini, Kea.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco, January 2026. 

Barham, Nicola. “Enveloped in Ancestors: Palmyrene Portrait Reliefs.” In Relief: Yale Classical Studies, edited by Jaś Elsner, Milette Gaifman, and Nathaniel Jones. Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Barham, Nicola. “Greek and Roman Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts.” Presentation, Detroit Institute of Arts, August 2025.

Barham, Nicola. “Outsiders at Intercisa? An Overlooked Image of Breastfeeding on the Roman Frontier.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco, January 2026.

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. Routledge, 2025.

Brock, A., F. Marra, L. Motta, C. Nicosia, N. Terrenato. “Natural and Anthropic Influences on the Transformation of the Landscape in Archaic Rome.” Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports 62, no. 1 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105055. 

Brock, A., L. Motta, and N. Terrenato. “The Origin of the Tiber Island in Rome.” Journal of Roman Studies 115 (2026): 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0075435826101312. 

Davis, Suzanne, Caroline Roberts, and Laurel Fricker. “Recent Research on Dyes, Pigments, and Color at Karanis, Egypt.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, American Society of Overseas Research, Boston, 2025.

Emberling, Geoff. “Archaeology, Heritage, and Community During War: The Jebel Barkal Archaeological Project, Sudan.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco, January 2026. 

Emberling, Geoff. “Archaeology, Heritage, and Museums in Wartime in Sudan.” Presentation, conference held in association with the exhibit The World In Between: Egypt and Nubia in Africa, Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, 2026.

Emberling, Geoff. “Cultural Heritage of Sudan.” Virtual workshop, Cultural Property Anti-Trafficking Workshop (North Africa, Part One: Egypt and Sudan), Smithsonian Institution, 2026.

Emberling, Geoff. “New Light on Ancient Napata, Urban Center of the Empire of Kush.” Virtual presentation, American Research Center in Egypt, Washington, DC, Chapter.

Emberling, Geoff. “New Light on Ancient Napata, Urban Center of the Empire of Kush.” Virtual presentation, Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society, March 8, 2026.

Emberling, Geoff. “Archaeology, Heritage, and Community during War: The Jebel Barkal Archaeological Project, Sudan and Other International Efforts.” Presentation, Field Archaeology Series on Thursday, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, January 22, 2026.

Emberling, Geoff, and Anawar M. Mohamed. “Community Perspectives in Collaborative Archaeology: Thoughts from the Development of El-Kurru Heritage Center.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, American Society of Overseas Research, Boston, 2025.

Emberling, Geoff, and El-Hassan Ahmed Mohamed. “Jebel Barkal as a Meroitic Urban Centre of Kush (W.Y. Adams Colloquium 2025 Keynote Lecture).” Sudan & Nubia 29: 52–68.

Fitzpatrick, S. M., C. M. Giovas, M. de Waal, and W. J. Pestle. “Highlights in the Pre-Contact Archaeology of the Island Caribbean.” In The Oxford Handbook of Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by S. M. Fitzpatrick and J. Erlandson. Oxford University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197607770.013.43.

Franzoi, Bailey. “Marsh Madness: An Environmental History of Tel Anafa, and Zooarchaeology.” Presentation, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop: Identity-Making and the Environment, March 2026.

Franzoi, Bailey. “Preliminary Results from the Faunal Remains of Tharros (OR, Sardinia).” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco, January 2026. 

Fricker, Laurel. “Through the Eyes of a Child: Growing Up in an Ancient Greek House.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco, January 2026. 

Fricker, Laurel. “Through the Lens: Examining Colorful Objects from Karanis.” Virtual presentation, Flash Talk, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, December 12, 2025.

Gaignerot-Driessen, F., N. Abell, E. Egan, E. Hatzaki, S. LaFayette Hogue, and J. M. A. Murphy. Organizers, NESTOR: Celebrating the Work of Wise Jack Davis. 21ème rencontres égéennes internationales/21st International Aegean Conference (Aegaeum), Athens, June 8–11, 2026.

Gazda, Elaine. “The Villa of the Mysteries: Architectural and Painted Evidence for a Change of Ownership.” Presentation, XVIth International Congress of the International Association for Ancient Wall Painting, Cagliari, Sardinia, September 2025.

Gorogianni, E., and N. Abell. “Insularity and Cosmopolitanism at Ayia Irini, Kea.” In Ceramic Perspectives on Connectivity in the Ancient Mediterranean, edited by J. Hilditch and M. Revello-Lami. Amsterdam University Press, 2025. 

Gryan, Melissa. “Venus’ Reflected Visage.” Presentation, Paestum Romana: Immagini di una città in trasformazione, Paestum, September 2025. 

Idriss Ahmed, Habab, and Geoff Emberling. “Archaeology and Cultural Heritage in Wartime: Sudan 2023–2025.” Antiquity 99, no. 407 (2025): 1197–1211. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10174. 

Johnson, Tyler. “Archive Archaeology at Karanis: Recontextualizing the Michigan Documentation.” Presentation, Field Archaeology Series on Thursday, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, November 13, 2025.

Key, Gabriel. “Femme, Foreigner, Freak: Gender and Identity Expression in Visual Depictions of the Priests of Magna Mater.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco, January 2026. 

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 (2025): 139–162. https://doi.org/10.1558/jma.33474. 

Marras, G. B., M. Marzullo, M., F. Schmidt, C. French, M. Sheldrake, L. Motta, A. Garzulino, D. Tentori, A. Zerboni, S. Stoddart, and A. Trentacoste. “Beneath the City: Micromorphological Insights into Etruscan Urban Life, Infrastructure, and Ritual Spaces from Tarquinia, Central Italy.” Archaeol. Anthropol. Sci. 18, no. 3 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-025-02373-6. 

McGuire, S., M. Hubbe, W. J. Pestle, A. Sharifi, and A. Pourmand. “Geochemical Tales of Individual Lives during the Industrial Revolution: Untangling the Impact of Pollutant Exposure in Two English Towns.” Science Advances 11 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add1047.

Miglierina, Ginevra. “Bodies, Bears, and the Night: Liminality in the arkteia at Brauron.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco, January 2026. 

Miglierina, Ginevra. “Night as a Space for Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece.” Virtual presentation, 6th International Conference of Night Studies, October 2025.

Motz, Chris. “Tiny, Shiny, and Clear: Capturing Impossible Artifacts in 3D.” Presentation, Field Archaeology Series on Thursday, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, December 4, 2025.

Motta, Laura. “A Revised Chronology for Karanis.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, American Society of Overseas Research, Boston, 2025.

Motta, Laura. “Detecting Human Agency and Environmental Triggers in the Emergence of Urban Centers in Thyrrenian Central Italy.” Invited speaker, Climate, Landscape and Human Impact in Italy during the Etruscan Period, Pisa, 2026.

Motta, Laura. “The Formation Process of Archaeobotanical Assemblages.” Invited speaker, Tarquinia Interdisciplinary Seminar I, Invisible Marks, 2025.

Motta, Laura. “Grain Stores at Karanis: Understanding the Abandonment of an Agricultural Town.” Invited speaker, workshop, Their Daily Bread, Leuven, 2025.

Motta, Laura. “Papaver Seeds and Micro Contexts.” Invited speaker, Tarquinia Interdisciplinary Seminar II, 2025. 

Motta, Laura. “The Potential of Legacy Collections: Revisiting Karanis Material at the Kelsey Museum.” Invited speaker, Stanford Archaeology Center, 2025.

Motta, Laura. “(Re)excavating Karanis 100 Years Later: New Research on the Legacy Collections and Archival Records.” Session organizer, Annual Meeting, American Society of Overseas Research, Boston, 2025.

Motta, Laura, F. Heinrick, and A. Hansen. “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Plant Stable Isotope Analysis: A Case Study from Late Antique Roman Karanis.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeologists, Denver, 2025.

Motta, Laura, M. Mogetta, L. Banducci, A. Gallone, and T. Johnson. “A New Monumental Complex at Gabii Revealed.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco, January 2026. 

Nash, Theodore M. S. “Rethinking Mycenaean Palaeography.” Presentation, Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco, January 2026. 

Nevett, Lisa. “House Hunting at Hellenistic Pella.” Virtual presentation, Flash Talk, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, October 3, 2025.

Nevett, Lisa. “Interpreting Variability in Ancient House Forms: The Example of Iron Age Greece.” Presentations, George Hanfmann Lectures for the Archaeological Institute of America, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Kansas City, Kansas, April 2026.

Nevett, L., and B. Ault. “Interpreting Evidence of Ancient Greek Housing: Making the Most of the Material Record.” In Investigating Consumption: the Archaeology of Social Practice, edited by D. van Helden and V. Szafara. Oxbow, 2025.

Nevett, L., and D. Stone. “A City Through Time: The Pella Urban Dynamics Project.” Presentation, Field Archaeology Series on Thursday, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor.

Peeters, J., T. G. Winkels, P. Wolf, T. B. B. Skuldbøl, E. L. Chamberlain, S. Büchner-Matthews, S. M. Elamin, E. A. Mohamed, and G. Emberling. “Holocene Nile Dynamics Shaped the Physical and Cultural Landscape of Ancient Nubia.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 126, vol. 18 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2529986123. 

Pestle, W. J., C. Torres, A. M. Sabo, F. Gallardo, F., and G. Cabello. “Paleodiet in the Norte Semi-Arido: First Approximations.” Presentation, 91st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, April 29–May 3, 2026.

Pestle, W. J., C. M. Torres, and G. Pimentel. “G. Dieta e identidad de los viajeros/as internodales durante el Período Formativo en el desierto de Atacama (norte de Chile).” InterSecciones en Antropología 1, no. 1 (2025): 7–24.

Pestle, W. J., H. Dine, and A. Pourmand. “Eating Local: Modeling Paleodiet in Later Ceramic Age Puerto Rico.” In The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in the Caribbean, edited by D. Weston and Y. Chinique de Armas. Routledge, 2025.

Richards, J., A. Damarany, C. Knoblauch. “25 ans de recherche dans « la nécropole du centre » à Abydos: communautés, dignitaires, dieux et ancêtres vénérés.” Bulletin de la société Française d'Égyptologie 214 (2026): 3–32.

Roberts, Caroline. “Creating Sacred Spaces Through Colour Choice in the Roman-Egyptian Tombs of Terenouthis.” In Colour & Space. Interfaces of Ancient Architecture and Sculpture. Proceedings of the 10th Round Table on Polychromy in Ancient Sculpture and Architecture, edited by Stephan Zink and Frederik Grosser. German Archaeological Institute, 2025. https://doi.org/10.34780/c3qbyk34. 

Ryder, C., G. Celis, T. Devièse, S. Talamo, K. Douka, M. Collins, A. Perri, H. Thakar, W. J. Pestle, and M. Sponheimer. “Refining Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for Collagen Quantification: A New Predictive Model for Archaeological Bone.” Journal of Archaeological Science 185 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106448.

Sabo, A. M., W. J. Pestle, F. Gallardo, R. Daza Riquelme, and G. Cabello. “Seeking Silex: Geoarchaeological Approaches to Lithic Source Identification in the Southern Atacama Desert, Chile.” Presentation, 91st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, April 29–May 3, 2026.

Stoddart, S., E. Breslin, C. Esposito, F Gravieaux, G. Marras, R. McLaughlin, L. Motta, O. Prato, F. Schmidt, and C. Zeviani. “The Process of Nucleation Amongst the Early Cities of Central Italy in the First Millennium BC.” Frontiers in Human Dynamics 7 (2025). https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2025.1569997. 

Stone, David. “On the Origins of Leptiminus: Constructing Identity in the First Millennium BCE.” Virtual presentation, Flash Talk, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, November 7, 2025.

Talalay, Lauren, and Tracey Cullen. “Hitting the JackPot: A Curious Vessel from Neolithic Plakari.” Presentation, 21st International Aegean Conference: Celebrating the Work of Wise Jack Davis, American School of Classical Studies, Athens, June 10, 2026.

Terrenato, Nic. “Beyond Conquest: Environmental and Cultural Impacts of Roman Expansionism.” Panelist, Annual Meeting, European Association of Archaeologists, Belgrade, Serbia, September 2025.

Terrenato, N. “Ethnicity and Identity in Pre-Roman Italy: A Summation.” Les Études classiques 93 (2025): 271–283. https://doi.org/10.2143/LEC.93.1.3295205.

Terrenato, Nic. “Foyers and Ancestor Cults at the Dawn of Italian Urbanism.” Invited speaker, Kin and Clan in Roman Antiquity: New Perspectives on the Roman Family, Los Angeles, 2025. 

Terrenato, Nic. Invited speaker, Le ville della Regio I, Rome, 2025.

Terrenato, Nic. “Paestum nel contesto dell’edilizia pubblica dell’Italia centrale mediorepubblicana.” Invited speaker, Paestum Romana: Immagini di una città in trasformazione, Paestum, September 2025.

Terrenato, Nic. “Rethinking Colonisation in Ancient Italy and the Western Mediterranean (500–250 BCE).” Presentation, Celtic Conference in Classics, Coimbra, Portugal, July 2025.

Terrenato, N. “The Spread of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion.” In The Cambridge Urban History of Europe, vol. 1, edited by P. Davies and C. Williamson. Cambridge University Press, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108993494.010.

Terrenato, Nic. “Urban Borehole Surveys and the Origins of the Roman Forum.” Presentation, University of Notre Dame, February 26, 2026.

Torres, C., and W. J. Pestle. “Fragments of Lives on Chile’s Semiarid Coast.” Presentation, 91st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, April 29–May 3, 2026.

Tsigarida, E., L. C. Nevett, S. Nanoglou, and D. L. Stone. “Hellenistic Pella as a Dynamic Urban Environment: New Investigations by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella in Collaboration with the University of Michigan.” Presentation, Macedonia and Sparta: A Tale of Two Kingdoms in the Hellenistic Period, American School of Classical Studies, Athens, 2025.

Tsigarida, E. M., L. Nevett, and Z. Archibald. “Ερευνητικό Πρόγραμμα Ολύνθου. Τα αποτελέσματα της ανασκαφικής έρευνας του 2017” (“Olynthos Research Project, Results of the 2017 Excavation”). Αρχαιολογικó Éργο στη Μακεδονíα και στη Θρáκη (Archaeological Work in Macedonia and Thrace) 31, 2017 (2025), 53–58.

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. Sidestone Press, 2025.

Van Meter, N., W. J. Pestle, A. M. Sabo, D. F. McNeill, D. Koski-Karell, L. C. Peterson, and M. Carden. “Building Belonging & Evoking Identity Through Bodily Adornment: Pendants from the Ortiz Site, Southwestern Puerto Rico.” Antiquity 99, no. 408 (2025): 1498–1514. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10177.

Wilfong, T. G. “An Accidental Career in the Study of Gender in Ancient Egypt.” In From Women to Gender: Research in Egyptology, edited by Ed Scrivens, Thais Rocha da Silva, and Reinert Skumsnes. University of Liverpool Press, 2026.

Wilfong, T. G. “A Mummified Child at the Kelsey: History, Display, and Reflection.” Kelsey Museum Newsletter (2025): 24–27.

Wilfong, T. G. Presentation, Institute for Research on Women and Gender 30th Anniversary Symposium at Rackham Graduate School, Ann Arbor, April 24, 2026.

Worden, Bruce. Presentation, Fieldwork Professionalization Series, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, January 2026.