The Kelsey Museum is pleased to present the next FAST lecture (Field Archaeology Series on Thursday) on Thursday, February 6, in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Newberry Hall, Room 125. Refreshments will be served at 5:30 p.m. and the talk will begin at 6 p.m. Dr. Lisa Nevett and Dr. David Stone will present on their ongoing research at Pella, Greece. Their talk is entitled "Royal city and colony: the long term history of Pella."
The Pella Urban Dynamics Project is a multi-disciplinary field project being undertaken at the ancient city of Pella, in northern Greece. A major objective is to understand how diachronic changes in Pella’s status in the regional and trans regional contexts affected the city and its residents. The Project explores the location, form and extent of the settlement before, during and after the creation of the Hellenistic city that benefitted from the wealth created during the conquests of the Kings of Macedon. At the same time it investigates how the lives of some of the population changed, including during the period of decline in the late second to early first century BCE, when this region was annexed by Rome. This presentation will focus on preliminary results obtained from three years of field survey and excavation that highlight the changing status of the city.
FAST lectures are free and open to the public.
