Training the next generation of archaeological scientists: Interdisciplinary studies of pre-modern Plasters and Ceramics from the eastern Mediterranean

Project Information

PlaCe

Grant agreement ID: 956410

DOI

10.3030/956410

Project closed

EC signature date 26 August 2020

Start date 1 March 2021

End date 31 May 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 3 868 438,32

EU contribution

€ 3 868 438,32

Coordinated by

THE CYPRUS INSTITUTE
Cyprus

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Deliverables

Other (2)

ESR01-ESR15 post announcements (including the six-month short ESR3 posts)

ESR01ESR15 post announcements including the sixmonth short ESR3 posts

ESR01-15 oral presentations A

ESR0115 oral presentations A

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

PlaCe website

Documents, reports (14)

Training course 1 report - Archaeological theory - past and current issues

Training course 1 report Archaeological theory past and current issues

Training course 2 report - Ceramic seriation and styles. The A-to-Z in ceramic studies

Training course 2 report Ceramic seriation and styles The AtoZ in ceramic studies

Dissemination event Ia report- Open day at the Experimental Centre for historic lime technologies

Dissemination event 1a Open day at the Experimental Centre for historic lime technologies

Training course 10 report - High-resolution computed microtomography for the precise visual and computable detection of clay fabric microstructures and the study of ceramic technology

Training course 10 report Highresolution computed microtomography for the precise visual and computable detection of clay fabric microstructures and the study of ceramic technology

Dissemination event II report - Sustainable heritage - Culture for all

Dissemination event 2 Sustainable heritage Culture for all

Training course 7 report - Lime and gypsum: historic production, processing methods and modern archaeometric research

Training course 7 report Lime and gypsum historic production processing methods and modern archaeometric research

Dissemination event IIIa report - A day with the archaeologists! Open-day for school children with experimental potting

Dissemination event IIIa A day with the archaeologists Openday for school children with experimental potting

Training course 3 report - The interdisciplinary study of pre-modern plasters and ceramics. Approaching past societies with the analysis of their ceramic heritage

Training course 3 report The interdisciplinary study of premodern plasters and ceramics Approaching past societies with the analysis of their ceramic heritage

Training course 9 report - Ceramic slips and glazes in pre-modern societies. The technology of decoration and cultural aesthetics

Training course 9 report Ceramic slips and glazes in premodern societies The technology of decoration and cultural aesthetics

Training course 8 report - Ancient technological recipes and modern experimental reproduction of historic ceramics

Training course 8 report Ancient technological recipes and modern experimental reproduction of historic ceramics

Training course 11 report -Data Management in CH: Data processing, Data integration, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Mining

Data Management in CH Data processing Data integration Big Data Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining

Training course 6 report - Beyond the eye-ball and below the slip: EDXRF, XRD and FTIR for the study of archaeological ceramics and plasters

Training course 6 report Beyond the eyeball and below the slip EDXRF XRD and FTIR for the study of archaeological ceramics and plasters

Training course 4 report - Promoting and protecting cultural heritage (with special reference to ceramics and plasters) across the eastern Mediterranean

Training course 4 report Promoting and protecting cultural heritage with special reference to ceramics and plasters across the eastern Mediterranean

Training course 5 report - Raw materials resourcing, material properties for durable plasters and ceramics, and craftspeople's technological choices

Training course 5 report Raw materials resourcing material properties for durable plasters and ceramics and craftspeoples technological choices

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Benchmarking the identification of a single degraded protein to explore optimal search strategies for ancient proteins

Author(s): Ismael Rodriguez Palomo, Bharath Nair, Yun Chiang, Joannes Dekker, Benjamin Dartigues, Meaghan Mackie, Miranda Evans, Ruairidh Macleod, Jesper V. Olsen, Matthew J. Collins
Published in: Peer Community Journal, Issue 4 (2024), article no. e107, 2025, ISSN 2804-3871
Publisher: Peer Community
DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.15.571577

Making and working Egyptian blue – a review of the archaeological evidence

Author(s): I. Kovalev, A.S. Rodler, C. Brøns, Th. Rehren
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science, 2023, ISSN 0305-4403
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2023.105772

Technologies of tradition: A compositional and technological characterisation of pottery production at Late Bronze Age Enkomi, Cyprus

Author(s): Chase Alan Mohan Minos, Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou, Elvira Vassilieva, Patrick Degryse
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 65, 2025, Page(s) 105230, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105230

The Trikala ceramic workshop: Exploring a production centre of Ottoman Greece

Author(s): Anastasia Thamnopoulou, Jelena Živković
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 66, 2025, Page(s) 105318, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105318

A petrographic contribution to the study of handmade vessels from Early medieval Greece: A case-study from Boeotia and Achaea

Author(s): T.K. Vasileiou, A.K. Vionis
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 65, 2025, Page(s) 105226, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105226

Reassembling the pieces, reassessing the picture: an analytical study of medieval pottery (mid. twelfth–sixteenth c.) from Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus

Author(s): Christiana Kelepeshi & Jelena Živković
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 16, Article number: 8 (2024), 2024, Page(s) 1-27, ISSN 1866-9565
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-023-01909-y

Mortar recipes from the Roman Imperial Bath-Gymnasium and Urban Mansion of Sagalassos – A technological perspective

Author(s): Matilde Quilici, Jan Elsen, Inge Uytterhoeven, Bas Beaujean, Patrick Degryse
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue Volume 57, September 2024, 104674, 2024, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104674

A petrographic and geochemical study

Author(s): Christiana Kelepeshi; Dennis Braekmans; Dries Daems; Jeroen Poblome; Elvira Vassilieva; Patrick Degryse
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 53, 2024, Page(s) 104390, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104390

Cooking pottery as indicator of resilience and change in Early Medieval Cyprus. An archaeometric approach

Author(s): Theodoros K. Vasileiou & Athanasios K. Vionis
Published in: Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 16 (20), 2024, ISSN 1866-9565
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02107-0

Plasters and mortars from the theatre in Nea Paphos (Cyprus): A multidisciplinary study

Author(s): Paola Pizzo, Jan Valek, Petr Kozlovcev, Dita Frankeova, Alberto Viani
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 57, 2024, Page(s) 104595, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104595

Technological and compositional variation in pink and white pastes from a coffin set of the late Third Intermediate Period (Thebes, ca. 680–664 BCE)

Author(s): Caterina Zaggia, Marcos Martinón-Torres, Matthew Collins, Julie Dawson, Helen Strudwick
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 62, 2025, Page(s) 105019, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105019

Tracing traditions: An analytical study of Late Chalcolithic ceramics from Cyprus

Author(s): Maria Hadjigavriel, Maria Dikomitou Eliadou
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 65, 2025, Page(s) 105143, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105143

Parchment Glutamine Index (PQI): A novel method to estimate glutamine deamidation levels in parchment collagen obtained from low-quality MALDI-TOF data

Author(s): Bharath Nair; Ismael Rodriguez Palomo; Bo Markussen; Carsten Wiuf; Sarah Fiddyment; Matthew James Collins
Published in: Peer Community Journal, Vol 3, Iss , Pp - (2023), Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2804-3871
Publisher: Peer Community In
DOI: 10.1101/2022.03.13.483627

A Taste of the past: cooking ware traditions from Bronze Age to classical Thessaloniki Toumba, Central Macedonia, Northern Greece

Author(s): Timothée Ogawa, Noémi S. Müller, Hara Procopiou, Sevasti Triantafyllou, Stelios Andreou, Evangelia Kiriatzi
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 66, 2025, Page(s) 105247, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105247

Waterproof, hydraulic or natural hydraulic? – Characterization of a set of historic mortars from Paphos (Cyprus)

Author(s): Paola Pizzo, Jan Válek, Dita Frankeová
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 65, 2025, Page(s) 105235, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105235

Conference proceedings (2)

Considering Social Network Analysis: A Black Sea Case Study investigating trade dynamics in the Ancient Greek World

Author(s): H. Bartlet Balicki and J. Rempel
Published in: Proceedings of the 4thConference of the Greek Chapter of the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Issue 2024, 2024, Page(s) 96-115, ISBN 978-618-81045-3-2
Publisher: Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology – National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”

Where past meets the future: New mortar solutions for conservation of the buildings of Medieval Rhodes

Author(s): Milica Radović
Published in: ArchiDoct - open access journal for the dissemination of doctoral research in architecture, Issue Relevance of Doctoral Research in Architecture, 2024, Page(s) 106-111, ISBN 9781912319084
Publisher: ArchiDoct

Other (1)

MALDI Deamidation Score (MDS): A Fast and Flexible Method for Assessing Deamidation in ZooMS Data and Its Application to the Denisova Cave Bone Assemblage

Author(s): Fei Yang, Ismael Rodriguez Palomo, Bharath Anila Bhuvanendran Nair, Samantha Brown
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.26.671509