Department of Classics, Archaeology, and Religion & Archaeometry Laboratory at MURR, University of Missouri This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Caitlyn Pallas is a PhD candidate in classical archaeology at the University of Missouri. Her research focuses on Roman concrete, and she is particularly interested in examining how communities of practice came together to adapt the new technology of concrete to their built environment. She wants to elucidate how these communities initially began adopting this new technology in construction and how they modified the material, both chronologically and contextually, to fit their needs within the surrounding landscape. Her current research focuses on sites in central and southern Italy (Gabii and Pompeii), largely in the Late Republican and Early Imperial periods, and uses a combination of archaeometric techniques to examine the composition and mineralogy of Roman mortars.