Thibaut Devièse: University of Oxford, 1 South Parks Road, OX1 3TG, UK, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Thibaut Devièse is researcher at the University of Oxford in the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit. He is an analytical chemist by training. After a PhD in collaboration between the University of Pisa (Italy) and the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris), he worked for 5 years in the Scientific department of the British Museum where he conducted his research on the characterisation of organic materials present is objects of the collection, focusing particularly on organic residues in ceramics and on natural organic colorants in textiles. In 2014, he joined the University of Oxford where he focuses his research on the development and application of new analytical methods for the characterisation and compound-specific radiocarbon dating of organic materials from archaeological and environmental contexts. The application of these methods to Palaeolithic bones is helping in improving our understanding of human dispersals in Eurasia during the Palaeolithic and extinction of animal species. View my Publications

Evi Margaritis: Evi Margaritis, STARC, The Cyprus Institute, 20 Constantinou Kavafi Street, 2121 Nicosia, Cyprus; email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Evi Margaritis is a leading expert in archaeobotanical research in the east Mediterranean and the only archaeobotantist based in Cyprus, where she is an assistant professor at the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Centre of the Cyprus Institute. Her research focuses on exploring the human-environment relationship in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean through botanical remains and environmental evidence. Her research projects stretch from the Minoan and Mycenaean agriculture to early Bronze Age farming, and Classical economy. Currently, she is the assistant director of the Cambridge Keros Project, where she is in charge of all environmental studies of the project and organised several field school to train the next generation of archaeologists in the eastern Mediterranean region.

Mark Golitko: Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, 296 Corbett Family Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA: email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Mark Golitko is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana). Prior to that, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He received his BSc in History from the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and an MS and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He currently conducts fieldwork in Papua New Guinea and SE Europe. He has worked extensively with ICP-MS-pXRF, SEM-EDS, and petrographic analyses of ceramics and lithics materials from Europe, the Americas, and the SW Pacific, both at the Field Museum Elemental Analysis Facility (EAF) and now as the director of the Notre Dame Archaeological X-ray Laboratory (NDAXL). He is particularly interested in using geochemical data and computational approaches including GIS and network analysis to analyze prehistoric social networks and their role in patterning biocultural diversity.

Laerke Recht: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, CB2 3DZ, UK; email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Laerke Recht is an archaeologist whose research focuses on the archaeology of the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean and Near East. She is particularly interested in the themes of interaction between the regions of the eastern Mediterranean, religion, gender and human-animal relations in the past and our modern interpretation of these interactions. She has most recently finished a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship at University of Cambridge on the project entitled ‘The Spirited Horse: Human-equid relations in the Bronze Age Near East’. This project involves examining different species of equids and their identification in the zooarchaeological, icnonographic, and epigraphic records. Lareke also works on the Hala Sultan Tekke project in Cyprus (Aegean ceramics and animals), and on the Tell Mozan/Urkesh project in Syria (ceramics, glyptics, digital publication).

Apostolos Sarris, Laboratory of Geophysical - Satellite Remote Sensing & Archaeoenvironment, Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Foundation of Research & Technology Hellas, Melissinou & Nikiforou Foka 130, P.O. Box 119, Rethymnon 74100, Crete, Greece; tel (30)-831-25146, (30)-831-56627; fax (30)-831-25810; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Born in Chania, Crete, Greece in 1963. He received a B.A. in Astronomy & Physics (1985) and M.A. in Physics (1988) at Boston University (1985) and a M.Sc. (1990) and a Ph.D. in Physics (1992) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Since then he became active in education and research, being a contracted lecturer at the University of Maryland (European Division), the National Hellenic Airforce Academy, the University of Crete, the Technological Educational Institute of Crete and the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki.

Currently he is a researcher at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH and director of the Laboratory of Geophysical and Satellite Remote Sensing & Archaeo-environment. The Lab is part of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories of Europe (AGILE) and of EPOCH consortium. His research interests span from Applied Geophysics and Remote Sensing to Geophysical Prospection of Archaeological Sites, Site Assessment and Modelling through the Application of Remote Sensing/GIS techniques, Satellite Remote Sensing, Image Processing, Classification techniques and Environmental Research-Development Strategies. Until now he has organized, planned and participated in more than 100 geophysical/satellite remote sensing/GIS/GPS projects in Greece, U.S.A., Cyprus, Hungary, Albania, and Egypt. He has written 4 chapters in books, 1 Proceedings Volume, 34 refereed journal papers, 48 refereed papers in books of proceedings, 12 in non-refereed journals, 70 Technical Reports, 3 Technical Guides/Notes.

He is acting as an Assistant National representative in the Scientific Committee for Peace and Safety of Safety of ΝΑΤΟ (ΝΑΤΟ/Committee on Science for Peace and Security/SPS) (2006-2010), vice-chair of the International Society for Archaeological Prospection (ISAP), and associate editor of the Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin and of Archaeological Prospection Journal.

Nicolás C. Ciarlo, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). Ecuador 871 (C1214ACM), Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Nicolás C. Ciarlo is a maritime archaeologist, working at the Area of Research on Underwater Archaeology, Program of Historical Archaeology & Pluridisciplinary Studies, National University of Lujan (UNLu), and Teaching Assistant in Anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. He received his Bachelor of Archaeology (six years degree) and degree as Anthropology Teacher from the School of Philosophy & Letters, UBA. He completed his Ph.D. in archaeology at the same university with a dissertation titled ‘Technological innovation and naval conflict in Western Europe, 1751-1815: archaeological and historical contributions to the knowledge of metallurgy and their applications on warships’.

He also completed additional post-graduate coursework in epistemology and history of science at the Tres de Febrero University. During these years, he was supported by the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) and received awards from the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology and the Society for Archaeological Sciences for the research conducted with metals artifacts from mid 18th to early 19th century shipwrecks. After his doctorate, he received a Postdoctoral Scholarship from the CONICET to analyze the cargo of a British ship from the Napoleonic Wars sunk in Catalonia, Spain.

Since 2004 he has conducted studies on metal artifacts from historical shipwrecks at the Archaeometallurgy Group of the School of Engeneering, UBA, where he also performed as Teaching Assistant of the ‘Metallography for Archaeological Materials’ graduate course. He has also taught courses in historical and maritime archaeology and co-organized national scientific meetings in archaeometry. Dr. Ciarlo’s main research interest is the relationship between technological innovation, naval conflicts and science during the beginnings of industrialization in Europe, with focus on metallurgy. More information on his research publications can be found at: https://conicet.academia.edu/NicolásCiarlo

Jesse W. Tune, Department of Anthropology, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO 81301, tel 970-247-7273, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Jesse Tune (Ph.D. Texas A&M University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Fort Lewis College. He specializes in Paleoindian archaeology, lithic technology, environmental archaeology, and human/environment relationships.

His research focuses on investigating the relationships between environmental change and human adaptations during the Pleistocene-to-Holocene transition.

He has led excavations at numerous Paleoindian archaeological sites, and conducted laboratory analyses of lithic assemblages from Paleoindian to Late Prehistoric archaeological periods in North America.

He uses drone-based remote sensing methodologies to document archaeological sites and assess landscape-level issues related to site formation.

Currently he is researching the early human occupation of the Colorado Plateau and human adaptations during the late Pleistocene in the Midsouth United States.

Ophélie Lebrasseur, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, 1-2 South Parks Road, OX1 3TG, Oxford, UK, tel +44 (0) 1865 275116, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Ophélie Lebrasseur is a postdoctoral research assistant in the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. She is a zooarchaeologist and geneticist whose main research interest lies in the global dispersals of animals through time and their consequences on human-animal relationships and animal genetic diversity.  She is particularly interested in the last 500 years with the advent of transoceanic travel, as well as South American native and introduced fauna.  In addition to the Chicken Project and the Going Places project, she currently is working on the ERC’s UNDEAD project (Unifying Domestication and Evolution through Ancient DNA).  She is based at the Palaeogenomics & Bioarchaeological Research Network led by Prof. Greger Larson at the University of Oxford, UK. 

Chicken Project: www.scicultchickens.org

Going Places Project: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=AH%2FP009018%2F1

UNDEAD Project: http://www.palaeobarn.com/unifying-domestication-and-evolutionary-biology-through-ancient-dna-undead

Roxanne Radpour, Archaeomaterials Group, Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Ca 90034, USA, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Roxanne Radpour is a Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. candidate in the Archaeomaterials Research Group at UCLA. She received her B.S. in Physics from the University of California, San Diego, and her M.S. in Physics from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her current research is an exploration of imaging and chemical sensing tools for archaeometry, especially for non-invasive, in situ materials characterization. These techniques range from forensic photography, portable XRF, and reflectance spectroscopy to applications of imaging spectroscopy. She is also interested in the use of novel analytical approaches and 3D visualizations to better understand the use and distribution of painting materials in ancient objects and spaces.

As a Fulbright recipient and with the support of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute and the John Anson Kittredge Fund, Roxanne performed multiple field campaigns in Paphos, Cyprus to analyze archaeological wall paintings. She has also analyzed ancient funerary mummy portraits from various museum collections. These studies focus on the materials, production technologies, and practices of ancient artists to provide insight into the ancient world.

Artemios Oikonomou, Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Centre (STARC), The Cyprus Institute, 20 Constantinou Kavafi Street, 2121 Nicosia, Cyprus, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Artemios Oikonomou currently holds a three-year post-doctoral research position at the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center (STARC) of the Cyprus Institute; the focus of this position is the investigation of glass assemblages of Late Antiquity contexts in the south east Mediterranean, including Crete and Cyprus. Prior to this position he was awarded a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowship at the University of Nottingham, where he was investigating the continuity and change in the emergence of the Hellenistic Glass industry in Greece. Overall, his research focuses on the application of state of the art scientific techniques on the study of ancient glass as a mean for: a. the reconstruction of ancient technological aspects, b. identification of changing technological practices through space and time, c. the provenance of ancient materials, d. the integration of scientific results with key archaeological questions. On top of his research focus on glass, he is also involved in various interdisciplinary archaeological projects,both as primary researcher and research associate,identifying technologies of other materials such as pottery and frescoes.