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Team


Principal Investigator

Christopher Mark Hale, PhD
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An Aegean Bronze Age archaeologist and ceramicist. Chris completed his PhD in 2015 at the University of Melbourne on the Middle Helladic pottery sequence from Mitrou in East Lokris. He has worked as a ceramicist at the Mitrou Archaeological Project, the Palace of Nestor Excavations at Pylos, and has excavation and fieldwork experience in Greece, Israel, India, and Australia. His interests include the Aegean Bronze Age (particularly the Middle and early Late Bronze Age); pottery; chronology; networks; and analytical approaches to pottery production, consumption, and distribution. From 2022 - 2024 he was the Principal Investigator for the "Regional Networks and Local Recipes for Complexity (RENLORC)" project under a Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Action PASIFIC Fellowship with the Polish Academy of Sciences, the results of which continue to directly form the foundation of the central Greece dataset used by MITAMBA.


Postdoctoral Researchers

Various calls for applications in ca. 2025-2027. Watch this space!

PhD Researcher

Call for applications within 2025-2026. Watch this space!

Co-Investigators

Georgia S. Kordatzaki, PhD
gkordat@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of History and Digital Humanities,
Ionian University, Greece.
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Georgia is a specialist in Aegean Prehistory, combining ceramic petrography with hands-on experimental approaches to ancient pottery. She completed her PhD in 2008 at the University of Crete, Greece. She provides research and experimental development services in the humanities and material science. As a ceramic petrographer, she has worked on several sites in Central Greece, the Peloponnese, the Cyclades, and Crete. She is a long-term pottery fabric analyst for the Therasia Archaeological Research Project. Her expertise lies in ceramic technology and provenance, with a particular focus on craft and pottery production studies, including the chaîne opératoire, technological choices, raw material characterisation and clay sourcing, clay paste preparation practices and forming techniques, and ancient pyrotechnology. She has a special interest in ceramic circulation, inter-regional exchange networks and connectivity, trade and mobility, cultural transmission, and redistributive systems. For MITAMBA, she acts as a technical expert in ceramic petrography and experimental pottery production.
                                                                                                                                        

Collaborators and Co-authors


Johannes H. Sterba, PhD
Head of Center for Labelling and Isotope Production, 
Technische Universität Wien, Austria.
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A specialist on neutron actviation analysis and its archaeometric application. He is head of the Center for Labelling and Isotope Production, working in archaeometry, radiochemistry, and nuclear physics. In collaboration with the PI, under the RENLORC project, he applied NAA to MBA pottery samples sourced from throughout central Greece, and continues to co-author results and analyze new samples as a collaborator under MITAMBA. Follow his work!

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