Jill started following the work of IRENE NIKOLAKOPOULOU, Greek Ministry of Culture, Archaeological Institute of Aegean Studies.
Jill started following the work of 3 people.
Jill started following the work of Salvatore Vitale, University of Calabria, Archeologia e Storia delle arti.
Jill is looking forward to starting work on the NPAP project!
Post-Doc, Amsterdam Archaeological Centre
About
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow on the New Perspectives on Ancient Pottery Project (NPAP), based at the Amsterdam Archaeological Centre of the University of Amsterdam.
Areas of Academic Interest
Aegean Bronze Age archaeology; Cycladic pottery; reconstruction of ancient ceramic technologies, especially through the integration of petrographic and chemical analysis; geoprospection and experimental archaeology; material culture approaches within archaeology.
Current research interests
• reconstruction of Bronze Age Cycladic interaction networks and ‘islandscapes’, at sites such as Kavos-Dhaskalio on Keros (EBA); Skarkos on Ios (EBA); Zas Cave and Grotta on Naxos (FN-EBA)
• late Middle to Late Bronze Age communities of the Cyclades and their response to growing Minoan influence within the Aegean, particularly at Akrotiri on Santorini and Ayia Irini on Kea
• long-term diachronic study of local potting communities and their practices at Miletus in Anatolia, from the Chalcolithic to sub-Mycenaean levels, including local responses to Minoanization
• ceramic analysis, including macroscopic approaches, thin section petrography, experimental reconstruction, chemical and mineralogical analysis (NAA, ICP-MS, SEM-EDS analysis using QEMSCAN®)
Recent Publications
Knappett, C., Pirrie, D., Power, M.R., Nikolakopoulou, I., Hilditch, J. & G.K. Rollinson (2011) “Mineralogical analysis and provenancing of ancient ceramics using automated SEM-EDS analysis (QEMSCAN®): a pilot study on LB I pottery from Akrotiri, Thera”, Journal of Archaeological Science 38, 219-232.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.08.022
Ammerman, A.J., Iliopoulos, I., Bondioli, F., Filippi, D., Hilditch, J., Manfredini, A., Pennisi, L. & N.A. Winter (2009) “The clay beds in the Velabrum and the earliest tiles in Rome”, Journal of Roman Archaeology, Fasicule 1, pp 7-30.
Hilditch, J., Kiriatzi, E., Psaraki, K. & V. Aravantinos (2008) “EHII Pottery from Thebes: An Integrated Typological, Technological and Provenance Study”, Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 263-268.
Hilditch, J. (2007) “Petrographic analysis of the ceramic fabrics”, in C. Renfrew, C. Doumas, L. Marangou and G. Gavalas (eds.) Keros, Dhaskalio Kavos: The Investigations of 1987-1988, KEROS I. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Monograph Series, pp. 238-263.
Contact Information
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