Planned Collections
The laboratory is actively developing new reference collections. Two are in the planning stages:
A Ceramic/Clay, Building Material Collection made up of material anticipated from the following projects and researchers; [1] ceramic and raw material samples from a study of ceramic technology at Lerna in the 3rd millennium B.C. by Dr. Christine Shriner (Indiana University); [2] clay samples from a preliminary petrographic analysis of Epirote coarsewares by Dr. Melissa Moore (Boston University); [3] samples from a study of the production and distribution of Canaanite storage jars in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean by Dr. Michael Sugerman (Harvard University); and [4] lime cement, mortar and concrete samples from Dr. Ruth Siddall’s research on building materials at the site of Ancient Corinth.
A Sediment Collection made up of thin sections and micromorphological descriptions anticipated from the following projects and researchers: [1] a preliminary study of lithostratigraphy and micromorphology of Theopetra cave deposits, Thessaly, Greece by Dr. Panayiotis Karkanas (Ephoreia of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology, Greece); and [2] a micromorphological study of sediments from the Late Minoan site of Halasmenos, Crete by Dr. Scott Pike.