We were busy this past summer working at the Sanctuary of Zeus in Ancient Nemea, providing some much-needed TLC to major and minor areas of the archaeological park. If you visited the site or the museum this summer, you may have seen our team working on top of the Early Christian Basilica which is one … Continue Reading »
UDAR visits Nemea
|The Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology is back in Greece for its first full field season since 2019! We’re inaugurating our season in a number of ways: we’re conducting a museum study season in Mycenae, we’re gearing up for fieldwork in Nemea, we’re welcoming back old team members, training new team members, and preparing … Continue Reading »
RTI Training for Graduate Students
|Between Monday, May 9th and Wednesday, May 11th, graduate students affiliated with the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology (AHMA & DAGRS) took part in an ‘RTI workshop’ at Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI), a non-profit organization in San Francisco. RTI, or Reflectance Transformation Imaging, is a photographic method that captures an object’s shape and color to … Continue Reading »
“Skeleton Crew” 2021
|[pbs_component_photo title=”Pictured above (from left): Madolyn Hyytiainen-Jacobson, Sophie Cushman, Dr. Stephanie Kimmey, Liz Keyser, Dr. Kim Shelton, and David Wheeler” image_id=”2023″ /] We’re back in the field… sort of! We are back in the field at the prehistoric cemetery of Aidonia with our “skeleton crew” (hehe, see what we did there?). This summer, travel and … Continue Reading »
Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times
|[pbs_component_photo title=”Dr. Kim Shelton” image_id=”1988″ /] A hearty congratulations to Dr. Kim Shelton, Director of the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology! Recently Dr. Shelton received a U.C. Berkeley “Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times” Award! She won this award in particular for her successful transformation of the Introduction to Greek Archaeology class (in which she … Continue Reading »
Dr. Gypsy Price featured on Science Night
|The Nemea Center for Archaeology’s lead bioarchaeologist (and technical drawing extraordinaire), Dr. Gypsy Price, was recently featured on the Science Night podcast hosted by James Reed. In this incredible interview, titled “Who Owns the Past?”, Dr. Price discusses a range of topics connected to the realities of studying and practicing archaeology. She explores issues of … Continue Reading »
Commemorating International Women’s Day 2021
|A trans-national #InternationalWomensDay event broadcasted remotely via Zoom and Facebook Live On Monday, March 8, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) hosted a special webinar event in honor of International Women’s Day. Among the distinguished panel of female archaeologists and project directors was our very own director, Dr. Kim Shelton. The … Continue Reading »
Our first-ever Virtual Nemea Night is a wrap!
|We cannot thank you enough for tuning in, showing your support, and staying engaged with your questions and comments. Ah, 2020. From pandemics to social uprisings and from the national political arena to our very own Zoom screens – this year is one we won’t soon forget! Nemea Night 2020 also adapted and took on … Continue Reading »
Join us for the first-ever Virtual Nemea Night!
|Same quality content, new virtual venue 2020 has been a challenging year – globally, nationally, regionally, and locally! Despite the setbacks that have plagued (literally) our campus and our research projects in Greece, we found some creative ways to come together and to carry on with our work. We want to share that work … Continue Reading »
Ask an Archaeologist, Episode 4, with Dr. Kim Shelton!
|Digging up the heroes of Ancient Greece U.C. Berkeley’s Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) recently hosted a series of video interviews in honor of CalDay entitled “Ask An Archaeologist.” Each episode of the series, which can be viewed in its entirety here, features an archaeologist affiliated with U.C. Berkeley who is working on an archaeological research … Continue Reading »