Fall 2021 The College of Humanities has announced the recipients of the 2021–2022 College of Humanities Faculty Research Grants, and the School of Anthropology’s Professor Eleni Hasaki is one of the three recipients! Dr. Hasaki’s project is titled “Time Matters: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Labor Investment in Ancient Greek Workshops of Decorated Ceramics”
Abstract: With a College of Humanities Faculty Research Grant, I will collect ethnoarchaeological data from traditional potters in modern Greece as a proxy of studying in more depth the logistics of labor investment of Ancient Greek pottery workshops specializing in decorated finewares and the organization of this niche industry. I will conduct interviews and record forming and decorating procedures with traditional potters in Greece in July 2022 in order to build the first-ever visual database of fineware production and decoration. This ethnoarchaeological resource will form the basis of addressing long-standing questions on the organization and scale of production of decorated pottery in antiquity. Greek vases were highly regarded both locally and in foreign markets around the Mediterranean. What was the organization of these export‐intensive workshops that could dominate the local and global markets? Were these workshops a niche sector in each city, representing the best the clay artists could produce?
https://anthropology.arizona.edu/news/hasaki-named-coh-grant-recipient