Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World (JIAAW) is dedicated to the academic study and public promotion of archaeology and the ancient world. We are especially focused on the archaeology and art of the ancient Mediterranean, Egypt, and Near East.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World (JIAAW) is dedicated to the academic study and public promotion of archaeology and the ancient world. We are especially focused on the archaeology and art of the ancient Mediterranean, Egypt, and Near East.
The Joukowsky Institute and Brown University, more broadly, presently sponsor archaeological field projects in Egypt, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, Sardinia, Turkey, and in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown graduate students and undergraduates are welcome to apply to participate in these endeavors, or to explore other fieldwork opportunities.
The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology welcomes proposals from scholars interested in joining the Institute community and sharing in academic resources that may further their research.
Students interested in archaeology are strongly encouraged to think about exploring fieldwork opportunities, either by participating in a project led by a Brown University faculty member or by finding other projects that focus on regions or topics of particular interest to the students.
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News from JIAAW
Winners of the 2025-2026 Joukowsky Award for Student Research
"Inventory", the 2025-2026 Annual Report of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, is now available online.
News from JIAAW
Congratulations to Brown University's Class of 2026
Featured Fieldwork | The S'Urachi Project: Cultural Encounters and Everyday Life around a Nuraghe
First built in the Bronze Age, nuraghi, the famous stone towers of Sardinia, are usually regarded as prehistoric monuments. They continued to be inhabited throughout later millennia as well, however, and it is these later phases of the Archaic to Roman periods that are under investigation at the monumental site of S'Urachi on the central west coast of Sardinia (Italy).