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.
This page shows the Archaeology and the Ancient World courses planned for the current academic year, including cross-listed courses taught in other programs at Brown.
The undergraduate concentration in Archaeology and the Ancient World provides students with an opportunity to explore the multi-faceted discipline of archaeology, and encourages an interdisciplinary approach to engaging with the ancient world.
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.
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News from JIAAW
Professor Shanti Morell-Hart Joins JIAAW's Faculty
The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World welcomes Professor Shanti Morell-Hart, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World, to the Institute's Academic Faculty.
News from JIAAW
New JIAAW Faculty Fellows
The Joukowsky Institute welcomes our newest Faculty Fellows, Michael Satlow (Professor of Judaic and Religious Studies) and Catherine Nuckols (International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art and Architecture and the Cogut Institute for Humanities).
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).