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.

The Joukowsky Institute is home to Brown University's doctoral program in Archaeology and the Ancient World, which is separate from but closely linked with Brown's doctoral programs in Anthropology, Classics, Egyptology and Assyriology, History, and History of Art and Architecture.
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Featured Fieldwork | Koutroulou Magoula Archaeology and Archaeological Ethnography Project

Koutroulou Magoula is a multi-period archaeological site in central Greece with the main period of occupation around 6000 BCE (Middle Neolithic period). There are also burials dating to the Bronze Age (1500 BCE), and the Medieval period (c. 1200 CE). It is a finds-rich site, with buildings surviving to more than 1 m. in height, pottery, lithics, animal bones, and an impressive corpus of more than 350 clay figurines.