The Institute’s predecessor, the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art, also boasted an active fieldwork history, with work at several sites in Italy (such as La Muculufa, Satrianum and Ustica) and on Corfu. Important projects have also been run out of Brown University’s Departments of Anthropology, Egyptology and Assyriology, and History of Art and Architecture.
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Past Projects
Adjunct Assistant Professor Katharina Galor, co-director
A joint project with the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University.
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Laurel Bestock, director
BUAP was founded in 2008 to investigate parts of the North Cemetery of Abydos, seat of the earliest rulers of Egypt and the cemetery for kings of the First Dynasty. Brown's current excavations concentrate on both the very early and the very late history of Abydos, dealing with First Dynasty royal mortuary temples and monumental Ptolemaic graves and animal hypogea.
Felipe Rojas, director
BULP's main objectives are to excavate and document a monumental fountain in the mountain sanctuary of Labraunda in Western Turkey, arguably the most important religious site in ancient Caria. Brown University undergraduate and graduate students conduct archaeological fieldwork alongside specialists from Turkish, Swedish, and French universities in a vibrant interdisciplinary environment.
Susan E. Alcock, director
Sheila Bonde and Clark Maines, co-directors
MonArch brings together a multi-disciplinary team to focus on the larger role of monasteries in medieval and early modern France. Work has been conducted, since 1982, at three sites: Saint-Jean-des-Vignes, Bourgfontaine and Notre Dame d’Ourscamp. Excavations continue at the medieval charterhouse of Bourgfontaine in northern France, focusing on the 14th c. Great Cloister and the excavation of a monastic cell.
Carrie Murray, Dottore Sebastiano Tusa (Soprintendente, Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Trapani), Leonardo Abelli (ARES Ricerche e Servici per l'Archeologia), co-directors
Professor Emeritus Martha Joukowsky, director, under the auspices of the Jordanian Department of Antiquities
Sierra del Lacandon Regional Archaeology Project, Guatemala
Andrew Scherer, Charles Golden, and Ana Lucia Arroyave, co-directors
John F. Cherry and Krysta Ryzewski, co-directors
SLAM aims to create a thorough inventory of known and unknown archaeological sites in the northern non-exclusion zone of Montserrat in the West Indies, home to numerous significant prehistoric and historic archaeological remains now under severe threat from volcanic activity and resulting population relocation.
Stephen D. Houston, Thomas G. Garrison, and Timothy Beach, directors
Professor Emeritus Rolf Winkes, Director of the Brown excavation, in collaboration with the Instituto de Gestão do Património Arquitectónico e Arqueológico (IGESPAR), an agency of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture
Laurel Bestock and Christian Knoblauch, co-directors
Uronarti, an island in the Nile in Lower Nubia (modern Sudan), was the site of a major fortress constructed by the kings of the Egyptian Twelfth Dynasty. URAP is working both to document the fortress and to better comprehend its setting in a complex physical and cultural landscape in order to illuminate the relationships between Egypt and Nubia at this critical period.
Professor John F. Cherry, director with Armen Tonikyan and Mrktich Zardaryan, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Yerevan
