Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

Past Projects

From its inception and in its early years, the Joukowsky Institute has prioritized its many field projects around the world.

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.

Apollonia DigAdjunct Assistant Professor Katharina Galor, co-director

A joint project with the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University.

Sheila Bonde and Clark Maines, co-directors

Monastic Archaeology ProjectMonArch 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.

Pantelleria CoastlineCarrie Murray, Dottore Sebastiano Tusa (Soprintendente, Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Trapani), Leonardo Abelli (ARES Ricerche e Servici per l'Archeologia), co-directors

Aerial view of PetraProfessor Emeritus Martha Joukowsky, director, under the auspices of the Jordanian Department of Antiquities

Sierra del LacandonAndrew Scherer, Charles Golden, and Ana Lucia Arroyave, co-directors

John F. Cherry and Krysta Ryzewski, co-directors

MontserratSLAM 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.

Natural Landscape AguadaStephen D. Houston, Thomas G. Garrison, and Timothy Beach, directors

TongobrigaProfessor 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

Surveying a tomb in ArmeniaProfessor John F. Cherry, director with Armen Tonikyan and Mrktich Zardaryan, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Yerevan