NYU members direct and conduct fieldwork at a number of sites around the globe. These include:
American Excavations at Kenchreai
Location: Greece
Main areas of research: Early Roman to Early Byzantine periods; Late Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods; Middle Byzantine to Early Modern eras; social structure, economic relations, religious character, ritual activities, and cultural identity
Contact: Sebastian Heath, Co-Director (sebastian.heath@nyu.edu)
American Excavations Samothrace
Location: Greece
Main areas of research: 7th century BCE to the 4th century CE; Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman periods; Ancient ritual; Cult sites and cultic practices; pilgrimage; Greek religious landscape
Contact: Bonna Wescoat, Director of Excavations and Field Research (bwescoa@emory.edu) & Andrew Ward, Supervisor of Excavation (alward5@emory.edu)
Aphrodisias Excavations
Location: Turkey
Main areas of research: Classical archaeology; Roman art and architecture; interaction between Greek and Roman identity; the functioning of empire; religious conflict and accommodation; the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages
Contact: Katherine Welch, Deputy Director (kw21@nyu.edu)
Arabian Resins, Perfumes, and Pharmaceuticals Project
Contact: William Zimmerle (wgz1@nyu.edu)
Archaeological Excavations at Kınık Höyük
Location: Turkey
Main areas of research: First Millennium BC (Late and Middle Iron Ages); Neo-Hittite kingdoms
Contact: Lorenzo d’Alfonso (lda5@nyu.edu)
Archaeological Excavations at Zeyve Hoyuk – Porsuk (Tr): project on the Iron Age occupation
Location: Turkey
Contact: Lorenzo d’Alfonso (lda5@nyu.edu)
Cango Valley Archaeology and Paleoscape Project
Location: South Africa
Main areas of research: Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age; paleoenvironment; paleobotany; paleohydrology; evolution of prehistoric humans’ land use strategies; socio-environmental systems
Contact: Justin Pargeter, Principal Investigator (justin.pargeter@nyu.edu)
Containers, Commodities, Colonization: A Study of Transport Amphorae from Methone in the North Aegean
Location: Greece
Main areas of research: Mediterranean archaeology
Contact: Antonis Kotsonas (ak7509@nyu.edu)
Dhofar Ethnography Preservation Project: Documenting the Cuboid Incense Burner in the Sultanate of Oman
Location: Oman
Contact: William Zimmerle (wgz1@nyu.edu)
Excavations at Amheida
Location: Egypt
Main areas of research: Old Kingdom to the fourth century AD; Ancient Egypt, especially during the Roman period
Contact: David Ratzan, Director (david.ratzan@nyu.edu)
Field project at Pozzuoli, Italy and the Campi Flegrei volcano
Location: Italy
Main areas of research: Volcanology, environmental risk communication, archaeology, and theater
Contact: Karen Holmberg (kgh1@nyu.edu)
Location: Chile
Main areas of research: Volcanology; geoheritage; archaeology
Contact: Karen Holmberg, Principal Investigator (kgh1@nyu.edu)
Gird-i Rostam, Iraqi Kurdistan
Location: Iraq
Main areas of research: Chalcolithic period; Assyrian Empire; Sasanian Empire; late pre-Islamic period and population; Kurdistan; ceramics/ceramic technology
Contact: Daniel T. Potts, Director (daniel.potts@nyu.edu)
IFA Excavations at Abydos, Egypt
Location: Egypt
Main areas of research: Ancient Egypt; ancient religious sites; pilgrimage sites; temple architecture
Contact: Matthew Adams, Director (matthew.adams@nyu.edu)
Islamic Village Excavations of the Balu‘a Regional Archaeology Project
Location: Jordan
Main areas of research: Islamic periods; rural life; agricultural strategies; commerce; pilgrimage
Contact: Ian Jones, Field Director of the Middle Islamic Village (iwj202@nyu.edu)
Lyktos Archaeological Project, Crete
Location: Greece
Main areas of research: Bronze Age to Medieval period, especially the Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods; urban history; “Dark Age”/”Archaic Gap”
Contact: Antonis Kotsonas, Co-Director (ak7509@nyu.edu)
Malawi Ancient Lifeways and Peoples Project
Location: Malawi
Main areas of research: ancient human behavior; paleoenvironments; paleoarchaeology; ancient hunter-gatherer population structure
Contact: Justin Pargeter, Co-Principal Investigator (justin.pargeter@nyu.edu)
Medes In the Iron Age
Location: Iran
Main areas of research: Iron Age; the empire of the Medes; ancient democracies; analysis of faunal remains
Contact: Pam Crabtree, Co-Principal Investigator (pc4@nyu.edu)
New Pastures: Livestock and lifeways of the Irish Iron Age
Location: Ireland
Main areas of research: 1st millennia BC and AD; animal husbandry practices, settlement modes and lifeways of the Iron Age; interdisciplinary research using zooarchaeological and isotopic analysis, Bayesian modelling and Ancient Genomics
Contact: Pam Crabtree (pc4@nyu.edu)
NYU Yeronisos Island Excavations and Field School, Cyprus
Location: Cyprus
Main areas of research: Classical archaeology; myth and religion; Cypriot archaeology; the Hellenistic East; Greek architecture; ecological survey and research; conservation
Contact: Joan Breton Connelly, Director (joan.connelly@nyu.edu)
P5 Pondoland Coastal Foraging and Lifeways Project
Location: South Africa
Main areas of research: Middle Stone Age; Paleoclimate; Paleoenvironment; Paleoecology; Paleoanthropology
Contact: Justin Pargeter, Co-Director (justin.pargeter@nyu.edu)
PALAEOSILKROAD: Late Pleistocene Hominin Dispersals and Adaptations in Central Asia
Location: Kazakhstan
Main areas of research: Central Asian archaeology; Paleolithic sites; Pleistocene and Holocene periods; human-environment relationships; early humans; anthropology
Contact: Radu Iovita, Principal Investigator (iovita@nyu.edu)
Production, Subsistence, Exchange, and Environment at Kimirek-kum-1 (KK1): Excavations and archeo-scientific analyses in the old Zerafshan delta during the Final Bronze / Early Iron Age Transition
Location: Uzbekistan
Contact: Sören Stark, Co-Director (soeren.stark@nyu.edu)
Quirinal Project
Location: Italy
Main Areas of Research: Roman art, architecture, and archaeology; urban stratigraphy; archival research; museology and curatorial practice
Contact: John N. Hopkins, Co-Director (jnh1@nyu.edu)
Sanam Temple Project
Location: Sudan
Main areas of research: Kushite Kingdom; temple architecture; Ancient Egypt; Nubian culture, art and history
Contact: Kathryn Howley, Director (keh408@nyu.edu)
Selinunte Archaeological Project
Location: Italy
Main areas of research: Greek colonization; Greek sacred architecture, Archaic to
Hellenistic; the archaeology of Greek religion
Contact: Clemente Marconi, Director (cm135@nyu.edu) & Rosalia Pumo, Co-Director (rp78@nyu.edu)
Siniya Island Archaeological Project
Location: United Arab Emirates
Main areas of research: Sasanian and early Islamic periods; Christianity before, during, and after the rise of Islam; maritime trade; relationship between site and environment
Contact: Robert Hoyland (rgh2@nyu.edu)
Tepecik-Çiftlik Project
Location: Turkey
Main areas of research: Neolithic period; early Chalcolithic period
Contact: Pam Crabtree (pc4@nyu.edu)
The Chinese Bronze Age Economics Project
Location: China
Main areas of research: Shang dynasty China (ca. 1600-1050 BCE); economic history; production, exchange and consumption
Contact: Roderick Campbell, Director (rbc2@nyu.edu)
Uzbek-American Expedition in Bukhara: Excavations in the center of the Silk Road City of Bukhara
Location: Uzbekistan
Contact: Sören Stark (soeren.stark@nyu.edu)