Dr Bartłomiej Lis
Interdisciplinary Center of Archaeological Research
blis@iaepan.edu.pl
https://pan-pl.academia.edu/BartłomiejLis
https://scholar.google.pl/citations?user=m37rBCwAAAAJ&hl=en
Research interests:
My research interests focus on the communities inhabiting the region of the Aegean Sea basin (mainly the territory of modern Greece and the western coast of Turkey) during the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. My studies consider mainly the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1700-1050 B.C.) and the Mycenaean culture developing at that time, which created the early state structures based on extensive administration, the use of writing (linear B) and palace centers located in several regions of the Greek mainland. I specialize in pottery analysis, which is a way to better understand the economic and socio-political processes taking place in that region. I am interested, among others, in the functional aspects of the ceramics, both of singular forms as well as its whole assemblages, which allow to explore the character of the events leading to the formation of particular assemblages. Through the application of archaeometric methods (chemical analysis and petrography), I examine the problem of trade and ceramic production. I focus not only on the problem of supply (meaning production and trade networks), but also on the active role of the demand (meaning the consumers, the users of the ceramics) in shaping the assemblages which we recover during the excavations. My most important line of research lately is the question of the mobility of potters and the methods that can be employed to study it in the archaeological material.
Selected bibliography:
Articles:
2020 Lis, B., E. Kiriatzi, Š. Rückl, and A. Batziou. Dealing with the Crisis: Mobility of Aeginetan-Tradition Potters around 1200 BC, Annual of the British School at Athens 115: 1–59. doi:10.1017/S0068245420000052
2020 Lis, B., H. Mommsen, J. Maran, and S. Prillwitz. Investigating Pottery Production and Consumption Patterns at the Late Mycenaean Cemetery of Perati, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 32: 1–18. doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102453.
2020 Burke, B., Burns, B., Charami, A., Van Damme T., Herrmann, N. and B. Lis. Fieldwork at Ancient Eleon in Boeotia, 2011-2018, American Journal of Archaeology 124.3: 441-476. doi: 10.3764/aja.124.3.0441
2017 Lis B. Foodways in Early Mycenaean Greece: Innovative Cooking Sets and Social Hierarchy at Mitrou and Other Settlements on the Greek Mainland. American Journal of Archaeology,121(2), 183-217. doi:10.3764/aja.121.2.0183.
2017 Lis B. Variability of Ceramic Production and Consumption on the Greek Mainland During the Middle Stages of the Late Bronze Age: The Waterpots from the Menelaion, Sparta. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 36(3), 243-266. doi:10.1111/ojoa.12114
2016 Lis B. A Foreign Potter in the Pylian Kingdom? A Reanalysis of the Ceramic Assemblage of Room 60 at the Palace of Nestor in Pylos. Hesperia. The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 85(3), 491-536. doi:10.2972/hesperia.85.3.0491
2013 Lis B. Let’s Start From (a) Scratch: New Ways of Looking at Vessels’ Function. Archeologia, 61, 7–14.
Chapters in edited volumes:
2018 Lis B. Hand-made pottery groups in Mainland Greece during the 13th and 12th c. BC as a sign of economic crisis?. In: I. Caloi and C. Langohr (eds.), Technology in Crisis. Technological changes in ceramic production during periods of trouble (139-150). Louvain: Presses Universitaires.
2018 Lis B. Potters in Captivity? An Alternative Explanation for the Italo-Mycenaean Pottery of the 13th century BCE. In: J. Driesssen (ed.), An Archaeology of Forced Migration. Crisis-induced mobility and the Collapse of the 13th c. BCE Eastern Mediterranean (261-271). Louvain: Presses Universitaires.
2017 Lis B. Mycenaean Cooking Pots: Attempt at an Interregional Comparison. In: J. Hruby, D.A. Trusty (eds.), From Cooking Vessels to Cultural Practices in the Late Bronze Age Aegean (39-45). Oxford: Archaeopress.
2015 Lis B., Š. Rückl, M. Choleva. Mobility in the Bronze Age Aegean—The Case of Aeginetan Potters. In: W. Gauss, G. Klebinder-Gauss, C. von Rueden (eds.), The Transmission of Technical Knowledge in the Production of Ancient Mediterranean Pottery (63-75). Vienna: Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut.