Dr Christopher Mark Hale
Ośrodek Archeologii Starożytnej Grecji i Rzymu
https://iaepan.academia.edu/ChrisHale
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=w-euYnQAAAAJ&hl=en
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0066-892X
Research interests:
Ceramic analysis fieldwork methodologies as applied to fragmented settlement assemblages; analytical approaches to pottery production, consumption, and distribution; site chronology building and inter-regional synchronisms; emerging complexity, networks, and interaction during the 3rd and 2nd millennium BCE in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Selected publications:
- Hale, C. and J. Sterba. 2025. “From Pottery Provenance to Multiscale Diachronic Connectivity at Middle Bronze Age Mitrou, Greece” European Journal of Archaeology (published online), 1-24.
- S. Vitale, C. Hale, A. Van de Moortel, and N. Herrmann. 2024. “It’s Absolutely Relative: The LH I Ceramic Sequence from Mitrou and its 14C Anchor Points,” in J. Driessen and T. Fantuzzi (eds.), CHRONOS: Stratigraphic Analysis, Pottery Seriation and Radiocarbon Dating in Mediterranean Chronology, Aegis 26, Presses universitaires de Louvaine, 296-319.
- Hale, C. 2023a. “Grey Minyan in the Middle: Reconsidering Central Greek and Cycladic Middle Bronze Age Synchronisms,” Hesperia 92.1, 1–42.
- Hale, C. 2023b. “Pottery Imports from the Southern Aegean Islands at Middle Bronze Age Mitrou,” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 51, 104174.
- Hale, C. 2023c. “Love Thy (Middle Bronze Age) Neighbor: a network model for central and northern Greece,” Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 18.4, 635-661.
- Hale, C. 2016. “The Middle Helladic Fine Grey Burnished (Grey Minyan) Ceramic Sequence at Mitrou, East Lokris,” Hesperia, 85.2, 243-295.
- Hale, C. 2014. "Middle Helladic 'Dull Painted' and 'Matt Painted' Pottery at Mitrou. An Important Distinction," Melbourne Historical Journal: Amphora Issue 42.2, 32-58.
Current project:
“Minyans and Trojans in the Middle Bronze Age (MITAMBA): multi-scale networks in the northern Aegean.” NCN grant in the SONATA BIS-13 competition (nr 2023/50/E/HS3/00578).
Previous project:
2022-2024 “REgional Networks and Local Recipes for Complexity (RENLORC)”. Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Action PASIFIC Fellowship, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN.BFB.S.BDN.627.022.2021).
RENLORC studied emerging social complexity in central Greece from 2100–1550 BCE using a multi-scale interdisciplinary analytical examination of pottery production, consumption, and distribution. A combination of ceramic thin section petrography, Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis, direct digital radiography, and Scanning Electron Microscopy was used to identify different potting communities of practice operating within central Greece through an investigation of fabric composition and provenance, pigment recipes, forming techniques, and firing techniques. Over 600 samples from 11 different sites spread from Boeotia, Phokis, East Lokris, Malis, and Magnesia were sourced from all sub-phases of the Early Helladic III, Middle Helladic, and Late Helladic I periods. RENLORC aimed to identify the distribution of central Greek pottery products, as well as of imports from outside of the region, resulting in an understanding of shifting networks of interaction operating at various scales.