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First cohort begins their research projects at Cetamura del Chianti

Meet the Reckford Fellows for 2024!

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Cetamura Day:  New Research by the 2024 Reckford Fellows

Friday, September 6 at the Broad Auditorium, Pepper Building,

Florida State University

8:30-9:00            Mini-Continental Breakfast in Lobby (coffee, tea, bagels, pastries)

Morning Session—Nancy de Grummond, Presider

9:00-9:30            Welcome and Opening Remarks, Nancy de Grummond: The Impact of the Kenneth and Charlotte Orth Reckford Fellowships at Home and Internationally

9:30-10:00        Illeana Sanders, Gathering the Animals: Preparing for a New

                              Zooarchaeological Study of the Faunal Remains at Cetamura

10:00-10:30      Hudson Kauffman, A Summer of Situlae

10:30-11:00      Elisa Moscone, A Catalog of Stamped Pottery from Cetamura

11:00-11:15      Coffee and Tea Break, in Lobby

Greetings from the Classics Chair

11:15-11:30      Remarks by Classics Chair Tim Stover, The Reckford Fellows

11:30-12:00      Jackson Cheplick, Ancient Grape Seed DNA: The Seeds of Cetamura

12:00-12:30      David Picker-Kille, Sigla & Inscriptions at Cetamura

12:30-2:30        Lunch on your own

Afternoon Session—Lora Holland Goldthwaite, Presider

2:30-3:00           Holly Piper, Nails and Slag: An “Age” of Iron at Cetamura

3:00-3:30            Eve Rozier, A Denarius a Dozen: Updating the Coin Collection at Cetamura   

400-4:30             Lora Holland Goldthwaite,  Coinage and International Trade at Cetamura

4:30-4:40            Surprise Presentation!

4:40-5:30            Reception, in Lobby

With the support provided by the Kenneth and Charlotte Orth Reckford Fund in Classics at Florida State University, the first cohort of Reckford Research Fellows and the first Reckford Digital Scholar have begun their research projects at Cetamura del Chianti.  A conference on Sept. 6, 2024 provides a focal moment to introduce them and talk about their results.

JACKSON CHEPLICK - Cetamura del Chianti

JACKSON CHEPLICK

Jackson is a fourth year undergraduate at Florida State University studying Classical Civilizations and Chemistry. He is interested in how scientific analyses can be used to further knowledge of art and archaeology. He first excavated at Cetamura in the 2023 season and returned in the 2024 season as a Reckford Fellow and trench supervisor. He is studying ancient water-logged grape seeds from the Cetamura wells using carbon dating and testing for ancient DNA, as the subject of his undergraduate Honors in the Major thesis. His work involves collaboration with work on the Cetamura seeds at a laboratory at York University. After graduating, Jackson hopes to get into the field of art conservation.

HUDSON KAUFFMAN - Cetamura del Chianti

HUDSON KAUFFMAN

Hudson is a first year PhD student in the Art History department at FSU. He focuses on Late Antique and Medieval art but has a strong interest in Classical civilizations. This summer, he was able to satisfy all of his interests at Cetamura and dig in a trench with Medieval, Roman, and Etruscan material. In the study season Hudson continued his research on Etruscan and Roman bronze buckets, or situlae, found in the Cetamura wells, with the goal of finding comparisons in museum collections around Italy and identifying similar vessels across ancient Europe.

ELISA MOSCONE

Elisa Moscone is a senior at Florida State University studying Classical Archaeology. Two seasons of archaeological excavation at Cetamura del Chianti have immersed Elisa in Italian culture and strengthened her interests in Roman history. During the summer of 2024, as a Reckford Fellow Elisa specialized in the study of Etruscan and Roman stamped pottery found at Cetamura. Her work has both expanded the catalog of stamps and extended the range of knowledge on trade in northern Etruria. Elisa hopes to work alongside art professionals and museum curators to refine her skills as an educator.

JACKSON CHEPLICK - Cetamura del Chianti

JACKSON CHEPLICK

Jackson is a fourth year undergraduate at Florida State University studying Classical Civilizations and Chemistry. He is interested in how scientific analyses can be used to further knowledge of art and archaeology. He first excavated at Cetamura in the 2023 season and returned in the 2024 season as a Reckford Fellow and trench supervisor. He is studying ancient water-logged grape seeds from the Cetamura wells using carbon dating and testing for ancient DNA, as the subject of his undergraduate Honors in the Major thesis. His work involves collaboration with work on the Cetamura seeds at a laboratory at York University. After graduating, Jackson hopes to get into the field of art conservation.

HUDSON KAUFFMAN - Cetamura del Chianti

HUDSON KAUFFMAN

Hudson is a first year PhD student in the Art History department at FSU. He focuses on Late Antique and Medieval art but has a strong interest in Classical civilizations. This summer, he was able to satisfy all of his interests at Cetamura and dig in a trench with Medieval, Roman, and Etruscan material. In the study season Hudson continued his research on Etruscan and Roman bronze buckets, or situlae, found in the Cetamura wells, with the goal of finding comparisons in museum collections around Italy and identifying similar vessels across ancient Europe.

ELISA MOSCONE

Elisa Moscone is a senior at Florida State University studying Classical Archaeology. Two seasons of archaeological excavation at Cetamura del Chianti have immersed Elisa in Italian culture and strengthened her interests in Roman history. During the summer of 2024, as a Reckford Fellow Elisa specialized in the study of Etruscan and Roman stamped pottery found at Cetamura. Her work has both expanded the catalog of stamps and extended the range of knowledge on trade in northern Etruria. Elisa hopes to work alongside art professionals and museum curators to refine her skills as an educator.

HOLY PIPER -Cetamura del Chianti

HOLLY PIPER

Holly Piper completed the MA in Classics in the spring of 2024 with a Master’s paper entitled Depictions of Artisans’ Tools in Etruscan Art. Her degree included a specialization in Museum Studies; she was awarded a Bucher-Loewenstein Internship for Cetamura to curate an exhibition at the FSU Study Center in Florence in 2022. Digging at Cetamura for three seasons, Holly served as trench master, with work in the Medieval castle area and in the Etruscan and Roman ironworks in the Artisans’ Quarter. As a Reckford Fellow, Holly studied iron artifacts and slag from the forge area. She has just taken a job as Registrar at the Nevada State Museum in Las Vegas.

LYDIA “EVE” ROZIER - Cetamura del Chianti

LYDIA “EVE” ROZIER

Eve Rozier is a 3rd-year dual degree student with majors in Humanities and Classical Archaeology and minors in Museum Studies and French. Over the past 2024 study season, Eve was tasked with updating the Cetamura coin collection, an assignment that appealed to her love of managing and studying antique objects. She reviewed and updated the running catalog of Cetamura coin finds, adding in 12 coins found after 2014. Last year, Eve was one of the Bucher-Lowenstein Museum Interns at Cetamura. Serving as an intern, trench supervisor, and research fellow over the past two years has firmly cemented her love for Cetamura and all the wonderful people involved.

ILLEANA SANDERS - Cetamura del Chianti

ILLEANA SANDERS

Illeana Sanders is a first-year master’s student on the Classical Archaeology track. Illeana earned her BA with Honors from Florida State University in 2024, achieving a dual degree in Classical Archaeology and Political Science. Illeana has participated in excavations at Cetamura del Chianti for three years, serving as a trench supervisor in 2024. Her assignment as Reckford Fellow was to gather and assess the faunal remains that have not yet been studied at Cetamura, then help in packaging and preparing them for study by experts. She is interested in broadly researching ancient Roman migration patterns through cultural material.

DAVID PICKER-KILLE

David Picker-Kille is a doctoral student at Florida State University's Department of Classics, whose current research interests concern the development, forms, and uses of land transport technologies in the Roman world. He has participated in archaeological projects in Italy, Greece, the UK, and the eastern United States. He has been conducting research on Etruscan inscriptions and sigla (non-literary markings on pottery and other artifacts), and collaborates with the University of Milan on the International Etruscan Sigla Project. This past summer, as the Reckford Digital Scholar at the Cetamura excavations, he assisted in incorporating new technologies and digital tools in the ongoing studies of the site's corpus of archaeological material.

HOLY PIPER -Cetamura del Chianti

HOLY PIPER

Holly Piper completed the MA in Classics in the spring of 2024 with a Master’s paper entitled Depictions of Artisans’ Tools in Etruscan Art. Her degree included a specialization in Museum Studies; she was awarded a Bucher-Loewenstein Internship for Cetamura to curate an exhibition at the FSU Study Center in Florence in 2022. Digging at Cetamura for three seasons, Holly served as trench master, with work in the Medieval castle area and in the Etruscan and Roman ironworks in the Artisans’ Quarter. As a Reckford Fellow, Holly studied iron artifacts and slag from the forge area. She has just taken a job as Registrar at the Nevada State Museum in Las Vegas.

LYDIA “EVE” ROZIER - Cetamura del Chianti

LYDIA “EVE” ROZIER

Eve Rozier is a 3rd-year dual degree student with majors in Humanities and Classical Archaeology and minors in Museum Studies and French. Over the past 2024 study season, Eve was tasked with updating the Cetamura coin collection, an assignment that appealed to her love of managing and studying antique objects. She reviewed and updated the running catalog of Cetamura coin finds, adding in 12 coins found after 2014. Last year, Eve was one of the Bucher-Lowenstein Museum Interns at Cetamura. Serving as an intern, trench supervisor, and research fellow over the past two years has firmly cemented her love for Cetamura and all the wonderful people involved.

ILLEANA SANDERS - Cetamura del Chianti

ILLEANA SANDERS

Illeana Sanders is a first-year master’s student on the Classical Archaeology track. Illeana earned her BA with Honors from Florida State University in 2024, achieving a dual degree in Classical Archaeology and Political Science. Illeana has participated in excavations at Cetamura del Chianti for three years, serving as a trench supervisor in 2024. Her assignment as Reckford Fellow was to gather and assess the faunal remains that have not yet been studied at Cetamura, then help in packaging and preparing them for study by experts. She is interested in broadly researching ancient Roman migration patterns through cultural material.

DAVID PICKER-KILLE

David Picker-Kille is a doctoral student at Florida State University's Department of Classics, whose current research interests concern the development, forms, and uses of land transport technologies in the Roman world. He has participated in archaeological projects in Italy, Greece, the UK, and the eastern United States. He has been conducting research on Etruscan inscriptions and sigla (non-literary markings on pottery and other artifacts), and collaborates with the University of Milan on the International Etruscan Sigla Project. This past summer, as the Reckford Digital Scholar at the Cetamura excavations, he assisted in incorporating new technologies and digital tools in the ongoing studies of the site's corpus of archaeological material.