Marie Nicole Pareja

Consulting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania

Marie N. Pareja (‘Nikki’) earned her MA (2013) and PhD (2015) in Aegean Prehistory from Temple University and is currently Assistant Professor of Art History at Salisbury University and Consulting Scholar for the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Nikki specializes in Bronze Age materiality and production technologies, iconography, and long-distance exchange. She is founder and executive director of the Aegean Bronze Age Study Initiative (ABASI), the Plasters Analysis Project (PLAN) at the UPenn, and the Indus-Aegean Bronze Age Research Network (IA-BARN) at Oxford. She serves as materials specialist for various Aegean sites: Mochlos, Sissi, Gournia, and Stelida. She and Lyvia Morgan study plaster from the Royal Road and South House at Knossos. Nikki is recipient of the Archaeological Institute of America’s 2027 Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

BOOKS BY THIS CONTRIBUTOR

F?????T??? (Philomatheia)

ed. Marie Nicole Pareja

A collection of essays on Bronze Age Aegean art and archaeology in tribute to the early life and work of Anne P. Chapin. The contributions consider different aspects of Aegean Bronze Age including iconography, architecture, trade and exchange, and landscape, as well as newly excavated material, all of which constituted Anne’s areas of interest. READ MORE

Hardback: £45.00

There and Back Again: Afro-Eurasian Exchange in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Periods

ed. Marie Nicole Pareja

This book evaluates the evidence for indirect connections between the Aegean and the Indus extending back to the third and fourth millennia BCE, particularly commodities such as tin and lapis lazuli, and discusses recently discovered objects, new methods of materials analysis techniques and topics, as well as iconographic investigation. READ MORE

Paperback: £35.00 | eBook: £16.00

Imperial Horizons of the Silk Roads

ed. Marie Nicole Pareja

This volume centres on how the exchange routes transformed the frontier regions of the Silk Road. In doing so, it utilises a range of methods to reach an archaeological interpretation of the factors that linked people with the environment; movements, settlements, and beliefs. READ MORE

Paperback: £45.00 | eBook: £16.00

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