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Outreach

outreach at kibworthOur Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

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Contact the School

School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

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Publications

Brysbaert, A. and M. Vetters 2010. Practicing identity: a crafty ideal? Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 10-2: 25-43.

Cohen, C., Maran, J. and M. Vetters 2011. An ivory rod with a cuneiform inscription, most probably Ugaritic, from a final palatial workshop in the Lower Citadel of Tiryns. Archäologischer Anzeiger 2010:2, 1-22.

Vetters, M. 2011a. Seats of power? Making the most of miniatures – the role of terracotta throne models in disseminating Mycenaean religious ideology. In: W. Gauß, M. Lindblom, R. Angus Smith and J. C. Wright (eds.), Our Cups Are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age. Papers Presented to Jeremy B. Rutter On the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Oxford: Archaeopress, 319-330.´

Vetters, M. 2011b. Thou shalt make many images of thy gods – a chaîne opératoire approach to Mycenaean religious rituals based on iconographic and contextual analyses of plaster and terracotta figures. In: A. Brysbaert (ed.), Tracing Prehistoric Social Networks through Technology. A Diachronic Perspective on the Aegean. London: Routledge, 30-47.

Vetters, M. 2012a. Eingrenzen, Abgrenzen, Ausgrenzen – Interpretationsansätze mykenischer Figurinen im Siedlungskontext, in: T. Doppler, B. Ramminger and D. Schimmelpfennig (eds.), Grenzen und Grenzräume? Beispiele aus Neolithikum und Bronzezeit. Fokus Jungsteinzeit. Berichte der AG Neolithikum 2. Kerpen-Loogh: Welt und Erde, 277-296.

Vetters, M. 2012b. Die spätbronzezeitlichen Terrakotta-Figurinen aus Tiryns – Überlegungen zu religiös motiviertem Ritualverhalten in mykenischer Zeit anhand von Kontextanalysen ausgewählter Siedlungsbefunde – dissertation summary. Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt 2012:1, 28-37.

In Press:

Vetters, M. in press a. A clay ball with a Cypro-Minoan inscription from Tiryns. Archäologischer Anzeiger 2011:2.

Vetters, M. in press b. Private and communal ritual in Postpalatial Tiryns. In: S. Bocher and P. Pakkanen (eds.), Defining and Interpreting Ancient Greek Cult Deposits, Proceedings of an International Workshop, Ancient Olympia, October 24-27, 2008, Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens.