Bronze Age Aegean Frescoes

Marie Cummings

mnp27@psu.edu

School of Humanities

As an archaeologist and art historian, I primarily focus on Bronze Age (ca. 3,100-1,100 B.C.E.) Aegean (Greece) wall paintings. We can earn a wealth of information from studying these images, including but not limited to: what types of organic materials/objects were used (think clothing, food, crops, pets!), what kinds of behaviors or acts were performed by ancient peoples, and their values. Part of my work involves studying plaster, into which the paint is added while still wet, from the site of Sissi, Crete. Another part of my work involves trying to learn about the roots of different types of imagery, like monkeys, and what that can tell us about ancient trade, travel, social relationships, technologies, and belief systems. There are plenty of different aspects of my research that I’m happy to help turn into your project — let’s find what you’re most interested in and go from there! 

No ancient aliens, please.