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Standing on His Shoulders: a Tribute to Bert de Vries
Bert de Vries’ sudden passing at the end of March still feels more akin to a troubling dream than to reality. That uneasy feeling will no doubt persist for quite […]
Elizabeth Osinga (PhD University of Southampton 2017) is an archaeologist and trained ceramicist (MA Ceramic and Lithic Analysis 2011) who has been a senior staff member of the Umm al-Jimal Archaeological Project since 2012. In 2020, she published the first quantified pottery analysis from Umm al-Jimal, revealing the major suppliers of the site’s ceramics and how these changed over time.
Bert de Vries’ sudden passing at the end of March still feels more akin to a troubling dream than to reality. That uneasy feeling will no doubt persist for quite […]