Eddy Faber

Contact

• workRoom A08 Humanities Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 846 8106
• edward.faber@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Since 2011 Teaching Associate and Research Technician (Electron Microprobe), Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham

2006 - 2011 Research Technician for the Electron Microprobe, Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham

1998 - 2001 Young Visiting Researcher for the European TMR project 'GEOPRO', Laboratory of Archaeometry, National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos', Athens, Greece

1996 - 1998 Research Assistant, Laboratory of Archaeometry, National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos'. Athens, Greece

Expertise Summary

Technological behaviour in ceramic production, with a particular interest in decorative techniques, and provenance of archaeological ceramics. Analysis of archaeological inorganic materials.

Teaching Summary

Undergraduate

Archaeological Ceramics (module convenor)

Ancient Metallurgy: Archaeology and Experiment

Postgraduate

Analysis and Interpretation of Archaeological Ceramics (module convenor)

Scientific Techniques for Archaeological Materials (module convenor)

Ancient Metallurgy: Archaeological and Experimental Perspectives

Current research students

Alison Meakes (co-supervised with Dr Lloyd Weeks) Neolithic ceramics from Mamasani, Iran

I am also responsible for managing the departmental Electron Microprobe, with duties including instructing postgraduate and undergraduate students to use the electron microprobe and supervising student projects.

Research Summary

My research focuses on technological behaviour in ceramic production, with a particular interest in decorative techniques and the pigments used to decorate pottery. I am involved in research projects… read more

Recent Publications

• FABER, E.W., 2010. Scientific analysis of salt-glazed stoneware from the Morley potteries in Nottingham and Crich.. In: A. HENSTOCK, R. HILDYARD, P. WOOD AND E.W.FABER, ed., Nottingham Salt-glazed Stoneware 1690-1800. Nottingham City Museums and Galleries. 84-5
• QUINN, P, DAY, P, KILIKOGLOU, V, FABER, E, KATSAROU-TZEVELEKI, S and SAMPSON, A., 2010. Keeping an eye on your pots: the provenance of Neolithic ceramics from the Cave of the Cyclops, Youra, Greece Journal of Archaeological Science. 37, 1042-1052
• MONTEIL, G. and FABER, E.W., 2009. Les Céramiques Sigillées de la Collection Oswald-Plicque du Musée de l’Université de Nottingham In: SFECAG, Actes du Congrés de Colmar. 723-29
• FABER, E.W and DAY, P.M. AND KILIKOGLOU, V., 2009. Fine-grained Middle Bronze Age polychrome ware from Crete: combining petrographic & microstructural analysis.. In: QUINN, P. S., ed., Interpreting Silent Artefacts: Petrographic Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics. Archaeopress, Oxford..

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Current Research

My research focuses on technological behaviour in ceramic production, with a particular interest in decorative techniques and the pigments used to decorate pottery. I am involved in research projects ranging from Neolithic Iran to Post-Medieval Britain. My other areas of interest are the scientific analysis of archaeological materials and Aegean prehistory.

I am undertaking the following research projects:

Prehistoric Pottery Production in Charnwood Forest

The production and consumption of 17th and 18th Century salt-glazed pottery in Nottingham.

Production and exchange of Early Medieval granodiorite tempered pottery

I am also involved in the following research projects:

Does ancient human dental enamel record short-term seasonality? Investigating time-lines in teeth with computed tomography and oxygen isotopes, Dr Janet Montgomery (Durham University)

Migration period and Viking Stavnsager (Denmark), Dr Christopher Loveluck (University of Nottingham)

• QUINN, P, DAY, P, KILIKOGLOU, V, FABER, E, KATSAROU-TZEVELEKI, S and SAMPSON, A., 2010. Keeping an eye on your pots: the provenance of Neolithic ceramics from the Cave of the Cyclops, Youra, Greece Journal of Archaeological Science. 37, 1042-1052
• FABER, E.W., 2010. Scientific analysis of salt-glazed stoneware from the Morley potteries in Nottingham and Crich.. In: A. HENSTOCK, R. HILDYARD, P. WOOD AND E.W.FABER, ed., Nottingham Salt-glazed Stoneware 1690-1800. Nottingham City Museums and Galleries. 84-5
• FABER, E.W and DAY, P.M. AND KILIKOGLOU, V., 2009. Fine-grained Middle Bronze Age polychrome ware from Crete: combining petrographic & microstructural analysis.. In: QUINN, P. S., ed., Interpreting Silent Artefacts: Petrographic Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics. Archaeopress, Oxford..
• MONTEIL, G. and FABER, E.W., 2009. Les Céramiques Sigillées de la Collection Oswald-Plicque du Musée de l’Université de Nottingham In: SFECAG, Actes du Congrés de Colmar. 723-29
• HENDERSON, J. AND FABER, E.W., 2008. Report on the scientific analysis of glass and glass-bearing crucibles from Sigtuna, Sweden.. In: A. WIKSTRÖM, ed., På väg mot Paradiset - arkeologisk undersökning i kvarteret Humlegården 3 i Sigtuna 2006. Sigtuna: Sigtuna Museum.
• FABER, E.W., 2008. Firing temperature estimation of early medieval glass crucibles.. In: A. WIKSTRÖM, ed., På väg mot Paradiset - arkeologisk undersökning i kvarteret Humlegården 3 i Sigtuna 2006. Sigtuna: Sigtuna Museum.
• DAY, P.M and RELAKI, M. AND FABER, E.W., 2006. Pottery making and social reproduction in Bronze Age Mesara, Crete. In: WIENER, M.H, WARNER, J.L and POLONSKY, J. AND HAYES, E.E., eds., Pottery and Society: The Impact of Recent Studies in Minoan Pottery: Gold Medal Colloquium in Honor of Philip P. Betancourt at the 104th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, 5 January 2003 Boston: Archaeological Institute of America. 22-72
• FABER, E.W, KILIKOGLOU, V and DAY, P.M. AND WILSON, D.E., 2002. A technological study of Middle Minoan polychrome pottery from Knossos, Crete.. In: KILIKOGLOU, V and HEIN, A. AND MANIATIS, Y., eds., Modern trends in scientific studies on ancient ceramics: Papers presented at the 5th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics. Athens 1999 Oxford: Archaeopress. 129-141