The following archaeological projects have been undertaken

and directed by Professor James Wiseman with support from

the Center for Archaeological Studies. The Center is currently

working to archive the documentation from these excavations

by digitizing the slides, photographs, drawings, and notes

from the projects.

 

Stobi is located in the Vardar river valley, in northern Macedonia, where the Crna River joins the Vardar. It was an important center connecting Greece in the north, and central Europe to the south. It was used from the early times until it was abandoned late in te 6th century after Christ. The major highway to Greece still passes the site of Stobi today and the Orient Express runs alongside.

The earliest levels encountered by the Stobi Project were tested in a small area, but it produced quantities of wheelmade gray ware of the late 4th, and early 3rd centuries B.C. Other articles ranging from the Neolithic to Iron Age, have also been found.

The Nikopolis Project's aim was an interdisciplinary stududy focused on the human scoieties that inhabited southern Epirus in northwestern Greece from earliest times to the Mediaeval period. Employing intensive archaeological survey and geological investigations, the Nikopolis Project discovered Lower Palaeolitic Sites, and resulted in the development of models to explain changes in the Pleistocene landscape and resource exploitation in the Middle Palaeolitic period. The project was sponsored the the Department of Archaeology, the Center for Archaeological Studies and the Center for Remote Sensing of Boston University.