Institute of Archaeological Sciences

Team

Juuli Ahola

Doktorandin, SNSF Starting Grant

E-Mail
juuli.ahola@unibe.ch
Office
007
Postal Address
Mittelstrasse 43
CH‐3012 Bern
  • Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age; Cyprus, the Levant, Egypt, Nubia 
  • Cross-cultural connections and the spread of ideas 
  • Craft production and technologies with a focus on pottery 
  • History of archaeology and excavations & legacy data and museum collections 

2024-
Doctoral Candidate in Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Bern in the SNSF-funded project “Understanding Socio-Economic Complexity in Eastern Mediterranean Protohistory (CYPEC)”. Supervisor Teresa Bürge.

2023
Project Researcher in the "Finnish SJE Nubia Collection Project” (PI Oula Seitsonen) (part-time)
Moving, digitizing and studying the collection of ceramics from the Scandinavian Joint-Expedition to Sudanese Nubia 1961-1964, now stored in Vantaa, Finland.

05-06/2022
Ceramic Analyst Intern in the project “Ritual or Refuse? Depositional Practices in Wells and Shafts: Late Bronze Age Cyprus as a Case Study" (PI Teresa Bürge)

2018-2020
Master of Arts in Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Copenhagen
Thesis with distinction: "Re-examining the spread of ideas along the Bronze Age Nile. Ceramic jugs in the Nubian-Egyptian borderland", supervisor Tobias Richter

03-07/2019
Research and Administrative Intern (EDUFI), Finnish Institute at Athens

09-11/2017
Collections Intern, Uppsala University Museum Gustavianum
Digitizing the Sinda Excavation Collection from Cyprus

2014-2017 
Bachelor of Arts in Egyptology, Uppsala University
Thesis: “The Game of Senet in Mortuary Practices on Bronze Age Cyprus”, supervisor Anne Landborg 

Decolonizing Middle Eastern Studies – Critical Perspectives and Emerging Debates. The Seventh Finnish Colloquium of Middle East and North African Studies. University of Tampere with the Finnish Institute in the Middle East, 10-11 June 2024. Conference Secretary in charge of practical organization and Chair of two sessions.