Kelsi Kaviani

My research utilises analytical techniques, object typology, and archaeological contexts to investigate glass technologies and their networks of exchange. I am particularly interested in technological change and how glass technologies were developed, transferred, and adapted in antiquity, and how this relates to different scales of trade and cross-craft interaction. I have focused on glass production, use and trade throughout the Mediterranean and Southwest Asia during the 4th - 11th centuries, but am more broadly interested in glass from across Africa and Eurasia in the 1st - 2nd millennium CE. I also maintain interest in other vitreous-adjacent materials such as glazed ceramics and the cross-craft interaction between ceramic and glass industries.