Dr Effie Photos-Jones

  • Honorary Research Fellow (School of Humanities)

email: Effie.Photos-Jones@glasgow.ac.uk

R204A Level 2, Archaeology, Gregory Building

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5156-6539

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2021

Knapp, C.W., Christidis, G.E., Venieri, D., Gounaki, I., Gibney-Vamvakari, J., Stillings, N., and Photos-Jones, E. (2021) The ecology and bioactivity of some Greco-Roman medicinal minerals: the case of Melos earth pigments. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 13(10), 166. (doi: 10.1007/s12520-021-01396-z)

2020

Christidis, G. E., Knapp, C. W., Venieri, D., Gounaki, I., Elgy, C., Valsami-Jones, E. and Photos-Jones, E. (2020) The interweaving roles of mineral and microbiome in shaping the antibacterial activity of archaeological medicinal clays. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 260, 112894. (doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2020.112894) (PMID:32348844)

Photos-Jones, E. , Bots, P., Oikonomou, E., Hamilton, A. and Knapp, C.W. (2020) On metal and ‘spoiled’ wine: analysing psimythion (synthetic cerussite) pellets (5th-3rd centuries BCE) and hypothesising gas-metal reactions over a fermenting liquid within a Greek pot. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 12, 243. (doi: 10.1007/s12520-020-01184-1) (PMID:33088349) (PMCID:PMC7560938)

Venieri, D., Gounaki, I., Christidis, G. E., Knapp, C. W., Bouras-Vallianatos, P. and Photos-Jones, E. (2020) Bridging the gaps: bole and Terra Sigillata as artefacts, as simples and as antibacterial clays. Minerals, 10(4), e348. (doi: 10.3390/min10040348) (PMID:32724664) (PMCID:PMC7115821)

2019

Levi, S. T., Calliari, D., Arzarello, M., Cannavò, V., Di Renzoni, A. and Photos-Jones, E. (2019) Obsidian from the Bronze Age village of San Vincenzo, Stromboli, Aeolian Islands: a preliminary investigation. Open Archaeology, 5(1), pp. 31-45. (doi: 10.1515/opar-2019-0004)

2018

Photos-Jones, E. , Knapp, C.W., Venieri, D., Christidis, G.E., Elgy, C., Valsami-Jones, E., Gounaki, I. and Andriopoulou, N.C. (2018) Greco-Roman mineral (litho)therapeutics and their relationship to their microbiome: the case of the red pigment miltos. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 22, pp. 179-192. (doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.07.017) (PMCID:PMC6360534)

Photos-Jones, E. and Jones, R. (2018) Mycenaean ‘Alum’: Implications for the exchange of astringent minerals in the Bronze Age. In: Bettelli, M., Del Freo, M. and van Wijngaarden, G. J. (eds.) Mediterranea Itinera : Studies in Honour of Lucia Vagnetti. Series: Incunabula Graeca, 106. CNR - Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico: Rome, Italy, pp. 77-92. ISBN 9788880803409

Christidis, G., Barrett, B. and Photos-Jones, E. (2018) Stevenson at Vulcano in the late 19th century: a Scottish mining venture in southern Europe. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 147, pp. 303-323. (doi: 10.9750/PSAS.147.1255)

Photos-Jones, E. (2018) From mine to apothecary: an archaeo-biomedical approach to the study of the Greco-Roman lithotherapeutics industry. World Archaeology, 50(3), pp. 418-433. (doi: 10.1080/00438243.2018.1515034)

2017

Photos-Jones, E. , Edwards, C., Häner, F., Lawton, L., Keane, C., Leanord, A. and Perdikatsis, V. (2017) Archaeological medicinal earths as antibacterial agents: the case of the Basel Lemnian sphragides. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452(1), pp. 141-153. (doi: 10.1144/SP452.6)

Cannavò, V., Photos-Jones, E. , Levi, S. T., Brunelli, D., Fragnoli, P., Lomarco, G., Lugli, F., Martinelli, M. C. and Sforna, M. C. (2017) p-XRF analysis of multi-period Impasto and Cooking Pot wares from the excavations at Stromboli-San Vincenzo, Aeolian Islands, Italy. STAR: Science and Technology of Archaeological Research, 3(1), pp. 66-73. (doi: 10.1080/20548923.2017.1329918)

Photos-Jones, E. , Jones, R. and Bateson, D. (2017) ‘‘Light on many journies’: a crisis in Charles II’s Scottish silver coinage leading to the closure of the Mint. British Numismatic Journal, 87, pp. 163-178.

2016

Photos-Jones, E. , Christidis, G.E., Piochi, M., Keane, C., Mormone, A., Balassone, G., Perdikatsis, V. and Leanord, A. (2016) Testing Greco-Roman medicinal minerals: The case of solfataric alum. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 10, pp. 82-95. (doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.08.042)

Photos-Jones, E. , Basiakos, I., Filippaki, E., Hein, A., Karatasios, I., Kilikoglou, V. and Kouloumpi, E. (Eds.) (2016) Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry. Series: BAR international series. British Archaeological Reports Ltd,: Oxford. ISBN 9781407314303

Di Renzoni, A., Ayala, G., Brunelli, D., Levi, S. T., Lugli, S., Photos-Jones, E. , Renzulli, A. and Santi, P. (2016) Aiding and abetting the archaeological enquiry: geochemical work-in-progress at the site of San Vincenzo, Stromboli, Aeolian Islands, Italy. In: Photos-Jones, E., Basiakos, I., Filippaki, E., Hein, A., Karatasios, I., Kilikoglou, V. and Kouloumpi, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry. Series: BAR international series (2780). British Archaeological Reports Ltd,: Oxford, pp. 167-174. ISBN 9781407314303

Martinelli, M. C., Photos-Jones, E. and Levi, S. T. (2016) Did copper actually arrive in the Aeolian Islands in the fourth millennium BC? The evidence from a small but iconic fragment of vitreous material thought to be copper slag. In: Photos-Jones, E., Basiakos, I., Filippaki, E., Hein, A., Karatasios, I., Kilikoglou, V. and Kouloumpi, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry. Series: BAR international series, 2780. British Archaeological Reports Ltd: Oxford, pp. 73-80. ISBN 9781407314303

Photos-Jones, E. (2016) The Metallographic investigation of the Leckie Broch metalwork and industrial waste. In: MacKie, E. (ed.) Brochs and the Empire: The Impact of Rome on Iron Age Scotland As Seen in the Leckie Brock Excavations. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, pp. 122-137. ISBN 9781784914400

Photos-Jones, E. , Zagana, E. and Roumelioti, P. (2016) The ayiasmata (holy springs) of Lemnos, NE Greece: an archaeo-hydrogeological study. In: Photos-Jones, E., Basiakos, I., Filippaki, E., Hein, A., Karatasios, I., Kilikoglou, V. and Kouloumpi, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry. Series: BAR international series (2780). British Archaeological Reports Ltd,: Oxford, pp. 221-229. ISBN 9781407314303

2015

Glatz, C. , Düring, B. S., Wilkinson, T. C., Gratuze, B., Jones, R. , Photos-Jones, E. and Klinkenberg, V. (2015) Developing an adaptive field methodology for challenging landscapes. In: Düring, B. S. and Glatz, C. (eds.) Kinetic Landscapes: The Cide Archaeological Project 2009-2011 - Surveying the Western Turkish Black Sea Region. De Gruyter Open: Warsaw, pp. 53-103. ISBN 9783110444964 (doi: 10.1515/9783110444971-008)

Photos-Jones, E. , Keane, C., Jones, A.X., Stamatakis, M., Robertson, P., Hall, A.J. and Leanord, A. (2015) Testing Dioscorides’ medicinal clays for their antibacterial properties: the case of Samian Earth. Journal of Archaeological Science, 57, pp. 257-267. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2015.01.020)

2014

Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A.J. (2014) Cramp and calcite analyses. In: Ballin Smith, B. (ed.) Between Tomb and Cist: The Funerary Monuments of Crantit, Kewing and Nether Onston, Orkney. The Orcadian Press: Orkney, pp. 75-89. ISBN 9781902957661

Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A.J. (2014) Cramp summary report. In: Ballin Smith, B. (ed.) Between Tomb and Cist: The Funerary Monuments of Crantit, Kewing and Nether Onston, Orkney. The Orcadian Press: Orkney, pp. 101-108. ISBN 9781902957661

Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. J. (2014) Eros, Mercator and the Cultural Landscape of Melos in Antiquity. Potingair Press: Glasgow. ISBN 9780956824001

Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. J. (2014) Lemnian Earth, alum and astringency: a field based approach. In: Michaelides, D. (ed.) Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Oxbow Books: Oxford, pp. 183-189. ISBN 9781782972358

2011

Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. J. (2011) Archaeological recording and chemical stratigraphy applied to contaminated land studies. Science of the Total Environment, 409(24), pp. 5432-5443. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.08.035)

Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A.J. (2011) "Harvesting" the Ore: The Use of Iron Seepages in the Early Bloomery Furnace in Ireland. In: 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, Siena, Italy, 13-16 May 2008, pp. 629-635. ISBN 9783642146770 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-14678-7_92)

Photos-Jones, E. (2011) προς σύστασιυ του μικρού μας κερματοκοπείου: non-destructive XRF analysis of coins (phoinikes and lepta) from the Aeginan Mint (1828-1831). Nomismatika Khronika, 29, pp. 91-109.

Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. J. (2011) Lemnian Earth and the Earths of the Aegean: An Archaeological Guide To Medicines, Pigments And Washing Powders. Potingair Press: Glasgow. ISBN 9780956824004

2010

Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. (2010) Stypteria phorime as alunogen in solution: possible pointer to the gradual cooling of the Melos geothermal system. Hellenic Journal of Geosciences, 45, pp. 117-226.

2009

Hall, A. and Photos-Jones, E. (2009) The juice of the pomegranate: quality control for the processing and distribution of alumen in antiquity and making sense of Pliny’s Phorimon and Paraphoron. In: Shortland, A.J., Freestone, I. and Rehren, T. (eds.) From Mine to Microscope: Advances in the Study of Ancient Technology. Oxbow Books: Oxford, UK, pp. 197-206. ISBN 9781842172599

Photos-Jones, E. , Hall, A., Jones, R. and Pantos, E. (2009) ‘Sweet waste’: the industrial waste from the medieval sugar refinery at the Tawahin es-Sukkar in Jordan. In: Shortland, A.J., Freestone, I. and Rehren, T. (eds.) From Mine to Microscope: Advances in the Study of Ancient Technology. Oxbow Books: Oxford, UK, pp. 223-230. ISBN 9781842172599

2008

Hall, A. and Photos-Jones, E. (2008) Accessing past beliefs and practices: the case of Lemnian Earth. Archaeometry, 50(6), pp. 1034-1049. (doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2007.00377.x)

Photos-Jones, E. , Dalglish, C., Coulter, S., Hall, A., Ruiz-Nieto, R. and Wilson, L. (2008) Between archives and the site: the case of the 19th-century iron and steel industry in the Monklands, Central Scotland, and one small forge within, Moffat Upper Steam Forge. Post-Medieval Archaeology, 42(1), pp. 157-180.

2007

Photos-Jones, E. , Smith, B. B., Hall, A. J. and Jones, R. E. (2007) On the intent to make cramp: an interpretation of vitreous seaweed cremation ‘waste’ from prehistoric burial sites in Orkney, Scotland. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 26(1), pp. 1-23. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2007.00270.x)

2006

Johnson, M., Photos-Jones, E. and Hickman, S. (2006) A Medieval bloomery mound in Glen Docherty, Kinlochewe, Highland. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 28(2), pp. 125-149. (doi: 10.3366/E147157670700006X)

Photos-Jones, E. (2006) Metallurgical waste. In: Lowe, C. (ed.) Excavations at Hoddom, Dumfriesshire: An Early Ecclesiastical Site in South-West Scotland. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: Edinburgh, pp. 137-144. ISBN 9780903903394

2005

Jones, R.E. and Photos-Jones, E. (2005) Technical studies of Aegean Bronze Age wall painting: methods, results and future prospects. In: Morgan, L. (ed.) Aegean Wall Painting: a tribute to Mark Cameron. Series: British School at Athens studies (13). British School at Athens: London, pp. 199-224. ISBN 9780904887495

2003

Hall, A.J., Fallick, A.E., Perdikatsis, V. and Photos-Jones, E. (2003) A model for the origin of AI-rich efflorescences near fumaroles, Melos, Greece: enhanced weathering in a geothermal setting. Mineralogical Magazine, 67(2), pp. 363-379. (doi: 10.1180/0026461036720102)

Hall, A.J., Photos-Jones, E. , McNulty, A., Turner, D. and McRobb, A. (2003) Geothermal activity at the archaeological site of Aghia Kyriaki and its significance to Roman industrial mineral exploitation on Melos, Greece Mineral Exploitation on Melos, Greece. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 18(3), pp. 333-357. (doi: 10.1002/gea.10068)

Hall, A. J. and Photos-Jones, E. (2003) The nature of Melian alumen and its potential for exploitation in antiquity. In: L'Alun de Mediterranee, Colloque International, Naples, Italy, 04-06 Jun 2003, pp. 77-84. ISBN 9782903189846

Photos-Jones, E. , Jones, R.E. and Hall, A.J. (2003) Technical report on painted plaster fragments from the Greek-Swedish excavations at Kastelli, Khania, Crete. In: Hallager, E. and Hallager, B. P. (eds.) The Greek-Swedish Excavations at the Agia Aikaterinini Square Kastelli, Khania 1970-87 and 2001 vol. III:1 The Late Minoan IIIB2 Settlement. Series: Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Athen, 3:1. P Åstrom Forlag: Stockholm, pp. 306-320. ISBN 9789179160456

2002

Photos-Jones, E. , Politis, K., James, H.F., Hall, A.J., Jones, R.E. and Hamer, J./ (2002) The sugar industry in the Southern Jordan Valley: a preliminary assessment of a pilot season at the Tawahin es-Sukkar and Khirbet Sheikh ‘Isa. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, pp. 591-614.

2001

Atkinson, J.A. and Photos-Jones, E. (2001) A site with a 'special purpose': mining activity on Melos in the Late Roman Period. In: 5th International Mining History Congress, Milos Island, Greece, 12-15 Sep 2000, pp. 77-85.

Hansom, J.D. , Hall, A.J. and Photos-Jones, E. (2001) Rapid environmental change during industrial minerals exploitation in the Aegean: the case of Roman Aghia Kyriaki, Melos, Greece. In: 5th International Mining History Congress, Milos Island, Greece, 12-15 Sep 2000, pp. 92-100.

Johnson, P., Tompsett, G. and Photos-Jones, E. (2001) Water, its collection and usage in the washeries of 4th century Agrileza: some new observations and results. In: 8th Scientific Conference of South East Attica, Keratea, Greece, 2001, pp. 411-427.

Photos-Jones, E. , Hendry, A. and Kavasila, P. (2001) SEM and TEM examination of Byzantine and post-Byzantine metal threads in Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical textiles. In: Archaeometry Issues in Greek Prehistory and Antiquity, Athens, Greece, 2001, pp. 429-441. ISBN 9608709806

Photos-Jones, E. (2001) "Made in Scotland?": sword-making in Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries in the recent context of recent archaeological evidence. In: Freeman, P.W.M. and Pollard, A. (eds.) Fields of Conflict : Progress and Prospect in Battlefield Archaeology : Proceedings of a Conference held in the Department Of Archaeology, University Of Glasgow, April 2000. Series: BAR international series, 958. Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 61-73. ISBN 9781841712499

2000

Jones, R.E. , Tompsett, G., Politis, K.D. and Photos-Jones, E. (2000) The Tawahin es-sukkar and khirbet sheik 'isa project phase I: the surveys. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, 44, pp. 523-534.

1999

Photos-Jones, E. , Hall, A.J., Atkinson, J.A., Tompsett, G., Cottier, A. and Sanders, G.D.R. (1999) The Aghia Kyriaki, Melos survey: prospecting for the elusive earths in the Roman period in the Aegean. Annual of the British School at Athens, 94, pp. 377-413. (doi: 10.1017/S0068245400000654)

Atkinson, J.A. and Photos-Jones, E. (1999) "Brave at heart": clanship and the work of the Highland smith. In: Young, S.M.M., Pollard, A.M., Budd, P. and Ixer, R.A. (eds.) Metals in Antiquity. Series: BAR International Series, 792. Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 271-279. ISBN 9781841710082

Photos-Jones, E. , Hall, A., Pollard, T. , Meikle, T.K. and Newlands, A. (1999) The manner of how it grew was like unto the haire of a man’s head: the early 1600’s discovery and exploitation of native silver at Hilderstone in Scotland. In: Young, S.M.M. (ed.) Metals in Antiquity. Series: BAR international series, 792 (792). Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 280-289. ISBN 9781841710082

Photos-Jones, E. , Hall, A.J., Pollard, A., Meikle, Y.T.K. and Newlands, A. (1999) 'The manner how it grew was like unto the haire of a man’s head’: the early 1600’s discovery and exploitation of native silver. In: Young, S.M.M., Pollard, A.M., Budd, P. and Ixer, R.A. (eds.) Metals in Antiquity. Series: BAR International Series, 792. Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 280-289. ISBN 9781841710082

1998

Hall, A. and Photos-Jones, E. (1998) The bloomery mounds of the Scottish Highlands. Part 2: a review of iron mineralization. Historical Metallurgy, 32(2), pp. 54-66.

Photos-Jones, E. , Atkinson, J.A., Hall, A. and Banks, I. (1998) The bloomery mounds of the Scottish Highlands. Part 1: the archaeological background. Historical Metallurgy, 32(1), pp. 15-32.

Photos-Jones, E. and Atkinson, J. A. (1998) Iron in medieval Perth: a case of town and country? Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 128, pp. 887-904. (doi: 10.5284/1000184)

1997

Photos-Jones, E. , Cottier, A., Hall, A.J. and Mendoni, L.G. (1997) Kean miltos: the well-known iron oxides of antiquity. Annual of the British School at Athens, 92, pp. 359-371. (doi: 10.1017/S0068245400016737)

1995

Demakopoulou, K., Mangou, E., Jones, R.E. and Photos-Jones, E. (1995) Mycenaean black inlaid metalware in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens: a technical examination. Annual of the British School at Athens, 90, pp. 137-153.

1994

Photos-Jones, E. and Jones, J. E. (1994) The building and industrial remains at Agrileza, Laurion (fourth century BC) and their contribution to the workings at the site. Annual of the British School at Athens, 89, pp. 307-358. (doi: 10.1017/S0068245400015446)

Photos, E. , Jones, R.E. and Papadapoulos, T.H. (1994) The black inlay decoration on a Mycenaean bronze dagger. Archaeometry, 36(2), pp. 267-275. (doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1994.tb00969.x)

1992

Photos-Jones, E. (1992) Appendix VIIIb: Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age copper and iron slags from Kastri and Paliokastro on Thasos. In: Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, C. (ed.) Πρωτοϊστορική Θάσος: τα νεκροταφεία του οικισμού Καστρι. Εκδοση του Ταμειου Αρχαιολογικων Πορων και Απαλλοτριωσεων: Athens, Greece, pp. 795-801.

1989

Rhomiopoulou, K., Kilian-Dirlmeier, I., Photos-Jones, E. and Wittwer-Backofen, U. (1989) Neue Funde aus der eisenzeitlichen Hügelnekropole von Vergina, Griechisch Makedonien. Appendix 1: Metallographic investigation of iron Artefacts from EIA Cemetery at Vergina. Praehistorische Zeitschrift, 64(1-2), pp. 146-149. (doi: 10.1515/prhz.1989.64.1-2.86)

Photos, E. (1989) The question of meteoritic versus smelted nickel‐rich iron: Archaeological evidence and experimental results. World Archaeology, 20(3), pp. 403-421. (doi: 10.1080/00438243.1989.9980081)

Photos-Jones, E. , Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, C., Tylecote, R. F. and Gialoglou, G. (1989) Precious metals extraction in Palaia Kavala, N.E. Greece. In: Hauptmann, A., Pernicka, E. and Wagner, G. A. (eds.) Archäometallurgie der Alten Welt : Beiträge zum Internationalen Symposium "Old World archaeometallurgy", Heidelberg 1987 = Old World archaeometallurgy : proceedings of the International Symposium "Old World archaeometallurgy", Heidelberg 1987. Selbstverlag des Deutschen Bergbau-Museums: Bochum, Germany, pp. 179-190. ISBN 9783921533420

Tylecote, R.F., Photos, E. and Earl, B. (1989) The composition of tin slags from the south‐west of England. World Archaeology, 20(3), pp. 434-445. (doi: 10.1080/00438243.1989.9980083)

1988

Photos, E. , Tylecote, R.F. and Adam-Veleni, P. (1988) The possibility of smelting iron-rich lateritic ores in the Hellenistic settlement of Petres, NW Greece. In: Jones, J.E. (ed.) Aspects of Ancient Mining and Metallurgy : Acta of a British School at Athens centenary conference at Bangor, 1986. Department of Classics, University College of North Wales: Bangor, pp. 35-42.

1986

Photos, E. , Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, H. and Gialoglou, G. (1986) Extractive iron metallurgy on Thasos and the East Macedonian Mainland. In: Jones, R.E. and Catlings, H.W. (eds.) Science in Archaeology: Proceedings of a Meeting held at the British School at Athens January 1985. Series: Fitch laboratory, occasional paper (2). Leopard's Head Press: London, pp. 43-48. ISBN 9780904887020

1983

Filippakis, S., Photou, E. , Rolley, C. and Varoufakis, G. (1983) Bronze grecs et orientaux: influences et apprentissages. Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 107(1), pp. 111-132.

1979

Diem, M., Photos, E. , Khouri, H. and Nafie, L. A. (1979) Vibrational circular dichroism in amino acids and peptides. 3. Solution- and solid-phase spectra of alanine and serine. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 101(23), pp. 6829-6837. (doi: 10.1021/ja00517a007)

1975

Photos, E. and Atkinson, G.H. (1975) Time-resolved single vibronic level fluorescence spectroscopy: Glyoxal. Chemical Physics Letters, 36(1), pp. 34-40. (doi: 10.1016/0009-2614(75)85680-6)

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Articles

Knapp, C.W., Christidis, G.E., Venieri, D., Gounaki, I., Gibney-Vamvakari, J., Stillings, N., and Photos-Jones, E. (2021) The ecology and bioactivity of some Greco-Roman medicinal minerals: the case of Melos earth pigments. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 13(10), 166. (doi: 10.1007/s12520-021-01396-z)

Christidis, G. E., Knapp, C. W., Venieri, D., Gounaki, I., Elgy, C., Valsami-Jones, E. and Photos-Jones, E. (2020) The interweaving roles of mineral and microbiome in shaping the antibacterial activity of archaeological medicinal clays. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 260, 112894. (doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2020.112894) (PMID:32348844)

Photos-Jones, E. , Bots, P., Oikonomou, E., Hamilton, A. and Knapp, C.W. (2020) On metal and ‘spoiled’ wine: analysing psimythion (synthetic cerussite) pellets (5th-3rd centuries BCE) and hypothesising gas-metal reactions over a fermenting liquid within a Greek pot. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 12, 243. (doi: 10.1007/s12520-020-01184-1) (PMID:33088349) (PMCID:PMC7560938)

Venieri, D., Gounaki, I., Christidis, G. E., Knapp, C. W., Bouras-Vallianatos, P. and Photos-Jones, E. (2020) Bridging the gaps: bole and Terra Sigillata as artefacts, as simples and as antibacterial clays. Minerals, 10(4), e348. (doi: 10.3390/min10040348) (PMID:32724664) (PMCID:PMC7115821)

Levi, S. T., Calliari, D., Arzarello, M., Cannavò, V., Di Renzoni, A. and Photos-Jones, E. (2019) Obsidian from the Bronze Age village of San Vincenzo, Stromboli, Aeolian Islands: a preliminary investigation. Open Archaeology, 5(1), pp. 31-45. (doi: 10.1515/opar-2019-0004)

Photos-Jones, E. , Knapp, C.W., Venieri, D., Christidis, G.E., Elgy, C., Valsami-Jones, E., Gounaki, I. and Andriopoulou, N.C. (2018) Greco-Roman mineral (litho)therapeutics and their relationship to their microbiome: the case of the red pigment miltos. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 22, pp. 179-192. (doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.07.017) (PMCID:PMC6360534)

Christidis, G., Barrett, B. and Photos-Jones, E. (2018) Stevenson at Vulcano in the late 19th century: a Scottish mining venture in southern Europe. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 147, pp. 303-323. (doi: 10.9750/PSAS.147.1255)

Photos-Jones, E. (2018) From mine to apothecary: an archaeo-biomedical approach to the study of the Greco-Roman lithotherapeutics industry. World Archaeology, 50(3), pp. 418-433. (doi: 10.1080/00438243.2018.1515034)

Photos-Jones, E. , Edwards, C., Häner, F., Lawton, L., Keane, C., Leanord, A. and Perdikatsis, V. (2017) Archaeological medicinal earths as antibacterial agents: the case of the Basel Lemnian sphragides. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 452(1), pp. 141-153. (doi: 10.1144/SP452.6)

Cannavò, V., Photos-Jones, E. , Levi, S. T., Brunelli, D., Fragnoli, P., Lomarco, G., Lugli, F., Martinelli, M. C. and Sforna, M. C. (2017) p-XRF analysis of multi-period Impasto and Cooking Pot wares from the excavations at Stromboli-San Vincenzo, Aeolian Islands, Italy. STAR: Science and Technology of Archaeological Research, 3(1), pp. 66-73. (doi: 10.1080/20548923.2017.1329918)

Photos-Jones, E. , Jones, R. and Bateson, D. (2017) ‘‘Light on many journies’: a crisis in Charles II’s Scottish silver coinage leading to the closure of the Mint. British Numismatic Journal, 87, pp. 163-178.

Photos-Jones, E. , Christidis, G.E., Piochi, M., Keane, C., Mormone, A., Balassone, G., Perdikatsis, V. and Leanord, A. (2016) Testing Greco-Roman medicinal minerals: The case of solfataric alum. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 10, pp. 82-95. (doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.08.042)

Photos-Jones, E. , Keane, C., Jones, A.X., Stamatakis, M., Robertson, P., Hall, A.J. and Leanord, A. (2015) Testing Dioscorides’ medicinal clays for their antibacterial properties: the case of Samian Earth. Journal of Archaeological Science, 57, pp. 257-267. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2015.01.020)

Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. J. (2011) Archaeological recording and chemical stratigraphy applied to contaminated land studies. Science of the Total Environment, 409(24), pp. 5432-5443. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.08.035)

Photos-Jones, E. (2011) προς σύστασιυ του μικρού μας κερματοκοπείου: non-destructive XRF analysis of coins (phoinikes and lepta) from the Aeginan Mint (1828-1831). Nomismatika Khronika, 29, pp. 91-109.

Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. (2010) Stypteria phorime as alunogen in solution: possible pointer to the gradual cooling of the Melos geothermal system. Hellenic Journal of Geosciences, 45, pp. 117-226.

Hall, A. and Photos-Jones, E. (2008) Accessing past beliefs and practices: the case of Lemnian Earth. Archaeometry, 50(6), pp. 1034-1049. (doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2007.00377.x)

Photos-Jones, E. , Dalglish, C., Coulter, S., Hall, A., Ruiz-Nieto, R. and Wilson, L. (2008) Between archives and the site: the case of the 19th-century iron and steel industry in the Monklands, Central Scotland, and one small forge within, Moffat Upper Steam Forge. Post-Medieval Archaeology, 42(1), pp. 157-180.

Photos-Jones, E. , Smith, B. B., Hall, A. J. and Jones, R. E. (2007) On the intent to make cramp: an interpretation of vitreous seaweed cremation ‘waste’ from prehistoric burial sites in Orkney, Scotland. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 26(1), pp. 1-23. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2007.00270.x)

Johnson, M., Photos-Jones, E. and Hickman, S. (2006) A Medieval bloomery mound in Glen Docherty, Kinlochewe, Highland. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 28(2), pp. 125-149. (doi: 10.3366/E147157670700006X)

Hall, A.J., Fallick, A.E., Perdikatsis, V. and Photos-Jones, E. (2003) A model for the origin of AI-rich efflorescences near fumaroles, Melos, Greece: enhanced weathering in a geothermal setting. Mineralogical Magazine, 67(2), pp. 363-379. (doi: 10.1180/0026461036720102)

Hall, A.J., Photos-Jones, E. , McNulty, A., Turner, D. and McRobb, A. (2003) Geothermal activity at the archaeological site of Aghia Kyriaki and its significance to Roman industrial mineral exploitation on Melos, Greece Mineral Exploitation on Melos, Greece. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 18(3), pp. 333-357. (doi: 10.1002/gea.10068)

Photos-Jones, E. , Politis, K., James, H.F., Hall, A.J., Jones, R.E. and Hamer, J./ (2002) The sugar industry in the Southern Jordan Valley: a preliminary assessment of a pilot season at the Tawahin es-Sukkar and Khirbet Sheikh ‘Isa. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, pp. 591-614.

Jones, R.E. , Tompsett, G., Politis, K.D. and Photos-Jones, E. (2000) The Tawahin es-sukkar and khirbet sheik 'isa project phase I: the surveys. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, 44, pp. 523-534.

Photos-Jones, E. , Hall, A.J., Atkinson, J.A., Tompsett, G., Cottier, A. and Sanders, G.D.R. (1999) The Aghia Kyriaki, Melos survey: prospecting for the elusive earths in the Roman period in the Aegean. Annual of the British School at Athens, 94, pp. 377-413. (doi: 10.1017/S0068245400000654)

Hall, A. and Photos-Jones, E. (1998) The bloomery mounds of the Scottish Highlands. Part 2: a review of iron mineralization. Historical Metallurgy, 32(2), pp. 54-66.

Photos-Jones, E. , Atkinson, J.A., Hall, A. and Banks, I. (1998) The bloomery mounds of the Scottish Highlands. Part 1: the archaeological background. Historical Metallurgy, 32(1), pp. 15-32.

Photos-Jones, E. and Atkinson, J. A. (1998) Iron in medieval Perth: a case of town and country? Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 128, pp. 887-904. (doi: 10.5284/1000184)

Photos-Jones, E. , Cottier, A., Hall, A.J. and Mendoni, L.G. (1997) Kean miltos: the well-known iron oxides of antiquity. Annual of the British School at Athens, 92, pp. 359-371. (doi: 10.1017/S0068245400016737)

Demakopoulou, K., Mangou, E., Jones, R.E. and Photos-Jones, E. (1995) Mycenaean black inlaid metalware in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens: a technical examination. Annual of the British School at Athens, 90, pp. 137-153.

Photos-Jones, E. and Jones, J. E. (1994) The building and industrial remains at Agrileza, Laurion (fourth century BC) and their contribution to the workings at the site. Annual of the British School at Athens, 89, pp. 307-358. (doi: 10.1017/S0068245400015446)

Photos, E. , Jones, R.E. and Papadapoulos, T.H. (1994) The black inlay decoration on a Mycenaean bronze dagger. Archaeometry, 36(2), pp. 267-275. (doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1994.tb00969.x)

Rhomiopoulou, K., Kilian-Dirlmeier, I., Photos-Jones, E. and Wittwer-Backofen, U. (1989) Neue Funde aus der eisenzeitlichen Hügelnekropole von Vergina, Griechisch Makedonien. Appendix 1: Metallographic investigation of iron Artefacts from EIA Cemetery at Vergina. Praehistorische Zeitschrift, 64(1-2), pp. 146-149. (doi: 10.1515/prhz.1989.64.1-2.86)

Photos, E. (1989) The question of meteoritic versus smelted nickel‐rich iron: Archaeological evidence and experimental results. World Archaeology, 20(3), pp. 403-421. (doi: 10.1080/00438243.1989.9980081)

Tylecote, R.F., Photos, E. and Earl, B. (1989) The composition of tin slags from the south‐west of England. World Archaeology, 20(3), pp. 434-445. (doi: 10.1080/00438243.1989.9980083)

Filippakis, S., Photou, E. , Rolley, C. and Varoufakis, G. (1983) Bronze grecs et orientaux: influences et apprentissages. Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 107(1), pp. 111-132.

Diem, M., Photos, E. , Khouri, H. and Nafie, L. A. (1979) Vibrational circular dichroism in amino acids and peptides. 3. Solution- and solid-phase spectra of alanine and serine. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 101(23), pp. 6829-6837. (doi: 10.1021/ja00517a007)

Photos, E. and Atkinson, G.H. (1975) Time-resolved single vibronic level fluorescence spectroscopy: Glyoxal. Chemical Physics Letters, 36(1), pp. 34-40. (doi: 10.1016/0009-2614(75)85680-6)

Books

Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. J. (2014) Eros, Mercator and the Cultural Landscape of Melos in Antiquity. Potingair Press: Glasgow. ISBN 9780956824001

Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. J. (2011) Lemnian Earth and the Earths of the Aegean: An Archaeological Guide To Medicines, Pigments And Washing Powders. Potingair Press: Glasgow. ISBN 9780956824004

Book Sections

Photos-Jones, E. and Jones, R. (2018) Mycenaean ‘Alum’: Implications for the exchange of astringent minerals in the Bronze Age. In: Bettelli, M., Del Freo, M. and van Wijngaarden, G. J. (eds.) Mediterranea Itinera : Studies in Honour of Lucia Vagnetti. Series: Incunabula Graeca, 106. CNR - Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico: Rome, Italy, pp. 77-92. ISBN 9788880803409

Di Renzoni, A., Ayala, G., Brunelli, D., Levi, S. T., Lugli, S., Photos-Jones, E. , Renzulli, A. and Santi, P. (2016) Aiding and abetting the archaeological enquiry: geochemical work-in-progress at the site of San Vincenzo, Stromboli, Aeolian Islands, Italy. In: Photos-Jones, E., Basiakos, I., Filippaki, E., Hein, A., Karatasios, I., Kilikoglou, V. and Kouloumpi, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry. Series: BAR international series (2780). British Archaeological Reports Ltd,: Oxford, pp. 167-174. ISBN 9781407314303

Martinelli, M. C., Photos-Jones, E. and Levi, S. T. (2016) Did copper actually arrive in the Aeolian Islands in the fourth millennium BC? The evidence from a small but iconic fragment of vitreous material thought to be copper slag. In: Photos-Jones, E., Basiakos, I., Filippaki, E., Hein, A., Karatasios, I., Kilikoglou, V. and Kouloumpi, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry. Series: BAR international series, 2780. British Archaeological Reports Ltd: Oxford, pp. 73-80. ISBN 9781407314303

Photos-Jones, E. (2016) The Metallographic investigation of the Leckie Broch metalwork and industrial waste. In: MacKie, E. (ed.) Brochs and the Empire: The Impact of Rome on Iron Age Scotland As Seen in the Leckie Brock Excavations. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, pp. 122-137. ISBN 9781784914400

Photos-Jones, E. , Zagana, E. and Roumelioti, P. (2016) The ayiasmata (holy springs) of Lemnos, NE Greece: an archaeo-hydrogeological study. In: Photos-Jones, E., Basiakos, I., Filippaki, E., Hein, A., Karatasios, I., Kilikoglou, V. and Kouloumpi, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry. Series: BAR international series (2780). British Archaeological Reports Ltd,: Oxford, pp. 221-229. ISBN 9781407314303

Glatz, C. , Düring, B. S., Wilkinson, T. C., Gratuze, B., Jones, R. , Photos-Jones, E. and Klinkenberg, V. (2015) Developing an adaptive field methodology for challenging landscapes. In: Düring, B. S. and Glatz, C. (eds.) Kinetic Landscapes: The Cide Archaeological Project 2009-2011 - Surveying the Western Turkish Black Sea Region. De Gruyter Open: Warsaw, pp. 53-103. ISBN 9783110444964 (doi: 10.1515/9783110444971-008)

Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A.J. (2014) Cramp and calcite analyses. In: Ballin Smith, B. (ed.) Between Tomb and Cist: The Funerary Monuments of Crantit, Kewing and Nether Onston, Orkney. The Orcadian Press: Orkney, pp. 75-89. ISBN 9781902957661

Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A.J. (2014) Cramp summary report. In: Ballin Smith, B. (ed.) Between Tomb and Cist: The Funerary Monuments of Crantit, Kewing and Nether Onston, Orkney. The Orcadian Press: Orkney, pp. 101-108. ISBN 9781902957661

Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A. J. (2014) Lemnian Earth, alum and astringency: a field based approach. In: Michaelides, D. (ed.) Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Oxbow Books: Oxford, pp. 183-189. ISBN 9781782972358

Hall, A. and Photos-Jones, E. (2009) The juice of the pomegranate: quality control for the processing and distribution of alumen in antiquity and making sense of Pliny’s Phorimon and Paraphoron. In: Shortland, A.J., Freestone, I. and Rehren, T. (eds.) From Mine to Microscope: Advances in the Study of Ancient Technology. Oxbow Books: Oxford, UK, pp. 197-206. ISBN 9781842172599

Photos-Jones, E. , Hall, A., Jones, R. and Pantos, E. (2009) ‘Sweet waste’: the industrial waste from the medieval sugar refinery at the Tawahin es-Sukkar in Jordan. In: Shortland, A.J., Freestone, I. and Rehren, T. (eds.) From Mine to Microscope: Advances in the Study of Ancient Technology. Oxbow Books: Oxford, UK, pp. 223-230. ISBN 9781842172599

Photos-Jones, E. (2006) Metallurgical waste. In: Lowe, C. (ed.) Excavations at Hoddom, Dumfriesshire: An Early Ecclesiastical Site in South-West Scotland. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: Edinburgh, pp. 137-144. ISBN 9780903903394

Jones, R.E. and Photos-Jones, E. (2005) Technical studies of Aegean Bronze Age wall painting: methods, results and future prospects. In: Morgan, L. (ed.) Aegean Wall Painting: a tribute to Mark Cameron. Series: British School at Athens studies (13). British School at Athens: London, pp. 199-224. ISBN 9780904887495

Photos-Jones, E. , Jones, R.E. and Hall, A.J. (2003) Technical report on painted plaster fragments from the Greek-Swedish excavations at Kastelli, Khania, Crete. In: Hallager, E. and Hallager, B. P. (eds.) The Greek-Swedish Excavations at the Agia Aikaterinini Square Kastelli, Khania 1970-87 and 2001 vol. III:1 The Late Minoan IIIB2 Settlement. Series: Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Athen, 3:1. P Åstrom Forlag: Stockholm, pp. 306-320. ISBN 9789179160456

Photos-Jones, E. (2001) "Made in Scotland?": sword-making in Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries in the recent context of recent archaeological evidence. In: Freeman, P.W.M. and Pollard, A. (eds.) Fields of Conflict : Progress and Prospect in Battlefield Archaeology : Proceedings of a Conference held in the Department Of Archaeology, University Of Glasgow, April 2000. Series: BAR international series, 958. Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 61-73. ISBN 9781841712499

Atkinson, J.A. and Photos-Jones, E. (1999) "Brave at heart": clanship and the work of the Highland smith. In: Young, S.M.M., Pollard, A.M., Budd, P. and Ixer, R.A. (eds.) Metals in Antiquity. Series: BAR International Series, 792. Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 271-279. ISBN 9781841710082

Photos-Jones, E. , Hall, A., Pollard, T. , Meikle, T.K. and Newlands, A. (1999) The manner of how it grew was like unto the haire of a man’s head: the early 1600’s discovery and exploitation of native silver at Hilderstone in Scotland. In: Young, S.M.M. (ed.) Metals in Antiquity. Series: BAR international series, 792 (792). Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 280-289. ISBN 9781841710082

Photos-Jones, E. , Hall, A.J., Pollard, A., Meikle, Y.T.K. and Newlands, A. (1999) 'The manner how it grew was like unto the haire of a man’s head’: the early 1600’s discovery and exploitation of native silver. In: Young, S.M.M., Pollard, A.M., Budd, P. and Ixer, R.A. (eds.) Metals in Antiquity. Series: BAR International Series, 792. Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 280-289. ISBN 9781841710082

Photos-Jones, E. (1992) Appendix VIIIb: Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age copper and iron slags from Kastri and Paliokastro on Thasos. In: Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, C. (ed.) Πρωτοϊστορική Θάσος: τα νεκροταφεία του οικισμού Καστρι. Εκδοση του Ταμειου Αρχαιολογικων Πορων και Απαλλοτριωσεων: Athens, Greece, pp. 795-801.

Photos-Jones, E. , Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, C., Tylecote, R. F. and Gialoglou, G. (1989) Precious metals extraction in Palaia Kavala, N.E. Greece. In: Hauptmann, A., Pernicka, E. and Wagner, G. A. (eds.) Archäometallurgie der Alten Welt : Beiträge zum Internationalen Symposium "Old World archaeometallurgy", Heidelberg 1987 = Old World archaeometallurgy : proceedings of the International Symposium "Old World archaeometallurgy", Heidelberg 1987. Selbstverlag des Deutschen Bergbau-Museums: Bochum, Germany, pp. 179-190. ISBN 9783921533420

Photos, E. , Tylecote, R.F. and Adam-Veleni, P. (1988) The possibility of smelting iron-rich lateritic ores in the Hellenistic settlement of Petres, NW Greece. In: Jones, J.E. (ed.) Aspects of Ancient Mining and Metallurgy : Acta of a British School at Athens centenary conference at Bangor, 1986. Department of Classics, University College of North Wales: Bangor, pp. 35-42.

Photos, E. , Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, H. and Gialoglou, G. (1986) Extractive iron metallurgy on Thasos and the East Macedonian Mainland. In: Jones, R.E. and Catlings, H.W. (eds.) Science in Archaeology: Proceedings of a Meeting held at the British School at Athens January 1985. Series: Fitch laboratory, occasional paper (2). Leopard's Head Press: London, pp. 43-48. ISBN 9780904887020

Edited Books

Photos-Jones, E. , Basiakos, I., Filippaki, E., Hein, A., Karatasios, I., Kilikoglou, V. and Kouloumpi, E. (Eds.) (2016) Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry. Series: BAR international series. British Archaeological Reports Ltd,: Oxford. ISBN 9781407314303

Conference Proceedings

Photos-Jones, E. and Hall, A.J. (2011) "Harvesting" the Ore: The Use of Iron Seepages in the Early Bloomery Furnace in Ireland. In: 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, Siena, Italy, 13-16 May 2008, pp. 629-635. ISBN 9783642146770 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-14678-7_92)

Hall, A. J. and Photos-Jones, E. (2003) The nature of Melian alumen and its potential for exploitation in antiquity. In: L'Alun de Mediterranee, Colloque International, Naples, Italy, 04-06 Jun 2003, pp. 77-84. ISBN 9782903189846

Atkinson, J.A. and Photos-Jones, E. (2001) A site with a 'special purpose': mining activity on Melos in the Late Roman Period. In: 5th International Mining History Congress, Milos Island, Greece, 12-15 Sep 2000, pp. 77-85.

Hansom, J.D. , Hall, A.J. and Photos-Jones, E. (2001) Rapid environmental change during industrial minerals exploitation in the Aegean: the case of Roman Aghia Kyriaki, Melos, Greece. In: 5th International Mining History Congress, Milos Island, Greece, 12-15 Sep 2000, pp. 92-100.

Johnson, P., Tompsett, G. and Photos-Jones, E. (2001) Water, its collection and usage in the washeries of 4th century Agrileza: some new observations and results. In: 8th Scientific Conference of South East Attica, Keratea, Greece, 2001, pp. 411-427.

Photos-Jones, E. , Hendry, A. and Kavasila, P. (2001) SEM and TEM examination of Byzantine and post-Byzantine metal threads in Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical textiles. In: Archaeometry Issues in Greek Prehistory and Antiquity, Athens, Greece, 2001, pp. 429-441. ISBN 9608709806

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Grants

  • Wellcome Trust Seed Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences (201676/Z/16/Z)
  • NERC  Grant  (FENAC/2015/11/07)
  • Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland Research Grant (2016-2017)