Department of Classics
2019 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow
Dr. Yates received a Rothman Faculty Summer Fellowship for her project titled “The ‘Chain-Saw’ in Archaic Greek quarries on Naxos and Paros”.
Investigating the mysterious grooves in the stone surrounding the unfinished Apollonas Colossus on Naxos, this project proposes the ancient Greeks’ usage of a large ‘chain saw’ in marble quarrying. It sheds light on the poorly understood marble quarrying and carving processes of ancient Greece, and suggests that the production of large-scale marble statues was very much a team or even a community effort.