Scott Pike

Education

B.A. in Anthropology, Oberlin College
Ph.D. in Geology, University of Georgia

Research Interests

Dr. Pike specializes in archaeological geology with a focus on interpreting the interactions between cultures and their natural environment. Currently, Dr. Pike is the staff geologist for the Sangro River Project in the southern Abruzzo region of Italy. This multinational landscape archaeology project is focused on deciphering the synergistic relationship between humans and the physical environment during the transition from Samnite to Roman domination. Dr. Pike is also an expert on determining the source of ancient Aegean marbles and collaborates with archaeologists and art historians from around the world on issues related to the economics, politics, and aesthetics of ancient marble. Dr. Pike has just been granted permission to collect marble samples from the Parthenon in order to gain a better understanding of the organization of the construction of the monument.

Publications

Palagia, O and Pike, S. (forthcoming). The marble of the Bassai Frieze. In The Proceedings of the Association for the Study of Marbles and Other Stones in Aniquity (ASMOSIA) VIII, L’Atelier Méditerranéen Special Volume, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme.

Romano, I., Gazda, E. and Pike, S. (forthcoming). The Hartwig-Kelsey fragments: A Pentelic marble case study. In The Proceedings of the Association for the Study of Marbles and Other Stones in Aniquity (ASMOSIA) VIII, L’Atelier Méditerranéen Special Volume, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme.

Pike, S. (forthcoming). A stable isotope database for the ancient white marble quarries of Mount Pentelikon, Greece. In The Proceedings of the Association for the Study of Marbles and Other Stones in Antiquity (ASMOSIA) VII, The French School of Athens.

Sheedy, K. and Pike, S. (forthcoming). The Delos Colossus Project. In Actes du colloque “La sculpture des Cyclades à l’épque archaïque histoire des ateliers, rayonnement des styles, Athenes, 7-9 Septembre 1998,” Fr. Prost and Y. Kourayios eds.

Pike, S. (2004). Intra-quarry sourcing of the Parthenon marbles: applications of the Pentelic Marble Stable Isotope Database. In The Sculptures of the Parthenon, M. Cosmopoulos ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 196-206.

Pike, S., Herrmann, Jr. J., and Herz, N. (2002). A provenance study of calcitic marble from the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. In ASMOSIA V: Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone, J. Hermann, Jr., N. Herz and R. Newman eds., Archetype Publications Ltd., London.

Pike, S. and Gitin, S. (2000). The Practical Impact of Science on Near Eastern and Aegean Archaeology, Wiener Laboratory Publication Number 3, Archetype Publications Ltd., London.

Pike, S. (1999). Preliminary results of a systematic characterization study of Mount Pentelikon, Attica, Greece. In Archéomatériaux - Marbres et autres roches: The Proceedings of the Association for the Study of Marbles and Other Stones in Antiquity (ASMOSIA) IV 1995, M. Schvoerer ed., CRPAA Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux, pp.165-170

Vaughan, S., Herz, N. and Pike, S. (1997). The application of stable isotope analysis to a ceramic provenance study of Early Cycladic Marble Ware. In Abstracts of Papers, 213th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Symposium: Geochemistry and Archaeology, San Francisco, Spring 1997.

Pike, S. (1996). A geologic survey on Mount Pentelikon and its implications on sampling. In Archaeometry 94: The Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Archaeometry, S. Demirci, A.M. Özer and G.D. Summers eds., Tübitak, Ankara, pp. 111-119.