Education

2000–2005

Studies in Egyptology and Classical Archaeology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
 
2005

M.A. examinations at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
 
2003–2004

Master of Studies (M.St.) at the University of Oxford (The Queen's College) in Oriental Studies with a focus on Egyptology. (Graduation: 2004).
 
2006–2013

Employment as a surveyor and archaeological geometrician at the company Oxford Archaeology in Oxford and Lancaster, and in France.
 
2008–2014

PhD research at the University of Liverpool. Thesis title: Royal Cities of the New Kingdom: A Spatial Analysis of Production and Socio-Economics in Late Bronze Age Egypt. (Graduation: 2014).
 
2014

Three-month research fellowship at the British Museum, London. Documentation and analysis of glass jewellery from the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom.
 
2014, 2017

Archaeological site direction at Tell el-Amarna: Glass- and jewellery-workshop M50.14-16 (funded by the Egypt Exploration Society (2017), the G.A. Wainwright Fund, the Corning Museum of Glass – Rakow Grant, the Association for the History of Glass and the Thames Valley Ancient Egypt Society (2014)).
Weblink: https://www.amarnaproject.com/pages/recent_projects/excavation/beadwork/ 

 
2015, 2017

Egypt Exploration Society Fieldwork and Research Grant Award for excavation work at Amarna (site M50.14–16) and a study using portable XRF on glass objects from Amarna at the Egyptian Museum, Berlin.
 
2015–2017

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Freie Universität Berlin, in cooperation with the Egyptian Museum, Berlin and the Amarna Project (Cambridge, UK). Project title: GLASS: ‘Glass, Faience and Food in Late Bronze Age Societies: An Analysis of the Socio-Economics of Urban Industries in Egyptian and Mesopotamian settlements.
 
2017–2018

Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the excellence cluster Topoi, Freie Universität Berlin, with the Egyptian Museum, Berlin and the Amarna Project (Cambridge, UK) as cooperation partners. Project title: KOBALT: „Chaîne opératoire“ des beliebten blauen Farbstoffes im Neuen Reich Ägyptens.
 
2019 (summer semester)

Stand-in Professor. Institute of Egyptology, Freie Universität Berlin.
 
2020/21 (winter semester)

Stand-in Professor. Institute of Egyptology, Freie Universität Berlin.

2020–2024 (with a cost-neutral extension until 2025)

PI in DFG-funded project Working in the Suburbs: the study of archaeological and material remains at domestic workshop site M50.14-16 at Amarna (Institute of Egyptology, FU Berlin; DFG project number 441869182).

Since 03/2025

Co-PI in DFG/AHRC-funded project Craft Interactions in a New Kingdom Industrial Landscape (Egypt, 1550-1069 BCE) (FU Berlin and British Museum: project lead with Frederik W. Rademakers; DFG project number 547419350).

Dissertations

• M.A. dissertation: „Die Endphase der Ramsesstadt: Die Bedeutung und Geschichte der Stadt in der späten Ramessidenzeit“ (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2005)
• M.St. theses: “The Representation of the Hittite people in Ancient Egyptian Art” and “The Scribe Statue of Amenhotep (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum 1913.163)”. (University of Oxford, 2004)
• Dissertation: „Royal Cities of the New Kingdom: A Spatial Analysis of Production and Socio-Economics in Late Bronze Age Egypt.“ (University of Liverpool, 2014)

Research interests

New Kindom Egyptian settlement archaeology with a focus on Amarna, Late Bronze Age pyrotechnology, in particular glass. Chemical analysis (using portable XRF etc.) of glass and other vitreous materials; experimental archaeology.

Recently completed research project:

Working in the Suburbs: the study of archaeological and material remains at domestic workshop site M50.14-16 at Amarna

Books:

Hodgkinson, Anna K., 2017. Technology and Urbanism in Late Bronze Age Egypt, Oxford Studies in Egyptian Archaeology 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hodgkinson, Anna K. 2021. Ear-plugs, ear-studs or beads? Reinterpreting a group of glass objects from New Kingdom Egypt in the British Museum. Kitab: Egyptology in Focus 2. London: Nicanor Books.

Hodgkinson, Anna K. (lead author with contributions) in print, 2025. Working in the Suburbs: The Archaeological Remains from Amarna Site M50.14-16. London: Egypt Exploration Society.

Edited conference proceedings:

Hodgkinson, Anna K. and Cecilie Lelek Tvetmarken (Hrsg.), 2020. Approaches to the Analysis of Production Activity at Archaeological Sites. Oxford: Archaeopress (Open Access Link)

Articles:

Hodgkinson, Anna K., Q. Lemasson, M. Mäder, F. Munnik, L. Pichon, S. Röhrs and I. Reiche 2024. A comparative compositional study of Egyptian glass from Amarna with regard to cobalt sources and other colourants. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 54: 104412. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104412.

Boonstra, Stephanie L. and Anna K. Hodgkinson 2023. Mr Hayter’s Notebook: Insights on the 1921 excavations at Amarna. Egyptian Archaeology 63, 49–53.

Hodgkinson, Anna K. and Stephanie L. Boonstra 2023. A.G.K. Hayter at Amarna: a detailed notebook and a “new” glass workshop. Horizon 23. 16–21. https://www.amarnaproject.com/documents/pdf/horizon-newsletter-23.pdf.

Hodgkinson, Anna K. 2021. Waste management at Amarna. Horizon 21, 22–26. https://www.amarnaproject.com/documents/pdf/horizon-newsletter-21.pdf.

Hodgkinson, Anna K. 2021. The domestic manufacture of vitreous materials in Late Bronze Age Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern settlements: Tell el-Amarna as a case study. In: M. Meyer et al (eds) Approaching Economic Spaces. Methods and Interpretation in Archaeometric Ceramic Analysis. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 64, 73–86. Berlin: Topoi. DOI: 10.17171/3-64.

Yoyotte, Marine, C. Vénier, I. Ostericher, O. Onézime, P. Bailet, A. Pillon, A. K. Hodgkinson, J. Bunbury, T. Herbich, V. Michel, J. Johnstone, J. Picton, I. Pridden and L. Bertini 2020. Gourob [notice archéologique], Bulletin archéologique des Écoles françaises à l’étranger [online]. DOI: 10.4000/baefe.921.

Hodgkinson, Anna K. and M. Bertram 2020. Working with fire: making glass beads at Amarna using methods from metallurgical scenes. In: F. W. Rademakers et al (eds), Proceedings of ICA 2: Contributions of Experimental Archaeology to Excavation and Material Studies; Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 33. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102488.

Hodgkinson, Anna K. and Daniel A. Frick 2020. Identification of Co-coloured Egyptian glass objects by LA-ICP-MS: a case study from the 18th dynasty workshops at Amarna, Egypt, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 20:1, 45–58. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3605660.

Hodgkinson, Anna K. 2020. Using spatial analysis for understanding the manufacture and manipulation of Late Bronze Age Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern glass. In: A. K. Hodgkinson and C. Lelek Tvetmarken (Hrsg.), Approaches to the Analysis of Production Activity at Archaeological Sites, Oxford: Archaeopress, 84–106.

Hodgkinson, Anna K. 2020. Manufacturing colourful glass objects in New Kingdom Egypt: a spatial and statistical analysis. In: D. A. Warburton and S. Thavapalan (eds), The Value of Color in Early Antiquity. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World. Vol. 70. Berlin: Topoi. DOI: 10.17171/3-70.

Hodgkinson, Anna K. 2019. Preliminary Report on the work undertaken in the Main City South at Tell el-Amarna 7 October–2 November 2017. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 105:1. DOI: 10.1177/0307513319874013.

Hodgkinson, Anna K., S. Röhrs, K. Müller and I. Reiche 2019. The use of Cobalt in 18th Dynasty Blue Glass from Amarna: the results from an on-site analysis using portable XRF technology, STAR: Science & Technology of Archaeological Research, (Proceedings of the 42nd International Symposium on Archaeometry 2018). DOI: 10.1080/20548923.2019.1649083.

Hodgkinson, Anna K. 2016. “Excavation of a bead workshop M50.14-16”. In: B. J. Kemp ‘Tell el-Amarna, 2014-15’. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 101, 1–5.

Kemp, Barry J., M. Bertram, D. Driaux, A. K. Hodgkinson, S. Jędraszek and S. Kelly 2016. “Great Aten Temple”. In: B. J. Kemp, ‘Tell el-Amarna, 2014-15’. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 101, 5–17.

Hodgkinson, Anna K. 2015. Archaeological excavations of a bead workshop in the Main City at Tell el-Amarna, Journal of Glass Studies 57, 279–284.

Kemp, Barry J., M. Bertram, D. Driaux, A. K. Hodgkinson and S. Kelly 2014. “Great Aten Temple”. In: B. J. Kemp, ‘Tell el-Amarna, 2014’. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 100, 1–33.

Kemp, Barry J., M. Bertram, A. K. Hodgkinson and S. Kelly 2013. “Great Aten Temple”. In: B. J. Kemp, ‘Tell el-Amarna, 2012-13’. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 99, 20–32.

Hodgkinson, Anna K. 2012. “The phasing of the entrance to the Great Aten Temple at Amarna”. In B. J. Kemp, ‘Tell el-Amarna, 2011–12’. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 98, 11–16.

Hodgkinson, Anna K. 2011. Mass-Production in New Kingdom Egypt: The industries of Amarna and Piramesse. In J. Corbelli, D. Boatright und C. Malleson (Hrsg.), Current Research in Egyptology IX: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Symposium. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 81–98.

Hodgkinson, Anna K. 2010. High-status industries in the Capital- and Royal Cities of the New Kingdom. In: A. Hudecz and M. Petrik (eds), Commerce and Economy in Ancient Egypt: Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Young Egyptologists 25-27 September 2009, Budapest. Oxford: Archaeopress, 71–79.

Hodgkinson, Anna K. 2007. The Final Phase of Per-Ramesses: The History of the City in the Light of its Natural Environment. In Cannata, M. (ed.) Current Research in Egyptology VII: Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Symposium. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 99–115.

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