Studies of ancient materials, technologies and human-material-environment interactions through complementary scientific, archaeological, historical and anthropological approaches.
Elected 2024
Long-term world history; comparative archaeology; the evolution of societies; quantitative history; history & archaeology of ancient Greece.
Archaeology Southern Europe Italy Art and Archaeology of Rome, Italy and the Roman Provinces
Prehistory in Europe, the Near East and Central Asia; the beginnings of sedentary life and domestication of plants and animals; early metallurgy; nomadism and cultural contacts in the Eurasian steppes in the 1st millenium BC