Born:
23 June 1946 Boston, Massachusetts
Education
Phillips Exeter Academy 1959-1963
Haverford College 1963-1967 B.A. in Classics
University of Pennsylvania 1967-1969 Ph.D. in
Classical Archaeology 1971-1974
Married:
31 January 1970
Sarah R. Herndon
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Children:
Benjamin Ryerson, born 14 August, 1975 Wilmington, Delaware
Nicholas Kendall, born 23 June, 1979 Lebanon, New Hampshire
Military Service:
United States Army September 1969 to July 1971
Teaching Experience
University of California at Los
Angeles 1975-1976
Department of Classics (Visiting Assistant Professor)
Dartmouth College 1976-present
Department of Classics (Assistant Professor, 1976-1981; Associate Professor, 1981-1987; Professor, 1987-present; Chairman 1992-1998)
Doctoral Dissertation
"The Late Helladic IIIB and IIIC Periods at Korakou and Gonia in the Corinthia"
Academic Awards
Excavation Experience
PUBLICATIONS:
MONOGRAPHS
1. with S. Rutter, The Transition to Mycenaean. A Stratified Middle Helladic to Late Helladic IIA Pottery Sequence from Ayios Stephanos in Lakonia (Monumenta Archeologica 4) (Los Angeles 1976). [reviewed: J. N. Coldstream, AJA 83(1979) 354-355; O. T. P. K. Dickinson, JHS 99(1979) 199-200; G. Graziadio, SMEA 21(1980) 394-397; A. Kanta, Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology, University of London 19(1982); S. Hiller, Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 36(1983) 223-226]
2. Ceramic Change in the Aegean Early Bronze Age. The Kastri-Group, Lefkandi I, and Lerna IV: A Theory Concerning the Origin of Early Helladic III Ceramics (UCLA Institute of Archaeology, Occasional Paper 5) (Los Angeles 1979).
3. Lerna. A Preclassical Site in the Argolid III: The Pottery of Lerna IV (Princeton 1995). [reviewed: J. Maran, American Journal of Archaeology 101(1997) 409-411; A Schachner, Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica 29(1997) 160-162; J. Driessen, L'Antiquité Classique 46(1997) 648-649; J. Forsén, Opuscula Atheniensia 24(1999) 128-129; E. Moignard, Classical Review 49(1999) 301-302; T. V. Blavatskaya, Rossiyskaya Arkheologiya (2000:2) 220-224; K. Lewartowski, Archeologia Warsawa 50(1999) 97-98]
ELECTRONIC MEDIA PUBLICATIONS 1. The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean [http://devlab.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/][Initially posted on the Web in 1996, but constantly being updated and added to, most recently in April 1998. Now also posted at http://projects.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/]]
A series of notes designed to accompany 29 topically oriented lectures, each accompanied by full bibliographies sorted by subcategories of subject matter; ca. 525 scanned slides, mostly outdoor views of archaeological sites and architecture but also including some artifact photographs; search engine provides capability to locate sites, artifactual and architectural types, specific publications (by either author or title) in either the notes, the bibliographies, or the scanned slides, or in all three at once].
2. Greek Classical Archaeology: City-States and Panhellenic Sanctuaries [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~grs22]
[Initially posted on the Web in January 1999; updated through March 1999 and saved for re-use in modified form for next scheduled offering of GRS 22 in 2001W.]
This Web site designed for the offering of Greek and Roman Studies 22 at Dartmouth in 1999W consists of: course syllabus; reserve reading list; paper assignments (instructions; assignment-specific discussion space for students; posting of best papers), quizzes (instructions and study questions; quiz-specific discussion space for students; posting of best answers); Internet links relevant to course, posted according to class meeting where most applicable; provision for evaluation of course to be filed electronically and anonymously by students.
3. Classics Panos: Panoramas from Greece and Turkey [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cpano/]
Designed and initially uploaded in the Fall term of 1999, this site is designed to feature Quicktime VR panoramas of archaeological sites in Greece and western Turkey that are on the itinerary of Dartmouth's Greek Foreign Study Program. The panoramas currently posted at this site were photographed in the Spring of 1999; the historical and archaeological copy on the site, as well as the collections of links to other Internet resources are, the work of Dartmouth undergraduates, both Presidential Scholars and part-time employees of Curricular Computing. As part of the coursework for Greek and Roman Studies 22 in 2001W, the range of Quicktime VR panoramas accompanied by archaeological and historical texts at this site will be supplemented with panoramas posted on Bruce Hartzler's METIS site at http://www.stoa.org/~hartzler/.
4. GRS 6: Introduction to Classical Archaeology [http://dewey.dartmouth.edu/courses/GRS6]
Course Web site for offering of Greek and Roman Studies 6 in 2000F. Two research assignments in this course involved objects from the collections of the Hood Museum of Art, a prehistoric Cypriot vase and a Roman Imperial coin [[for the instructions for both assignments, see Papers #3 and #4 as posted at
http://dewey.dartmouth.edu/bin/common/content.pl?course_id=GRS6&area=assignments&parent=Top]
High-quality images of all the objects assigned, along with numerous comparanda for the coins, are posted at http://projects.dartmouth.edu/classics/, part of a larger Web site at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cimage/ that will ultimately feature all images used by the Classics Department for course instruction.
ARTICLES
1. "A Further Note on the Structure of Catullus 17," Classical World 60(1967) 269-270.
2. "The Three Phases of the Taurobolium," Phoenix 22(1968) 226-249.
3. with S. Diamant, "Horned Objects in Anatolia and the Near East and Possible Connexions with the Minoan 'Horns of Consecration'," Anatolian Studies 19(1969) 147-177.
4. "Ceramic Evidence for Northern Intruders in Southern Greece at the Beginning of the Late Helladic IIIC Period," American Journal of Archaeology 79(1975) 17-32.
5. "Evidence for a Mycenaean Tomb of the Late Helladic IIA Period in the Athenian Agora," Hesperia 44(1975) 375-378.
6. "'Non-Mycenaean' Pottery: A Reply to Gisela Walberg," American Journal of Archaeology 80(1976) 187-188.
7. with E. French, "The Handmade Burnished Ware of the Late Helladic IIIC Period: Its Modern Historical Context," American Journal of Archaeology 81(1977) 111-112.
8. "Late Helladic IIIC Pottery and Some Historical Implications," Symposium on the Dark Ages in Greece (New York 1977) 1-20.
9. with R. E. Jones, "Resident Minoan Potters on the Greek Mainland? Pottery Composition Analyses from Ayios Stephanos," Archaeometry 19(1977) 137-146.
10. "A Plea for the Abandonment of the Term 'Submycenaean'," Temple University Aegean Symposium 3(1978) 58-65.
11. "Stone Vases and Minyan Ware: A Facet of Minoan Influence on Middle Helladic Laconia," American Journal of Archaeology 83(1979) 464-469.
12. "The Last Mycenaeans at Corinth," Hesperia 48(1979) 348-392.
13. "A Group of Distinctive Pattern-decorated Early Helladic III Pottery from Lerna and its Implications," Hesperia 51(1982) 459-488.
14. "Some Observations on the Cyclades in the Later Third and Early Second Millennia B.C.," American Journal of Archaeology 87(1983) 69-76.
15. "Fine Gray-burnished Pottery of the Early Helladic III Period: the Ancestry of Gray Minyan," Hesperia 52(1983) 327-355.
16. with C. W. Zerner, "Early Hellado-Minoan Contacts," in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality (Stockholm 1984) 75-83.
17. "Some Thoughts on the Analysis of Ceramic Data Generated by Site Surveys," in D. R. Keller and D. W. Rupp (eds.), Archaeological Survey in the Mediterranean Area (BAR International Series) (1983) 137-142.
18. "The Early Cycladic III Gap," in J. A. MacGillivray and R. L. N. Barber (eds.), The Prehistoric Cyclades (Edinburgh 1984) 95-107.
19. "An Exercise in Form vs. Function: the Significance of the Duck Vase," Temple University Aegean Symposium 10(1985) 16-41.
20. "Middle Helladic Pottery from Tsoungiza," Hydra 1(1985) 34-37.
21. "Some Comments on the Nature and Significance of the Ceramic Transition from Early Helladic III to Middle Helladic," Hydra 2(1986) 29-57.
22. "Early Helladic III Vasepainting, Ceramic Regionalism, and the Influence of Basketry," in E. French and K. Wardle (eds.), Problems in Aegean Prehistory (Bristol 1988) 73-89.
23. "A Ceramic Definition of Late Helladic I from Tsoungiza," Hydra 6(1989) 1-19.
24. "Pottery Groups of the End of the Middle Bronze Age from Tsoungiza" Hesperia 59(1990) 375-458.
25. "Early Helladic Pottery: Inferences about Exchange and Production from Style and Clay Composition," in C. and P. Zerner and J. Winder (eds.), Wace and Blegen: Pottery as Evidence for Trade in the Aegean Bronze Age (Amsterdam 1993) 19-37.
26. "Cultural Novelties in the Post-Palatial Aegean World: Indices of Vitality or Decline?," in M. S. Joukowsky and W. B. Ward (eds.), The Crisis Years: the 12th Century B.C. (Dubuque 1992) 61-78.
27. "Some Comments on Interpreting the Dark-surfaced Handmade Burnished Pottery of the 13th and 12th Century B.C. Aegean," Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3(1990) 29-49.
28. "A Group of Late Helladic IIA Pottery from Tsoungiza," Hesperia 62(1993) 53-93.
29. "Late Helladic IIB Pottery Deposits from Tsoungiza," Hesperia [forthcoming].
30. "Review of Aegean Prehistory II: The Prepalatial Bronze Age of the Southern and Central Greek Mainland," AJA 97(1993) 745-797.
31. "The Balkans, Troy, and Macedonia," in A. Leonard, Jr. (ed.), Colloquenda Mediterranea: A Review of Peter James et al., Centuries of Darkness: A Challenge to the Conventional Chronology of Old World Archaeology (London: Jonathan Cape, 1991) (Great Horton 1993) 20-25.
32. "The Short-necked Amphora of the Post-Palatial Mesara," Proceedings of the 8th International Cretological Congress (Heraklion, 9-14 September 1996) [forthcoming].
33. "Corinth and the Corinthia in the Second Millennium B.C.: Old Approaches, New Problems," in Corinth series [forthcoming].
34. "The Anatolian Roots of Early Helladic III Ceremonial Drinking Behavior," in H. and A. Erkanal (eds.), The Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Early Bronze Age [forthcoming].
35. "Cretan External Relations during LM IIIA2-B (ca. 1370 - 1200 B.C.): A View from the Mesara," in W. Phelps, Y. Lolos, and Y. Vichos (eds.), The Point Iria Wreck: Interconnections in the Mediterranean ca. 1200 B.C. (Athens 1999) 139-186.
36. "Critical Response to the First Four Papers," in R. Drews (ed.), Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family [Journal of Indo-European Studies Supplement, forthcoming] 64-73.
37. "Review II: : The Prepalatial Bronze Age of the Southern and Central Greek Mainland," in T. Cullen (ed.), Aegean Prehistory: A Review (Boston 2001) .*
REVIEWS
1. S. Symeonoglou, Kadmeia I (Lund 1973) in American Journal of Archaeology 78(1974) 88-89.
2. H. Siedentopf et al., Tiryns VI (Mainz 1973) in American Journal of Archaeology 78(1974) 436-438.
3. R. A. Crossland and A. Birchall (eds.), Bronze Age Migrations in the Aegean (Park Ridge 1973) in Archaeology 27(1974) 283.
4. E. Slenczka, Tiryns VII (Mainz 1974) in American Journal of Archaeology 79(1975) 377-378.
5. K. Müller et al., Tiryns VIII (Mainz 1975) in American Journal of Archaeology 81(1977) 392-394.
6. S. Hiller, Alt-Ägina IV: Mykenische Keramik (Mainz 1975) in Archaeological News 6(1977) 59-60.
7. O. T. P. K. Dickinson, The Origins of Mycenaean Civilization (Göteborg 1977) in American Journal of Archaeology 82(1978) 409-411.
8. S. Deger-Jalkotzy, Fremde Zuwanderer im spätmykenischen Griechenland (Vienna 1977) in Classical World 72(1979) 245.
9. F. Schachermeyr, Die ägäische Frühzeit II: Die mykenische Zeit und die Gesittung von Thera (Vienna 1976) in Classical World 73(1980) 32-33.
10. G. Rapp Jr. and S. E. Aschenbrenner (eds.), Excavations at Nichoria in Southwest Greece (Minneapolis 1978) in American Scientist 67:2(1979) 246.
11. E. S. Hirsch, Painted Decoration on the Floors of Bronze Age Structures on Crete and the Greek Mainland (Göteborg 1977) in Archaeological News 8(1979) 16-17.
12. E. N. Davis, The Vapheio Cups and Aegean Gold and Silver Ware (New York 1977) in Archaeological News 8(1979) 126-127.
13. C. Podzuweit, Trojanische Gefässformen der Frühbronzezeit in Anatolien, der Ägäis und angrenzenden Gebieten (Mainz 1979) in American Journal of Archaeology 84(1980) 535-537.
14. R. Hope Simpson, Mycenaean Greece (Park Ridge 1981) in Classical World 75(1982) 313.
15. K. Demakopoulou and D. Konsola, Guide to Archaeological Museum of Thebes (Athens 1981) in American Journal of Archaeology 86(1982) 595-596.
16. H. Walter and F. Felten, Alt-Agina III:1: Die vorgeschichtliche Stadt: Befestigungen, Häuser, Funde (Mainz 1981) in American Journal of Archaeology 87(1983) 106-108.
17. S. Hood, Excavations at Chios 1938-1955. Prehistoric Emporio and Ayio Gala (Oxford 1981) in American Journal of Archaeology 88(1984) 410-411.
18. M. J. Alden, Bronze Age Population Fluctuations in the Argolid from the Evidence of Mycenaean Tombs (Göteborg 1981) in Archaeological News 13(1984) 71-72.
19. F. Schachermeyr, Griechische Frühgeschichte (Vienna 1984) in Classical World 79(1985) 62-63.
20. J. L. Fitton (ed.), Cycladica. Studies in Memory of N. P. Goulandris (Oxford 1984) in American Journal of Archaeology 90(1986) 228-229.
21. K-E. Sjöquist and P. Åström, Pylos: Palmprints and Palmleaves (Göteborg 1985), C. W. Shelmerdine and T. G. Palaima (eds.), Pylos Comes Alive: Industry and Administration in a Mycenaean Palace (New York 1984), and C. W. Shelmerdine, The Perfume Industry of Mycenaean Pylos (Göteborg 1985) in American Journal of Archaeology 90(1986) 355-356.
22. with S. S. Brown, "In Search of the Trojan War" and "The Man Behind the Mask" in Archaeology 39(1986) 70-71, 74.
23. P. P. Betancourt, The History of Minoan Pottery (Princeton 1985) in Classical Journal 84(1988) 326-327.
24. W. E. Sweet, Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook with Translations (New York 1987) in New England Classical Newsletter 15:4(1988) 50-52.
25. R. Hägg and D. Konsola (eds.), Early Helladic Architecture and Urbanization (Göteborg 1986) in Bibliotheca Orientalis 45:5-6(1988) 661-668.
26. G. Cadogan (ed.), The End of the Early Bronze Age in the Aegean )Leiden 1986) in Bibliotheca Orientalis 46:1-2(1989) 188-194.
27. P. Getz-Presiosi, Sculptors of the Cyclades: Individual and Tradition in the Third Millennium B.C. (Ann Arbor 1987) in Classical World 82:5(1989) 385.
28. K. Demakopoulou (ed.) The Mycenaean World: Five Centuries of Early Greek Culture 1600-1100 B.C. (Athens 1988) in American Journal of Archaeology 94(1990) 499-500.
29. S. G. Miller, Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources (Berkeley 1991) in Classical World 86:2(1992) 161.
30. "The Balkans, Troy, and Macedonia," in A. Leonard, Jr., Colloquenda Mediterranea: A Review of P. James et al., Centuries of Darkness (Bradford 1993) 20-25.
31. S. Dietz, The Argolid at the Transition to the Mycenaean Age: Studies in the Chronology and Cultural Development in the Shaft Grave Period (Copenhagen 1991) in Journal of Hellenic Studies 114(1994) 220-221.
32. J. Forsen, The Twilight of the Early Helladics (Jonsered 1992) in Opuscula Atheniensia 20(1994) 260-263.
33. J. Maran, Die deutschen Ausgrabungen auf der Pevkakia-Magula in Thessalien III: Die mittlere Bronzezeit I-II (Mainz 1992) in American Journal of Archaeology 99(1995) 542-544.
34. A. Leonard, Jr., An Index to the Late Bronze Age Aegean Pottery from Syria-Palestine [Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology CXIV] (Jonsered 1994) in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 305(Feb. 1997) 87-89.
35. P. Rehak (ed.), The Role of the Ruler in the Prehistoric Aegean [Aegaeum 11] (Austin 1995) in Classical World 90:5(1997) 371-372.
36. O. T. P. K. Dickinson, The Aegean Bronze Age (Cambridge 1994) in Journal of Hellenic Studies 116(1996) 211-212.
37. R. Laffineur and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), Politeia: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège 1995) in American Journal of Archaeology 100(1996) 612-614.
38. E. and B. P. Hallager (eds.), Late Minoan III Pottery: Chronology and Terminology (Århus 1997) in American Journal of Archaeology 102 (1998) 435-436.
39. E. Christmann, Die deutschen Ausgrabungen auf der Pevkakia-Magula in Thessalien II: Die frühe Bronzezeit (Mainz 1996) in American Journal of Archaeology 104(2000) 386-387.
40. I. Kilian-Dirlmeier, Alt-Ägina IV,3: Das mittelbronzezeitliche Schachtgrab von Ägina (Mainz 1997) in American Journal of Archaeology 103(1999) 357-358.*
41. C. Gillis, C. Risberg, and B. Sjöberg (eds.), Trade and Production in Premonetary Greece: Production and the Craftsman [SIMA Pocketbook 143] (Jonsered 1997) in Opuscula Atheniensia 24(1999) 137-138.*
42. J. Maran, Kulturwandel auf dem griechischen Festland und den Kykladen im späten 3. Jt. v. Chr.: Studien zu den kulturellen Verhältnissen in Südosteuropa und dem zentralen sowie östlichen Mittelmeerraum in der späten Kupfer- und frühen Bronzezeit ( Bonn 1998) in Bibliotheca Orientalis [forthcoming].
43. M. L. Galaty and W. A. Parkinson (eds.), Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces: New Interpretations of an Old Idea (Los Angeles 1999) in American Journal of Archaeology [forthcoming].
44. P. A. Mountjoy, Regional Mycenaean Decorated Pottery (Rahden/Westfalen 1999) in American Journal of Archaeology [forthcoming].
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American School of Classical Studies at Athens |
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