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MICHAEL L. GALATY, Ph.D. Director, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Curator of European and Mediterranean Archaeology

Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan Department of Anthropology

University of Michigan

Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Ruthven Museums Building

1109 Geddes Avenue, Room 4013

Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1079

E-mail: mgalaty@umich.edu

Phone: (734) 647-1128

http://msstate.academia.edu/MichaelGalaty

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. May, 1998.

• M.A. degree in anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. May, 1994.

• B.A. degree with Honors in anthropology, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. May, 1991.

Interests

• European prehistory, specifically the Iron Age and earlier in Greece and Albania.

• Origins of complex societies, especially early states.

• Regional analysis and archaeological survey.

• Chemical and petrographic analysis of ceramics.

Grants and Awards

• winner of the Society for American Archaeology’s 2014 Scholarly Book Award, for Light and

Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania (Cotsen, 2013).

Annual competitive award given each year “to honor a recently published book that has had, or

can be expected to have, a major impact on the direction and character of archaeological

research.”

• as co-primary investigator (with A. Papathanasiou), an International Collaborative Research

Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research in the amount of

$35,000.00 to support the summer 2014 field season of The Diros Project.

• as co-primary investigator, an award in the amount of $20,000.00 from the Institute for Aegean

Prehistory for The Diros Project, Alepotrypa Cave, Greece, summer 2014.

• as co-primary investigator, an award in the amount of $25,000.00 from the Archaeological

Institute of America, Cotsen Archaeology Grant, for The Diros Project, Alepotrypa Cave,

Greece, summer 2014.

• as primary investigator, a Senior Archaeology Research Grant from the National Science

Foundation (BCS1220016) in the amount of $162,249.00 over three years (2012-2014), to fund

the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH), an interdisciplinary regional studies project,

including archeological and geological survey and excavation, focused on the Shkodra Plain in

northern Albania.

• as co-primary investigator, an award in the amount of $10,000.00 from the Institute for Aegean

Prehistory for The Diros Project, Alepotrypa Cave, Greece, summer 2013.

• winner of the 2012-2013 Millsaps College Sabbatical Award. Covers in full the cost of a full-

year sabbatical.

• as co-primary investigator, an award in the amount of $23,360.00 from the National

Geographic Society for The Diros Project, Alepotrypa Cave, Greece, summer 2012.

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• as co-primary investigator, an award in the amount of $18,000.00 from the Institute for Aegean

Prehistory for The Diros Project, Alepotrypa Cave, Greece, summer 2012.

• as co-primary investigator, an award in the amount of $20,000.00 from the Institute for Aegean

Prehistory for The Diros Project, Alepotrypa Cave, Greece, summer 2011.

• from the Millsaps College Faculty Development Committee $2000.00 in 2010 and 2011 to help

fund the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH), and in 2012 to help fund The Diros Project.

• winner of the 2010 “Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award” from the Archaeological

Institute of America.

• as primary investigator, “Acquisition of laser ablation for ICP-MS and a handheld XRF for the

W.M. Keck Center for Instrumental and Biochemical Comparative Archaeology, Millsaps

College,” $384,535.00, National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation program

(BCS0922855). Beginning October 1, 2009.

• from the School for Advanced Research (through a grant from the National Science

Foundation), funds to support a “Research Team Short Seminar” at the school’s campus in

Santa Fe, NM in February 23-26, 2010. The seminar brought together the Shala Valley

Project’s eight principal investigators to discuss final publication of results.

• from the journal Internet Archaeology (through a grant from the Mellon Foundation), $6600.00

to support digital archiving (by the Archaeology Data Service, York, UK) of all data produced

by the Shala Valley Project and to support production of an interactive, on-line journal article.

February 1-April 30, 2009.

• Millsaps College 2007-2008 “Distinguished Professor Award”. $5000.00 prize given annually

to the tenured member of the faculty who best “serves as an inspiring example of teacher,

scholar, and mentor.”

• as co-primary investigator, a grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation in the amount of

$818,200.00 ($400,000.00 from Keck, $418,200.00 institutional matching funds) to establish

the W. M. Keck Center for Instrumental and Biochemical Comparative Archaeology.

Beginning January, 2008.

• as primary investigator, a Senior Archaeology Research Grant from the National Science

Foundation (BCS0713730) in the amount of $76,988.00, to fund the 2007 field season of the

Shala Valley Project, an interdisciplinary regional studies project employing methods of

archaeological, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic survey, focused on the tribal cultures of

Northern Albania.

• as primary investigator, a Collaborative Research Grant (RZ50715) from the National

Endowment for the Humanities in the amount of $34,117.00, to fund archival historical

research for the Shala Valley Project.

• from the Committee on South East European Studies of the American Council of Learned

Societies, a Travel Grant in the amount of $2500.00 to attend the Annual Meeting of the

European Association of Archaeologists, September, 2007, Zadar, Croatia.

• grants in the amount of $2000.00 from the Millsaps College Faculty Development Committee

to fund travel to Pylos, Greece in 2007 and 2008, Iklaina Archaeological Project.

• from the Associated Colleges of the South, $8500.00 to develop an interdisciplinary study

abroad program in Albania. June, 2007.

• grants in the amount of $10,500.00 from Millsaps College and various private donors for the

Shala Valley Project’s 2006 and 2008 field seasons.

• grants in the amount of $20,000.00 from Millsaps College, the American Embassy in Tirana,

and various private donors for the Shala Valley Project’s 2005 field season.

• grant in the amount of $2571.00 from the International Visitor Program of the Center in Central

Europe and Russia of the Global Partners Project used to bring Mr. Ols Lafe (Albanian Institute

of Archaeology) to the United States in January, 2005.

• grants in the amount of $10,000.00 for travel to Tirana, Shkodra, and Shala, Albania, July 11-

18, 2004, from the Central Europe/Russia Task Force of the Global Partners Project, the

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International Research and Exchange Board (IREX), the American Embassy in Tirana, and

Millsaps College (Faculty Development Grant), in order to plan the Shala Valley Project.

• a Millsaps College Hearin Fellowship. $4000.00 for work on a review of petrography and clay

sources in Mississippi, published in Time’s River, E. Peacock and J. Rafferty, eds., University

of Alabama Press. Summer, 2004.

• winner of the 2003 Millsaps College Outstanding Young Faculty Award, presented annually to

the non-tenured faculty member who has contributed most significantly in the categories of

teaching, research, and college service. $1000.00 and a one-semester leave from teaching

(Spring, 2004).

• a Millsaps College Hearin Fellowship. $4000.00 for work on a review of European settlement

pattern studies for the Journal of Archaeological Research. Summer, 2003.

• as co-primary investigator, $196,500.00 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to construct a

“Collaboratory for GIS and Mediterranean Archaeology” (CGMA). CGMA aims to establish a

pan-Mediterranean Geographic Information System and will serve as a platform for instructing

students in methods of archaeological regional analysis. Grant administered by primary

investigators P. Foss and R. Schindler, DePauw University.

Internet: http://acad.depauw.edu/~cgma/.

• from the Central Europe/Russia Task Force of the Global Partners Project, a grant in the

amount of $2400.00 for travel to northern Albania to begin work on a documentary film about

the life and travels of Rose Wilder Lane, July 21-28, 2002.

• from the Mississippi Humanities Council, October 1, 2001, $6500.00 to organize a conference

on the relationship between the humanities and sciences, entitled “Bridging the Great Divide:

Robert S. McElvaine’s Eve’s Seed and the Quest to Bring Together Biology, Anthropology,

Religion, and History,” Millsaps College, March 2, 2002.

• as co-primary investigator for the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project, a National

Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant (RZ-20575), project funds

totaling $452,210.00 ($60,000.00 outright, $101,589.00 federal matching, $209,621.00 cost

sharing) over three years, May, 2000-April, 2003. Grant administered by primary investigator

J. Davis, University of Cincinnati.

• from the Robert and Dee Leggett Foundation, $288,144.00 over three years for archaeological

and biological research to be carried out on the property of the Blue Ridge Center for

Environmental Stewardship, Loudoun County, Virginia. Beginning January, 2000.

• Millsaps College Faculty Development Grants. Awarded by the Millsaps College Faculty

Development Committee. $2500.00 contributed to the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological

Project, used to fund travel for two student research assistants, in 2001 and 2002, and one

student research assistant in 2003; $2500.00 contributed to the Mallakastra Regional

Archaeological Project’s Apollonia necropolis mapping program, March, 2000.

Millsaps College Faculty Travel Grants, awarded annually by Millsaps College: $1350.00 in

2010; $1300.00 in 2009; $1200.00 2000-2008, 2011-2012; $1000.00 in 1999; and $850.00 in

2003.

• as co-primary investigator for the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project’s 1999 field

season, research grants totaling $73,600.00 from the Louise Taft Semple Foundation of the

University of Cincinnati, the National Geographic Society, and the Institute for Aegean

Prehistory. Grants administered by primary investigator J. Davis, University of Cincinnati.

• National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant. $9025.00 awarded 01

September 1997 for project entitled “The Application of Archaeometric Ceramic Data to

Questions of State-Level Organization: A Case Study from Messenia, Greece.”

• Professional Development Grants. $400.00 awarded by the University of Wisconsin,

Washington County, in both February, 1997 and 1998.

• Archaeological Institute of America Graduate Student Travel Award, December, 1996.

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• University of Wisconsin Graduate School Travel Grant. Awarded by Department of

Anthropology, November, 1995.

• Recipient of Ralph A. Luebben Prize given to Grinnell graduate with most potential

for future achievement in anthropology.

Research Experience

August, 2013-July, 2017. Senior Research Associate, Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi

State University. Interaction with Junior and Senior Research Associates, participation in the

meetings and deliberations of the Cobb Institute.

2010-present. Co-director (with L. Bejko, University of Tirana, Albania) of the Projekti

Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH), an interdisciplinary regional studies project targeting the plain and

hills surrounding the northern Albanian city of Shkodra.

Internet: http://shkodraarchaeologicalproject.weebly.com/.

2009-present. Co-director (with P. Karkanas, W. Parkinson, G. Papathanassopoulos, and A.

Papathanasiou) of the Diros Project, a regional research project centered on the Neolithic site at

Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani, Greece.

Internet: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/science/projects/diros-project.

2007-present. Consultant to the Iklaina Archaeological Project. Assisting M. Cosmopoulos

(project director) in the petrographic and chemical analysis of Bronze Age ceramics and clays from

the site of Iklaina and the surrounding region.

Internet: http://www.iklaina.org/.

1998-present. Consultant to the Körös Regional Archaeological Project. Assisting W. Parkinson

(project director) in analysis of early Copper Age (Tisza-Polgar culture) ceramics from the Great

Hungarian Plain, including petrographic analysis, and in analysis of the soil chemistry of the

Vésztõ-Bikeri early Copper Age site.

Internet: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/science/projects/koros-regional-archaeological-project.

2004-2008. Co-director (with O. Lafe and Z. Tafilica) of the Shala Valley Project (SVP), an

interdisciplinary regional studies project employing methods of archaeological, ethnohistoric, and

ethnographic survey, focused on the tribal cultures of Northern Albania.

All of the SVP’s data are archived by the Archaeology Data Service at

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/archive/svp_mellon_2009/.

1998-2003. Fieldwork Director for the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project. Full-

coverage, fully diachronic, intensive surface survey in the vicinity of the site of Apollonia, located

in south-central Albania. Responsible for organizing field operations. Granted three year operating

permit from the Albanian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Archaeology, Tirana. Funded

by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Louise Taft Semple Foundation of the

University of Cincinnati, Millsaps College, the National Geographic Society, and the Institute for

Aegean Prehistory. MRAP was featured in the April, 2000 (Vol. 197, No. 4) issue of National

Geographic magazine in the Geographica section.

Internet: http://river.blg.uc.edu/mrap/MRAP.html.

2000-2005. Co-director (with W. Lee) of the Loudoun Valley Historical Archaeology and Ecology

Project (LVHAEP). Archaeological research on the property of the Blue Ridge Center for

Environmental Stewardship, Loudoun County, Virginia. Archaeological survey of c. 1000 acres in

the Blue Ridge mountains, at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, near Harpers

Ferry, WV. Test excavation of an Antebellum farmstead. 2001-2003 and 2005, site of the

Millsaps College/University of Louisville Archaeological and Historical Field School.

Internet: http://www.blueridgecenter.org/.

July, 1998-May, 1999. Senior Research Associate, Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi

State University. Interaction with Junior and Senior Research Associates, participation in the

meetings and deliberations of the Cobb Institute.

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Summers 1993, 1994, 1995. Pylos Regional Archaeological Project. Participation in regional-

scale survey of Messenia, Greece. Included extensive mapping work with a Sokkia total station.

Internet: http://classics.lsa.umich.edu/PRAP/html/PRAP.html.

August, 1994-December, 1996. Paid appointment to the Department of Classics as project

assistant to Dr. John Bennet, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Use of various information

management systems for control and manipulation of regional survey data.

January-May, 1991. Paid research assistant to Dr. Jon Andelson, Grinnell College. Demographic

analysis of Amana Colony family structures.

January-May, 1991. Research assistant to Dr. Kathryn Kamp, Grinnell College. Classification and

computer cataloging of Sinagua clay figurines. Unpaid position.

Summer, 1989. Grinnell College Archaeological Field School. Flagstaff, Arizona. Six-week

excavation of a five-room Sinagua pueblo and participation in on-going survey of the Coconino

National Forest.

Fall semester, 1989. Grinnell College study program in London and Greece. Included extensive

travel throughout Britain and Greece, with visits to major archaeological sites in both countries.

Publications (* denotes peer-reviewed publication)

Monographs

*Galaty, M., O. Lafe, W. Lee, and Z. Tafilica. 2013. Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction

in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania. Monumenta Archaeologica 28. Los Angeles: UCLA

Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.

Review: R. Witcher, Antiquity, Volume 88 (340): 692-694. Available at:

http://antiquity.ac.uk/Ant/088/0689/ant0880689.pdf.

Review: G. Zaro, American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 120(3). Available at:

http://ajaonline.org/book-review/2816.

Review: I. Blumi, International Journal of Turkish Studies, Volume 21, 2015.

Review: E. Gowing, Central and Eastern European Review, 2014.

Galaty, M. 1999. Nestor’s Wine Cups: Investigating Ceramic Manufacture and Exchange in a

Late Bronze Age “Mycenaean” State. British Archaeological Reports International Series #766.

Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.

Review: P. Thomas, American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 108(1): 115-116.

Edited Volumes

*in prep. Final report of the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project (MRAP), being edited

by J. Davis and M. Korkuti. Responsible for authoring several chapters: description of the survey

region; research in the necropolis; test excavations.

A. Papathanasiou, W. Parkinson, D. Pullen, M. Galaty, and P. Karkanas. in press. Neolithic

Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani, Greece. Oxbow Books.

*D. Nakassis, M. Galaty, and W. Parkinson. 2016. Reciprocity in Aegean Palatial Societies:

Gifts, Debt, and the Foundations of Economic Exchange. Special section of Journal of

Mediterranean Archaeology. Volume 29(1).

*W. Parkinson, D. Nakassis, and M. Galaty. 2013. Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean

Greece. Special “Forum” section for the American Journal of Archaeology. Volume 117(3).

*Galaty, M., D. Nakassis, and W. Parkinson. 2011. Redistribution in Greek Bronze Age

Societies. Special “Forum” section for the American Journal of Archaeology. Volume 115(2).

*W. Parkinson and M. Galaty. 2009. Archaic State Interaction: The Eastern Mediterranean in

the Bronze Age. Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press.

Review: O. Dickinson, European Journal of Archaeology, Volume 14(3): 499-503.

Review: M. Hummler, Antiquity, in the “New Book Chronicle,” Volume 84: 1220-1231.

Review: A. Vianello, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Volume 21: 159-161.

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Review: J. Smith, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2011.05.44. Available at

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2011/2011-05-44.html.

Review: C. Shelmerdine, American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 115(3). On-line publication.

http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/946.

Review: E. Schortman, Journal of World-Systems Research, Volume 17(2):532-537. On-line

publication. http://jwsr.ucr.edu/archive/vol17/Schortman-vol17n2.pdf.

*Galaty, M., and W. Parkinson. 2007. Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II: Revised and Expanded

Second Edition. Monograph #60. Los Angeles: UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.

Review: D. Nakassis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2008.07.57. Available at

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2008-07-57.html.

Review: G. Walberg, American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 113(2): 293-294.

Galaty, M., and C. Watkinson. 2004. Archaeology Under Dictatorship. New York: Kluwer

Academic/Plenum Press.

Review: A. Simmons, American Anthropologist, Volume 108(2): 414-415.

Galaty, M., L. Franey, V. Freeman, E. Griffin, E. Smith, and J. Jordan. 2004. Readings in the

Liberal Studies. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.

*Galaty, M., and W. Parkinson. 1999. Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces: New Interpretations of

an Old Idea. Monograph #41. Los Angeles: UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.

Review: T. Palaima, The London Times Higher Education Supplement, June 9, 2000: 31.

Review: J. Rutter, American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 105(2): 345.

Review: N. James, Antiquity, Volume 74(2000): 224.

Articles and Book Chapters

*Duwe, S., T. Parsons and M. Galaty. in press. Mineralogical and Chemical Characterization

Analyses. For Bikeri: Two Copper Age Villages on the Great Hungarian Plain, edited by W.

Parkinson, A. Gyucha, and R. Yerkes. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.

*Hardy, M., M. Galaty, R. Salisbury, R. Yerkes, and D. Billingsley. in press. Soil Chemistry

Surveys in the Körös Region. Bikeri: Two Copper Age Villages on the Great Hungarian Plain,

edited by W. Parkinson, A. Gyucha, and R. Yerkes. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

at UCLA.

*Galaty, M. in press. Mycenaean Glocalism: Greek Political Economies and International Trade.

For a volume on Trade and Civilization, edited by K. Kristiansen. Cambridge University Press.

Pullen, D., M. Galaty, W. Parkinson, W. Lee, and R. Seifried. in press. The Diros Project, 2011-

2013: Surface Survey and Site Collection in Diros Bay. For a volume on Alepotrypa Cave, Mani,

Greece, edited by A. Papathanasiou et al.

*M. Galaty. in press. Prestige-Goods Economies: The Prehistoric Aegean and Modern Northern

Highland Albania Compared. For Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity: Studies in

Honor of John F. Cherry, edited by A. Knodell and T. Leppard. Monographs in Mediterranean

Prehistory.

R. Ruka and M. Galaty. in press. The Position of Albania in Mediterranean Obsidian Exchange

Spheres. Aegaeum 16: Hesperos, The Aegean as Seen from the West.

*Galicki, S., C. Henry, M. Galaty, and L. Bejko. in press. Medieval anthropogenic nonpoint

source sediment runoff in the wetland fringe of Lake Shkodra, Albania. Geoarchaeology.

*Ruka, R., M. Galaty, D. Riebe, R. Tykot, I. Gjipali, and G. Phillipakis. in prep. pXRF analysis

of obsidian artifacts from Albania. For Journal of Archaeological Science.

M. Galaty, L. Bejko, S. Deskaj, R. Yerkes, S. Allen, and R. Bolus. in prep. Landscape

Archaeology in Northern Albania: Results of the 2014 Field Season of the Projekti Arkeologjik i

Shkodrës (PASH). For Landscapes of Southeastern Europe, edited by L. Mirosevic, G. Zaro, M.

Katic, and D. Birt. Lit Verlag Berlin-London-Munster-Wien-Zurich.

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*75) M. Galaty. 2017. Mycenaean Cook Pots: A North American Perspective. In From Cooking

Vessels to Cultural Practices in the Late Bronze Age Aegean, edited by D. Trusty and J. Hruby, pp.

146-150. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

*74) J. Rafferty and M. Galaty. 2013 [2017 publication date]. Point-Counting, Petrography, and

Context: Analysis of Ceramics from a Middle Woodland Site in Eastern Mississippi. Mississippi

Archaeology 48 (1 and 2): 43-46.

*73) Scott, C., M. Galaty, T. Ward, and C. Kokel. 2016. Soil Chemical Analysis at Iklaina. For

The Political Geography of a Mycenaean District. The Archaeological Survey at Iklaina, edited by

M. Cosmopoulos, pp. 77-92. Library of the Archaeological Society at Athens.

*72) M. Galaty. 2016. The Mycenaeanisation Process. For Beyond Thalassocracies.

Understanding Processes of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation in the Aegean, edited by E.

Gorogianni, P. Pavúk, and L. Girella, pp. 207-218. Oxbow Books, Oxford.

*71) I. Mazzini, E. Gliozzi, M. Galaty, L. Bejko, L. Sadori, I. So u lié -Mä r ch e , R. Ko çi, A.

Van Welden, and S. Bushati. 2016. Holocene Evolution of Lake Shkodra: Multidisciplinary

Evidence for Forgotten Landscapes in Northern Albania. Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 1-11.

*70) M. Galaty, D. Nakassis, and W. Parkinson. 2016. Introduction to Reciprocity in Aegean

Palatial Societies: Gifts, Debt, and the Foundations of Economic Exchange. Journal of

Mediterranean Archaeology 29(1): 61-70.

69) Xhyheri, S., S. Bushi, and M. Galaty. 2015. Një Furrë për Prodhimin a Glazurës në Bylis [A

Kiln for the Production of Glaze at Bylis]. Iliria 37 (2013): 263-274.

68) Shehi, E. and M. Galaty. 2015. Gjashtë Pjesë Kallëpe Kupash me Zbukurime në Reliev nga

Durrësi. Iliria 37 (2013): 185-206.

67) Galaty, M., D. Pullen, W. Parkinson, and R. Siefried. 2014. Mycenaean –scapes: Geography,

Political Economy, and the Eastern Mediterranean World System. In PHYSIS: L’ Environment

Naturel et la Relation Homme-Milieu dans le Monds Égéen Protohistorique, edited by G.

Touchais, R. Laffineur, and F. Rougemont, pp. 449-456. Aegaeum 37. Peeters: Leuven-Liege.

66) Ruka, R., M. Galaty, and E. Hobdari. 2014. Arti Shkëmbor i “Shpellës në Buzë” në Mërkurth

(Mirditë): Reflektime mbi Inkuadrimin Kronologjik [Rock art of Buzë Cave at Mërkurthi

(Mirdita): Reflections on Chronology]. Candavia 4: 267-283.

65) Ruka, R., I. Gjipali, M. Galaty, and N. Bajramaj. 2014. Lithics at One End of the Circum-

Adriatic: Case Studies from the Southernmost Albanian Coastal Lowland. In Proceedings of the

International Congress of Albanian Archaeological Studies, edited by L. Perzhita et al., pp. 93-

106. Center for Albanian Studies and the Institute of Archaeology.

64) Galaty, M., G. Bey, and T. Ward. 2014. Cross-Cultural Ceramic Analysis: Albania and

Yucatán in the Keck Lab at Millsaps College. In Social Dynamics of Ceramic Analysis: New

Techniques and Interpretations: Papers in Honour of Charles Kolb, edited by S. Lopez Varela, pp.

13-21. BAR S2683. Archaeopress, Oxford.

*63) Galaty, M., H. Tomas, and W. Parkinson. 2014. European Bronze Age Elites: From the

Aegean to the Adriatic and Back Again. For The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron

Age Mediterranean, edited by B. Knapp and P. van Dommelen, pp. 157-177. Cambridge

University Press.

62) Galaty, M., W. Lee, J. Haws, and T. Parsons. 2014. Results of Research “Between the Hills”

by the Loudoun Valley Historical Archaeology and Ecology Project (LVHAEP), 2000-2008. Final

Report to the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship, Loudoun County, Virginia. On

file at the BRCES.

61) Galaty, M. and O. Lafe. 2014. Shala Valley: Grunas. In Recent Archaeological Discoveries

in Albania, edited by I. Gjipali, L. Përzhita, and B. Muka, pp. 64-67. Center for Albanian Studies,

Institute of Archaeology.

*60) Galaty, M. 2014. Potted at the Palace: A Reanalysis of LH III Pottery from the Palace of

Nestor by Inductively-Coupled Plasma – Mass Spectroscopy. In KE-RA-ME-JA: Studies Presented

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to Cynthia Shelmerdine, edited by D. Nakassis, J. Gulizio, and S. James, pp. 33-40. INSTAP

Academic Press.

*59) W. Parkinson, D. Nakassis, and M. Galaty. 2013. Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in

Mycenaean Greece. Introduction. American Journal of Archaeology 117(3): 413-422.

*58) Galaty, M., O. Lafe, W. Lee, and Z. Tafilica. 2013. Chapter One: Introduction. In Light and

Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania, edited by M. Galaty,

O. Lafe, W. Lee, and Z. Tafalica, pp. 1-16. Monumenta Archaeologica 28. UCLA Cotsen Institute

of Archaeology Press.

*57) Galaty, M., O. Lafe, W. Lee, and Z. Tafilica. 2013. Chapter Two: Project History and

Methodology. In Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern

Albania, edited by M. Galaty, O. Lafe, W. Lee, and Z. Tafalica, pp. 17-28. Monumenta

Archaeologica 28. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.

*56) Galaty, M. 2013. Chapter Three: The Environmental Context. In Light and Shadow:

Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania, edited by M. Galaty, O. Lafe,

W. Lee, and Z. Tafalica, pp. 29-44. Monumenta Archaeologica 28. UCLA Cotsen Institute of

Archaeology Press.

*55) M. Mustafa, A. Young, Galaty, M., and W. Lee. 2013. Chapter Five: Spatial and Temporal

Patterns in Kinship Relations: Descent, Marriage, and Feud. In Light and Shadow: Isolation and

Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania, edited by M. Galaty, O. Lafe, W. Lee, and Z.

Tafalica, pp. 85-106. Monumenta Archaeologica 28. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

Press.

*54) Galaty, M., O. Lafe, C. Watkinson, R. Schon, and Z. Tafilica. 2013. Chapter Nine: Regional

Archaeological Survey and Excavation. In Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the

Shala Valley of Northern Albania, edited by M. Galaty, O. Lafe, W. Lee, and Z. Tafalica, pp. 163-

198. Monumenta Archaeologica 28. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.

*53) Galaty, M., Z. Tafilica, C. Fisher, W. Lee, A. Gyucha, and R. Schon. 2013. Chapter Ten:

Grunas. In Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania,

edited by M. Galaty, O. Lafe, W. Lee, and Z. Tafalica, pp. 201-232. Monumenta Archaeologica

28. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.

*52) Galaty, M., O. Lafe, W. Lee, and Z. Tafilica. 2013. Chapter Eleven: Conclusion. In Light

and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania, edited by M.

Galaty, O. Lafe, W. Lee, and Z. Tafalica, pp. 233-245. Monumenta Archaeologica 28. UCLA

Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.

*51) Galaty, M. 2013. “An offense to honor is never forgiven…”: Violence and Landscape

Archaeology in Highland Northern Albania. For The Archaeology of Violence: Interdisciplinary

Approaches, edited by S. Ralph pp. 143-157. Institute for European and Mediterranean

Archaeology Proceedings, Volume 2. Albany: State University of New York.

50) Galaty, M. 2012. At Work: Isolation + Interaction. In Revealing Archaeology 3.6. Thinking

Strings, LLC.

*49) Galaty, M., D. Nakassis, and W. Parkinson. 2011. Introduction: Why Redistribution?

American Journal of Archaeology 115(2): 175-176.

*48) D. Nakassis, W. Parkinson, and M. Galaty. 2011. Redistribution in Theoretical and Cross-

Cultural Perspective. American Journal of Archaeology 115(2): 177-184.

*47) Galaty, M. 2011. World-Systems Analysis and Anthropology: A New Détente? Reviews in

Anthropology 40(1): 3-26.

*46) Galaty, M. 2011. Blood of Our Ancestors: Cultural Heritage Management in the Balkans.

In Contested Cultural Heritage: Religion, Nationalism, Erasure, and Exclusion in a Global World,

edited by H. Silverman, pp. 109-124. Springer, New York.

45) Galaty, M., O. Lafe, and Z. Tafilica. 2010. Grunas, Shala: A New Fortified Prehistoric Site in

the Northern Albanian Mountains. In the Proceedings of the Cinquième Colloque International sur

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l’Illyrie Mériodionale at l’Épire dans l’Antiquité, Grenoble, France, October 8-12, 2008, edited by

J.L. Lamboley and M.P. Castiglioni, pp. 13-24. De Boccard, Paris.

*44) Parkinson, W., E. Peacock, R.A. Palmer, Y. Xia, B. Carlock, A. Gyucha, R.W. Yerkes, and

M. Galaty. 2010. Elemental Analysis of Ceramic Incrustation Indicates Long-Term Cultural

Continuity in the Prehistoric Carpathian Basin. Archaeology, Ethnology, and Anthropology of

Eurasia 38(2): 64-70. (In English and Russian.)

*43) Galaty, M., and W. Lee. 2010. Early or ‘Tribal’ War: Anthropological Perspectives Of. In

The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace, edited by N. Young, volume 2, pp. 2-5. Oxford:

Oxford University Press.

*42) D. Nakassis, M. Galaty, and W. Parkinson. 2010. Bronze Age Aegean State and Society. In

The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean, edited by E. Cline, pp. 239-240. Oxford: Oxford

University Press.

41) Galaty, M. 2010. Wedging Clay: Combining Competing Models of Mycenaean Pottery

Industries. In Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age, edited by D. Pullen, pp. 230-247.

Oxford: Oxbow Books.

*40) W. Parkinson, and M. Galaty. 2009. Introduction: Interaction and Ancient Societies. In

Archaic State Interaction: The Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age, edited by W. Parkinson

and M. Galaty, pp. 3-28. Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press.

*39) Galaty, M., W. Parkinson, J. Cherry, E. Cline, P. N. Kardulias, R. Schon, S. Sherratt, H.

Tomas, and D. Wengrow. 2009. Interaction Amidst Diversity: An Introduction to the Eastern

Mediterranean Bronze Age. In Archaic State Interaction: The Eastern Mediterranean in the

Bronze Age, edited by W. Parkinson and M. Galaty, pp. 29-51. Santa Fe, NM: School for

Advanced Research Press.

*38) Galaty, M., W. Lee, C. Watkinson, O. Lafe, and Z. Tafilica. 2009. Fort, Tower, or House?

Building a Landscape of Settlement in the Shala Valley of High Albania. Internet Archaeology 27.

Available: http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue27/galaty_index.html.

*37) Galaty, M., S. Stocker, and C. Watkinson. 2009. The Snake That Bites: The Albanian

Experience of Collective Trauma as Reflected in an Evolving Landscape. In The Trauma

Controversy, edited by K. Brown and B. Bergo, pp. 171-188. SUNY Press, in the series

Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

*36) Runnels, C., M. Korkuti, M. Galaty, M. Timpson, S. Stocker, J. Davis, L. Bejko, and S.

Muçaj. 2009. Early Prehistoric Landscape and Land-use in the Fier Region of Albania. Journal

of Mediterranean Archaeology 22(2): 151-182.

35) Lafe, O., and M. Galaty. 2009. Albanian Coastal Settlement from Prehistory to the Iron Age.

In A Connecting Sea: Maritime Interaction in Adriatic Prehistory, edited by S. Forenbaher, pp.

105-111. BAR S2037. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.

34) Galaty, M., and O. Lafe. 2008. Le peuplement préhistorique sur le littoral albanais. In La

Prehistoire du Sud-Est Européen: Traditions and Innovations, edited by G. Kourtessi-Phillipakis,

pp.258-272. Etudes Balkaniques #15. Paris: Cahiers Pierre Belon/De Boccard.

*33) Galaty, M. 2008. Comment on “Community, Identity and Conflict: Iron Age Warfare in the

Iberian Northwest” by I. Sastre. Current Anthropology 49: 1039-1040.

*32) Galaty, M. 2008. Ceramic Petrography and the Classification of Mississippi’s

Archaeological Pottery by Fabric: A GIS Approach. In Time’s River: Archaeological Synthesis

from the Lower Mississippi River Valley, edited by J. Rafferty and E. Peacock, 243-273.

Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

31) Davis, J., M. Korkuti, L. Bejko, M. Galaty, S. Muçaj, and S. Stocker. 2007. The Hinterlands

of Apollonia. In Apollonia d’Illyrie. 1. Atlas Archéologique et Historique, edited by V. Dhimo, P.

Lenhardt, and F. Quantin, pp. 13-23. Collection de l’École Française de Rome – 391. Rome.

*30) Galaty, M., and W. Parkinson. 2007. Introduction 2007: Mycenaean Palaces Rethought. In

Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II: Revised and Expanded Second Edition, edited by M. Galaty and

W. Parkinson, 1-17. Monograph #60. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.

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*29) Galaty, M., and W. Parkinson. 2007. Putting Mycenaean Palaces in Their Place: An

Introduction. In Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II: Revised and Expanded Second Edition, edited

by M. Galaty and W. Parkinson, 21-28. Monograph #60. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of

Archaeology at UCLA.

*28) Galaty, M. 2007. Wealth Ceramics, Staple Ceramics: Pots and the Mycenaean Palaces. In

Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II: Revised and Expanded Second Edition, edited by M. Galaty and

W. Parkinson, 74-86. Monograph #60. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.

*27) Rypkema, H., W. Lee, M. Galaty, and J. Haws. 2007. Rapid, In-Stride Soil Phosphate

Measurement in Archaeological Survey: A New Method Tested in Loudoun County, Virginia.

Journal of Archaeological Science 34: 1859-1867.

26) Galaty, M. 2007. “There Are Prehistoric Cities Up There”: The Bronze and Iron Ages in

Northern Albania. In Between the Aegean and Baltic Seas: Prehistory Across Borders.

Proceedings of the International Conference held at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, 11-14 April

2005, edited by I. Galanaki, H. Tomas, Y. Galanakis, and R. Laffineur, 133-140. Aegaeum 27.

Université de Liège and University of Texas at Austin.

*25) Parkinson, W., and M. Galaty. 2007. Primary and Secondary States in Perspective: An

Integrated Approach to State Formation in the Prehistoric Aegean. American Anthropologist 109:

113-129.

24) Galaty, M., O. Lafe, Z. Tafilica, W. Lee, M. Mustafa, C. Watkinson, and A. Young. 2006.

Projekti i Luginës së Shalës: Fashata 2005 Hyrje [The Shala Valley Project: Results of the 2005

Season]. Shkodra në Shekuj, 232-240. Historical Museum of Shkodër. In Albanian with English

abstract.

*23) Schon, Robert, and M. Galaty. 2006. Diachronic Frontiers: Landscape Archaeology in

Highland Albania. Journal of World Systems Research 12(2): 231-262.

Available at: http://jwsr.ucr.edu/archive/vol12/number2/pdf/jwsr-v12n2-sandg.pdf.

*22) Galaty, M. 2006. From Points A to B: The Shala Valley Project and the Albanian Middle

Paleolithic. In New Directions in Albanian Archaeology: Studies Presented to Muzafer Korkuti,

edited by L. Bejko and R. Hodges, 18-30. International Centre for Albanian Archaeology

Monograph Series No. 1. Tirana: ICAA.

*21) Galaty, M. 2005. European Regional Studies: A Coming of Age? Journal of

Archaeological Research 13(4): 291-336

20) Galaty, M., S. Muçaj, S. Stocker, M. Timpson, and J. Davis. 2004. Excavation of a

Hellenistic Farmhouse in the Vicinity of Apollonia. In L’Illyrie Mériondale et l’Epire dans

l’Antiquité –IV. Actes du IVe colloque international de Grenoble (10-12 octobre 2002), edited by

P. Cabanes and J.-L. Lamboley, 299-305. Paris: De Boccard.

19) Galaty, M., and C. Watkinson. 2004. The Practice of Archaeology Under Dictatorship. In

Archaeology Under Dictatorship, edited by M. Galaty and C. Watkinson. New York: Kluwer

Academic/Plenum Press, 1-18.

*18) Runnels, C., M. Korkuti, M. Galaty, M. Timpson, J. Whittaker, S. Stocker, J. Davis, L.

Bejko, and S. Muçaj. 2004. The Paleolithic and Mesolithic of Albania: Survey and Excavation at

the Site of Kryegjata B (Fier District). Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 17: 3-29.

*17) A. Sarris, M. Galaty, R. Yerkes, W. Parkinson, A. Gyucha, D. Billingsley, and R. Tate.

2004. Geophysical Prospection and Soil Chemistry at the Early Copper Age Settlement of Véstő-

Bikeri, Southeastern Hungary. Journal of Archaeological Science 31: 927-939.

16) Galaty, M. 2004. Comments on Ceramic Ecology XVII at the AAAs, 2003. La Tinaja: A

Newsletter of Archaeological Ceramics 15(2): 16-18.

15) J. Davis, M. Korkuti, L. Bejko, M. Galaty, S. Muçaj, and S. Stocker. 2003-2004. The

Hinterlands of Apollonia. Iliria: Journal of the Albanian Institute of Archaeology 31(1-2): 305-

322. (In English and Albanian.)

14) Galaty, M. 2002. Modeling the Formation and Evolution of an Illyrian Tribal System:

Ethnographic and Archaeological Analogs. The Archaeology of Tribal Societies, edited by W.

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Parkinson. International Monographs in Prehistory, Archaeological Series #15, Ann Arbor, MI,

109-122.

13) Rafferty, J., and M. Galaty. 2002. Point-Counting, Petrography, and Context: Analysis of

Ceramics from a Middle Woodland Site in Eastern Mississippi. La Tinaja: A Newsletter of

Archaeological Ceramics, Volume 14(1): 2-6.

12) Galaty, M. 2002. A Petrographic Analysis of Middle Woodland Ceramics from the Cork Site,

Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. Report on file at the Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi

State University.

11) Galaty, M., and R. Wright. 2002. Bridging the Great Divide. Anthropology News 43(7): 14.

10) Galaty, M. 2001. The Southeastern European Bronze Age. The Encyclopedia of Prehistory,

Volume 4: Europe, edited by P. Peregrine and M. Ember, 351-355. New York: Kluwer

Academic/Plenum Press.

9) J. Davis, M. Korkuti, L. Bejko, M. Galaty, S. Muçaj, and S. Stocker. 2000. The Mallakastra

Regional Archaeological Project: First Season, 1998. Iliria: Journal of the Albanian Institute of

Archaeology 28, 1-2: 246-265. (In English and Albanian.)

8) Galaty, M. 2000. A Wedding in Albania. Millsaps Magazine. Summer 2000, Issue 8: 20-25.

*7) Galaty, M., S. Stocker, and C. Watkinson. 1999. Beyond Bunkers: Dominance, Resistance,

and Change in an Albanian Regional Landscape. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 12(2):

197-214.

*6) Galaty, M., and W. Parkinson. 1999. Putting Mycenaean Palaces in Their Place: An

Introduction. Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces: New Interpretations of an Old Idea edited by M.

Galaty and W. Parkinson, 1-8. Monograph #41. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at

UCLA.

*5) Galaty, M. 1999. Wealth Ceramics, Staple Ceramics: Pots and the Mycenaean Palaces.

Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces: New Interpretations of an Old Idea, edited by M. Galaty and W.

Parkinson, 49-59. Monograph #41. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.

4) Galaty, M. 1999. Apollonia and Its Hinterland: Archaeology in Albania. Cobb Institute of

Archaeology Newsletter 9(2): 2.

3) Galaty, M. 1999. Archaeology in the ‘Land of the Eagle.’ The Glyph: Journal of the

Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego Society 1(16): 10-11.

*2) Bennet, J., and M. Galaty. 1997. Ancient Greece: Recent Developments in Aegean

Archaeology and Regional Studies. Journal of Archaeological Research 5(1): 75-120.

1) Galaty, M. 1996. Labor, Population, and Social Complexity. Chicago Anthropology Exchange

22: 33-49.

Book Reviews

2017 Book review of J. Papadopoulos, S. Morris, L. Bejko, and L. Schepartz, The Excavation of

the Prehistoric Burial Tumulus at Lofkënd, Albania (2 vols.), for the Bryn Mawr Classical Review

2017.06.32. Available on-line at: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2017/2017-06-32.html.

2014 Book review of C. Broodbank, The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the

Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World, for Antiquity 88(341):

993-994.

2013 Book review of J. Maran and P. Stockhammer, Materiality and Social Practice, for the

European Journal of Archaeology 17(1): 162-167.

2009 Book review of L. Bendall, Economics of Religion in the Mycenaean World: Resources

Dedicated to Religion in the Mycenaean Economy, for the American Journal of Archaeology

113(2). Available on-line at: http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/113.2/10_Galaty.pdf.

2008 Book review of J. Christie and P. Sarro, eds., Palaces and Power in the Americas: From Peru

to the Northwest Coast. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 18(3): 428-431.

2006 Book review of E. Blake and B. Knapp, eds., The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory.

Journal of Field Archaeology 30: 478-481.

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2004 Book review of J. Wiseman and K. Zachos, eds., Landscape Archaeology in Southern

Epirus, Greece I. Journal of Field Archaeology 29(1-2): 233-236.

2001 Review of G. London’s video “Women Potters of Cyprus.” La Tinaja: A Newsletter of

Archaeological Ceramics 13(2): 11-12.

1999 “Booknote” review of H. Maguire, ed. Materials Analysis of Byzantine Pottery. American

Journal of Archaeology 103(2): 388-389.

1996 Book Review of I. Whitbread’s Greek Transport Amphorae: A Petrological and

Archaeological Study. Geoarchaeology 11(5): 440-443.

Popular Press

Afghanistan is not Vietnam. Christian Science Monitor. January 8, 2010. Available on-line at:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0108/Afghanistan-is-not-Vietnam.

Editorial Boards

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, January, 2011-present

Open Archaeology, January, 2014-present

Editorships With G. Bey, co-editor of La Tinaja, a newsletter of archaeological ceramics. Published twice

annually. 2000-2008.

Conferences Organized

Organizer and chair of a one-day conference on the relationship between the humanities and

sciences, entitled “Bridging the Great Divide: Robert S. McElvaine’s Eve’s Seed and the Quest to

Bring Together Biology, Anthropology, Religion, and History,” Millsaps College, March 2, 2002.

Budget of $15,425.00. Participants included D. Blum, C. Degler, B. Friedan, D. Gilmore, A. Jolly,

C. Meyers, T.D. Price, K. Strier, L. Tiger, A. Waldron, R. Wright, M. Zuk.

Symposia Organized and/or Chaired

Chair of the session “Western Mediterranean and Adriatic Prehistory,” held at the 117th Annual

Meeting of Archaeological Institute of America, January 6-9, 2016, San Francisco, CA.

Organizer and Chair (with J. Haws) of “BLAH! How To Do and Not Do Archaeological Science.

A Colloquium in Honor of T. Douglas Price,” held at the 116th Annual Meeting of the

Archaeological Institute of America, January 8-11, 2015, New Orleans, LA.

Organizer and chair (with D. Nakassis and W. Parkinson) of the colloquium “Reciprocity in

Aegean Palatial Societies: Gifts, Debt, and the Foundations of Economic Exchange,” held at the

115th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, January 2-5, 2014, Chicago, IL.

Chair of the session “Mani: The Diros Project and Alepotrypa Cave,” held at the 113th Annual

Meeting of Archaeological Institute of America, January 3-6, 2013, Seattle, WA.

Chair of the session “Landscapes, Memory, and Place,” held at the 76th Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology, March 31-April 3, 2011, Sacramento, CA.

Chair of the session “Archaeological Methodology,” held at the 111th Annual Meeting of the

Archaeological Institute of America, January 6-9, 2010, Anaheim, CA.

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Organizer and chair (with D. Nakassis) of the colloquium “Redistribution in Aegean Palatial

Societies,” held at the 110th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, January 8-

11, 2009, Philadelphia, PA.

Chair of the session “Research in Iron Age Europe and the Near East,” held at the 73rd Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, March 26-30, 2008, Vancouver, BC.

Chair of the session “Mycenaean Settlement and Society,” held at the 109th Annual Meeting of

Archaeological Institute of America, January 3-6, 2008, Chicago, IL.

Organizer and chair (with W. Parkinson) of an Advanced Seminar entitled “Putting Aegean States

in Context: Interaction in the Eastern Mediterranean and Southeastern Europe During the Bronze

Age” at the School for Advanced Research (SAR), Santa Fe, NM, March 10-16, 2007.

Organizer and chair (with G. Bey and M. Kathryn Brown) of “Cross-Cultural Comparison:

Mycenaean versus Maya States,” held at the 108th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute

of America, January 4-7, 2007, San Diego, CA.

Organizer and chair (with C. Watkinson) of “Archaeology Under Dictatorship,” held at the Society

for American Archaeology’s 67th Annual Meeting, March 20-24, 2002, Denver, CO.

Organizer and chair (with W. Parkinson) of “Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces: New Interpretations

of an Old Idea,” held at the Society for American Archaeology’s 62nd Annual Meeting, April 2-6,

1997, Nashville, TN.

Hypermedia

“Infobit” entitled Regional Archaeological Research in Albania: Apollonia and Its Hinterland for

the Frosina Information Network, an Albanian immigrant and cultural resource:

http://www.frosina.org/.

Conference Papers

2017 The Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH), Northern Albania. Paper presented at the

International Mediterranean Survey Workshop, November 3-4, 2017, University of Leuven,

Leuven, Belgium.

2017 Temper, Temper: Variation in Ceramic Paste Recipes at a Mississippian/Protohistoric

Village in Northeastern Mississippi. With E. Peacock and D. Karges. Paper delivered (by

Peacock) at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, March 30-April 2,

2017, Vancouver, BC.

2016 The Position of Albania in Mediterranean Obsidian Exchange Spheres. With R. Ruka.

Paper delivered at the International Aegean Conference Aegaeum 16: Hesperos, The Aegean as

Seen from the West, May 18-21, 2016, University of Ioannina, Greece.

2016 The Diros Project: Multidisciplinary Investigations at Alepotrypa Cave and Ksagounaki

Promontory, 2010-2015. With W. Parkinson, A. Papathanasiou, D. Pullen, and G.

Papathanassopoulos. Paper delivered (by Parkinson) at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for

American Archaeology, April 6-10, 2016, Orlando, FL.

2016 Collective Memory and the Mycenaeans: The Argolid, Messenia, and the Mani Compared.

Paper delivered at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 6-10,

2016, Orlando, FL.

2016 The Projekti Arkeologjikë i Shkodrës (PASH), Northern Albania: Results of the 2014

Excavation Season. With L. Bejko, S. Deskaj, R. Yerkes, S. Allen, R, Bolus. Paper delivered at the

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117th Annual Meeting of Archaeological Institute of America, January 6-9, 2016, San Francisco,

CA.

2016 The Diros Project: Multidisciplinary Investigations at Alepotrypa Cave and Ksagounaki

Promontory, 2010-2015. With W. Parkinson, A. Papathanasiou, D. Pullen, P. Karkanas, and G.

Papathanassopoulos. Paper delivered (by Parkinson) at the 117th Annual Meeting of

Archaeological Institute of America, January 6-9, 2016, San Francisco, CA

2014 Alepotrypa Cave and Its Regional Context in the Late and Final Neolithic Aegean. With D.

Pullen, W. Parkinson, A. Papathanasiou, and P. Karkanas. Paper delivered (by Pullen) at the 79th

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 23-27, 2014, Austin, TX.

2014 The 2013 Field Season of the Projekti Arkeologjikë i Shkodrës (PASH), Northern Albania.

With L. Bejko, J. Harris, S. Galicki, and S. Deskaj. Paper delivered at the 79th Annual Meeting of

the Society for American Archaeology, April 23-27, 2014, Austin, TX.

2014 Discussant for the session “Comparative Approaches to Mycenaean Cooking Vessels,” held

at the 115th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, January 2-5, 2014,

Chicago, IL.

2014 The 2013 Field Season of the Projekti Arkeologjikë i Shkodrës (PASH), Northern Albania.

With S. Deskaj, L. Bejko, S. Galicki, J. Harris, and Z. Tafilica. Paper delivered at the 115th Annual

Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, January 2-5, 2014, Chicago, IL.

2014 Reciprocity in Aegean Palatial Societies: Gifts, Debt, and the Foundations of Economic

Exchange. With D. Nakassis and W. Parkinson. Paper delivered at the 115th Annual Meeting of

the Archaeological Institute of America, January 2-5, 2014, Chicago, IL.

2013 Cross-Cultural Ceramic Ecology: Albania and Yucatán in the Keck Lab at Millsaps College.

With G. Bey and T. Ward. Paper delivered at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American

Anthropological Association, November 20-24, 2013, Chicago, IL.

2013 A gyanú árnyékában. Egy dél-békési vésett kősztélé vizsgálatainak előzetes eredményei. [In

the Shadow of Suspicion: Preliminary Results of Investigations on a Carved Rock Stele from South

Békés County.] With Bóka Gergely, Gyucha Attila, Oláh István, Kasztovszky Zsolt, Kotormán

Norbert, and Medgyesi Pál. Paper delivered (by Bóka) at the Hungarian Prehistoric Conference.

October 16-18, 2013.

2013 The Projekti Arkeologjikë i Shkodrës (PASH), Interim Report, 2010-2012. With L. Bejko,

S. Galicki, Z. Tafilica, and S. Deskaj. Paper delivered at the 1144h Annual Meeting of

Archaeological Institute of America, January 3-6, 2013, Seattle, WA.

2013 The Diros Project, 2012: Survey and Excavation in the Western Mani Peninsula, Southern

Greece. With W. Parkinson, G. Papathanassopoulos, A. Papathanasiou, D. Pullen, and P.

Karkanas. Paper delivered (by Parkinson) at the 1144h Annual Meeting of Archaeological Institute

of America, January 3-6, 2013, Seattle, WA.

2013 Discussant for the Workshop “Minoanization and Mycenaeanization: Two Sides of the

Same Coin?” organized by E. Gorogianni and P. Pavuk for the 114th Annual Meeting of the

Archaeological Institute of America, January 3-6, 2013, Seattle, WA.

2012 Mycenaean –scapes: Geography, Political Economy, and the Eastern Mediterranean World

System. With W. Parkinson and D. Pullen. Presentation for PHYSIS: Aegaeum 14, Paris, France.

December 11-14, 2012.

2012 “Ethnohistoric Archaeology” in Highland Albania: Using Ethnographic and Historical

Surveys to Inform Regional Archaeological Data. Paper delivered at the 77th Annual Meeting of

the Society for American Archaeology, April 18-22, 2012, Memphis, TN.

2012 Discussant for the Session “Recent Trends in Albanian Archaeology: A Decade in Review”

organized by S. Deskaj for the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,

April 18-22, 2012, Memphis, TN.

2012 The 2011 Field Season of the Projekti Arkeologjikë i Shkodrës (PASH). With S. Deskaj,

M-G. Amore, L. Bejko, and Z. Tafilica. Paper delivered (by S. Deskaj) at the 77th Annual Meeting

of the Society for American Archaeology, April 18-22, 2012, Memphis, TN.

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2012 Analysis of Albanian Artifacts in the W.M. Keck Center at Millsaps College: An

Instrumental Approach to Comparative Archaeology. With T. Ward, J. Gu, C. Horne, and E.

Redman.. Paper delivered (by T. Ward) at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology, April 18-22, 2012, Memphis, TN.

2012 Laser Ablation – Inductively Coupled Plasma – Mass Spectroscopy Analysis of Albanian

Chert Artifacts. With J. Gu, T. Ward, C. Horne, and D. Nguyen. Paper delivered (by J. Gu) at the

77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 18-22, 2012, Memphis, TN.

2012 Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece. With W. Parkinson and D. Nakassis.

Paper delivered (by Parkinson) at the 113th Annual Meeting of Archaeological Institute of America,

January 5-8, 2012, Philadelphia, PA.

2011 The Shkodër Archaeological Project, 2010. With L. Bejko, Maria Grazia Amore, Stanley

Galicki, and Zamir Tafilica. Paper delivered at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for

American Archaeology, March 31-April 3, 2011, Sacramento, CA.

2010 Discussant for the session “Ceramic Ecology XXIV: Current Research on Ceramics 2010.”

Held at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 17-21,

2010, New Orleans, LA.

2010 Laboratory Approaches to Cross-Cultural Comparative Archaeology. With G. Bey and T.

Ward. Paper delivered at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April

14-18, 2010, St. Louis, MO.

2009 The Shala Valley Project: Using Interdisciplinary Anthropology to Study Isolation in a

Remote Albanian Village. Paper delivered at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology, April 22-26, 2009, Atlanta, GA.

2008 The Shala Valley Project, Northern Albania, 2007: Results from the Prehistoric Site of

Grunas. With Z. Tafilica, C. Fisher, H. Rypkema, A. Gyucha. Paper delivered at the 73rd Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, March 26-30, 2008, Vancouver, BC.

2008 “Work Moves the Path”: The Origin and Evolution of Northern Albanian Mountain

Landscapes. With O. Lafe and Z. Tafilica. Paper delivered at the 109th Annual Meeting of

Archaeological Institute of America, January 3-6, 2008, Chicago, IL.

2007 Cultural Resource Management in Southeast Europe: The Example of Albania. With O.

Lafe. Paper delivered at the 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists,

September 19-23, 2007, Zadar, Croatia.

2007 Prehistoric Occupation of the Albanian Adriatic Coast. With O. Lafe. Paper delivered at

the 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, September 19-23, 2007,

Zadar, Croatia.

2007 The Shala Valley Project, Northern Albania: Results of the 2006 Field Season. With O.

Lafe, R. Schon, Z. Tafilica, and C. Watkinson. Paper delivered at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology, April 25-29, 2007, Austin, TX.

2007 Warfare, Politics, and Rural Population Movements: Analyzing Houses, Neighborhoods,

and Abandonment in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania, 1450-2006. With W. Lee. Paper

delivered (by Lee) at the 108th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, January

4-7, 2007, San Diego, CA.

2007 Models of State Formation in Aegean Prehistory: Towards an Integrated Approach. With

W. Parkinson. Paper delivered (by Parkinson) at the 108th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological

Institute of America, January 4-7, 2007, San Diego, CA.

2006 The CGMA Project: Collaboratory for GIS in Mediterranean Archaeology. With P. Foss

and R. Schindler. Paper delivered at the 86th Annual Meeting of Classical Association of the

Midwest and South – Southern Section, Memphis, TN, November 2-4, 2006.

2006 Highland Northern Albania, “Ecotourism,” and the Shala Valley Project: Prospects and

Challenges. With Z. Tafilica, O. Lafe, W. Lee, and C. Watkinson. Paper delivered at the 71st

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 26-30,

2006.

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2006 A New Methodology for Rapid, In-Situ, Phosphorus Analysis in Survey -- A Case Study

from Loudoun County, Virginia: Prospects and Problems. With W. Lee, H. Rypkema, and J.

Haws. Paper delivered (by Lee) at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American

Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 26-30, 2006.

2006 Archaeology and Conflict Resolution in Northern Albania: The Shala Valley Project and

the Cross-Border Balkan Peace Park. Paper delivered at the 107th Annual Meeting of the

Archaeological Institute of America, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, January 5-8, 2006.

2005 Frontiers and Fronts: Prioritizing Conflict in the Balkans. With R. Schon. Paper delivered

(by Schon) at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Santa Fe, NM,

November 19, 2005.

2005 Projekti i Lugines se Shales-SVP (sezoni 2005) [Shala Valley Project-SVP

(2005 season)]. With O. Lafe and Z. Tafilica. Paper delivered (by Lafe) at the Sixth International

Seminar Shkodra ne Shekuj [Shkodra through the Centuries], Shkodër, Albania, November 26,

2005.

2005 ‘There are Prehistoric Cities Up There’: The Bronze and Iron Ages of Northern Albania.

Paper delivered at the international conference “Between the Aegean and the Baltic Seas:

Prehistory Across Borders,” Zagreb, Croatia, April 11-14, 2005.

2004 Ceramic Petrography and the Classification of Mississippi’s Archaeological Pottery by

Fabric. Paper delivered at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference,

St. Louis, Missouri, October 20-23, 2004.

2004 Investigation of Hungarian Early Copper Age Settlements through Magnetic Prospection

and Soil Phosphate Techniques. With A. Sarris, R. Yerkes, W. Parkinson, A. Gyucha, D.

Billingsley, and R. Tate. Paper delivered (by A. Sarris) at the XXXII CAA2004 International

Conference: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. Beyond the

Artifact: Digital Interpretation of the Past, Prato, Italy, 13-17 April, 2004.

2004 Soil Chemistry Survey at the Körösladány-Bikeri Site, Békés County, Hungary. With M.

Hardy and E. Lee. Paper delivered (by M. Hardy) at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for

American Archaeology, Montreal, Canada, March 31-April 4, 2004.

2003 Discussant for the session “Ceramic Ecology XVII: Current Research on Ceramics 2003.”

Paper delivered at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,

Chicago, Illinois, November 19-23, 2003.

2003 Babies and Bathwater: A Comparative Perspective on Aegean State Trajectories. Paper

delivered (by W. Parkinson) at the international colloquium “Current Issues In State Formation:

The Mediterranean and Beyond”, UNC Chapel Hill, October 17-19, 2003.

2003 Site Soil Chemistry at Vésztõ-Bikeri, Békés County, Hungary. Paper delivered (by D.

Billingsley) at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, WI,

April 9-13, 2003.

2003 ‘The Snake That Bites’: Enver Hoxha, Bunkerization, and Albanian Historical

Consciousness. Paper delivered at the conference “Trauma: Reflection on Experience and Its

Other,” Millsaps College, Jackson, MS, April 4-5, 2003.

2002 The Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project: The Fifth Season. With J. Davis, M.

Korkuti, L. Bejko, S. Muçaj, and S. Stocker. Paper delivered at the symposium “Viti Arkeologjik

2002” (Archaeological Year 2002), Tirana, Albania, December 6-7, 2002.

2002 Excavation of a Hellenistic Farmhouse in the Vicinity of Apollonia. With S. Muçaj, S.

Stocker, M. Timpson, J. Davis, and M. Korkuti. Paper delivered at the Quatrième Colloque

International sur l’Illyrie Mériondale et l’Epire dans l’Antiquité, Grenoble, France, October 10-12,

2002.

2002 The Practice of Archeology Under Dictatorship: A Review. With C. Watkinson. Paper

delivered at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, CO,

March 20-24, 2002.

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2002 Petrographic Analysis of the Ceramics and Architectural Clay of the Tiszapolgár Settlement

at Vésztõ-Bikeri. With T. Parsons. Paper delivered (by T. Parsons) at the 67th Annual Meeting of

the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, CO, March 20-24, 2002.

2002 Point-Counting, Petrography, and Context: Analysis of a Middle Woodland Site in Eastern

Mississippi. With J. Rafferty. Paper delivered (by J. Rafferty) at the 67th Annual Meeting of the

Society for American Archaeology, Denver, CO, March 20-24, 2002.

2002 Modeling the Formation and Evolution of an Illyrian Tribal System: Ethnographic and

Archaeological Analogues. Paper delivered at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the Archaeological

Institute of America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. January 3-6, 2002.

Published Abstract: American Journal of Archaeology 106(2): 280-1.

2002 The Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project (MRAP): Results of the 2001 Survey and

Excavation Season Near Apollonia, Albania. With J. Davis, M. Korkuti, L. Bejko, S. Muçaj, and

S. Stocker. Paper delivered (by S. Stocker) at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the Archaeological

Institute of America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. January 3-6, 2002.

Published Abstract: American Journal of Archaeology 106(2): 252-3.

2001 The Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project (MRAP): Results of the 2000 Field

Season. With J. Davis, M. Korkuti, L. Bejko, S. Muçaj, and S. Stocker. Paper delivered at the

66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA, April 18-22,

2001.

2001 The Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project (MRAP): Results of the 2000 Field

Season Near Apollonia, Albania. With J. Davis, M. Korkuti, L. Bejko, S. Muçaj, and S. Stocker.

Paper delivered at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San

Diego, California. January 3-6, 2001.

Published Abstract: American Journal of Archaeology 105(2): 288.

2000 Preliminary Results of the 1998-1999 Field Seasons of the Mallakastra Regional

Archaeological Project. With S. Stocker. Paper delivered at the Colloque International Université

de Bretagne-Sud Lorient “L'Albania dans l'Europe préhistorique (du Paléolithique à l'Âge du Fer).”

June 8-10, 2000.

2000 The Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project (MRAP), Central Albania: Results of the

1998-1999 Survey Seasons. With J. Davis, M. Korkuti, L. Bejko, S. Muçaj, and S. Stocker. Paper

delivered at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania. April 5-9, 2000

1999 The Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project (MRAP): Results of the 1998-1999

Survey Seasons Near Apollonia, Albania. With J. Davis, M. Korkuti, L. Bejko, S. Muçaj, and S.

Stocker. Paper delivered (by S. Stocker) at the 101st Annual Meeting of the Archaeological

Institute of America, Dallas, Texas. December 29, 1999.

Published Abstract: American Journal of Archaeology 104(2): 351.

1999 Ceramic Archaeology: Under-whelming the Audience versus Over-interpreting the Results.

Paper delivered at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,

Chicago, Illinois. November 17-21, 1999. In the symposium “Ceramic Ecology XII: Current

Research on Ceramics 1999.”

1999 Creating and Destroying the Past: Examples from Albania. With S. Stocker and C.

Watkinson. Paper delivered at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,

Chicago, Illinois. March 24-28, 1999.

1998 Nestor's Wine Cups: Pots and Mycenaean Pylos. Paper delivered at the 100th Annual

Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Washington D.C. December 27-30, 1998.

Published Abstract: American Journal of Archaeology 103(2): 327-8.

1998 The Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project: The First Season. With J. Davis, M.

Korkuti, L. Bejko, S. Mucaj, and S. Stocker. Paper delivered (by J. Davis) at “Fifty Years of

Albanian Archaeology,” an international symposium sponsored by the Albanian National Academy

of Sciences and the Institute of Archaeology, Tirana, Albania. November 9-10, 1998.

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1997 Wealth Ceramics, Staple Ceramics: Pots and the Mycenaean Palaces. Paper delivered at the

62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Nashville, Tennessee. April 2-6,

1997.

1996 The “Palatial Control” of Production and Distribution in a Late Bronze Age State Economy.

With W. Parkinson. Paper delivered at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of

America, New York City. December 27-30, 1996.

Published Abstract: American Journal of Archaeology 100(2): 375-376.

1996 Norsemen and the Thule in Greenland: Sociocultural Change and the Lack Thereof. Paper

delivered at the Second Annual Meeting of Midwestern European Archaeologists, Iowa City, Iowa.

October 20, 1996.

1996 Pots, Rocks, and Palaces: Using Survey Data to Determine “Palatial Control” of a Late

Bronze Age Greek Economy. With W. Parkinson. Paper delivered (by W. Parkinson) at the 61st

Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. April 10-14,

1996.

1995 Olive Oil and the Mycenaean Kingdom of Pylos. Paper delivered at the First Annual

Meeting of Midwestern European Archaeologists, Madison, Wisconsin. October 21, 1995.

Invited Presentations

2017 From Plain to Plateau: The Origins of Social Complexity in Northern Albania. Presentation

for the Archaeology Program at the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. March 24, 2017.

2016 Landscape, Settlement, and Land Use in Northern Albania: Microenvironmental Dynamics

and Sociopolitical Change in the Ancient World. Distinguished lecture, Department of

Anthropology, University of Maine, Orono, ME. March 21, 2016.

2016 Mycenaean Memories: Results of the 2014 Excavations at Ksagounaki, Mani, Greece.

Presentation given for the Program in Mediterranean Archaeology at Emory University, Atlanta,

GA. February 7, 2016.

2015 Prestige Goods Economies Past and Present in Northern Highland Albania. Presentation

given at the conference “Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity: Studies in Honor of

John F. Cherry.” December 4-5, 2015, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient

World, Brown University.

2015 Collective Memory, State Formation, and Nation Building: Examples from Egypt, Greece,

and Albania. Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology, School of Anthropology, University of

Arizona, Tucson, AZ. April 2, 2015.

2015 Mobility Modes and Scales: Lessons Learned From Highland Northern Albania. Workshop

presentation at the Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. January 22,

2015.

2014 What Ethnoarchaeology Can and Cannot Teach Us About the Prehistoric Mediterranean:

Lessons Learned From Ten Years of Research in High Albania. Seminar presentation for the

Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. March 7, 2014.

2013 Participation in the working group “Similarity and Divergence in post-Neolithic Europe:

Mediterranean and Carpathian Comparisons,” organized by E. Rupley and J. Sabloff, Santa Fe

Institute, Santa Fe, NM. October 14-16, 2013.

2013 High Altitude Archaeology: Results of the Shala Valley Project, Northern Albania.

Presentation for the Tombigbee Chapter of the Mississippi Archaeological Association, Plymouth

Bluff Center, Columbus, MS. October 13, 2013.

2013 Reciprocity, Redistribution, and Markets: The Evolution and Organization of Mycenaean

Greek Economies. Presentation for the Shakouls Honors College in celebration of “Classical

Week.” September 27, 2013.

2013 Mycenaean Glocalism: Greek Political Economies and International Trade. Presentation in

the conference “Trade and Civilization” held at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, May 9-10,

2013.

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2013 Albania – Kosovo – Montenegro: Cross-Border Heritage in a Mountainous Fracture Zone.

Presentation in the workshop “Cultural Policies and Corridors in the Balkans and Turkey” held at

the Cultural Heritage Center, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of

Pennsylvania, April 15, 2013.

2012 Riding the River Styx: New Research In and Around Alepotrypa Cave, Greece.

Presentation in the “Aegean Seminar,” University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. December 19, 2013.

2012 High Altitude Archaeology: The Shala Valley Project, Northern Albania. Presentation in the

“Aegean Seminar,” University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. December 19, 2013.

2012 Riding the River Styx: New Research in and Around Alepotrypa Cave, Greece. Presentation

to the students and faculty, in celebration of Mississippi Archaeology Month, at Mississippi State

University, October 24, 2012, Starkville, MS.

2011 Research and Education at the World Heritage Site of Berat, Albania. Presentation at the

UNESCO workshop “Improving Administrative Capacity at the Albanian World Heritage Sites,”

June 3, 2011. Berat, Albania.

2010 By invitation of the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of Tirana, Albania,

three seminar presentations to students in archaeology and heritage management: “What is

Anthropological Archaeology?”, “Archaeology in the Laboratory”, and “A Short Introduction to

the Archaeology of North America”. May-June, 2010.

2010 High Altitude Archaeology in Albania: Results of the Shala Valley Project. Presentation to

the students and faculty of the College of Wooster, Wooster, OH, February 1, 2010.

2010 The W. M. Keck Center for Instrumental and Biochemical Comparative Archaeology.

Presentation in the workshop “Seeking a Way Forward for Archaeological Science: The Challenges

of Training and Funding” at the 111th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America,

January 6-9, 2010, Anaheim, CA.

2009 Sources of Mycenaean Greek Warrior Power, circa 1200 BC. Presentation to the students

and faculty of the Department of History at the University of Tirana, Albania, December 17, 2009.

2009 Interdisciplinary Anthropology at High Altitude: The Shala Valley Project, Northern

Albania. Presentation to the students and faculty of the Department of History at the University of

Tirana, Albania, December 16, 2009.

2009 Interdisciplinary Anthropology at High Altitude: The Shala Valley Project, Northern

Albania. Presentation in the Michigan State University Department of Anthropology “Brown Bag”

series, October 9, 2009, East Lansing, MI.

2009 Why Do We Fight? Affluence and the Origins of Violence and Warfare. The Modschiedler

Lecture at the 42nd Annual Phi Theta Kappa International Honors Institute. Presentation to 400

community college students and faculty, June 23, 2009, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA.

2009 “An offense to honor is never forgiven…”: Violence and Landscape Archaeology in

Highland Northern Albania. Paper delivered at the 2nd Visiting Scholar Conference “The

Archaeology of Violence: An Integrated Approach to the Study of Violence and Conflict”, April

18-19, 2009, Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology, University at Buffalo, SUNY,

Buffalo, NY.

2009 Comparative Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Border Zone Archaeology.

Presentation to the students and faculty of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient

World, Brown University, Providence, RI, March 10, 2009.

2009 Why Do We Fight? Affluence and the Origins of Violence and Warfare. The Val and

Howard Hampton Memorial Lecture. Phi Theta Kappa 2009 Faculty Scholar Conference. Seminar

presentation to 25 community college faculty. Jackson, MS. January 31, 2009.

2008 Archaeological Evidence for the Origins of Affluence. Presentation in the Phi Theta

Kappa/NCHC Honors Seminar Series “The Paradox of Affluence: Choices, Challenges, and

Consequences”, broadcast live on public television to an international audience. November 18,

2008.

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2008 Grunas, Shala: A New Fortified Prehistoric Site in the Northern Albanian Mountains.

Presentation at the Cinquième Colloque International sur l’Illyrie Mériodionale at l’Épire dans

l’Antiquité, Grenoble, France, October 8-12, 2008. With Ols Lafe and Zamir Tafilica.

2008 The Shala Valley Project: Using Interdisciplinary Anthropology to Study Isolation in a

Remote Albanian Village. Presentation to the students and faculty of the Department of

Anthropology, University of Illinois – Chicago, September 12, 2008.

2008 Ancient and Modern Subsistence and Economy in Theth, Shala, Northern Albania.

Presentation at the American Embassy in Tirana, Albania. June 9, 2008.

2008 Mycenaean Pottery Production, Distribution and Consumption. Presentation to the Iklaina

Archaeological Project field school. Pylos, Greece. June 3, 2008.

2008 Blood of Our Ancestors: Cultural Heritage Management in the Balkans. For the conference

Contested Cultural Heritage: Religion and Nationalism in a Global World, organized by

Collaborative for Cultural Heritage and Museum Practices and Spurlock Museum at the University

of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April 24-26, 2008.

2007 Wedging Clay: Combining Competing Models of Mycenaean Pottery Industries. For the

2007 Langford Conference, Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age, sponsored by the

Department of Classics, Florida State University, February 22-24, 2007.

2007 Of Men and Mountains: Interdisciplinary Anthropological Research in Northern Albania.

Presentation to the students and faculty of the Department of Anthropology, Florida State

University, Tallahassee, FL. February 22, 2007.

2006 Projekti “Lugina e Shales” [The Shala Valley Project]. With O. Lafe and Z. Tafilica. Paper

delivered at the annual meeting of the Albanian Institute of Archaeology, Tirana, Albania.

December 15-16, 2006.

2006 Bling Bling and Barbeque: Sources of Mycenaean Greek Warrior Power, circa 1200 BC.

Presentation to the students and faculty of Hinds Community College, Raymond, MS. October 25,

2006.

2005 The Shala Valley Project (SVP): Isolation and Interaction in the High Mountains of

Northern Albania. La Maison René Ginouvès d’Archéologie et d’Ethnologie. University of Paris

X. November 15, 2005.

2005 The Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project (MRAP): Investigating Processes of

Colonization and Acculturation in Southern Albania. La Maison René Ginouvès d’Archéologie et

d’Ethnologie. University of Paris X. November 8, 2005.

2005 The Shala Valley Project: Investigating Isolation and Incorporation in Highland Northern

Albania. University of Sheffield. School of Archaeology and Archaeological Sciences. November

1, 2005.

2005 Bricks, Blocks, and Bunkers: Building and Destroying the Landscapes of Ancient and

Modern Albania. Catholic University of Louvain. Department of Archaeology and Art History.

October 27, 2005. Presented in the doctoral seminar “Appropriating the Place.”

2005 Tribe-Chiefdom-State in Albania. State University of New York at Buffalo. Department of

Anthropology. January 31, 2005.

2004 “There are prehistoric cities up there…”: The History and Archaeology of the Northern

Albanian High Mountain Country. Mississippi Archaeology Month public lecture, sponsored by

the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and the Mississippi Archaeological

Association. Millsaps College, Jackson, MS. October 28, 2004.

2002 Digging the Eagle: Archaeology in the Developing Nation of Albania. Millsaps Friday

Forum, Millsaps College, February 7, 2003.

2002 Ethnohistoric Models for an Illyrian (proto-Albanian) Tribal System. Presentation delivered

to the Mississippi State University Anthropology Club. April 5, 2002.

2001 Shades of Things to Come: Symbolic Archaeology from Mallakastra to Millsaps. Paper

presented in the faculty symposium “Millsaps Research: Past, Present, and Future,” honoring the

inauguration of Millsaps College’s 10th president, Dr. Frances Lucas. April 4, 2001.

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2001 Colonialism and Ethnicity: Lessons from the Greek/Albanian Frontier circa 500 BC.

University of Akron, Department of Classical Studies, Anthropology, and Archaeology. February

23, 2001.

2000 Cultural Interaction, State Formation, and Ethnogenesis in the Eastern Mediterranean:

Examples from the Greek-Illyrian Frontier. University of Notre Dame, Department of

Anthropology. January 21, 2000.

1999 Archaeology in Albania: Challenges and Prospects. Mississippi Archaeology Week public

lecture, sponsored by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and the Mississippi

Archaeological Association. Millsaps College, Jackson, MS. October 12, 1999.

1999 Archaeology in Albania: “Slowly, slowly; Little by little...” Presentation to the students and

faculty of the Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS. April 20,

1999.

1998 Archaeological Explorations in the Mallakastra Region of Albania. Presentation to the

Tombigbee Chapter of the Mississippi Archaeological Association. November 24, 1998.

1998 Nestor’s Wine Cups. Colloquium presented to the faculty and students at the University of

Wisconsin, Washington County, West Bend, WI. May 14, 1998.

1997 Nestor’s Wine Cups: The Archaeology of the Mycenaean Kingdom of Pylos. Presentation

to the Northeast Wisconsin Archaeological Society, Manitowoc, WI. April 22, 1997.

Conference Posters

2017 Examining Diet Using Stable Isotopes Throughout Prehistoric Greece. With S. Fuehr, N.

Herrmann, and A. Van de Moortel. Presented at the 118th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological

Institute of America, January 5-8, 2017, Toronto, ON.

2012 ICP-MS and LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Albanian Artifacts. With C. Horne, T. Ward, J. Gu,

and M. Berch. Presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,

April 18-22, 2012, Memphis, TN.

2012 Trace Element Fingerprinting of Chert Artifacts with Portable X-Ray Fluorescence

Spectrometry and Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry. With J. Gu, T.

Ward, and C. Horne. Presented (by J. Gu) at Pittcon, March 13, 2012, Orlando, FL.

Teaching Experience

July, 2017-present. Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Museum of Anthropological

Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

July, 2013-July, 2017. Professor of Anthropology and Head of the Department of Anthropology

and Middle Eastern Cultures, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS.

January, 2017-July, 2017. Director, Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University,

Starkville, MS.

January, 2015-December, 2016. Interim Director, Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State

University, Starkville, MS.

May, 2009. Promoted to Professor of Anthropology. Department of Sociology and Anthropology,

Millsaps College, Jackson, MS.

May, 2004. Promoted to Associate Professor of Anthropology, with tenure. Department of

Sociology and Anthropology, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS.

August, 1999-May, 2004. Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and

Anthropology, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS.

Courses taught:

Liberal Studies 1000: Introduction to the Humanities

Soc/Anth 1100: Introduction to Anthropology

Soc/Anth 1110: Introduction to Archaeology and World Prehistory

IDS 1200: Ancient Cities and States

IDS 1300: “Blood of Our Ancestors”: A Formative History of the Balkan Peninsula

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Soc/Anth 1710: Human Evolution

Soc/Anth 2100: Research Methods and Statistics

Soc/Anth 2210: Archaeological Method and Theory

Soc/Anth 2130: Marriage and Family

Soc/Anth 3110-Classics 3850: Archaeology of Greece

Soc/Anth 3110-Classics 3751: Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece

Soc/Anth 3110: Archaeology of Selected Culture Area: “The Snake That Bites: History and

Archaeology as the Basis for Albanian National Identity” (taught in Albania, summer 2008)

Soc/Anth 2400: Women and Men in Prehistory

Soc/Anth 2850: Anthropology of War

Soc/Anth 3110: Archaeology of Europe

Soc/Anth 3220: Class, Race, and Gender

Soc/Anth 3400: Native North America

Soc/Anth 3410: Archaeological Field School (taught in Virginia, summers 2001-2003, 2005 and

Albania summer 2008 and 2012)

Soc/Anth 4200: Social and Cultural Theory

Soc/Anth 4750: Anthropological Films and Film Making

Soc/Anth 4750: The Archaeology of Empires and Conquest

Soc/Anth 4750: Historical Archaeology

Soc/Anth 4752: Beginning Albanian (co-taught with L. Beqa, 2010-2011)

Soc/Anth 4760: GIS and Mediterranean Archaeology

Soc/Anth 4900: Senior Seminar in Anthropological Theory

Business 606: Tragedy of the Commons?: Anthropology, Development, and World Capitalism

(A graduate-level course for MBA students.)

Liberal Studies 5000: Graduate Study in the Humanities: Why Do We Fight? The Anthropology

and Archaeology of War and Peace. (A graduate-level seminar for the Millsaps College Office of

Continuing Education.)

Wrote all syllabi. Average of 15 students per class.

August, 1998-May, 1999. Visiting Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social

Work, Mississippi State University. Over the course of two semesters, taught five sections of

Anthropology 1103: Introduction to Anthropology, two of Anthropology 1543: Introduction to

Archaeology, and one of Anthropology 4533/6533: Rise of Civilization, a graduate-level course.

Wrote all syllabi. Approximately 35 students per class.

August, 1996-May, 1998. Associate Lecturer, University of Wisconsin, Washington County. Fall

Semesters taught Anthropology 200: Cultural Anthropology. Spring Semesters taught

Anthropology 314: Indians of North America. Approximately 25 students per class, wrote both

syllabi.

January-May, 1997. Teaching Fellow, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin. Taught Anthropology

110: Archaeology and World Prehistory to 10 students. Responsible for writing class syllabus.

August, 1997-May, 1998. Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of

Wisconsin, Madison. Taught three discussion sections per semester of Anthropology 102:

Archaeology and the Prehistoric World. 24 students per section.

August, 1992-August, 1997. Travel Advisor, University of Wisconsin’s Memorial Union Travel

Center. Advised students of educational, work, and travel opportunities overseas. Paid position.

June, 1991-June, 1992. Overseas Service Corps of the YMCA. Full-time teacher of conversational

English. Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China.

January-May, 1991. Grinnell College tutor in linguistics. Paid position.

January, 1990-May, 1991. Native American Interest Group Mesquakie Tutoring Project. Weekly

tutoring, in all subjects, of elementary and high school-aged children at the Mesquakie Indian

Settlement, Tama, Iowa.

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Graduate Theses Advised

Stephanie Fuehr, “Isotopic Study of Diet during the Bronze and Early Iron Ages at Mitrou and

Tragana Agia Triada, Greece,” 2016

Undergraduate Theses Advised

Kailey Rocker, “Promoting and Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Drisht Castle, Shkodra,

Albania: The Local Stakeholder's Perspective of Cultural Heritage Management,” 2012.

Nadia Al Hashimi, “Keepers of the Pass: Gender Roles of Women in Northern Albania,” 2010.

Catherine Scott, “An Analysis of Soil Chemistry and Its Implications for the Understanding of Site

Structure at Iklaina, Greece,” 2010.

Chelsi A. West, “‘Mic Check, One Two, One Two’: Globalization, Cultural Transfer and the

Production of Hip-Hop Identities in Tanzania and Albania,” 2008.

Georgia E. Beilmann, “Albania: Religion, Identity, and Solidarity,” 2006.

Doc M. Billingsley, “The Role of Family Planning Programs in the Thai Fertility Decline: An

Anthropological Perspective on ‘Successful’ Population Control,” 2005.

Institutional Programs and Committees

Interim Director, Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University, January 1, 2015-

January 1, 2017.

Director, Millsaps College Core Curriculum, July, 2011-July, 2012.

Chair, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Millsaps College, academic year 2006-2007,

January, 2009-August, 2011.

President, Millsaps College chapter of the American Association of University Professors, May,

2009-May, 2011.

Director, Millsaps College Liberal Studies program. January 1, 2002-May 1, 2005. Coordinate the

approximately 20 faculty who teach Liberal Studies 1000: Introduction to the Liberal Studies, the

College’s writing intensive first-year tutorial.

Tenure and Promotion Committee, Millsaps College, August, 2006-May, 2009, August 2011-May,

2012 (one-year elected replacement term). As chair, 2008-2009, 2011-2012. Elected, three-year

term.

Scholarships and Fellowships Committee, Millsaps College, August, 2001-present. As Chair,

2006-2008. Campus representative for the National Security Education Program’s “David L.

Boren Undergraduate Scholarships for Study Abroad”, and the Gilman and Freeman Asia

fellowships.

European Studies Committee, Millsaps College, May, 2000-July, 2012.

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Public Events Committee, Millsaps College, August, 2001-2003. As Chair, 2001-2002, in charge

of coordinating faculty-sponsored all-campus events, including the “Millsaps Forum” series.

International Studies Committee, Millsaps College, August, 2001-2003.

Chair, Department of Sociology-Anthropology Cultural Anthropologist Search Committee,

Millsaps College, 2000-2001.

Department of Classics Search Committee, Millsaps College, 2000-2001, 2006-2007, 2009-2010,

2010-2011.

Applied Anthropology M.A. Program Committee, Mississippi State University. Worked with

colleagues to develop a proposal for implementation of a Master’s degree program in applied

anthropology.

National Service

Named one of nine Academic Trustees of the Archaeological Institute of America, January, 2012-

January, 2015.

Appointed to the Program for the Annual Meeting Committee of the Archaeological Institute of

America, 2005-2014. Chair: January, 2011-2014; Interim Chair: January-August, 2009.

Appointed to the Professional Responsibilities Committee of the Archaeological Institute of

America, 2010-2015.

Institutional representative to the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical

Studies at Athens for Millsaps College, May, 2011-May, 2013.

Elected member of the Weiner Lab committee of the American School of Classical Studies at

Athens, May, 2011-January, 2016.

Member of the America for Bulgaria Foundation Archaeological Advisory Committee, September

1, 2009-September 1, 2014. Committee members read and assessed all applications for funding for

archaeological projects.

Cultural Resource Management

1999. Participant in the Associated Colleges of the South conference on “Heritage Resources

Management in the College and University Environment.” November 11-14, 1999. University of

the South, Sewanee, TN.

1997-1998. Archaeological technician with Midwest Archaeological Consulting, Madison, WI.

Survey and excavation in Wisconsin.

Languages

• Albanian: low intermediate oral and reading proficiency

• Modern Greek: low intermediate oral and reading proficiency

• French: novice oral proficiency, advanced reading proficiency

• Mandarin Chinese: novice oral proficiency

Professional Organizations

• American Anthropological Association and the Anthropology of Europe Section

• Ceramic Studies Interest Group

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• Archaeological Institute of America

• Society for American Archaeology and the Geoarchaeology Interest Group

• Mississippi Archaeological Association

Special Classes Taken

• Spring Semester, 1994. French for Reading Knowledge. UW Extension Course.

• Fall Semester, 1995. Techniques of Wheel Pottery. UW Memorial Union Mini-Course.

Previous Advisors

University of Wisconsin-- Dr. T. Douglas Price, Dr. John Bennet, Dr. James Stoltman, Dr. Gary

Feinman, Dr. Vance Holliday.

Grinnell College-- Dr. Jon Andelson, Dr. Kathryn Kamp, Dr. John Whittaker, Dr. Gerald Lalonde.

• References available upon request.