Continuing with our effort to broaden the scope of the bulletin, I am pleased to introduce the new faces of the editorial board. Lareke Recht will cover topics related to zooarchaeology. Mark Golithko will report on the state-of-the-art research on lithic and network analysis. Evi Marigitis will show us what the world of archaeobotanical research is like.
 |
| From left to right: Laerke Recht, Mark Golitko, and Evi Margaritis |
Laerke Recht is an archaeologist whose research focuses on the archaeology of the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean and Near East. She is particularly interested in the themes of interaction between the regions of the eastern Mediterranean, religion, gender and human-animal relations in the past and our modern interpretation of these interactions. She has most recently finished a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship at University of Cambridge on the project entitled ‘The Spirited Horse: Human-equid relations in the Bronze Age Near East’. This project involves examining different species of equids and their identification in the zooarchaeological, icnonographic, and epigraphic records. Lareke also works on the Hala Sultan Tekke project in Cyprus (Aegean ceramics and animals), and on the Tell Mozan/Urkesh project in Syria (ceramics, glyptics, digital publication).
Mark Golitko is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana). Prior to that, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He received his BSc in History from the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and an MS and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Illinoise at Chicago. He currently conducts fieldwork in Papua New Guinea and SE Europe. He has worked extensively with ICP-MS-pXRF, SEM-EDS, and petrographic analyses of ceramics and lithics materials from Europe, the Americas, and the SW Pacific, both at the Field Museum Elemental Analysis Facility (EAF) and now as the director of the Notre Dame Archaeological X-ray Laboratory (NDAXL). He is particularly interested in using geochemical data and computational approaches including GIS and network analysis to analyze prehistoric social networks and their role in patterning biocultural diversity.
Evi Margaritis is a leading expert in archaeobotanical research in the east Mediterranean and the only archaeobotantist based in Cyprus, where she is an assistant professor at the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Centre of the Cyprus Institute. Her research focuses on exploring the human-environment relationship in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean through botanical remains and environmental evidence. Her research projects stretch from the Minoan and Mycenaean agriculture to early Bronze Age farming, and Classical economy. Currently, she is the assistant director of the Cambridge Keros Project, where she is in charge of all environmental studies of the project and organised several field school to train the next generation of archaeologists in the eastern Mediterranean region.
Comments
Post a Comment