Synopsis
Classical archaeology was long equated to ancient art history. Today these fields find themselves at a major crossroads. The influence on them—from the discipline of anthropology—has increased substantially in the past 15 years, adding to the ways in which scholars can study the Roman past. The classical archaeologist of the 21st century is likely to be versed in Greek and Latin, computer technology, ancient history, great monuments, various hard sciences such as physics or even astronomy, GPS, GIS, surveying, mapping, digitizing, artistic rendering, numismatics, geo-science, astronomy, environmental studies, material culture analysis and/or a host of other disciplines and sub-disciplines.Universities are seeking specialists whose talents embrace not one but several different fields of research. It is not necessary for each scholar to know everything about each discipline being used within the fields of art history, classical archaeology and anthropology, but these days a basic knowledge of all relevant disciplines is becoming indispensable. This book will layout the basic information and steps necessary to take the beginning archaeologist’s search for knowledge of the past and lead them to adventures of the future.
About the Author
Archer Martin specializes in the study of Roman pottery and related socio-economic questions. He studied at Vanderbilt University and the Universität Regensburg in Bavaria, before doing his graduate studies in classical archaeology at the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” and the Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene. He has taught at the Universities of Fribourg, Trento and Suor Orsola Benincasa (Naples) and served as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome. He also founded and directs the Howard Comfort FAAR ’29 Summer School in Roman Pottery at the AAR. He has worked on many archaeological projects in Italy (in particular at Rome, Ostia and Pompeii, as well as in Tuscany, Umbria and Abruzzo), Greece (Olympia and Gortyna), Turkey (Ephesos) and Egypt (Schedia in the western Delta near Alexandria). He is the treasurer of the Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores, the leading association for the promotion of Roman pottery studies. David Soren is the Regents Professor of Anthropology and Classics and Adjunct Regents Professor of Art History at the University of Arizona. He received his B.A. from Dartmouth College in Greek and Roman Studies, his M.A. from Harvard in Fine Arts and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Classical Archaeology. He is a Fellow of Great Britain’s Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He has published 10 books and more than 100 articles on archaeology, art history, film, vaudeville and dance and has directed excavations in Tunisia, Portugal, Cyprus and Italy. He has won the Ciné Golden Eagle Award for documentary filmmaking and has worked extensively as a producer, director, screenwriter and consultant for NBC, PBS, A & E, BBC, RAI 1 (Italy), Discovery, National Geographic and the Learning Channel. For his contributions to Italian archaeology, he has been named an honorary Italian citizen.
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