Thomas F. Tartaron

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Associate Professor of Classical Studies Executive Director of the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, Penn Museum; Associate Curator, Penn Museum Mediterranean Section; Faculty Advisor, Post-baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies

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Office Hours
Office hours, Fall 2023: Tuesday from 2:30-3:30 or by appointment
Education

Ph.D. (Archaeology) Boston University, 1996
Colburn Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992–1993
B.A. International Studies, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1981

Research Interests

Greek Bronze Age archaeology, Classical Archaeology, landscape archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, archaeometry

Current Excavation:

https://classics.fsu.edu/research/archaeological-fieldwork/sharp

Courses Taught

(undergraduate) Introduction to Mediterranean Archaeology; Ages of Homer; Great Discoveries in Archaeology; Seafaring in the Ancient Greek World; City and Countryside in Ancient Greece; Mycenae, Pylos, and Troy

(graduate) Ancient Greek Colonies; Landscape Archaeology; Material and Methods in Mediterranean Archaeology; Mycenae; Introduction to Archaeological Ceramics; Ethnoarchaeology: Greece; Surface Archaeology; Landscapes and Seascapes in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Selected Publications

Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean World (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

"Geography Matters: Defining Maritime Small Worlds of the Aegean Bronze Age," in J. Leidwanger and C. Knappett, eds., Maritime Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp 61-92.

"The Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project (SHARP): Investigations at Mycenaean Kalamianos, 2007–2009," Hesperia 80 (2011): 559–634.

"Aegean Prehistory as World Archaeology: Recent Trends in the Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece," Journal of Archaeological Research 16 (2008): 83–161.

Work in Progress:

Oral history projects among traditional fishing communities in Greece (Thrace), Cyprus, and India (Kerala); archaeological field survey at Molyvoti, Thrace (Greece).

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