The American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The Modern Faunal Comparative Collection

This growing collection concentrates on the basic mammal, mollusc, fish and bird species common to Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean. It was initiated in 1992 by Dr. Walter Klippel (University of Tennessee) and Dr. Lynn Snyder (Smithsonian Institution) and has been further developed by Dr. Yiannis Hamilakis (University of Southampton), Justin Lev-Tov (Smithsonian Institution), Dr. Michele Miller (Boston University), Dr. Deborah Ruscillo (Washington University, St. Louis), and Dr. Ekaterini Trantalidou (Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology, Greece).