Volcanologist Floyd McCoy from the University of Hawaii reflects on a busy year as Visiting Research Professor in the Wiener Laboratory, leading a student trip to Santorini, exploring new ideas with colleagues, and writing (when time permitted).
Zooarchaeology: Current and Past Research
Rosalia Christidou (University of Paris, Nanterre) 2002-2005.
“The production, use, and distribution of Neolithic bone tools in eastern Macedonia. Experimental microware analysis of bone artifacts from Angelohori.”
Paraskevi Elefanti (Royal Holloway, University of London) 2004-2005.
“Raw material procurement as an indicator of hunter-gatherer mobility strategies in Epirus during the Upper Paleolithic.”
Armelle Gardesien (CNRS, Montpelier) 1997-1998.
“Process and evolution of animal exploitation in Argos; and archaeozoological and taphonomical analysis of Kalamakia Cave (Mani).”
Yannis Hamilakis (University of Southampton) 1993-1994.
“Analysis of the Pleistocene fauna from Zoniana Cave, Crete; Mesolithic and Neolithic faunal remains from the Cave of Theopetra, Thessaly, and the zooarchaeological collection from the Neolithic-Late Byzantine site of Panakton.”
Valasia Isaakidou (University College, London) 2001-2002.
“Social, economic and cultural roles of animals in Bronze Age Knossos.”
Walter Klippel (University of Tennessee) 1992-1993.
“Analysis of LMIII/Geometric faunal remains from Vronda and Kastro at Kavousi, and from Halasmenos on Crete.”
Justin Lev-Tov (University of Alabama) 1994-1995.
“A study of subsistence strategies as reflected in the medieval zooarchaeological remains at Ancient Corinth.”
Michael MacKinnon (University of Winnipeg) 2003, 2005.
“Analysis of faunal remains from ritual contexts at Ancient Nemea.”
Michele Miller (Boston University) 1995-1996.
“Replication of the manufacture of disc beads made of the shell of the mollusc Cerastaderma edule.”
Katerina Papayianni (University of Athens) 2007-2008.
“The microvertebrates of Theopetra Cave: A paleoclimatic reconstruction.”
Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou (University of Oxford) 2001-2002.
“Human responses to high risk environments: Late Neolithic human occupation of the Greek islands (Ftelia, Mikonos).”
Deborah Ruscillo (University of Washington, St. Louis) 1996-2001.
“Sexual dimorphism in mammalian skeletons for applicability in archaeology.”
Lynn Snyder (Smithsonian Institution) 1993-2004.
“Examination of faunal materials from Corinth; Athenian Agora; Kavousi, Halasmenos and Azoria, Crete.”
Britt Starkovich (University of Arizona) 2007.
“Dietary change during the Upper Paleolithic at Klissoura Cave, Peloponnese, Greece.”
Ekaterini Trantalidou (Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology, Greece) 2000-2001.
“Analysis of animal bones from several Late Bronze Age sites.”
Thanos Webb (UCLA) 2003-2004.
“The social implications of animal use in Neolithic Greece, the faunal remains from Limenaria, Thasos and Alepotrypa, Diros.”