Allison Anne Davis

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Gorham Phillips Stevens Fellow

Research Topic: Postpalatial Nichoria: Reexamining the End of the Bronze Age

Allison Anne Davis is a PhD candidate in Classical Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation, “Postpalatial Nichoria: Reconsidering the End of the Bronze Age,” examines the excavations and material remains of Nichoria in Messenia. The project critically engages material and structural changes at the end of the Bronze Age, problematizes models of continuity and discontinuity into the Early Iron Age, and reevaluates historicist frameworks applied to prehistoric societies. Allison currently serves as a trench supervisor at the Iklaina Archaeological Project. She has also participated in excavations at the Palace of Nestor and contributed to ceramic studies with the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project and the Sissi Archaeological Project.