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Fieldwalking during the Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project, Cyprus
A. Bernard Knapp
 
 

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A. Bernard Knapp

BA (University of Akron); MA, PhD (University of California, Berkeley)
Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology
Department of Archaeology
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ

Tel. +44 (0)141 330 4917
Fax. +44 (0)141-330 3544
email: b.knapp@archaeology.arts.gla.ac.uk


Research

Field Projects

Other Research Interests

  • Archaeological theory
  • Island archaeology, insularity and island identity 
  • Gender and social identity
  • Regional survey archaeology and archaeologies of landscape
  • Prehistory of the Mediterranean
  • Bronze Age Cypriot prehistory

PhD Supervision

Current

  • Sarah Janes: An Examination of Social Change in the Cypro-Geometric Period - Understanding Changing Identities through Death
  • Anthony Russell: The Sea Peoples and the Central Mediterranean: Migration, Hybridisation and Social Identities in Motion

Previous

  • Ann Brysbaert: Bronze Age Decorated Plaster in the Aegean and the East Mediterranean: An Analytical, Experimental and Comparative Study of is Technology co-director RE Jones) (PhD awarded 2004)
  • Erin Gibson: Negotiating Space: Routes of Communication in Roman-Colonial Cyprus (co-dir. M Given) (PhD awarded 2005)
  • Maria Kostoglou:  The Social Dynamics of Iron Metallurgy in Ancient Thrace (PhD awarded 2002)
  • Angela Michael: Nationalism, Colonialism and Archaeology on Cyprus (PhD awarded 2005)
  • Luke Sollars: Rural Settlements: Their Location, Limits and Movement through the Landscape of Historic Cyprus (Roman-Ottoman) (co-director M Given) (PhD awarded 2005)

Accepting PhD students in the following areas:

  • Mediterranean island archaeology and island identity
  • Gender, social identity, other aspects of Cypriot prehistory and protohistory
  • Eastern Mediterranean/Levantine prehistory: various areas
  • Archaeologies of landscape in the Mediterranean

Teaching

Administration

  • Senior Advisory Staff Committee, Dept of Archaeology (member)
  • Postgraduate Research, Dept of Archaeology (convenor)
  • Research Panels, Dept of Archaeology (convenor)
  • Research-based committees, Dept of Archaeology
  • Mediterranean Archaeology Research Group (convenor)
  • Advisor and mentor to all colleagues on research-related issues
  • U. of Glasgow-based Field Projects: director/co-director of two, now finalised  projects in Cyprus (manager of all funds generated)
  • Peer reviewer for major funding bodies in 2006-07: Australian Research Council,  British Academy, AHRC, Council for British Research in the Levant, National Science  Foundation (USA), Israel Science Foundation

Academic Journal and Monograph Editorship

  • Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology (Founder; co-editor)
  • Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry (Editorial board)
  • Time and Mind (Editorial Board)
  • Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology (Editor)

Academic Distinctions and Awards

  • Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Department of Bible, Archaeology and Ancient Near  East, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel (16-18 April 2007)
  • Annual Boyle Lecture in Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of  Toronto (3 May 2007)
  • Fifth Annual Severis Lecture, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University (15 May,  2007)

Publications

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Recent Books/Monographs
1999  Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives. Social Archaeology series. Oxford: Blackwell. (co-edited with Wendy Ashmore)

2003  The Sydney Cyprus Survey Project: Social Approaches to Regional Archaeological Survey. Monumenta Archaeologica 21. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA. (co-authored with M. Given)

2005  Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities 26. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 20: 26. Sävedalen: P. Åström’s Förlag. (co-authored with Basak Arda, Jennifer M. Webb)

2005  Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory. Oxford: Blackwell. (co-edited with Emma Blake)

2008  Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus: Insularity, Connectivity and Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Recent Articles
2000  Archaeology, science-based archaeology, and the Mediterranean Bronze Age metals trade. European Journal of Archaeology 3: 31-56.

2001  Archaeology and ethnicity: a dangerous liaison. Archaeologia Cypria 4: 29-46.

2001  Copper smelting in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: the excavations at Politiko Phorades. Near Eastern Archaeology 64(4): 204-210. (with V. Kassianidou and M. Donnelly).

2002  Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project: report on the 2001 season. Levant 34: 25-38. (with M. Given,V. Kassianidou, and J. Noller)

2002  The Mediterranean. In D. Hardesty (ed.), Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. EOLSS Publishers: Oxford  and UNESCO: Paris. (with Peter van Dommelen) (Internet publication)

2003  The archaeology of community on Bronze Age Cyprus: Politiko Phorades in context. American Journal of Archaeology 107: 559-580.

2003  Bronze Age boundaries and social exchange in northwest Cyprus. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 22: 213-223. (with P.S. Keswani)

2004  Social landscapes and social space: The Sydney Cyprus Survey Project. In M. Iacovou (ed.), Archaeological Field Survey in Cyprus. Past History, Future Potentials. British School at Athens, Studies 11: 77-93. London. (with Michael Given)

2005  Prehistory in the Mediterranean: the connecting and corrupting sea. In Emma Blake and A. Bernard Knapp  (eds), Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory, pp. 1-23. Oxford: Blackwell. (with Emma Blake)

2005  Archaeometallurgy in the Mediterranean: the social context of mining, technology and trade. In Emma Blake and A. Bernard Knapp  (eds), Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory, pp. 220-256. Oxford: Blackwell. (with Vasiliki Kassianidou)

2006  Orientalisation and prehistoric Cyprus: the social life of Oriental goods. In Corinna Riva and Nicholas Vella (eds), Debating Orientalization: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean. Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 10: 48-65. London: Equinox Press.

2007  Insularity and identity in the prehistoric Mediterranean. In S. Antoniadou and Anthony Pace (eds), Mediterranean Crossroads, 37-62. Athens and Oxford: Pierides Foundation and Oxbow Books.

2008  Past practices: rethinking individuals and agents in archaeology. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19: 15-34. (with Peter van Dommelen)

2008    Cyprus at the end of the Late Bronze Age: crisis and colonization, or continuity and hybridization? American Journal of Archaeology 112: 659-684. (with Ioannis Voskos)

2008     The archaeology of Late Bronze Age copper production: Politiko Phorades on Cyprus. In Ü. Yalçin (ed.), Anatolian Metal IV: Frühe Rohstoffgewinnung in Anatolien und seinen Nachbarländern. Die Anschnitt, Beiheft 21. Veröffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Bergbau-Museum 157: 135-147. Bochum: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum. (with Vasiliki Kassianidou)

2009    Representations: female figurines and social identity on protohistoric Cyprus. Medelhavsmuseet. Focus on the Mediterranean 5: 137-144. (Finds and Results from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition 1927-1931: A Gender Perspective.) Medelhavsmuseet: Stockholm.

2009    Monumental architecture, identity and memory. In Proceedings of the Symposium: Bronze Age Architectural Traditions in the East Mediterranean: Diffusion and Diversity (Gasteig, Munich, 7-8 May, 2008), 47-59. Weilheim: Verein zur Förderung der Aufarbeitung der Hellenischen Geschichte e.V.