R. Angus K. Smith
Associate Professor
Department of Classics
Brock University
Canada
Biography
Dr. R. Angus K. Smith is affiliated to Department of Classics, Brock University, where Dr. R. Angus K. Smith is currently working as Associate Professor. Dr. R. Angus K. Smith has authored and co-authored several national and international publications and also working as a reviewer for reputed professional journals. Dr. R. Angus K. Smith is having an active association with different societies and academies around the world. Dr. R. Angus K. Smith made his mark in the scientific community with the contributions and widely recognition from honourable subject experts around the world. Dr. R. Angus K. Smith has received several awards for the contributions to the scientific community. Dr. R. Angus K. Smith major research interest involves Dr. Smith’s research interests focus on issues of mortuary archaeology, ceramic analysis, and issues of identity in the Bronze Age Aegean. He is currently an associate director of excavations at the Minoan town of Gournia on Crete and co-directing the publication of excavations at the Mycenaean cemetery of Ayia Sotira near Ancient Nemea. He has published on the pottery and society of the Late Minoan III cemetery and settlement at Mochlos on Crete, as well as the cemetery at Ayia Sotira in Nemea..
Research Interest
Dr. Smith’s research interests focus on issues of mortuary archaeology, ceramic analysis, and issues of identity in the Bronze Age Aegean. He is currently an associate director of excavations at the Minoan town of Gournia on Crete and co-directing the publication of excavations at the Mycenaean cemetery of Ayia Sotira near Ancient Nemea. He has published on the pottery and society of the Late Minoan III cemetery and settlement at Mochlos on Crete, as well as the cemetery at Ayia Sotira in Nemea.
Publications
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2011. With W. Gauss, M. Lindblom and J.C. Wright (eds.) Our Cups are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Oxford, U.K.: Archaeopress).
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2011. With Jeffrey S. Soles et al. Mochlos IIC. Period IV. The Mycenaean Settlement and Cemetery: The Human Remains and Other Finds (INSTAP Academic Press).
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2012. With M. Dabney, "Children and Adornment in Mycenaean Funerary Ritual at Ayia Sotira, Nemea," in M.-L. Nosch and R. Laffineur (eds.) KOSMOS: 13th International Aegean Conference, held at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-23 April 2010, pp. 441-446.
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2012. With P. Karkanas, M.K. Dabney, and J.C. Wright. "The geoarchaeology of Mycenaean chamber tombs," Journal of Archaeological Science 39, pp. 2722-2732.
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2014. With E. Pappi, M. Dabney, S. Triantaphyllou, and J. Wright, "Ayia Sotira Cemetery Excavations, Ancient Nemea: 2006-2008," in Corinthia and the Northeast Peloponnesus: Topography and History from Prehistoric Times until the End of Antiquity, Proceedings of a Conference Held on March 26-29, 2009 in Loutraki, Greece (Athens: Deutsches Archäologisches Intitut), pp. 363-370.
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2014. With M.K. Dabney “The Life of a Tomb: Investigating the Use, Reuse and Reconstruction of Mycenaean Chamber Tombs at Ayia Sotira (Nemea),†Meditations on the Diversity of the Built Environment in the Aegean Basin: A Colloquium in Memory of Frederick E. Winter, Publications of the Canadian Institute in Greece, No. 8. (Athens: Canadian Institute in Greece), pp. 145-160.
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2014. With M.K. Dabney, G. Kotzamani, A. Livarda, G. Tsartsidou, and J.D. Wright “Plant Use in Mycenaean Mortuary Practice,†in G. Touchais, R. Laffineur, and F. Rougemont (eds.) PHYSIS: L’environnement naturel et la relation homme-milieu dans le monde égéen protohistorique. 14e Rencontre Égéenne Internationale. Aegaeum 37 (Peeters: Leuven – Liege), pp. 265-270.
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2015. With Watrous, L.V. et al. “Excavations at Gournia: 2010-2012,†Hesperia, the Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 84.3, pp. 397-465.
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Smith, R.A.K., M.K. Dabney, E. Pappi, S. Triantaphyllou, and J.C. Wright. In Press. Ayia Sotira: A Mycenaean Chamber Tomb Cemetery in the Nemea Valley, Greece. Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press.
