Curtis Runnels
Professor
Archaeology
Boston University
United States of America
Biography
Professor Runnels has been involved in fieldwork in Greece, Turkey, and Albania since 1973, including excavations, surveys, and laboratory studies. Since 2008 his research has focused on the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic finds from the Plakias region of SW Crete. Before that he was Co-Director of the Greek-American Mesolithic Kandia Survey in the Argolid in 2003, and from 1988 to 1992 the Swedish-American Berbati-Limnes Survey in the Argolid. From 1991 to 1995 he was a staff member on the Boston University’s Nikopolis Project, and the 1987 to 1991 Director of the Palaeolithic survey of Thessaly, and from 1979 to 1983 Associate Director of the Stanford University Archaeological and Environmental Survey of the Southern Argolid.
Research Interest
Prehistoric archaeology of the Aegean; Lithic technology
Publications
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Van Andel TH, Runnels CN, Pope KO. Five thousands years of land use and abuse in the southern Argolid, Greece. Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 1986 Jan 1;55(1):103-28.
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Cannon A, Bartel B, Bradley R, Chapman RW, Curran ML, Gill DW, Humphreys SC, Masset C, Morris I, Quilter J, Rothschild NA. The historical dimension in mortuary expressions of status and sentiment [and comments and reply]. Current anthropology. 1989 Aug 1;30(4):437-58.
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Van Andel TH, Runnels CN. The earliest farmers in Europe. Antiquity. 1995 Sep;69(264):481-500.
