Professor James Whitley
(he/him)
MA, PhD
Professor in Mediterranean Archaeology
School of History, Archaeology and Religion
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
Research and scholarly interests
- Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece, particularly Crete
- Ethnicity and material culture
- Eastern Crete and Praisos
- Knossos from the Neolithic to the present day
- Archaeological History
- History of Archaeology, particularly Classical Archaeology
- Art and Agency in the Greek World
- Ancient literacy, epigraphic habits and inscriptions
- Personhood, agency and iconography
- Archaeological theory
- Commensality, ancient politics and the citizen-state (polis)
- Homer, history and archaeology
- Mortuary Practices and gender (e.g. 'warrior graves')
- Tomb cults, hero cults, ancestors and the uses of the past (social memory)
Research projects
- The Praisos Project
- Pottery Production and Consumption in Iron Age Crete: Knossos and Sybrita
- ZOOCRETE (developed from Feasting and States in the Aegean World)
- Research Network: The Aegean from the Late Bronze Age to the Archaic Period (for PhD students and Early Career Scholars)
My principal research and scholarly interest lies in the art and archaeology of the Mediterranean world (particularly the Aegean) in the Early Iron Age and Archaic periods (1100-450 BCE). I am interested in two relationships: one between archaeology and history in the ancient world; the second between an explicitly theoretical prehistoric archaeology and a Classical archaeology which has, traditionally, disdained 'theory'. So, while my published work embraces specifically archaeological topics such as burial archaeology, other contributions cover subjects and themes, such as tomb cults, hero cults and ancestors, the relationship between art and society, and early literacy in Greece. The contribution of archaeology to our understanding of antiquity lies not so much in addressing questions arising from the study of ancient texts, but rather in explaining 'strange cases', such as the fact that most early Greek inscriptions address the reader in the first person (I am the lekythos of Tataie). My interests in archaeological theory stem from a belief that interpretations of Greek material should be informed by anthropological concepts such as personhood, agency, gender, and ethnicity. Equally, my interest in the history of archaeological thought arises from a desire to explain the different paths taken by Classical and prehistoric archaeology.
I also believe that a university should be a community of scholars, scientists and students working together to search for the truth about things, a search to be conducted with moral vigour and intellectual seriousness. I am therefore not a believer in the gods of Metropolitan Secularism -- Progress, Art, Literature, Management, the Economy, or Success -- and have never been a participant in the recent Cult of Big, Shiny Buildings.
Publication
2024
- Whitley, A. 2024. Archaic Cretan inscriptions: texts or things?. Gaia: Revue interdisciplinaire sur la Grece archaique 27 (10.4000/11xzb)
- Whitley, J. 2024. Writing to the Gods? Archaic votives, inscribed and uninscribed. In: Haysom, M., Mili, M. and Wallensten, J. eds. The Stuff of the Gods: The material aspects of religion in ancient Greece., Vol. 59. Swedish Institute at Athens, pp. 193-213., (10.30549/actaath-4-59-14)
- Whitley, J. 2024. The case for ethnological antiquarianism: the intellectual life and research culture of the British School at Athens, 1900-1920. In: Forsen, B., Salmeri, G. and Shankland, D. eds. The Long March of Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean: Political and Cultural Entanglements. Edizioni Quasar di Severino Tognon, pp. 179-194.
2023
- Whitley, J. 2023. Κατεσκαψαν ιεραπυτνιοι: The destruction of political communities in the second century BC and the resilience of the Cretan polis. Annual of the British School at Athens 118, pp. 323-347. (10.1017/S0068245423000060)
- Whitley, A. 2023. Knossos: Myth, History and Archaeology. Bloomsbury Academic.
- Whitley, A. 2023. Knossos. In: Whitmarsh, T. and Goldberg, S. eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press, pp. [online]., (10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.1704)
2022
- Whitley, J. 2022. S. Sherratt and J. Bennet 'Archaeology and Homeric Epic' [Book Review]. The Journal of Hellenic Studies 142, pp. 426-427. (10.1017/S0075426922000817)
- Whitley, A. J. 2022. Eteocretans. In: Whitmarsh, T. and Goldberg, S. eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press, pp. online., (10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8717)
- Whitley, A. J. 2022. Praisos. In: Whitmarsh, T. and Goldberg, S. eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press, pp. online., (10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8716)
- Whitley, A. 2022. From antiquities to art: why has classical archaeology ignored Marcel Duchamp?. In: Hahn, H. P., Kloeckner, A. and Wicke, D. eds. Values and Revaluations: The Transformations and Genesis of 'Values in Things' from Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives. Oxbow, pp. 225-249.
- Whitley, J. 2022. Dictaean Zeus? Political communities, ritual feasting and animal sacrifice in Eastern Crete from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. In: Driessen, J. and Knappett, C. eds. Megistos Kouros: Studies in Honour of Hugh Sackett. Presses Universitaires de Louvain, pp. 318-328.
2021
- Whitley, A. 2021. Regions within regions: patterns of epigraphic habits within Archaic Crete. In: Parker, R. and Steele, P. M. eds. The Early Greek Alphabets: Origin, Diffusion, Uses. Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents Oxford University Press, pp. 222-248.
- Whitley, A. 2021. Why με? Personhood and agency in the earliest Greek inscriptions (800-550 BC). In: Boyes, P. J., Steele, P. M. and Astoreca, N. E. eds. The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices., Vol. 2. Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems Oxbow, pp. 269-287.
- Whitley, A. 2021. Menelaion. In: Whitmarsh, T. and Goldberg, S. eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press
2020
- Whitley, A. 2020. The multiple pasts of Archaic Greece: the landscapes of Crete and the Argolid 900- 500 BCE. In: Horn, C. et al. eds. Places of Memory: Spatialized Practices of Remembrance from Prehistory to Today. Archaeopress, pp. 19-36.
- Whitley, A. 2020. Review of V. Antoniadis,'Knossos and the Near East', B. Bohen, 'Kratos and Krater' and X. Charalambidou and C. Morgan (eds), Interpreting the Seventh Century BC'.. In: Bintliff, J. ed. Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 5., Vol. 5. Archaeopress, pp. 591-595., (10.32028/9781789697926-24)
2019
- Whitley, A. J. 2019. Homer and history. In: Pache, C. O. et al. eds. The Cambridge Guide to Homer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 257-266.
- Whitley, A. 2019. Chapter 2.3: The re-emergence of political complexity. In: Lemos, I. and Kotsonas, A. eds. A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean. Companions to the Ancient World John Wiley, pp. 161-186.
2018
- Whitley, J. 2018. Style and personhood: the case of the Amasis Painter. Cambridge Classical Journal 64, pp. 178-203. (10.1017/S1750270518000088)
- Whitley, J. 2018. Near Eastern art in the Iron Age Mediterranean. In: Gunter, A. C. ed. A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 585-612., (10.1002/9781118336779.ch24)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2018. Introduction: Anthony Snodgrass and the transformation of classical archaeology. In: Whitley, A. J. M. and Nevett, L. eds. An Age of Experiment: Classical Archaeology Transformed, 1976-2014. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, pp. 1-17.
- Whitley, J. 2018. The krater and the pithos: two kinds of agency. In: Whitley, J. and Nevett, L. eds. An Age of Experiment: Classical Archaeology Transformed, 1976-2014. McDonald Institute Monographs Archive Cambridge: McDonald Institute Cambridge, pp. 59-73.
- Whitley, J. and Madgwick, R. 2018. Consuming the wild: more thoughts on the andreion. In: van den Ejinde, F., Biok, J. and Strootman, R. eds. Feasting and Polis Institutions. Leiden: Brill, pp. 125-148.
- Whitley, A. 2018. Review of Philipp W. Stockhammer and Hans Peter Hahn 'Lost in Things: Fragen an der Welt des Materiellen'. Journal of European Archaeology 21(2), pp. 310-312. (10.1017/eaa.2018.5)
- Whitley, A. 2018. Citizenship and Commensality in Archaic Crete: Searching for the Andreion. In: Duplouy, A. and Brock, R. eds. Defining Citizenship in Archaic Greece. Oxford University Press, pp. 227-248.
- Nevett, L. and Whitley, J. eds. 2018. An age of experiment: Classical archaeology transformed (1976-2014). McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
2017
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2017. The end of the tells: the Iron Age 'Neolithic' in the central and northern Aegean. In: Bickle, P. et al. eds. The Neolithic of Europe: Papers in Honour of Alasdair Whittle. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 24-33.
- Whitley, J. 2017. The material entanglements of writing things down. In: Nevett, L. ed. Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece: Manipulating Material Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 71-103.
2016
- Whitley, A. J. M. and Osbourne, R. 2016. Fusing the horizons or why context matters: the interdependence of fieldwork and museum study in Mediterranean archaeology. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 29(2), pp. 247-269. (10.1558/jmea.v29i2.32574)
- Whitley, A. 2016. Review of N. Vogeikoff-Brogan, J.L. Davis and V. Florou 'Carl W. Blegen: Personal and Archaeological Narratives'. Journal of Hellenic Studies 136, pp. 300-302. (10.1017/S0075426916001075)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2016. Women in Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece: a view from the grave. In: Budin, S. L. and Turfa, J. M. eds. Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World. London: Routledge, pp. 660-672.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2016. John K. Papadopoulos, Sarah P. Morris, Lorenc Bejko & Lynne A. Schepartz. The excavation of the prehistoric burial tumulus at Lofkënd, Albania. Volume 1: text. Volume 2: illustrations (Monumenta Archaeologica 34). [Book Review]. Antiquity 90(350), pp. 541-543. (10.15184/aqy.2016.11)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2016. G. Seelentag, 'Das archaische Kreta: Institutionalisierung im fruhen Griechenland' [Book Review]. Sehepunkte 16(3)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2016. Erica Hill and Jon B. Hageman, eds. The archaeology of ancestors: death, memory and veneration [Book Review]. European Journal of Archaeology 19(3), pp. 532-567. (10.1080/14619571.2016.1192802)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2016. Burning people, breaking things: material entanglements, the Bronze Age/Iron Age transition and Homeric dividual. In: Mina, M., Triantaphyllou, S. and Papadatos, Y. eds. An Archaeology of Prehistoric Bodies and Embodied Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean. Oxbow, pp. 215-223.
2015
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2015. Agonistic aristocrats? The curious case of Archaic Crete. In: Van Wees, H. and Fisher, N. eds. 'Aristocracy' in Antiquity: Redefining Greek and Roman Elites. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, pp. 287-312.
- Whitley, J. 2015. Agency, personhood and the belly-handled amphora: Exchange and society in the ninth-century Aegean. In: Vlachou, V. ed. Pots, Workshops and Early Iron Age Society: Function and Role of Ceramics in Early Greece. Centre de Recherches en Archeologie et Patrimoine Universite Libre de Bruxelles, pp. 107-126.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2015. Andrea Bräuning & Imma Kilian-Dirlmeier. Die eisenzeitlichen Grabhügel von Vergina: Die Ausgrabungen von Photis Petsas 1960-1961 (Monographie 119). vi+328 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, and tables. 2013. Mainz: Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums; 978-3-88467-223-5 hardback [Book Review]. Antiquity 89(344), pp. 494-495. (10.15184/aqy.2015.7)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2015. Andrea Bräuning & Imma Kilian-Dirlmeier. Die eisenzeitlichen Grabhügel von Vergina: Die Ausgrabungen von Photis Petsas 1960–1961 (Monographie 119). vi+328 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, and tables. 2013. Mainz: Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums; 978-3-88467-223-5 hardback €68 [Book Review]. Art Antiquity and Law 89, pp. 494-495.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2015. Afterword: regional stories towards a new perception of the early Greek world. In: Mazarakis-Ainian, A., Alexandridou, A. and Charalambidou, X. eds. Aristeia: Regional Stories towards a New Perception of the Early Greek World. Volos: University of Thessaly Press
- Boileau, M. C. and Whitley, A. 2015. True grit: production and exchange of cooking wares in the 9th-century BC Aegean. In: Spataro, M. and Villing, A. eds. Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture: The Archaeology and Science of Kitchen Pottery in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Oxbow, pp. 75-90.
- Whitley, A. 2015. Scholarly traditions and scientific paradigms: method and reflexivity in the study of ancient Praisos. In: Haggis, D. C. and Antonaccio, C. M. eds. Classical Archaeology in Context: Theory and Practice in Excavation in the Greek World. Walter de Gruyter, pp. 23-49.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2015. O. Pilz and G. Seelentag (eds) Cultural practices and material culture in Archaic and Classical Crete [Book Review]. Sehepunkte 15(2), article number: 25963.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2015. Archaeology and state theory: subjects and objects of power. By Bruce Routledge. Pp. 195, Illus 18. Bloomsbury (Debates in Archaeology Series), 2014. Price: £45.00. isbn 978 071563 633 6. [Book Review]. The Archaeological Journal 172, pp. 499-500. (10.1080/00665983.2015.1050813)
- Whitley, A. 2015. Review of S.Verdan 'Le Sanctuaire d'Apollon Daphnephoros a l'epoque geometrique'. Topoi: Orient Occident 20, pp. 679-682.
2014
- Whitley, J. 2014. Is Boris Johnson an individual? Homer's heroes between Melanesia and Modernity. SHARE: Studies in History, Archaeology, Religion and Conservation 1(1), pp. 6-18. (10.18573/share.2)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2014. Classical (Greek) archaeology. In: Smith, C. ed. Encylopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer Verlag, pp. 1487-1494.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2014. Orientalizing phenomenon, Greek archaeology perspective. In: Smith, C. ed. Encylopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer Verlag, pp. 5622-5627.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2014. The complete archaeology of Greece: from hunter-gatherers to the 20th Century A.D. [Book Review]. European Journal of Archaeology 17(1), pp. 148-151. (10.1179/146195714X13820028180162)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2014. Commensality and the "citizen state": The case of Praisos. In: Gaignerot-Driessen, F. and Driessen, J. eds. Cretan Cities: Formation and Transformation. Presses Universitaires de Louvain, pp. 141-163.
2013
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2013. Homer's entangled objects: narrative, agency and personhood in and out of Iron Age texts. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 23(3), pp. 395-416. (10.1017/S095977431300053X)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2013. The Cretan orientalizing: A comparative perspective. In: Niemeier, W. D., Pillz, O. and Kaiser, I. eds. Kreta in der geometrischen und archaischen Zeit. Hirmer Verlag, pp. 409-426.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2013. H. Lohmann and T. Mattern, Attika: Archaeologie einer zentralen Kulturlandschaft [Book Review]. Bonner Jahrbucher 210/11, pp. 610-613.
2012
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2012. Introduction. In: Cadogan, G. et al. eds. Parallel Lives: Ancient Island Societies in Crete and Cyprus. British School at Athens Studies Series Vol. 20. London: British School at Athens, pp. 1-6.
- Hatzimichael Whitley, C. and Whitley, A. J. M. 2012. Differential complexities: political evolution, devolution and re-evolution in Crete, 3000-300 BC. In: Cadogan, G. et al. eds. Parallel Lives: Ancient Island Societies in Crete and Cyprus. British School at Athens Studies Series Vol. 20. London: British School at Athens, pp. 331-343.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2012. Agency in Greek art. In: Smith, T. J. and Plantzos, D. eds. A Companion to Greek Art. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 579-595.
- Whitley, A. J. M. et al. eds. 2012. Parallel lives: ancient island societies in Crete and Cyprus. British School at Athens Studies Vol. 20. London: British School at Athens.
2011
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2011. Praisos V: A preliminary report on the 2007 season of excavation. Annual of the British School at Athens 106, pp. 3-45., article number: 1.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2011. Hybris and Nike: agency, victory and commemoration in panhellenic sanctuaries. In: Lambert, S. D. ed. Sociable Man: Essays on Ancient Greek Behaviour in Honour of Nick Fisher. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, pp. 161-191.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2011. Ancient Crete: from successful collapse to democracy's alternatives [Book Review]. American Journal of Philology 132(4), pp. 667-670. (10.1353/ajp.2011.0043)
2010
- Boileau, M. and Whitley, A. J. M. 2010. Patterns of production and consumption of coarse to semi-fine pottery at Early Iron Age Knossos. Annual of the British School at Athens 105, pp. 225-268., article number: 5. (10.1017/S006824540000040X)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2010. S. Langdon 'Art and identity in Dark Age Greece' [Book Review]. Journal of Hellenic Studies 130, pp. 250-251. (10.1017/S0075426910000613)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2010. A.C. Gunter 'Greek art and the Orient', S. Langdon 'Art and identity in Dark Age Greece', and J.S. Smith 'Art and society in Cyprus from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age' [Book Reviews]. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 20(3), pp. 460-463. (10.1017/S0959774310000557)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2010. Moteurs et modeles: La Crete au VII siecle. In: Etienne, R. ed. La Mediteranée au VIIe Siècle avant J.-C. : Essais d’Analyses Archéologiques. [La Mediteranée au VIIe Siècle avant J.C. : Essais d’Analyses Archéologiques]. Travaux de la Maison René Ginouvès Vol. 7. Paris: De Boccard, pp. 170-182.
2009
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2009. The chimaera of continuity: What would 'continuity of cult' actually demonstrate?'. In: Lucia D'Agata, A. L. and Van De Moortel, A. eds. Archaeologies of Cult: Essays on Ritual and Cult in Crete in Honor of Geraldine C. Gesell (Hesperia Supplement 42). Hesperia Supplement Vol. 42. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, pp. 279-288.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2009. The research culture of the British School at Athens, 1900-1920: the case for ethnological antiquarianism. In: Shankland, D. and Salmeri, G. eds. The Foreign Schools. British Academy
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2009. Crete. In: Raaflaub, K. A. and Van Wees, H. eds. A Companion to Archaic Greece. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 273-293.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2009. Archaeology. In: Boys-Stones, G., Graziosi, B. and Vasunia, P. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies. Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 720-733.
- Boileau, M., D'Agata, A. L. and Whitley, A. J. M. 2009. Pottery technology and regional exchange in early Iron Age Crete. In: Quinn, P. S. ed. Interpreting silent artefacts: Petrographic approaches to archaeological ceramics. [Interpreting Silent Artefacts: Petrographic Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics]. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 157-172.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2009. M. Prent 'Cretan sanctuaries and cults: continuity and change from the late Minoan IIIC to the Archaic Period [Book Review]. Ancient West & East 8, pp. 409-411. (10.2143/AWE.8.0.2045846)
2008
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2008. S.E. Alcock and R. Osborne 'Classical archaeology' [Book Review]. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 18(3), pp. 443-444. (10.1017/S0959774308000553)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2008. Early painted pots, reviewing E. Rystedt and B. Wells 'Pictorial pursuits: figurative painting on Mycenaean and Geometric pottery: Papers from two seminars at the Swedish Institute of Athens in 1999 and 2001' [Book Review]. Classical Review 58(2), pp. 564-566. (10.1017/S0009840X08001182)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2008. Kalapodi, reviewing R.C.S. Felsch 'Kalapodi II: Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen im Heiligtum der Artemis und des Apollon von Hyampolis in der Antiken Phokis' [Book Review]. The Classical Review 58(2), pp. 576-579. (10.1017/S0009840X08001248)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2008. Identity and sacred topography: the sanctuaries of Praisos in Eastern Crete. Presented at: BOMOS Conferences, 2002-2005 Presented at Holm Rasmussen, A. et al. eds.Religion and Society: Rituals, Resources and Identity in the Ancient Graeco-Roman World: The BOMOS-Conferences 2002-2005. Analecta Romana Instituti Danici Supplementum Vol. 40. Rome: Edizioni Quasar pp. 235-248.
2007
- Westgate, R. C., Fisher, N. R. E. and Whitley, A. J. M. eds. 2007. Building communities: house, settlement and society in the Aegean and beyond. Proceedings of a conference held at Cardiff University, 17–21 April 2001. British School at Athens Studies Vol. 15. London: British School at Athens.
- Whitley, A. J. M., Urem Kotsou, D., Germanidou, S., Dimoula, A., Karnava, A. and Evely, D. 2007. Archaeology in Greece 2006-07. Archaeological Reports, pp. 1-121.
2006
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2006. Praisos: political evolution and ethnic identity in eastern Crete, c.1400-300 BC. In: Deger-Jalkotzy, S. and Lemos, I. S. eds. Ancient Greece: From the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer. Edinburgh Leventis studies Vol. 3. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 597-617.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2006. Classical art and human agency: a tale of two objects in fifth-century Greece. In: Stampolides, N. C. ed. Twenty Years of the N.P. Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art. N.P. Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art, pp. 227-236.
- Whitley, A. J. M., Urem Kotsou, D., Dimoula, A., Nikolakkopoulou, I., Karnava, A., Germanidou, S. and Hatzaki, E. 2006. Archaeology in Greece 2005-06. Archaeological Reports, pp. 1-112.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2006. The Minoans: a Welsh invention? A view from East Crete. Presented at: Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the 'Minoans', Venice, Italy, November 2005 Presented at Hamilakis, Y. and Momigliano, N. eds.Archaeology and European modernity: Producing and Consuming the 'Minoans'. Ausilio: Bottega d'Erasmo pp. 55-67.
2005
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2005. Archaeology in Greece 2004-05. Archaeological Reports, pp. 1-118.
2004
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2004. Archaeology in Greece 2003-04. Archaeological Reports, pp. 1-92.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2004. Classical archaeology and British identity: The role of the British School at Athens. Pharos: Journal of the Netherlands Institute in Athens XI, pp. 95-111.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2004. Cycles of collapse in Greek prehistory: the House of the Tiles at Lerna and the Heroon at Lefkandi. In: Cherry, J., Scarre, C. and Shennan, S. eds. Explaining Social Change: Studies in Honour of Colin Renfrew. Cambridge: McDonald Institute, pp. 193-201.
2003
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2003. Archaeology in Greece 2002-03. Archaeological Reports, pp. 1-88.
2002
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2002. Too many ancestors?. Antiquity 76(1), pp. 119-126.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2002. Objects with attitude: biographical facts and fallacies in the study of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warrior graves. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12(2), pp. 217-232. (10.1017/S0959774302000112)
2001
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2001. The archaeology of Ancient Greece. Cambridge World Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2000
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2000. Style wars: towards an explanation of Cretan exceptionalism. Presented at: Knossos: Palace, City, State, Heraklion, Greece, November 2000.
1999
- Whitley, A. J. M., Prent, M. and Thorne, S. 1999. Praisos IV: a preliminary report on the 1993 and 1994 survey seasons. Annual of the British School at Athens 94, pp. 215-264. (10.1017/S0068245400000587)
1998
- Whitley, A. J. M. 1998. From Minoans to Eteocretans: the Praisos region 1200-500 BC. Presented at: Post-Minoan Crete First Colloquium, London, UK, 10-11 November 1995 Presented at Cavanagh, W. G. and Curtis, M. eds.Post-Minoan Crete : proceedings of the First Colloquium on Post-Minoan Crete held by the British School at Athens and the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 10-11 November 1995. British School at Athens Studies Vol. 2. London: British School at Athens pp. 27-39.
1997
- Whitley, A. J. M. 1997. Cretan laws and Cretan literacy. American Journal of Archaeology 101(4), pp. 635-661.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 1997. Beazley as theorist. Antiquity 71(271), pp. 40-47.
1996
- Whitley, A. J. M. 1996. Gender and hierarchy in early Athens: The strange case of the disappearance of the rich female grave. Metis: Revue d'Anthropologie du Monde Grec Antique 11, pp. 209-232.
1995
- Whitley, A. J. M., O'Conor, K. and Mason, H. 1995. Praisos III: A report on the architectural survey undertaken in 1992. Annual of the British School at Athens 90, pp. 405-428. (10.1017/S0068245400016270)
1994
- Whitley, A. J. M. 1994. Protoattic pottery: a contextual approach. In: Morris, I. ed. Classical Greece: ancient histories and modern archaeologies. New Directions in Archaeology Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 51-70.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 1994. The monuments that stood before Marathon: tomb cult and hero cult in Archaic Attica. American Journal of Archaeology 98(2), pp. 213-230.
1991
- Whitley, A. J. M. 1991. Social diversity in Dark Age Greece. Annual of the British School at Athens 86, pp. 341-365. (10.1017/S0068245400014994)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 1991. Style and society in Dark Age Greece: The changing face of a pre-literate society 1100-700 BC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1988
- Whitley, A. J. M. 1988. Early states and hero cults: a re-appraisal. Journal of Hellenic Studies 108, pp. 173-182.
Articles
- Whitley, A. 2024. Archaic Cretan inscriptions: texts or things?. Gaia: Revue interdisciplinaire sur la Grece archaique 27 (10.4000/11xzb)
- Whitley, J. 2023. Κατεσκαψαν ιεραπυτνιοι: The destruction of political communities in the second century BC and the resilience of the Cretan polis. Annual of the British School at Athens 118, pp. 323-347. (10.1017/S0068245423000060)
- Whitley, J. 2022. S. Sherratt and J. Bennet 'Archaeology and Homeric Epic' [Book Review]. The Journal of Hellenic Studies 142, pp. 426-427. (10.1017/S0075426922000817)
- Whitley, J. 2018. Style and personhood: the case of the Amasis Painter. Cambridge Classical Journal 64, pp. 178-203. (10.1017/S1750270518000088)
- Whitley, A. 2018. Review of Philipp W. Stockhammer and Hans Peter Hahn 'Lost in Things: Fragen an der Welt des Materiellen'. Journal of European Archaeology 21(2), pp. 310-312. (10.1017/eaa.2018.5)
- Whitley, A. J. M. and Osbourne, R. 2016. Fusing the horizons or why context matters: the interdependence of fieldwork and museum study in Mediterranean archaeology. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 29(2), pp. 247-269. (10.1558/jmea.v29i2.32574)
- Whitley, A. 2016. Review of N. Vogeikoff-Brogan, J.L. Davis and V. Florou 'Carl W. Blegen: Personal and Archaeological Narratives'. Journal of Hellenic Studies 136, pp. 300-302. (10.1017/S0075426916001075)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2016. John K. Papadopoulos, Sarah P. Morris, Lorenc Bejko & Lynne A. Schepartz. The excavation of the prehistoric burial tumulus at Lofkënd, Albania. Volume 1: text. Volume 2: illustrations (Monumenta Archaeologica 34). [Book Review]. Antiquity 90(350), pp. 541-543. (10.15184/aqy.2016.11)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2016. G. Seelentag, 'Das archaische Kreta: Institutionalisierung im fruhen Griechenland' [Book Review]. Sehepunkte 16(3)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2016. Erica Hill and Jon B. Hageman, eds. The archaeology of ancestors: death, memory and veneration [Book Review]. European Journal of Archaeology 19(3), pp. 532-567. (10.1080/14619571.2016.1192802)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2015. Andrea Bräuning & Imma Kilian-Dirlmeier. Die eisenzeitlichen Grabhügel von Vergina: Die Ausgrabungen von Photis Petsas 1960-1961 (Monographie 119). vi+328 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, and tables. 2013. Mainz: Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums; 978-3-88467-223-5 hardback [Book Review]. Antiquity 89(344), pp. 494-495. (10.15184/aqy.2015.7)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2015. Andrea Bräuning & Imma Kilian-Dirlmeier. Die eisenzeitlichen Grabhügel von Vergina: Die Ausgrabungen von Photis Petsas 1960–1961 (Monographie 119). vi+328 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, and tables. 2013. Mainz: Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums; 978-3-88467-223-5 hardback €68 [Book Review]. Art Antiquity and Law 89, pp. 494-495.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2015. O. Pilz and G. Seelentag (eds) Cultural practices and material culture in Archaic and Classical Crete [Book Review]. Sehepunkte 15(2), article number: 25963.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2015. Archaeology and state theory: subjects and objects of power. By Bruce Routledge. Pp. 195, Illus 18. Bloomsbury (Debates in Archaeology Series), 2014. Price: £45.00. isbn 978 071563 633 6. [Book Review]. The Archaeological Journal 172, pp. 499-500. (10.1080/00665983.2015.1050813)
- Whitley, A. 2015. Review of S.Verdan 'Le Sanctuaire d'Apollon Daphnephoros a l'epoque geometrique'. Topoi: Orient Occident 20, pp. 679-682.
- Whitley, J. 2014. Is Boris Johnson an individual? Homer's heroes between Melanesia and Modernity. SHARE: Studies in History, Archaeology, Religion and Conservation 1(1), pp. 6-18. (10.18573/share.2)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2014. The complete archaeology of Greece: from hunter-gatherers to the 20th Century A.D. [Book Review]. European Journal of Archaeology 17(1), pp. 148-151. (10.1179/146195714X13820028180162)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2013. Homer's entangled objects: narrative, agency and personhood in and out of Iron Age texts. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 23(3), pp. 395-416. (10.1017/S095977431300053X)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2013. H. Lohmann and T. Mattern, Attika: Archaeologie einer zentralen Kulturlandschaft [Book Review]. Bonner Jahrbucher 210/11, pp. 610-613.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2011. Praisos V: A preliminary report on the 2007 season of excavation. Annual of the British School at Athens 106, pp. 3-45., article number: 1.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2011. Ancient Crete: from successful collapse to democracy's alternatives [Book Review]. American Journal of Philology 132(4), pp. 667-670. (10.1353/ajp.2011.0043)
- Boileau, M. and Whitley, A. J. M. 2010. Patterns of production and consumption of coarse to semi-fine pottery at Early Iron Age Knossos. Annual of the British School at Athens 105, pp. 225-268., article number: 5. (10.1017/S006824540000040X)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2010. S. Langdon 'Art and identity in Dark Age Greece' [Book Review]. Journal of Hellenic Studies 130, pp. 250-251. (10.1017/S0075426910000613)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2010. A.C. Gunter 'Greek art and the Orient', S. Langdon 'Art and identity in Dark Age Greece', and J.S. Smith 'Art and society in Cyprus from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age' [Book Reviews]. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 20(3), pp. 460-463. (10.1017/S0959774310000557)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2009. M. Prent 'Cretan sanctuaries and cults: continuity and change from the late Minoan IIIC to the Archaic Period [Book Review]. Ancient West & East 8, pp. 409-411. (10.2143/AWE.8.0.2045846)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2008. S.E. Alcock and R. Osborne 'Classical archaeology' [Book Review]. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 18(3), pp. 443-444. (10.1017/S0959774308000553)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2008. Early painted pots, reviewing E. Rystedt and B. Wells 'Pictorial pursuits: figurative painting on Mycenaean and Geometric pottery: Papers from two seminars at the Swedish Institute of Athens in 1999 and 2001' [Book Review]. Classical Review 58(2), pp. 564-566. (10.1017/S0009840X08001182)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2008. Kalapodi, reviewing R.C.S. Felsch 'Kalapodi II: Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen im Heiligtum der Artemis und des Apollon von Hyampolis in der Antiken Phokis' [Book Review]. The Classical Review 58(2), pp. 576-579. (10.1017/S0009840X08001248)
- Whitley, A. J. M., Urem Kotsou, D., Germanidou, S., Dimoula, A., Karnava, A. and Evely, D. 2007. Archaeology in Greece 2006-07. Archaeological Reports, pp. 1-121.
- Whitley, A. J. M., Urem Kotsou, D., Dimoula, A., Nikolakkopoulou, I., Karnava, A., Germanidou, S. and Hatzaki, E. 2006. Archaeology in Greece 2005-06. Archaeological Reports, pp. 1-112.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2005. Archaeology in Greece 2004-05. Archaeological Reports, pp. 1-118.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2004. Archaeology in Greece 2003-04. Archaeological Reports, pp. 1-92.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2004. Classical archaeology and British identity: The role of the British School at Athens. Pharos: Journal of the Netherlands Institute in Athens XI, pp. 95-111.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2003. Archaeology in Greece 2002-03. Archaeological Reports, pp. 1-88.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2002. Too many ancestors?. Antiquity 76(1), pp. 119-126.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2002. Objects with attitude: biographical facts and fallacies in the study of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warrior graves. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12(2), pp. 217-232. (10.1017/S0959774302000112)
- Whitley, A. J. M., Prent, M. and Thorne, S. 1999. Praisos IV: a preliminary report on the 1993 and 1994 survey seasons. Annual of the British School at Athens 94, pp. 215-264. (10.1017/S0068245400000587)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 1997. Cretan laws and Cretan literacy. American Journal of Archaeology 101(4), pp. 635-661.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 1997. Beazley as theorist. Antiquity 71(271), pp. 40-47.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 1996. Gender and hierarchy in early Athens: The strange case of the disappearance of the rich female grave. Metis: Revue d'Anthropologie du Monde Grec Antique 11, pp. 209-232.
- Whitley, A. J. M., O'Conor, K. and Mason, H. 1995. Praisos III: A report on the architectural survey undertaken in 1992. Annual of the British School at Athens 90, pp. 405-428. (10.1017/S0068245400016270)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 1994. The monuments that stood before Marathon: tomb cult and hero cult in Archaic Attica. American Journal of Archaeology 98(2), pp. 213-230.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 1991. Social diversity in Dark Age Greece. Annual of the British School at Athens 86, pp. 341-365. (10.1017/S0068245400014994)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 1988. Early states and hero cults: a re-appraisal. Journal of Hellenic Studies 108, pp. 173-182.
Book sections
- Whitley, J. 2024. Writing to the Gods? Archaic votives, inscribed and uninscribed. In: Haysom, M., Mili, M. and Wallensten, J. eds. The Stuff of the Gods: The material aspects of religion in ancient Greece., Vol. 59. Swedish Institute at Athens, pp. 193-213., (10.30549/actaath-4-59-14)
- Whitley, J. 2024. The case for ethnological antiquarianism: the intellectual life and research culture of the British School at Athens, 1900-1920. In: Forsen, B., Salmeri, G. and Shankland, D. eds. The Long March of Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean: Political and Cultural Entanglements. Edizioni Quasar di Severino Tognon, pp. 179-194.
- Whitley, A. 2023. Knossos. In: Whitmarsh, T. and Goldberg, S. eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press, pp. [online]., (10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.1704)
- Whitley, A. J. 2022. Eteocretans. In: Whitmarsh, T. and Goldberg, S. eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press, pp. online., (10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8717)
- Whitley, A. J. 2022. Praisos. In: Whitmarsh, T. and Goldberg, S. eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press, pp. online., (10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8716)
- Whitley, A. 2022. From antiquities to art: why has classical archaeology ignored Marcel Duchamp?. In: Hahn, H. P., Kloeckner, A. and Wicke, D. eds. Values and Revaluations: The Transformations and Genesis of 'Values in Things' from Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives. Oxbow, pp. 225-249.
- Whitley, J. 2022. Dictaean Zeus? Political communities, ritual feasting and animal sacrifice in Eastern Crete from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. In: Driessen, J. and Knappett, C. eds. Megistos Kouros: Studies in Honour of Hugh Sackett. Presses Universitaires de Louvain, pp. 318-328.
- Whitley, A. 2021. Regions within regions: patterns of epigraphic habits within Archaic Crete. In: Parker, R. and Steele, P. M. eds. The Early Greek Alphabets: Origin, Diffusion, Uses. Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents Oxford University Press, pp. 222-248.
- Whitley, A. 2021. Why με? Personhood and agency in the earliest Greek inscriptions (800-550 BC). In: Boyes, P. J., Steele, P. M. and Astoreca, N. E. eds. The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices., Vol. 2. Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems Oxbow, pp. 269-287.
- Whitley, A. 2021. Menelaion. In: Whitmarsh, T. and Goldberg, S. eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press
- Whitley, A. 2020. The multiple pasts of Archaic Greece: the landscapes of Crete and the Argolid 900- 500 BCE. In: Horn, C. et al. eds. Places of Memory: Spatialized Practices of Remembrance from Prehistory to Today. Archaeopress, pp. 19-36.
- Whitley, A. 2020. Review of V. Antoniadis,'Knossos and the Near East', B. Bohen, 'Kratos and Krater' and X. Charalambidou and C. Morgan (eds), Interpreting the Seventh Century BC'.. In: Bintliff, J. ed. Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 5., Vol. 5. Archaeopress, pp. 591-595., (10.32028/9781789697926-24)
- Whitley, A. J. 2019. Homer and history. In: Pache, C. O. et al. eds. The Cambridge Guide to Homer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 257-266.
- Whitley, A. 2019. Chapter 2.3: The re-emergence of political complexity. In: Lemos, I. and Kotsonas, A. eds. A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean. Companions to the Ancient World John Wiley, pp. 161-186.
- Whitley, J. 2018. Near Eastern art in the Iron Age Mediterranean. In: Gunter, A. C. ed. A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 585-612., (10.1002/9781118336779.ch24)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2018. Introduction: Anthony Snodgrass and the transformation of classical archaeology. In: Whitley, A. J. M. and Nevett, L. eds. An Age of Experiment: Classical Archaeology Transformed, 1976-2014. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, pp. 1-17.
- Whitley, J. 2018. The krater and the pithos: two kinds of agency. In: Whitley, J. and Nevett, L. eds. An Age of Experiment: Classical Archaeology Transformed, 1976-2014. McDonald Institute Monographs Archive Cambridge: McDonald Institute Cambridge, pp. 59-73.
- Whitley, J. and Madgwick, R. 2018. Consuming the wild: more thoughts on the andreion. In: van den Ejinde, F., Biok, J. and Strootman, R. eds. Feasting and Polis Institutions. Leiden: Brill, pp. 125-148.
- Whitley, A. 2018. Citizenship and Commensality in Archaic Crete: Searching for the Andreion. In: Duplouy, A. and Brock, R. eds. Defining Citizenship in Archaic Greece. Oxford University Press, pp. 227-248.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2017. The end of the tells: the Iron Age 'Neolithic' in the central and northern Aegean. In: Bickle, P. et al. eds. The Neolithic of Europe: Papers in Honour of Alasdair Whittle. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 24-33.
- Whitley, J. 2017. The material entanglements of writing things down. In: Nevett, L. ed. Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece: Manipulating Material Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 71-103.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2016. Women in Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece: a view from the grave. In: Budin, S. L. and Turfa, J. M. eds. Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World. London: Routledge, pp. 660-672.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2016. Burning people, breaking things: material entanglements, the Bronze Age/Iron Age transition and Homeric dividual. In: Mina, M., Triantaphyllou, S. and Papadatos, Y. eds. An Archaeology of Prehistoric Bodies and Embodied Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean. Oxbow, pp. 215-223.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2015. Agonistic aristocrats? The curious case of Archaic Crete. In: Van Wees, H. and Fisher, N. eds. 'Aristocracy' in Antiquity: Redefining Greek and Roman Elites. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, pp. 287-312.
- Whitley, J. 2015. Agency, personhood and the belly-handled amphora: Exchange and society in the ninth-century Aegean. In: Vlachou, V. ed. Pots, Workshops and Early Iron Age Society: Function and Role of Ceramics in Early Greece. Centre de Recherches en Archeologie et Patrimoine Universite Libre de Bruxelles, pp. 107-126.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2015. Afterword: regional stories towards a new perception of the early Greek world. In: Mazarakis-Ainian, A., Alexandridou, A. and Charalambidou, X. eds. Aristeia: Regional Stories towards a New Perception of the Early Greek World. Volos: University of Thessaly Press
- Boileau, M. C. and Whitley, A. 2015. True grit: production and exchange of cooking wares in the 9th-century BC Aegean. In: Spataro, M. and Villing, A. eds. Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture: The Archaeology and Science of Kitchen Pottery in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Oxbow, pp. 75-90.
- Whitley, A. 2015. Scholarly traditions and scientific paradigms: method and reflexivity in the study of ancient Praisos. In: Haggis, D. C. and Antonaccio, C. M. eds. Classical Archaeology in Context: Theory and Practice in Excavation in the Greek World. Walter de Gruyter, pp. 23-49.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2014. Classical (Greek) archaeology. In: Smith, C. ed. Encylopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer Verlag, pp. 1487-1494.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2014. Orientalizing phenomenon, Greek archaeology perspective. In: Smith, C. ed. Encylopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer Verlag, pp. 5622-5627.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2014. Commensality and the "citizen state": The case of Praisos. In: Gaignerot-Driessen, F. and Driessen, J. eds. Cretan Cities: Formation and Transformation. Presses Universitaires de Louvain, pp. 141-163.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2013. The Cretan orientalizing: A comparative perspective. In: Niemeier, W. D., Pillz, O. and Kaiser, I. eds. Kreta in der geometrischen und archaischen Zeit. Hirmer Verlag, pp. 409-426.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2012. Introduction. In: Cadogan, G. et al. eds. Parallel Lives: Ancient Island Societies in Crete and Cyprus. British School at Athens Studies Series Vol. 20. London: British School at Athens, pp. 1-6.
- Hatzimichael Whitley, C. and Whitley, A. J. M. 2012. Differential complexities: political evolution, devolution and re-evolution in Crete, 3000-300 BC. In: Cadogan, G. et al. eds. Parallel Lives: Ancient Island Societies in Crete and Cyprus. British School at Athens Studies Series Vol. 20. London: British School at Athens, pp. 331-343.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2012. Agency in Greek art. In: Smith, T. J. and Plantzos, D. eds. A Companion to Greek Art. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 579-595.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2011. Hybris and Nike: agency, victory and commemoration in panhellenic sanctuaries. In: Lambert, S. D. ed. Sociable Man: Essays on Ancient Greek Behaviour in Honour of Nick Fisher. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, pp. 161-191.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2010. Moteurs et modeles: La Crete au VII siecle. In: Etienne, R. ed. La Mediteranée au VIIe Siècle avant J.-C. : Essais d’Analyses Archéologiques. [La Mediteranée au VIIe Siècle avant J.C. : Essais d’Analyses Archéologiques]. Travaux de la Maison René Ginouvès Vol. 7. Paris: De Boccard, pp. 170-182.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2009. The chimaera of continuity: What would 'continuity of cult' actually demonstrate?'. In: Lucia D'Agata, A. L. and Van De Moortel, A. eds. Archaeologies of Cult: Essays on Ritual and Cult in Crete in Honor of Geraldine C. Gesell (Hesperia Supplement 42). Hesperia Supplement Vol. 42. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, pp. 279-288.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2009. The research culture of the British School at Athens, 1900-1920: the case for ethnological antiquarianism. In: Shankland, D. and Salmeri, G. eds. The Foreign Schools. British Academy
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2009. Crete. In: Raaflaub, K. A. and Van Wees, H. eds. A Companion to Archaic Greece. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 273-293.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2009. Archaeology. In: Boys-Stones, G., Graziosi, B. and Vasunia, P. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies. Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 720-733.
- Boileau, M., D'Agata, A. L. and Whitley, A. J. M. 2009. Pottery technology and regional exchange in early Iron Age Crete. In: Quinn, P. S. ed. Interpreting silent artefacts: Petrographic approaches to archaeological ceramics. [Interpreting Silent Artefacts: Petrographic Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics]. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 157-172.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2006. Praisos: political evolution and ethnic identity in eastern Crete, c.1400-300 BC. In: Deger-Jalkotzy, S. and Lemos, I. S. eds. Ancient Greece: From the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer. Edinburgh Leventis studies Vol. 3. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 597-617.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2006. Classical art and human agency: a tale of two objects in fifth-century Greece. In: Stampolides, N. C. ed. Twenty Years of the N.P. Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art. N.P. Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art, pp. 227-236.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2004. Cycles of collapse in Greek prehistory: the House of the Tiles at Lerna and the Heroon at Lefkandi. In: Cherry, J., Scarre, C. and Shennan, S. eds. Explaining Social Change: Studies in Honour of Colin Renfrew. Cambridge: McDonald Institute, pp. 193-201.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 1994. Protoattic pottery: a contextual approach. In: Morris, I. ed. Classical Greece: ancient histories and modern archaeologies. New Directions in Archaeology Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 51-70.
Books
- Whitley, A. 2023. Knossos: Myth, History and Archaeology. Bloomsbury Academic.
- Nevett, L. and Whitley, J. eds. 2018. An age of experiment: Classical archaeology transformed (1976-2014). McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
- Whitley, A. J. M. et al. eds. 2012. Parallel lives: ancient island societies in Crete and Cyprus. British School at Athens Studies Vol. 20. London: British School at Athens.
- Westgate, R. C., Fisher, N. R. E. and Whitley, A. J. M. eds. 2007. Building communities: house, settlement and society in the Aegean and beyond. Proceedings of a conference held at Cardiff University, 17–21 April 2001. British School at Athens Studies Vol. 15. London: British School at Athens.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2001. The archaeology of Ancient Greece. Cambridge World Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 1991. Style and society in Dark Age Greece: The changing face of a pre-literate society 1100-700 BC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Conferences
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2008. Identity and sacred topography: the sanctuaries of Praisos in Eastern Crete. Presented at: BOMOS Conferences, 2002-2005 Presented at Holm Rasmussen, A. et al. eds.Religion and Society: Rituals, Resources and Identity in the Ancient Graeco-Roman World: The BOMOS-Conferences 2002-2005. Analecta Romana Instituti Danici Supplementum Vol. 40. Rome: Edizioni Quasar pp. 235-248.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2006. The Minoans: a Welsh invention? A view from East Crete. Presented at: Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the 'Minoans', Venice, Italy, November 2005 Presented at Hamilakis, Y. and Momigliano, N. eds.Archaeology and European modernity: Producing and Consuming the 'Minoans'. Ausilio: Bottega d'Erasmo pp. 55-67.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2000. Style wars: towards an explanation of Cretan exceptionalism. Presented at: Knossos: Palace, City, State, Heraklion, Greece, November 2000.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 1998. From Minoans to Eteocretans: the Praisos region 1200-500 BC. Presented at: Post-Minoan Crete First Colloquium, London, UK, 10-11 November 1995 Presented at Cavanagh, W. G. and Curtis, M. eds.Post-Minoan Crete : proceedings of the First Colloquium on Post-Minoan Crete held by the British School at Athens and the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 10-11 November 1995. British School at Athens Studies Vol. 2. London: British School at Athens pp. 27-39.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2013. Homer's entangled objects: narrative, agency and personhood in and out of Iron Age texts. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 23(3), pp. 395-416. (10.1017/S095977431300053X)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2013. The Cretan orientalizing: A comparative perspective. In: Niemeier, W. D., Pillz, O. and Kaiser, I. eds. Kreta in der geometrischen und archaischen Zeit. Hirmer Verlag, pp. 409-426.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2012. Introduction. In: Cadogan, G. et al. eds. Parallel Lives: Ancient Island Societies in Crete and Cyprus. British School at Athens Studies Series Vol. 20. London: British School at Athens, pp. 1-6.
- Hatzimichael Whitley, C. and Whitley, A. J. M. 2012. Differential complexities: political evolution, devolution and re-evolution in Crete, 3000-300 BC. In: Cadogan, G. et al. eds. Parallel Lives: Ancient Island Societies in Crete and Cyprus. British School at Athens Studies Series Vol. 20. London: British School at Athens, pp. 331-343.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2012. Agency in Greek art. In: Smith, T. J. and Plantzos, D. eds. A Companion to Greek Art. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 579-595.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2011. Praisos V: A preliminary report on the 2007 season of excavation. Annual of the British School at Athens 106, pp. 3-45., article number: 1.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2011. Hybris and Nike: agency, victory and commemoration in panhellenic sanctuaries. In: Lambert, S. D. ed. Sociable Man: Essays on Ancient Greek Behaviour in Honour of Nick Fisher. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, pp. 161-191.
- Boileau, M. and Whitley, A. J. M. 2010. Patterns of production and consumption of coarse to semi-fine pottery at Early Iron Age Knossos. Annual of the British School at Athens 105, pp. 225-268., article number: 5. (10.1017/S006824540000040X)
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2010. Moteurs et modeles: La Crete au VII siecle. In: Etienne, R. ed. La Mediteranée au VIIe Siècle avant J.-C. : Essais d’Analyses Archéologiques. [La Mediteranée au VIIe Siècle avant J.C. : Essais d’Analyses Archéologiques]. Travaux de la Maison René Ginouvès Vol. 7. Paris: De Boccard, pp. 170-182.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2009. The chimaera of continuity: What would 'continuity of cult' actually demonstrate?'. In: Lucia D'Agata, A. L. and Van De Moortel, A. eds. Archaeologies of Cult: Essays on Ritual and Cult in Crete in Honor of Geraldine C. Gesell (Hesperia Supplement 42). Hesperia Supplement Vol. 42. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, pp. 279-288.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2009. Crete. In: Raaflaub, K. A. and Van Wees, H. eds. A Companion to Archaic Greece. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 273-293.
- Boileau, M., D'Agata, A. L. and Whitley, A. J. M. 2009. Pottery technology and regional exchange in early Iron Age Crete. In: Quinn, P. S. ed. Interpreting silent artefacts: Petrographic approaches to archaeological ceramics. [Interpreting Silent Artefacts: Petrographic Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics]. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 157-172.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2008. Identity and sacred topography: the sanctuaries of Praisos in Eastern Crete. Presented at: BOMOS Conferences, 2002-2005 Presented at Holm Rasmussen, A. et al. eds.Religion and Society: Rituals, Resources and Identity in the Ancient Graeco-Roman World: The BOMOS-Conferences 2002-2005. Analecta Romana Instituti Danici Supplementum Vol. 40. Rome: Edizioni Quasar pp. 235-248.
- Westgate, R. C., Fisher, N. R. E. and Whitley, A. J. M. eds. 2007. Building communities: house, settlement and society in the Aegean and beyond. Proceedings of a conference held at Cardiff University, 17–21 April 2001. British School at Athens Studies Vol. 15. London: British School at Athens.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2006. Praisos: political evolution and ethnic identity in eastern Crete, c.1400-300 BC. In: Deger-Jalkotzy, S. and Lemos, I. S. eds. Ancient Greece: From the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer. Edinburgh Leventis studies Vol. 3. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 597-617.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2006. Classical art and human agency: a tale of two objects in fifth-century Greece. In: Stampolides, N. C. ed. Twenty Years of the N.P. Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art. N.P. Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art, pp. 227-236.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2002. Too many ancestors?. Antiquity 76(1), pp. 119-126.
- Whitley, A. J. M. 2001. The archaeology of Ancient Greece. Cambridge World Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Research
Projects
The Praisos Project, 1992-2020
The Praisos Project is an integrated survey and excavation project focussing on the site and environs of the ancient city of Praisos in Eastern Crete, famed in antiquity as the city of the Eteocretans ('True Cretans'). The aims of the project are; first to understand the history of settlement in the region, from Neolithic times until the present; second to understand the urban structure and use of domestic space within the settlement and city; and third to understand how the material culture of the 'Eteocretans' differed, if at all, from their Greek neighbours to the North-East and West. It is funded by the British School at Athens; the British Academy; the Society of Antiquaries of London; the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, Philadelphia (INSTAP); Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; the Packard Humanities Institute (for excavation).
Project publications (all publications by J. Whitley unless otherwise stated)
2022
Contribution to Fest/Todschrift: ‘Dictaean Zeus? Political communities, ritual feasting and animal sacrifice in Eastern Crete from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period’. For Jan Driessen and Carl Knappett (eds), Megistos Kouros: Studies in Honour of Hugh Sackett (Aegis 23), 321-31. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses Universitaires de Louvain.
Encyclopaedia entry: ‘Praisos’. In Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press, (5th edition, 2015 onwards. Article published March 07, 2016; last modified July 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780199381135.013.8716
Encylopaedia entry: ‘Eteocretans’. In Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press, (5th edition, 2015 onwards. Article published March 07, 2016; last modified July 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780199381135.013.8717
2018
Chapter in conference volume (jointly with R. Madgwick). ‘Consuming the wild: more thoughts on the andreion’. In F. Van den Eijnde, J. Blok and R. Strootman (eds), Feasting and Polis Institutions (Memnosyne Supplement 414), 125-148. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
2016
Article: Fusing the horizons, or why context matters: The interdependence of fieldwork and museum study in Mediterranean archaeology.’ Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 29: 247-61.
2015
Chapter in book: ‘Scholarly traditions and scientific paradigms: Method and reflexivity in the study of ancient Praisos’. In Donald C. Haggis and Carla M. Antonaccio (eds), Classical Archaeology in Context: Theory and Practice in Excavation in the Greek World, 23-49. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter.
2014
Article:‘Chapter 7: Commensality and the “Citizen State”: The Case of Praisos.’ In F. Gaignerot-Driessen and J. Driessen (eds), Cretan Cities: Formation and Transformation (Aegis 7), 141-63. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses Universitaires de Louvain.
2011
Report: 'Praisos V: A preliminary report on the 2007 season of excavation'. Annual of the British School at Athens 106 [2011]: 3-45.
2010
Contribution to festschrift: 'Eteocretans and Eteobritons: the intellectual prehistory of the Minoans. In N.V. Sekunda (ed.), Ergasteria: Works Presented to John Ellis Jones on his 80th Birthday, 36-43. Gdańsk: Institute of Archaeology, Gdańsk University.
2008
Article: 'Identity and Sacred Topography: The Sanctuaries of Praisos in Eastern Crete,' in Anders Holm Rasmussen and Susanne William Rasmussen (eds), Religion and Society: Rituals, Resources and Identity in the Ancient Graeco-Roman World: The BOMOS-Conferences 2002-2005 (Analecta Romana Instituti Danici Supplementum XL), 233-246. Rome: Edizioni Quasar.
2006
Article: 'Praisos: political evolution and ethnic identity in Eastern Crete, c.1400-300 B.C.' in S. Deger-Jalkotzy and I. Lemos (eds), Ancient Greece from the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer(Edinburgh Leventis Studies 3), 597-617. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Article: 'The Minoans: A Welsh Invention? A View from East Crete', in Y. Hamilakis and N. Momigliano (eds), Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the 'Minoans', 55-67. (Creta Antica 7). Padua: Bottega D'Erasmo.
1999
Report: (with M. Prent and S. Thorne): "Praisos IV: A Preliminary Report on the 1993 and 1994 Survey Seasons," Annual of the British School at Athens 94 (1999), 215-64.
1998
Article: "From Minoans to Eteocretans: The Praisos Region 1200-500 B.C." In W.G. Cavanagh, M. Curtis, J.N. Coldstream and A.W. Johnston (eds) Post-Minoan Crete: Proceedings of the First Colloquium, 27-39. London: British School at Athens.
1996
Report: (with K. O'Conor and H. Mason) "Praisos III: A Report on the Architectural Survey Undertaken in 1992," Annual of the British School at Athens 90 (1995), 405-428.
1992
"Praisos," in J. W. Myers, E.E. Myers and G. Cadogan (eds) The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete, 256-61. Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press.
ZOOCRETE (Feasting, Urbanism and States in Crete, circa 1000-67 BCE)
ZOOCRETE developed out of an earlier project proposal Feasting and States in the Aegean World (1000-140 BC). This proposed a new model for the role of public feasting in the maintenance of ancient Greek citizen-states, examining the resilience of the Greek citizen state drawing on concepts from both anthropology and ancient history. The success of the polis can best be understood through public commensality: what poleis lacked in administration they made up through participation (that is citizenship). Citizens were created and defined through commensality.
ZOOCRETE takes up some of these ideas and applies them to Cretan political communities from the earliest Iron Age down to the end of the Hellenistic period. It is funded through a Marie Curie fellowship for Dr Flint Dibble who has worked at the Wiener Laboratory at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Dr Dibble has made extensive macroscopic studies of deposits of animal bones at the major site of Azoria in Eastern Crete. He will extend these studies to assemblages from Knossos, Praisos, Itanos and Anavlochos. He will also work with Dr Richard Madgwick to develop the application of various forms of isotopic analyses to understand a range of questions about the catchment of animals consumed in feasts, the time of their slaughter and so forth. He will work with Dr Laurence Totelin to relate this bioarchaeological data with relevant ancient texts about the role of animals in Greek life; and he will work with me on how feasting relates to political communities in Crete (particularly at Praisos). Several publications put forward in relation to the earlier ERC application are relevant to this project.
Publications (all by J. Whitley unless otherwise stated)
2019
Chapter in book: ‘Chapter 2.3: The re-emergence of political complexity’. In I. Lemos and A. Kotsonas (eds), A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean, 161-86. London, Chichester and Malden: John Wiley.
2018
Chapter in conference volume (jointly with R. Madgwick). ‘Consuming the wild: more thoughts on the andreion’. In F. Van den Eijnde, J. Blok and R. Strootman (eds), Feasting and Polis Institutions (Memnosyne Supplement 414), 125-148. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Pottery Production and Consumption in Iron Age Crete: Knossos and Sybrita, 2005-2016
This project is essentially a petrological (primarily petrographic) analysis of the coarser and plainer pottery from Early Iron Age Knossos and Sybrita in Crete. The study of Early Iron Age coarsewares in the Aegean has suffered from comparative neglect as compared to those of the Bronze Age. The aim is an improved understanding of patterns of production and consumption of the coarse and plain pottery used in everyday life, especially in domestic contexts, in Knossos and Sybrita. It is funded by The Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) and the British School at Athens. This is a collaborative project involving J. Whitley (Cardiff), Dr Anna Lucia D'Agata (National Research Centre, Rome) and Dr Marie Claude Boileau, of the Fitch Laboratory of the British School at Athens.
Project publications
2015
Article (jointly with M.C. Boileau): ‘True grit: production and exchange of cooking wares in the 9th century BC Aegean’. In M. Spataro and A. Villing (eds), Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture: The Archaeology and Science of Kitchen Pottery in the Ancient Mediterranean, 75-90. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow.
2010
Article (written jointly with M.C. Boileau): 'Patterns of production and consumption of coarse to semi-fine pottery at Early Iron Age Knossos,' Annual of the British School at Athens 105: 225-68.
Article (written jointly with M.C. Boileau and A.L. D'Agata). 'Pottery production in Iron Age Crete viewed in the context of regional and external trade networks: a ceramic petrology perspective'.Bollettino di Archeologia Online: Volume Speciale.
2009
D'Agata, A.L. and Boileau, M.-C. 2009. 'Pottery production and consumption in Early Iron Age Crete: The case of Thronos Kephala (ancient Sybrita)', Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 51, 145-202.
(jointly with M.C. Boileau and A. L. D'Agata): 'Pottery technology and regional exchange in Early Iron Age Crete', in P.S. Quinn (ed) Interpreting Silent Artefacts: Petrographic Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics, 157-72. Oxford: Archaeopress.
Research Network: The Late Bronze Age to Archaic Aegean (circa 1600 to 450 BC)
This is a network set up by myself along with Dr Michael Loy (British School at Athens/Cambridge), Professor Irene Lemos (Oxford) and Professor Robin Osborne (Cambridge). It is designed to provide a support network for younger scholars, largely but not exclusively based in the UK, interested in these periods. It was developed during the Covid lockdown in order to help these younger scholars (in particular PhD students and Early Career Researchers -- to keep in touch and to benefit from feedback from others. The network has organized one introductory session ('speed dating') where researchers simply introduce themselves and their topic, and three online mini-conferences (where five or so younger scholars give papers). The first in-person mini-conference was held in Cambridge in April 2023 just before the Classical Association meeting.
Transformations in the Mediterranean 1200-500 BC, 2010-2015
This is an umbrella project, run by Professor Manfred Bietak (Vienna) and Professor Hartmut Matthäus (Erlangen), whose purpose is to understand the social and economic processes that led to a 'connected' Mediterranean in the Iron Age. The principal aim of the project is primarily to understand the processes by and through which the Mediterranean became transformed (or 'got connected'). Providing an improved chronological framework is a first step in this understanding. Activities include: workshop in Vienna, January 2008; workshop in Cambridge 'Bridging the Divide', 6th-7th November 2009. Dr Simon Stoddart (Cambridge), Dr Alexandra Villing (British Museum) and myself represent the British branch of this largely Austrian/German enterprise.
Research group
Strategies, Structures and Ideologies of the Built Environment: Regionalism and Continuity in the History and Prehistory of Greece
Research on houses, including excavation of houses at Praisos, forms part of this AHRB-funded project on houses and settlements in Greece and the Aegean from the Middle Bronze Age to the late Hellenistic period, directed by Nick Fisher and myself and largely conducted by Ruth Westgate. The aim of the project is to investigate the structures of domestic space and the internal arrangement of settlements in three regions of the Aegean (central Greece, Crete and Macedonia) between 2000 and 100 BC.
Publications
2011
Report: 'Praisos V: A preliminary report on the 2007 season of excavation'. Annual of the British School at Athens 106 [2011]: 3-45.
2007. Conference volume (edited jointly with R. Westgate and N. Fisher), Building Communities: House, Settlement and Society in the Aegean and Beyond (British School at Athens, Studies Series 15). London: British School at Athens
Teaching
Part one BA/BSc undergraduate modules
The Archaeology of Mediterranean Societies (Egypt, Greece and Rome)
Part two BA/BSc undergraduate modules
- History of Archaeological Thought (level 5)
- Introduction to Greek Art and Archaeology (level 5)
- Art and Archaeology of Archaic Greece (level 6)
Postgraduate
- Themes in Classical Archaeology
- The Ancient World
Teaching profile
The main areas of my teaching are:-
- Greek Archaeology (from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period)
- The interface between archaeology and ancient history
- Archaeological Theory and the History of Archaeological Thought
I have been teaching at the interface of Classics, Archaeology and Ancient History full-time since 1990. My early teaching experience (as a tutor for undergraduates) took place in Cambridge University (where I also taught in 1995) and at the British School at Athens (where I taught on the undergraduate summer course). I have also taught for one semester at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie in the United States. I therefore have over 30 years of teaching experience -- though no formal teaching qualifications (a form of unnecessary credentialism, in my view).
In Cardiff I have taught on a range of courses on Greek Archaeology, the History of Archaeology and Archaeological Theory. Themes that inform my research also inform my teaching. I like to mix up the practical with the theoretical -- so students on my courses go on museum trips (to Oxford and the British Museum, where they sometimes handle objects) and either asked to write them up (as object biographies) or discuss them in seminars. Students are given a wide choice as to subjects to pick for essays, or when asked to write a summary of a book. I am more interested in effective teaching than innovation for innovation's sake.
The subject I like to teach best relates to Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece, a period where prehistory meets history and the material record meets poetry (in the form of the Homeric poems). This produces a endless series of fascinating questions which have been explored for hundreds of years.
I have also taught postgraduates and teachers when I was Director of the British School at Athens on various courses. These courses were very enjoyable - and effective -- because they involved field trips (and a direct encounter with the relevant material evidence). I would like to explore if it might be possible to run similar courses from Cardiff.
Biography
Education and qualifications
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University 1976-1980
BA (now MA), part I Classics, Part II Archaeology
Cambridge University 1981-1986 PhD. in Archaeology
Career overview
My career has principally been defined by integrating Classics and Archaeology, disciplines that have distinct research cultures. I was trained as a classicist, and normally make use of original Greek texts in my published work. I have also excavated at sites of Neolithic to Medieval date in Britain, Late Bronze Age to Iron Age in Italy (Gubbio) and Iron Age to Hellenistic in Greece (Tzakona near Sparta and Praisos). I have (through teaching, individual research, supervision and mentoring of younger scholars, research collaboration and publications), been instrumental in developing a theoretically informed, historically relevant and scientifically engaged Classical Archaeology that links prehistory, anthropology and Alterthumswissenschaft. I have been at the forefront of the ‘social turn’ in Classical Archaeology from the early 1990s, acquiring considerable field experience in Britain, Greece and Italy. I have collaborated closely with archaeological scientists (bioarchaeologists and petrologists) and made use of models taken from anthropology. Important milestones in this development have been: the 'Building Communities' project in the 1990s; in 2001, the first (and only) general book on Archaic and Classical Greek Archaeology (as opposed to Greek Art); and my role (2002-07) as Director of the British School at Athens.
Professor in Mediterranean Archaeology, Cardiff, from 1st September 2008 onwards.
Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology, Cardiff, from 1st September 2004 - 2008.
Director of the British School at Athens, 1st October 2002 – 30th September 2007
(an institute for advanced research for all aspects of Hellenic Studies: see https://www.bsa.ac.uk )
Senior Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology, Cardiff, 1st September 2001 until 31st August 2004
Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology, Cardiff, September 1993 – September 2001
Tutorial Fellow in Archaeology, Cardiff, 1990-1993
Visiting Assistant Professor, Vassar College, New York State, Spring 1990
Macmillan-Rodewald Student at the British School at Athens 1988-89
School Student at the British School at Athens 1986-87
Honours and awards
Awards and Honours
- Award in recognition of contribution to 'Greek culture' awarded by Mr Giorgios Voulgarakis, the Greek Minister of Culture, at the Athenian Agora, 20th June 2007
- Antiquity Essay Prize for 2003, for article 'Too many ancestors'
- Sir Steven Runciman prize awarded June 2002, for book The Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Cambridge 2001)
Professional memberships
Professional Memberships
- Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 2002 onwards
- Member, Archaeological Institute of America, 1988- present
- Member, British School at Athens, 1982 to present
Academic positions
Previous (and current) Academic Positions
Professor in Mediterranean Archaeology, Cardiff, from 1st September 2008 onwards.
Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology, Cardiff, from 1st September 2004 - 2008.
Director of the British School at Athens, 1st October 2002 – 30th September 2007 (on secondment from Cardiff University). The British School at Athens (founded 1886) is an institute for advanced research for all aspects of Hellenic Studies: see https://www.bsa.ac.uk), 52 Odhos Souedhias, Athens GR 106 76, Greece . Here I was responsible for managing an annual budget of circa £ 1.1m, for co-ordinating the archaeological, historical, scientific (Fitch Laboratory) and ethnographic strands of the institution's research, for maintaining an interdisciplinary research culture and for developing major, long-term archaeological field projects (Lefkandi excavations, Knossos survey). Other duties included acting as co-editor for the Annual of the British School at Athens and compiling and editing ‘Archaeology in Greece’, the only annual digest of discoveries in Greece then published. By the end of my tenure the institution's finances and academic reputation were in rude health.
Senior Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology, Cardiff, 1st September 2001 until 31st August 2004
Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology, Cardiff, September 1993 – September 2001
Tutorial Fellow in Archaeology, Cardiff, 1990-1993
Visiting Assistant Professor, Vassar College, New York State, Spring 1990
Macmillan-Rodewald Student at the British School at Athens 1988-89
School Student at the British School at Athens 1986-87
Committees and reviewing
- INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- 2016-19, 2010-11 and 2007-09: Chair of Board of Studies and of BA/BSc Exam Board in Archaeology and Conservation, SHARE, Cardiff University
- 2012-2015 Academic member of Council (the governing body of), Cardiff University, UK.
- 2011-2015 Director of Postgraduate Studies, SHARE, Cardiff University, and chair of MA/MSc exam board in SHARE.
- REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
- 2019, 2018 and 2017 – External review panel member, Danish Council for Independent Research (Det Frie Forskingsgråd, Copenhagen) in the Humanities and Social Sciences (panel 2) covering anthropology, ancient to modern history, sociology, archaeology and classical studies.
- 2017 – July onwards: Invited by the Agence Nationale de Recherche (Paris) to review proposals for the establishment Graduate Schools for French universities.
- 2017 (June) - external reviewer on jury for Alain Duplouy's Habilitation, Paris 1 (Panthéon Sorbonne).
- 2008 – 2020: Invited expert reviewer for research proposals from the Swiss, Dutch (NWO), Francophone Belgian, Franco-German, Canadian and Polish research councils, the European Science Foundation and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.
- 2008 -2020: Expert reviewer for book manuscripts for the Athenian Agora (Princeton), Princeton University Press, INSTAP Academic Press (Philadelphia), Cambridge University Press and the University of California Press.
- 2008-2020: Expert reviewer for submissions to journals, including American Journal of Archaeology, Hesperia, Annual of the British School at Athens, Eirene: Studia Graeca et Latina (Czech Academy of Sciences), Studi Micenei e Egeo Anatolici and the Journal of Hellenic Studies.
Supervisions
Supervised Areas
Geographical and Chronological Range
- Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece (1200-500 BCE)
- Crete from the Neolithic to the end of the Hellenistic Period
- Early Iron Age Mediterranean World (1200-500 BCE)
- Aegean Bronze Age (2000-1100 BCE)
Thematic/Theoretical Range
- Ethnicity and Material Culture
- Commensality and Political Structures
- The interface between ancient history and archaeology
- Agency, Gender and Personhood
- Gender and Burial
- Social Memory and the Uses of the Past
- The history of archaeology (particularly Classical Archaeology)
- Scripts and Literacy
- Art, narrative and iconography
- The Orientalizing phenomenon in the ancient Mediterranean world
Current supervision
Research themes
Specialisms
- Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
- Art history
- Classical Greek and Roman history