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IEMA’s Activities 2006-2016 In this Issue: The Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology (IEMA) is a Signature Center of Excellence within the College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo (UB), State University First Look of New York. It was created in 2006 by an interdisciplinary 2 ›› faculty coalition from Departments of Anthropology, , 3 ›› The Archaeology of and Visual Studies. Today IEMA consists of ca. 60 UB faculty Mountain Landscapes and graduate student members and more than 150 affiliated members from the United States and abroad. 4-9 ›› Current Field and Lab Research IEMA Publications Samuel M. Paley Legacy Projects In the fall of 2010, IEMA launched the IEMA Distinguished 10-11 ›› › Tel Ifshar Monographs Series with SUNY Press and so far has published › Seyitömer Höyük seven monographs with four additional monographs forthcoming, and several others currently under peer review. Faculty News IEMA plans to publish at least two monographs per year. 12 ›› In 2011, the IEMA graduate students launched the annual Publications interdisciplinary and international peer-reviewed graduate 13 ›› student journal, CHRONIKA. 14 ›› Chronika IEMA Conferences, Lectures and Workshops Conferences In addition to the yearly postdoctoral conference, IEMA 15 ›› organized over 40 IEMA Lectures of national and international scholars, over 30 IEMA Graduate Student Brown Bag Lunch Talks, and 10 IEMA Workshops.

IEMA Graduate Programs PhD in Anthropology PhD in Classics MA in European and Mediterranean Archaeology (EMA) MA in Cultural Heritage Studies (CHS) MA in Critical Museum Studies (CMS)

IEMA Funding In 2010, IEMA established with the generous support of Milton Ezrati the IEMA Travel and Research Grant for graduate students to undertake research in and the Mediterranean.

IEMA Fieldwork IEMA-affiliated faculty and graduate students have over 20 active field research projects in 10 countries in Europe and the Mediterranean.

IEMA Partnerships Institutional partnerships have been established with the Universities of Cambridge/UK, Catania/Italy, Dumlupınar/ , Kiel/Germany, Sorbonne University Paris/, and Tarragona/Spain.

In addition, a network for European Archaeology has been University at Buffalo established with more than 100 scholars in Western New York, Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology New York State, and Southern Ontario. 380 MFAC - Ellicott Complex Buffalo, NY 14261-0005, USA Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 716 645-0402/ Fax: +1 716 645-3808 www.iema.buffalo.edu 2 2017 IEMA The Archaeology of range of disciplines such as History, The Tenth IEMA Visiting Mountain Landscapes Archaeology, Anthropology, Geography, Scholar Conference Geology, Ecology, Economics, and Paleo-

Agro-pastoral landscapes characterize environmental Studies. In this research April 8-9, 2017 not only upland plains or irrigated areas context, interdisciplinary and around water courses, but they also diachronic approaches have a great Greiner Hall, Ground Level define most mountain landscapes, potential and they are a practical reality North Campus, University at Buffalo sometimes considered in nowadays research projects about Buffalo, NY 14261 as “marginal lands” when the territories mountain landscapes. of urban centers are concerned. However, iema.buffalo.edu/conference at least a fifth of the terrestrial surface Fieldwork developed during the last could be defined as mountain areas, decades has changed our knowledge Conference Organizer: hosting a fifth of the population about the history of mountain Dr. Arnau Garcia environments. The 10th International and providing sustainment for a much [email protected] larger percentage. Bearing this in mind it Visiting Scholar Conference at is not a surprise to know that mountain the Institute for European and areas have been transited, inhabited, Mediterranean Archaeology (IEMA) exploited and conceptualized by at the University at Buffalo will gather since the very beginning of the species. researchers who in different geographical areas (in both Eurasia and the ) Due to the multiple factors and have made significant contributions relationships involved, landscape- about land-use in mountain areas and shaping - not only in mountain areas human activities in the shaping of - is an extremely complex subject. mountain cultural landscapes. Landscape studies are part of a wide IEMA 2017 3 CURRENT FIELD RESEARCH

UB Interdisciplinary change in the past. For instance, we can human remains, heavy residue and Research on Climate Change correlate our data from Çatalhöyük , as as material with that of the Greenland ice cores. A culture, have begun to make significant in the Past: The Çatalhöyük comparison suggests that the change contributions to scientific discussions West Mound Project, Turkey involved 200 years of extreme winters that about climate change. Despite some recent included flooding followed by extreme collaboration with social scientists, the Peter F. Biehl ›› UB Interdisciplinary summers with periods of draught. This field is still dominated by climatologists Çatalhöyük West Mound Project in significantly changed the Konya plain, and and environmental scientists. Central Anatolia, Turkey researches Çatalhöyük—which, for 1,500 years was climate change that occurred 8,200 years the central and only site on the plain— It is only through long-term ago in Central Anatolia and the impact it suddenly lost its importance. People archaeological and historical analysis, had on the people of the time. moved out of this ancestral site and set up and—most importantly—detailed Our team’s research illustrates how a new village on the West Mound some examination of the social dynamics important micro-regional research is to 300 meters away. on local and regional scales within an better understand a large-scale climatic interregional framework, that we can They also moved farther, begin to detect the differential impact first to Western Anatolia of the so-called ‘8.2k cal BP climatic and Southeast Europe, and event’ that occurred worldwide, but left eventually across the whole unmistakable traces in Çatalhöyük. Our European continent. Çatalhöyük preliminary research at Çatalhöyük shows offers a microcosm that can that this climatic shift fundamentally help us unlock some of the key changed the environment and the questions surrounding this architecture, material culture, social time period. Our international organization, and economy of the people team of specialists in in the Near East and Europe. ‡ archaeozoology, palaeobotany, phytoliths, strontium-isotopes, Project website: www.catalhoyuk.com

Ancient Greek Cities in there over the course of the 1960s and contemporary with, but quite different Context: Halieis 1970s by the University of Pennsylvania from, Olynthos. Among the other and Indiana University, under the notable features present at Halieis are Bradley A. Ault ›› Professor Ault auspices of the American School of its fortification circuit descending from has been involved with research and Classical Studies at Athens. Although an acropolis—an extramural sanctuary publication of Halieis for some time, and less historically notable than Olynthos, dedicated to Apollo—and the fact that his work there is ongoing. The ancient Halieis stands as a similarly rare, well- both the Apollo Sanctuary and the city’s city of Halieis lies at the southwestern tip preserved Late Classical city (abandoned northern limits are today submerged by of the Argolid, Greece, on the opposite ca. 300 B.C.). Its urban plan and domestic changing sea levels in what remains a side of the bay from the modern town architecture continue to offer a subject remarkable natural harbor for the area. ‡ of Porto Cheli. Excavations took place for study, particularly as a city roughly

Aerial view of the Bay of Porto Cheli. Halieis lies in the foreground, the line of its city walls shown Halieis, plan. in red. The star marks the location of the submerged Sanctuary of Apollo.

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Ancient Greek Cities in Context: The Olynthos Project

Bradley A. Ault ›› Professor Ault is a key member of the ceramics team of the Olynthos Project, where he is studying plain and coarse . The project is an international undertaking sponsored by the British School of Archaeology at Athens, and directed by Dr. Bettina Tsigarida (Hellenic Ministry of Culture), Dr. Zosia Archibald (), and Professor Lisa Nevett ().

The ancient city of Olynthos is located in the Chalcidice of Northern Greece. Historically, the city was notable as the Housing blocks, Olynthos seat of the Chalcidic League and for its opposition to Philip II of Macedon (making it the subject of the Athenian orator Demosthenes’ Olynthiacs), whose army besieged and razed it in 348 B.C. Archaeologically, this destruction accounts for remarkable preservation at the site, which stands as a near singular example of a Late Classical Greek city frozen in time. The earliest excavations here were undertaken between 1928 and 1939 by Professor David Moore Olynthos, current excavations of House Bix6 Olynthos, ceramics processing Robinson (Johns Hopkins University), under the auspices of the American detailed picture of Olynthian households This new fine-grained analysis will School of Classical Studies at Athens. and to understand the relationships supplement and considerably enhance Since the publication of Robinson’s work, those households had with their not only what we know about Olynthos, Olynthos has served as a type-site for our neighborhoods, districts, and with the but about ancient Greek urban and understanding of Greek urban growth city as a whole. The project is utilizing domestic organization more generally, and planning, domestic architecture, and current archaeological methodologies, and it will also provide an example which household organization. including remote sensing, geophysical contributes to the comparative study of prospection, intensive surface , urbanism. Project website: https://sites. The Olynthos Project has returned to and the scrupulous excavation and lsa.umich.edu/olynthos-project/ ‡ the site in order to construct a more recovery of a limited number of houses.

The International been funded by a variety of NSF grants Circumpolar Archaeological from Arctic Social Sciences Program and Anthropology for which Ezra Zubrow Expedition was the PI. Recent articles have been published in Quaternary International, Ezra B. Zubrow ›› This project continues Sibirica, and Current Anthropology. to explore the Arctic and Sub-Arctic archaeological issues that began with Research on the impact of Arctic climate the celebration of the Polar Year. Field warming on temperate and tropical work includes work in Yli-ii, Oulanka, cultural adaptations have demonstrated and Kuusamo Finland; Factory Lake the importance of the time lag factors in Region of Northern Quebec; Northern changing water distributions in Central and Central Regions of Kamchatka; and America and Southern Simadalsfjorden, Norway Geilo and Osteroy, Norway. This work has ›› continued on next page

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Correspondence between Pinus pollen at the Masehjabi site and the Potential Viking Grave Site in Osteroy, Norway North Atlantic Oscillation in work by Zubrow and Michael Smythe, in northern Finland between the 15th in Geilo, Norway published in Current and as well as monsoon adaptations in and 19th centuries, and the ways family Anthropology, as well as projected field India and Sri Lanka by Hans Harmsen members mourned for children during surveys in the Osteroy area of Norway and Priyantha Karunaratne. Florin a period when child mortality was and the Kuusamo area of Finland. Other Pendea has the longest continuous core high. Her results inform many Arctic new projects are being undertaken from Kamchatka and is micro prehistoric periods as well. New projects in Greenland by Hans Harmsen and analyzing it for climate change proxies. include the of Viking Lithuania by Christopher Troskosky. ‡ Erika Ruhl continues her work on the graves with Professor Torill Christine construction of children and childhood Lindstrom of Bergen and other analyses

Gournia Project, Crete economic relations did Gournia have with its region? 4. What was Gournia’s role in Livingstone V. Watrous ›› The the political organization of the region? of Gournia lies These questions have been discussed in on the north coast in the Mirabello our publications (Watrous, and Blitzer Bay of East Crete. In 1901-1904, the 2000; Watrous 2000; Watrous et al. 2001; American archaeologist Harriet Boyd Watrous, and Heimroth 2011; Watrous excavated at Gournia (Hawes et al. 2008; Watrous et al. 2015). During June 1908). She uncovered a large portion of and July of 2015, some 30 members of the a Late Minoan (1,600 - 1,450 B.C.) town, Gournia Project worked at the INSTAP including 47 houses, cobbled streets, East Crete Center preparing their various the town square, a Minoan palace, and areas of the site and archaeological cemetery. Still visible today, Gournia, materials for publication. ‡ of all archaeological sites in Greece, gives the visitor the best idea of what a town looked like in the Bronze Age. Estimated to be ca. three hectares (7.4 Plan of Gournia, showing Protopalatial acres) in size, the town had a (literate) Walls in dark green population of 400 – 600 inhabitants. In the Late Minoan I era, the palace In 1992 - 1994, Watrous directed a at Gournia signals that the site was regional survey (24 square kms) around the political and religious hub of the the site, with the aim of providing a Mirabello region (Soles 2002). Gournia context for understanding the site was also a production center for pottery, of Gournia. Our project addressed textiles, a wide variety of metal and four basic questions: 1. How did stone objects, grain, oil, and wine, with the people of Gournia exploit the trade connections all over the Eastern surrounding environment? 2. What Mediterranean world (Watrous and was the population of Gournia and the Aerial View of Room A under the Palace Heimroth, in press). settlements around it? 3. What kind of 6 2017 IEMA CURRENT FIELD RESEARCH

Bronocice, a Major and biological remains. During its long Settlement in Southeastern occupational history Bronocice developed into a central place, and became socially Poland and economically more complex than any other settlement within the region. Sarunas Milisauskas ›› The State Excavations at Bronocice revealed an University of New York at Buffalo and the extensive area of settlement and recovered Polish Academy of Sciences conducted a a large volume of diverse cultural cooperative archaeological project at the materials—approximately 500,000 Bronocice site in southeastern Poland artifacts, including pottery, lithics, burials, in the 1970s. The Principal American fiber and textile production artifacts, and Investigator was Sarunas Milisauskas, and oral and faunal remains. Furthermore, Janusz Kruk was the Polish field director ditches of two fortifcations and one of this project. The financial support enclosure were found. for this project was provided by the Textile artifacts in pit 12-B5 at Bronocice Smithsonian Institution and the National Several unique or rare finds from Science Foundation. The objectives of this Bronocice have received attention from Numerous Funnel Beaker and Funnel archaeological project were twofold: 1. to archaeologists and are widely known. Beaker-Baden spindle whorls and loom investigate the prehistoric environment, A ceramic vessel with a wagon motif weights from the site of Bronocice chronology, economy, settlement system, from a late Funnel Beaker (3,400 B.C.) (3900-2900 B.C.) in southeastern Poland and social organization of the Middle pit is indirect evidence for the earliest provided an opportunity to investigate Neolithic (TRB or Funnel Beaker culture) utilization of wagons in Europe. A the value of cloth production within and Late Neolithic (Funnel Beaker-Baden) impression on a horncore of an ox from households. Bronocice underwent communities and 2. to explore the origin a Funnel Beaker-Baden pit indicates social and economic changes that are of complex societies in the Nidzica River that cattle were used to pull wagons and seen on the landscape and in material basin, southeastern Poland. probably carts. An interesting burial culture. Increased production of cloth The site of Bronocice is located on the dating to the Funnel Beaker-Baden period was dependent on the availability of occurred in a rectangular pit where a total thread and yarn, a need that was met by of seventeen skeletons were uncovered. rising numbers of households engaged Five were adults and the rest were children. in spinning. Cloth production involved The oldest skeleton belonged to a male specialization within fewer households, about 25 years old. The children’s ages implying that they had greater technical ranged from six months to 10 years. There ability and knowledge which may have are signs that they may have been put to gained them greater influence or prestige death. At least three individuals appear to in the community. Rising production have suffered crushing blows to the head. was evident in the counts of artifacts Based on personal items, it is likely that and numbers of households involved in A vessel incised with wagon motifs they belonged to another culture. making thread and cloth. Attributing from Bronocice production to a specific gender proved Presently, molecular studies including challenging. Indirect evidence tying highest local elevation above the Nidzica ancient DNA analyses are being conducted women to and spinning may River floodplain in southeastern Poland. on sheep remains and textile production be potentially found in the physical The length of the entire site is roughly artifacts by Sarunas Milisauskas (IEMA appearance of spindle whorls and loom 1600 m and the width from 300 to 500 and Dept. of Anthropology, SUNY at weights, both undecorated and decorated m, thus it is over 50 ha in area. A total Buffalo), Marie-Lorraine Pipes (PhD and their depositional contexts. The of 25 excavation units, encompassing Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, consistent variability observed in approximately 7300 m3, were dug. SUNY at Buffalo) and Janusz Kruk the shape, form, size, and decorative (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, treatment of spindle whorls and loom The site of Bronocice is exceptional Kraków, Polish Academy of Sciences) to weights found in household pits may for several reasons, including its long investigate the earliest appearance of wool reflect unrelated women living in the occupational sequence by Funnel production for clothing in Europe during same house. ‡ Beaker, Lublin-Volhynian, and Funnel the Neolithic. Other DNA studies are being Beaker- Baden cultures spanning the planned on human skeletons, for example, Middle to Late Neolithic (3,800 B.C. to to determine if the people in the multiple 2,700 B.C.), its expansive settlement, and burial were outsiders. the excellent preservation of cultural

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The Dereköy Archaeological Survey Project, Turkey Early Modern Eras in Ulster and Småland Ralf Vandam, Patrick T. Willett, and Peter F. Biehl ›› From 2016 onwards, IEMA has collaborated within the framework of the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project

of the University of Leuven, Belgium on a diachronic regional survey project in the Timothy Chevral ›› Timothy Dereköy area of the Burdur Province, SW Turkey. The Burdur Region is well known for Chevral (T L Thurston) studies the its archaeological sites such as ancient Sagalassos, located only a few kilometers away late prehistoric, proto-historic from the research area, and several Late Prehistoric key sites such as Hacılar, the first and historic periods in Northern site in Anatolia where Neolithic deposits were unearthed outside the Fertile Crescent. Europe, roughly 800 BCE to 1650 CE, focusing on the relationships The survey project aims to explore the archaeological remains of small remote between ordinary people and their intermountain valleys and highlands in the Western Taurus Mountains. Previous governments, on a continuum archaeological research mainly focused on the larger fertile lowland areas like the from peaceful civic engagement to Burdur Plain, which revealed numerous farming settlements from the Neolithic uprisings against the state. To study onwards. By investigating different and more remote areas of the landscape, we hope to investigate how different or similar these communities were in relation to lowland communities. Ultimately, we aim to evaluate diachronic socio-environmental developments of the area by incorporating the ecological data of the area in our project. To understand the dialogue between the Dereköy landscape and its ancient communities, an interdisciplinary methodology has been developed by different collaborating institutions, consisting of a multi-component archaeological and geophysical survey. ‡

these issues, research is centered on regions where perceived abuses of farming and commodity-producing communities at some point erupted into violent conflict with their rulers. Fieldwork examines the parallel development of small rural settlements where uprisings originated, and the symbolic and The UB Laboratory for but also how different dynamics of social practical nodes of government Evolutionary Anthropology interaction, rates of cultural change, power. This ongoing research and ancient peoples’ biases may all have currently uses two contexts as case influenced the patterns that we see in the Stephen Lycett ›› Social learning, studies: the late Iron Age through archaeological record. cultural evolution, and the study the Early Modern eras in Ulster The team and their international of artifactual change across time (modern Northern Ireland) and collaborative network of colleagues is and space - the UB Laboratory for Småland in south-central Sweden. ‡ currently focused on several different Evolutionary Anthropology has recently projects ranging from the Palaeolithic been established within the Dept. of to the historical period. The lab’s work Anthropology. This research team is led focuses on developing and using new by newly appointed Associate Professor digital and morphometric techniques of Anthropology, Stephen Lycett, PhD. for capturing variation in artifactual The multidisciplinary research team form. The lab is equipped with the latest involved in the laboratory’s work equipment for laser scanning and digital specializes in investigating how different morphometry used in studies. social dynamics influence the formation Such equipment is currently being used of the archaeological record within a to study everything from 1 million-year- cultural evolutionary framework. This involves investigations not only of ›› continued on page 9 artifact manufacture and skill learning,

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old stone handaxes to examples of beaded geographies and across time. art just over 100 years old. Detailed The laboratory draws on theoretical digital studies of these artifacts are and methodological perspectives from helping to capture finer-scaled aspects a broad range of fields. Lab members of variation than has previously been have training in archaeology, physical possible, essential for the type of work in anthropology, cultural anthropology, which the lab is involved. and psychology. The laboratory would be interested to hear from prospective A key part of the laboratory’s activities students that would like to undertake also involves experimental work. This research into artifactual variation, has involved form‒function experiments especially using experimental, to understand the kinds of decisions that morphometric, and/or evolutionary may have motivated ancient communities frameworks of analysis. ‡ to make specific choices about artifactual form. Such experiments are shedding new light on patterns of artifactual variation and its change across different

LEFT: A digital scan of a stone handaxe from one of the replication experiments undertaken by UB’s newly established Laboratory for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Buffalo Human Evolutionary food compared with tougher plant skeleton, the actions of biomechanical Morphology Lab and animal products. She is currently remodeling in generating novel skeletal working on new projects investigating variation, and the role of evolutionary the effects of neutral processes such processes in generating differences Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel ›› as genetic drift and natural selection and similarities between populations Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel, Assistant in driving differentiation of modern and species. Further information about Professor of Anthropology, joined the human morphology. Part of this Noreen and her lab group can be found UB anthropology and IEMA faculty in research involves using 3D virtual here: www.bheml.weebly.com ‡ fall 2014. Her research interests are in anthropology methods such as geometric the evolutionary analysis of modern morphometrics applied to 3D surface human and non-human primate scans to capture shape variation in morphology. In particular, much of different parts of the skeleton. Her lab her research has focused on modern group—the Buffalo Human Evolutionary human cranial shape and how this Morphology Lab – is dedicated to reflects past historical processes in combining 3D morphometric methods human populations, such as migration, to quantifying bone morphology with dispersal, gene flow, and genetic drift. evolutionary analyses. Her students and For example, she has used cranial postdoc conduct research on a variety of shape data from prehistoric European evolutionary morphology topics such as populations from the Epipaleolithic, the effects of developmental stress on the , and early Neolithic periods to show that the biological differences among these populations are consistent with demic diffusion from the Near East. She recently showed that modern human lower jaw shape has a different average shape in hunter-gatherer-forager populations compared with groups who rely on agriculture or pastoralism. This suggests that the lower jaw is relatively prone to remodeling under different biomechanical stresses, such as those involved in chewing relatively softer

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Tel Ifshar

Ezra Marcus, Daniel Griswold, and Peter F. Biehl ›› Tel Ifshar is a 4.4 ha (11 acre) mound in the Central Sharon Coastal Plain of Israel only five km from the modern coastline, at the narrowest place between the Mediterranean sea and Central Highlands. The site’s location on the perennial and potentially navigable Alexander River in the lower reaches of a verdant alluvial plain offered a potential agricultural hinterland, ample grazing areas, and a position on both a longitudinal and a latitudinal route.

From 1979 through 1992, within the context of what was known as the Emek Hefer Archaeological Research Project (EHARP), the late Professor Samuel Paley of SUNY Buffalo, together with Dr. Yosef Porath of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), carried out 10 seasons of excavation at the site that produced evidence of human activity from late through the Byzantine period. Intermittent settlement at Tel Ifshar has been documented beginning in the Early Bronze Age, but the most significant remains belong to the Middle Bronze Age IIa (1925-1750 BCE), of which eight principal architectural horizons were found, four of which ended in conflagrations that left extensive well-preserved complete or restorable ceramics, stone , and botanical and faunal remains sealed in their original locations. VESSEL A renewed project has enjoyed the support of SUNY Buffalo and IEMA, where much of the project’s documentation is still stored in the Paley archives. In addition to completion of the research described above, it is hoped that the results will be made accessible through a virtual Internet-based museum. The renewal of collaboration with archaeologists in Israel (E. Marcus and Y. Porath) is also being strengthened by the newly begun research of Dan Griswold, a University of Buffalo PhD student, who studies Tel Ifshar’s important Late Bronze Age remains as part of his doctoral dissertation. Thus, the vision that led Samuel Paley and Y. Porath to this extraordinary site, which was excavated using a sampling strategy with a foresight unparalleled at the time, continues to generate research results with broad implications for the immediate region and the greater Near Eastern world. ‡

Gokcumen Lab tools. Our current focus is studying this framework, we are currently the impact of genomic structural working on several specific questions: Omer Gokcumen ›› Omer Gokcumen variation to . 1. Investigating the mechanisms of SV is Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Genomic structural variants (SVs) formation among primates and their and Anthropological Genomics in the involve differences in copy number impact on primate genome stability. Department of Biological Sciences. (i.e., deletions and duplications), 2. Identifying and scrutinizing orientation (i.e., inversions) or gene duplications that contribute We are interested in investigating a genomic location (i.e., translocations) to species-specific phenotypes. diverse set of questions in anthropology of large segments of DNA between 3. Explaining the evolutionary and evolutionary biology using genomic individuals. Recent studies have processes that maintain ancient demonstrated that SVs constitute variation (particularly deletion a greater portion of the human polymorphisms) in contemporary genomic variation as compared and ancient genomes. 4. Local to single nucleotide variants, adaptation and impact of culture to and play an important role in genetic variation. The results of some human disease and evolution. our previous studies emphasized We believe that SVs represent the value of ethnohistorically a huge and unexplored area contextualized sampling with of evolutionary genomics that genome-wide analysis to obtain a is ripe for studies focusing more complex understanding of the on their impact to human study populations. ‡ disease and biology. Within

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Seyitömer Höyük Beginning in 2007, he led a team of students Paley’s work during this period made a from the University at Buffalo/IEMA lasting contribution to this rescue effort, A.Nejat Bilgen, Laura Harrison, and in a field school, where he supervised because he and his team recovered and Peter F. Biehl ›› Seyitömer Höyük is an the excavation of the Middle Bronze documented information that would archaeological site that sits 350 km south of Age settlement. He trained students in otherwise have been lost forever, a Istanbul, at an important juncture between methods of archaeological excavation casualty of modern industrial growth. the Mesopotamian and Mediterranean and laboratory analysis, including GIS, worlds. Seyitömer Höyük’s economy analysis, and ceramic analysis. SUNY Buffalo/IEMA is committed to centered on pottery and textile production, Their experience was enriched with staff supporting the legacy of Samuel Paley and supported a vibrant village that was lectures on the specific material culture with the Samuel M. Paley Legacy Project, inhabited for over two millennia. The site’s from Seyitömer Höyük, and reports directed by Peter F. Biehl, PhD. This strategic location on a bustling overland from specialists about the collective project supports future research at trade route that traversed the heartland of achievements of the project. He continued Seyitömer Höyük, and acknowledges Anatolia ensured its economic prosperity his involvement with the excavation by Samuel Paley’s contributions in through many successive phases of leading additional field schools in 2008 and forthcoming publications. Laura occupation. Rich assemblages of artifacts 2009, eventually reaching Early Bronze Harrison, a PhD. candidate in the and well-preserved architecture span Age levels with his team. Department of Anthropology at the Early Bronze Age through the Roman SUNY Buffalo, has led field schools at period, together representing the longest, Samuel Paley’s work at Seyitömer Höyük Seyitömer Höyük in 2014 and 2015, the continuous sequence of occupation in is significant not only because he led a final two excavation campaigns at the western Turkey. The late Professor Samuel top notch field school program there, but site. Harrison’s field school is modelled M. Paley made important contributions to also because his work helped surmount directly on Samuel Paley’s project, and our understanding of this incredible site. a unique archaeological challenge—that aims to educate students in methods of of running a rescue archaeological excavation and analysis, excavation with the best while providing a rich, multicultural possible archaeological experience. In addition, field school methods, in a limited participants learned about Samuel Paley’s timeframe. Seyitömer contributions to the rescue excavation, Höyük sits on top of a 12 and his role as an ambassador of cross- million ton exploitable cultural understanding between Turkish coal reserve, and a private and American teams. Paley’s legacy will company signed a protocol be supported in print, as well, through granting archaeologists acknowledgement of his contributions eight years to fully to research at Seyitömer Höyük in excavate the 150mx150m forthcoming publications. ‡ site in 2006. Samuel

The IEMA Samuel M. Paley Library

The library, donated by Barbara Koz Paley, is located in the IEMA space in the Ellicott Complex of the UB North Campus, and consists of a library with reading room and media room. It functions as an independent branch library of the UB Libraries and is open to faculty, students, and the public. It holds the Samuel M. Paley specialized library consisting of ca. 5,000 books on the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. ‡

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Roger D. Woodard is the Andrew V. Raymond Professor of the Classics and the chair of the Department of Classics. His research ranges across various areas of the Carolyn Higbie is Park Professor of discipline of classical studies and tends to encompass an anthropological approach to Classics at the University at Buffalo, the study of antiquity. Much of his work is also concerned with the matter of the loss where she has taught since 1999. and preservation of knowledge over time. In addition to the language, literatures, She has previously held teaching and cultures of Greece and Rome, he works with those same phenomena as they find positions at Harvard University expression among other early Indo-European peoples, especially those of Vedic India, and Southern Illinois University at Bronze-Age Anatolia, and Medieval Ireland and Scandinavia. Other projects on which Carbondale as well as being named he is presently at work are: 1. a monograph on the origin of the Aeolic dialect of Greek a Fellow of the Humanities Institute and the spread of knowledge from Anatolia to Hellas in the Late Bronze Age and Early of the University at Buffalo in Iron Age; 2. a volume on Greek language for a new series of descriptive linguistic 2011-12 and Fellow at the National volumes from Cambridge University Press; and 3. a multi-volume reference work on Center for the Humanities in 2003- Greek myth, also from Cambridge University Press. 04. Her forthcoming book, Object

Stephen L. Dyson is Park Professor of Classics, SUNY Distinguished Professor, and associate director of IEMA. One of the most important areas of archaeological research that is becoming part of the IEMA agenda is Cultural Heritage. That is a natural fit with Dyson’s research into the History of . Archaeological cultural heritage policy is naturally a reflection of a nation’s Lessons: Collectors, Scholars, and or a region’s archaeological resources. However, it also Forgers in Antiquity (OUP), focuses reflects regional history, national ideology, and power on how ancient Greeks' and Romans' politics among those who do archaeology. Contemporary fascination with works of art, texts, is about much more than big sites and objects gave rise and famous archaeologists, and one of its most important to the production of copies and tasks is to place cultural heritage in historical context. forgeries. Her previous publications Stephen Dyson’s research has centered on various aspects include The Lindian Chronicle and of these and related questions. His book, Ancient Marbles the Greek Recreation of their Past to American Shores (1998), investigated within the history (OUP, 2003), Heroes’ Names, Homeric of American classical archaeology the reasons why a Identities (Garland, 1995), and country with no classical archaeological remains rose Measure and Music: Enjambement to become one of the major archaeological powers in the and Sentence Structure in the Iliad Mediterranean. It centered on various aspects of American (OUP, 1990). cultural ideology, academic social history, and academic power politics. Dyson raised similar questions in expanded horizons with In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts (2006), which looked at the European, as well as the American context. His current book research project, Archaeology, Ideology and Urbanism in Rome from the Grand Tour to Berlusconi, focuses on modern Rome and the various agenda that have shaped archaeological policy in that city in the modern era.

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Proceedings of the IEMA Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar IEMA Monograph Series Conference on Theories and Methods in Archaeology Series

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Chronika is an interdisciplinary journal agricultural ; rural settlement and Etruscan Politics and Society. His of European and Mediterranean and identity at small farms, homesteads, dissertation investigates the reciprocal archaeology for graduate students in and villages; and the intersections in the effects between warfare and the physical departments of Anthropology, Classics, modern era of rural and urban cultural structures of southern Etruscan city- Visual Studies, and Art History. and economic developments. states, along with their economic and Chronika is entirely produced and edited socio-political organization, from the by University at Buffalo, State University Ashlee Hart 5th-3rd centuries BC. at New York graduate students. The Ashlee Hart is a third-year PhD student 2017 edition of Chronika is its seventh in Anthropology at the University at Hannah Quaintance volume. Our goals for this year’s volume Buffalo, studying archaeology. She Hannah Quaintance is a third-year focused primarily on the quality of earned her BA in PhD student in the Department of the content, and on our influence as a History and BS in Anthropology at the Univeristy at scholarly publication. This year, the call Anthropology at Buffalo. She earned her BA from the for submissions was distributed to an the University of Evergreen international list serve, and we received Idaho in 2013. Her State College in submissions from graduate students archaeological Olympia, Wash. all over Europe and North America. fieldwork includes in 2012 with a We are taking additional steps to make work across the concentration Chronika more accessible, by having it United States and Bulgaria. Ashlee's main in fiber arts and indexed on more open access databases, research interests include the Thracians cultural studies and making the full content available on in Bulgaria, especially during the early and her MA in our website: www.chronikajournal. and late Iron Age. Her interests include Archaeology from the University at com. Our traditional introduction of ceramic technology and cross-cultural Buffalo in 2015. Her current research the finished volume will again be at interaction. Ashlee's dissertation will focuses on the use of collaborative, the IEMA conference, to be held April focus on changing ceramic technological community-based methodologies in 8-9, 2017 in Greiner Hall at UB. We and stylistic choices within indigenous museums, particularly in identifying aim to be a leading, internationally- populations as Greek colonizers arrive, ways to address underused collections. recognized journal for European and bringing new ideas and material culture. She is also interested in how Mediterranean archaeology at the Through archaeometric analysis she museums and their collections can be graduate level. will examine handmade indigenous recontextualized in the present, and ceramic artifacts from exchange sites in become spaces for conversation and EDITORS inland Bulgaria. The interdisciplinary community development. She has been study will show to what extent Thracian involved in various museum-related Britta Spaulding identity was impacted during the age of projects at the University at Buffalo's Britta Spaulding is a seventh-year Greek colonialism. Anderson Gallery, The Field Museum in PhD student in Anthropology at the Chicago, and the Aktopraklık Arkeoloji University at Alexander Mazurek Okulu—a site museum in Bursa, Turkey. Buffalo. She holds a Alexander "Teddy" Mazurek is a fifth- BA in Archaeology year PhD student in Mediterranean and the Culture Archaeology in the Department of of the Ancient Classics at the University at Buffalo. He Near East and Art earned his BA History, as well as in Archaeology a minor in Biblical and Classics from Languages from Lycoming College (2010) Boston University and an MA in Anthropology from the in 2012 and his University at Buffalo (2014). She has MA from the done archaeological work in Sweden, University at Pennsylvania, Northern Ireland, the Buffalo in 2014. Republic of Ireland, and Wales. Britta He has conducted field work at Tell es- also has museum experience from the Sweyhat in Syria, and at the Etruscan Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, sites of Veii and Rofalco in Italy. He is NY. She works in Sweden and northern currently a staff member with the Rofalco Europe in the late medieval to recent excavation project. Teddy's research historical periods. Her research interests include Etruscan and Early interests involve developments in Roman Archaeology, Etruscan Warfare

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