2 March 2020 Curriculum Vitae Curtis Runnels, MA, PhD, FSA Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Classical Studies Department of Anthropology Archaeology Program Boston University 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 345 Boston MA 02215 Tel: (617) 358-1647 Email: [email protected] Education Ph.D. Aegean Prehistory, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1981 M.A. Aegean Prehistory, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1976 B.A. Anthropology and Classical Archaeology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1972 Academic Positions Boston University Archaeology Program Professor, 2018 - present Department of Anthropology Professor, 2018 – present Department of Classical Studies Associated Faculty, 2018 – present Department of Archaeology Chair, 2015 - 2018 Acting Chair, 2014 Professor, 1998 - 2018 Associate Professor, 1991 - 1998 Assistant Professor, 1981 - 1991 Stanford University Program in Values, Technology, and Society, Lecturer, 1983-1987 Department of Anthropology, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1982-1983 Department of Classics, Lecturer, 1981-1982 Indiana University Department of Classics, Lecturer, 1979-1981 Department of Fine Arts, Lecturer, 1978-1979 American School of Classical Studies at Athens 1 Senior Associate Member, 1979-present Associate Member, Fulbright Fellow, 1977 to 1978 Current Research Prehistoric archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean; hominin dispersals on a global scale; lithic technology; history of archaeology Honors and Awards Gennadius Prize, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, awarded for “outstanding contributions to the advancement of knowledge of post-antique Greece,” 2020. Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement, Archaeological Institute of America, 2019 School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Cotsen Fellow in Archaeology, 2013 Society of Antiquaries of London, Fellow, elected 1990 McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, UK, Visiting Fellow, 1994 Humanities Foundation, Boston University, Junior Fellow, 1990-91 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Archaeological Institute of America, 1997 Frank and Lynne Wisneski Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, 2003 Finalist, Metcalf Prize and Award for Excellence in Teaching, Boston University, 2000 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, National Lecturer, College of Lecturers, 1991 to 1993 Archaeological Institute of America, National Lecturer, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000 Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Lecturer, Wellesley College, 1995 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2001-2002 (declined) Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellow, Greece, 1977-78 Edward A. Schrader Fellow, Indiana University, 1974-1975 Professional Responsibilities Member (elected), Board of Overseers for the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Greece), 2019 to present Member (elected), Committee on the Wiener Laboratory, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2015 to 2020 Member (elected), Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2006 to present Member (elected), Advisory Board, Center for Paleolithic Research in America, 2016 to present Editor in Chief, Journal of Field Archaeology, 2002 to 2013 Editor for Book Reviews, Journal of Field Archaeology, 1991 to 1996 2 Member (elected), Excavation and Survey Committee, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1998 to 2002 Delegate for Boston University to the American Research Institute in Turkey, 2004 to 2007 Chair, Committee for the Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Archaeological Institute of America, 1998 to 2003; Member, 2003 to 2006 Member, Search Committee for the Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Archaeology, 1996-97 Member, Archaeological Outreach Committee, Archaeological Institute of America, 1993 to 1996 Member, Committee on Professional Responsibilities, Archaeological Institute of America, 1986 to 1987 Member of the Editorial Board, American Journal of Archaeology, 1998 to 2004 Member of the Editorial Board, Ethnoarchaeological Investigations in Rural Anatolia 2003 to 2006 Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 1988 to 1999 Member of the Board of Advisors, Shala Valley Archaeological Project, Albania, 2004 to 2006 Advisor, Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) for Archaeology, 1996 Publications Books Curtis Runnels, in preparation, Greece in the Stone Age: The Prehistoric Discovery of Europe. Curtis Runnels, 2007, The Archaeology of Heinrich Schliemann: An Annotated Bibliographic Handlist. Second edition. Archaeological Institute of America, Boston. (Published separately as an e-book by Virgo Books, 2013). Curtis Runnels, 2002, The Archaeology of Heinrich Schliemann: An Annotated Bibliographic Handlist. Archaeological Institute of America, Boston. Tjeerd van Andel and Curtis Runnels, 2002, hhorisiArchaeology Without a Trowel, translation by Evangelos Sachperoglou). Kaleidoscope, Athens, Greece. Curtis Runnels and Priscilla Murray, 2001, Greece Before History: An Archaeological Companion and Guide. Stanford University Press, Stanford. Berit Wells and Curtis Runnels, eds., 1996, The Berbati-Limnes Archaeological Survey 1988-1990. Skrifter Utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Athen, Acta Ath-4, Stockholm. 3 Curtis N. Runnels, Daniel M. Pullen, and Susan Langdon, eds., 1995, Artifact and Assemblage: The Finds from a Regional Survey of the Southern Argolid, Volume 1: The Prehistoric Pottery and the Lithic Artifacts. Stanford University Press, Stanford. Michael H. Jameson, Curtis N. Runnels, and Tjeerd H. van Andel, 1994, A Greek Countryside: The Southern Argolid from Prehistory to the Present Day. Stanford University Press, Stanford. Donal Evely and Curtis Runnels, 1992, Ground Stone. Well-Built Mycenae: The Helleno- British Excavations within the Citadel at Mycenae, 1959-1969, Fasicule 27, edited by W. D. Taylour, E. B. French, and K. A. Wardle. Oxbow, Oxford. Tjeerd H. van Andel and Curtis Runnels, 1987, Beyond the Acropolis. A Rural Greek Past. Stanford University Press, Stanford. Curtis Runnels, 1981, A Diachronic Study and Economic Analysis of Millstones from the Argolid, Greece. PhD dissertation, Indiana University (Bloomington). Refereed Journal Articles P. Nick Kardulias and Curtis Runnels, under consideration, “Flaked Stone Tools and Domestic Economy in a Classical Polis: Lithics from the Lower Town at Halieis, Greece,” Hesperia 00. Justin Holcomb, Curtis Runnels, and Karl Wegmann, revised manuscript submitted 2020, “Finding the first hominins in the Aegean Basin: a geoarchaeological approach,” Quaternary International. Curtis Runnels, 2019, “The Piney Branch Site (District of Columbia, USA) and the Significance of the Quarry-Refuse Model for Lithics Studies,” Journal of Lithic Studies 6 (2). Curtis Runnels, 2019, “Henry David Thoreau, Archaeologist? The Concord Saunterer 27: 42-67. Justin Holcomb, Curtis Runnels, Duncan Howitt-Marshall, and Evangelos Sachperoglou, 2018, “New Evidence for the Palaeolithic in Attica, Greece,” Journal of Lithic Studies 5 (1): 1-8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2218/jls.v5i1. Thomas P. Leppard and Curtis Runnels, 2017, “Maritime Hominin dispersals in the Pleistocene: advancing the debate,” Antiquity 91: 510-519. doi:10.15184/aqy.2017.16 D. Howitt-Marshall and C. Runnels, 2016, “Middle Pleistocene sea-crossings in the 4 eastern Mediterranean?” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 42: 140-153. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2016.04.005; http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1SxBt- JVbZRqQ Thomas F. Strasser, Curtis Runnels, and Claudio Vita-Finzi, 2016, “A possible Palaeolithic hand axe from Cyprus,” Antiquity Project Gallery http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/strasser350 Curtis Runnels, 2014, “Response: Where Do We Stand?” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 27: 272-274. Curtis Runnels, 2014, “Early Palaeolithic on the Greek Islands?” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 27: 211-230. Curtis Runnels, Chad DiGregorio, Karl W. Wegmann, Sean F. Gallen, Thomas F. Strasser and Eleni Panagopoulou, 2014, “Lower Palaeolithic Artifacts from Plakias, Crete: Implications for Hominin Dispersals,” Eurasian Prehistory 11 (1-2): 129-152. Curtis Runnels, Floyd McCoy, Robert Bauslaugh, and Priscilla Murray, 2014, “Palaeolithic Research at Mochlos, Crete: New Evidence for Pleistocene Maritime Activity in the Aegean,” Antiquity Project Gallery 88 (342) http://journal.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/runnels342 Brandon R. Olson, Jody M. Gordon, Curtis Runnels, and Steve Chomyszak, 2014, “Experimental Three-Dimensional Printing of a Lower Palaeolithic Handaxe: An Assessment of the Technology and Analytical Value,” Lithic Technology 39 (3): 162- 172. Curtis Runnels, 2013, “More on Palaeolithic America,” Journal of Field Archaeology 38: 99-100. Curtis Runnels and Norman Hammond, 2012, “Palaeolithic America,” Journal of Field Archaeology 37: 83-85. Thomas F. Strasser, Curtis Runnels, Karl Wegmann, Eleni Panagopoulou, Floyd McCoy, Chad DiGregorio, Panagiotis Karkanas, and Nick Thompson, 2011, “Dating Palaeolithic Sites in Southwestern Crete, Greece,” Journal of Quaternary Science 26: 553-560. Thomas F. Strasser, Eleni Panagopoulou, Curtis N. Runnels, Priscilla M. Murray, Nicholas Thompson, Panayiotis Karkanas, Floyd W. McCoy, and Karl W. Wegmann, 2010, “Stone Age Seafaring in the Mediterranean: Evidence from the Plakias Region for Lower Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Habitation of Crete,” Hesperia