My primary interests are palaeoethnobotany, Aegean prehistory, and Eastern Mediterranean prehistory. Within these fields I specialize in the identification and interpretation of macroscopic plant remains from archaeological sites ranging in age from the Palaeolithic through the Bronze Age, principally in Greece and Cyprus. Of particular interest is the origins and development of agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean and the introduction of agriculture to Europe through Greece and the Balkans. I am also interested in the natural sciences as they are used in archaeology. Presently, I am the Associate Director of the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnography (CMRAE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Awards: Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship - Cyprus 1984; National Endowment for Humanities University Teacher's Fellowship - England 1990-91; Near and Middle East Research and Training Fellowship - Jordan - 1996

Representative Publications
The Palaeoethnobotany of Franchthi Cave. Indiana University Press, Bloomington(1991).

Beyond the Site: Palaeoethnobotany in Regional Perspective. In Beyond the Site in the Aegean Area, ed. N. Kardulias, pp. 173-190, University Press of America (1994).

Franchthi Cave and the Beginnings of Agriculture, in the Prehistoric Aegean. In Prehistoire de l'Agriculture: Nouvelles Approaches Experimentales et Ethnographique, ed. P. Anderson, Monographie CRA no. 6, pp. 231-247, CNRS, Paris, (1992).

Palaeoethnobotany in Cyprus: Recent Research. In New Light on Early Farming: Recent Developments in Palaeoethnobotany, ed.J. M. Renfrew, pp. 225-236, University Press, Edinburgh (1991).

Agriculture in the Prehistoric Aegean: Data versus Speculation. American Journal of Archaeology 92:39-52 (1988).