 Curtis Runnels
Professor of Archaeology
Education: PhD
1981, Indiana University
Research Interests:
Prehistoric archaeology
of the Aegean, lithic technology.
Curtis N. Runnels is a specialist in the prehistoric
archaeology of the Aegean world, with a special interest in the
Stone Age. His research has focused on Neanderthal land-use logistics,
Mesolithic settlement patterns, the origins of agriculture, lithic
technology, and Bronze Age trade. His other interests include regional
survey, ancient economics, and the history of archaeology. Currently,
he divides his time between fieldwork, teaching, and editing.
For more than thirty years Professor Runnels has been involved
in fieldwork in Greece, Turkey, and Albania and has directed, co-directed,
or participated in excavations, regional surveys, and laboratory
studies. He co-directed an American-Greek Mesolithic survey of
Kandia
in the Argolid (2003) and the Swedish-American survey of Berbati-Limnes
(also in the Argolid) in 1988-1992. He directed a Palaeolithic
survey
of Thessaly (1987-1991) and was associate director of the Stanford
University Archaeological and Environmental Survey of the Southern
Argolid in 1979-1983. He was a staff member on Boston University’s
Nikopolis Project, the University of Thessaloniki’s survey
of Langadas (Macedonia), and the University of Cincinnati’s
Pylos Regional Archaeoogical Project (Greece) and Mallakastra Regional
Archaeological Project (Albania).
Professor Runnels was a Fulbright-Hayes Fellow (Greece) in 1977-78,
a member of the National College of Lecturers for Sigma Xi: The
National Research Society in 1991-1993, and a national lecturer
for the Archaeological Institute of America. He has won awards
for
undergraduate teaching from the Archaeological Institute of America
(1998) and Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences
(2003). He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of
London in 1990.
Representative Publications
Curtis Runnels, 2002, The Archaeology of Heinrich Schliemann:
An Annotated Bibliographic Handlist. Archaeological Institute
of America, Boston.
Curtis Runnels and Priscilla Murray, 2001, Greece Before History:
An Archaeological Companion and Guide. Stanford University
Press.
B. Wells and C. Runnels, eds., 1996, The Berbati-Limnes Archaeological
Survey 1988-1990, Stockholm: Skrifter Utgivna av Svenska Institutet
i Athen, Acta Ath-4.
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.
Curtis Runnels, 2000, “Anthropogenic Soil Erosion
in Prehistoric Greece: The Contribution of Regional Surveys to the
Archaeology of Environmental Disruptions and Human Response,”
in G. Bawden and R. M. Ryecraft, eds., Environmental Disaster
and the Archaeology of Human Response , pp. 11-20. University
of New Mexico Press.
Thomas Tartaron, Curtis Runnels, and Evaggelia Karimali, 1999, “Prolegomena
to the Study of Bronze Age Flaked Stone in Southern Epirus,”
In P. Betancourt, et al., eds., Meletemata. Studies in
Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His
65th Year (Aegaeum 20, Universite de Liege), 819-825.
Curtis Runnels, 1995, “The Stone Age of the Aegean from the
Palaeolithic to the Advent of the Neolithic,” American
Journal of Archaeology 99: 699-728.
Tjeerd H. van Andel and Curtis N. Runnels, 1995, “The earliest
farmers in Europe,” Antiquity 69: 481-500.
Curtis N. Runnels, 1995, “Environmental Degradation in Ancient
Greece,” Scientific American 272 (3): 96-99.
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