Curtis Runnels

Professor of Archaeology

EDITOR, JOURNAL OF FIELD ARCHAEOLOGY
FELLOW, SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON

Office: Room 345E
(617) 358-1647
runnels@bu.edu

PhD, Indiana University, 1981
Areas of interest: Prehistoric archaeology of the Aegean, lithic technology.

Excavations & Field Work
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).

Teaching Awards
The Frank and Lynne Wisneski Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Arts and Sciences, 2003
Archaeological Institute of America Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1997.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Katerina Harvati, Eleni Panagopoulou, and Curtis Runnels, 2009, “The Paleoanthropology of Greece,” Evolutionary Anthropology 18: 131-143.

Curtis Runnels, Claire Payne, Noam Rifkind, Chantel White, Nicholas Wolff, and Steven LeBlanc, 2009, “Warfare in Neolithic Thessaly: A Case Study” Hesperia 78: 165-194.

Curtis Runnels, 2009, “Mesolithic Sites and Surveys in Greece: A Case Study from the Southern Argolid,” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 22: 57-73.

Curtis Runnels, 2008, “George Finlay’s Contributions to the Discovery of the Stone Age in Greece” Annual of the British School at Athens 103: 9-25.

Priscilla Murray and Curtis Runnels, 2007 “Harold North Fowler and the Beginnings of American Study Tours in Greece, “ Hesperia 76: 597-626.

van Andel, Tj. H., and Curtis N. Runnels, 2005, “Karstic Wetland Dwellers of Middle Palaeolithic Epirus, Greece,” Journal of Field Archaeology 30: 367-384.

Curtis Runnels, Eleni Panagopoulou, Priscilla Murray, Georgia Tsartsidou, Susan Allen, Kevin Mullen and Evangelos Tourloukis, 2005, “A Mesolithic Landscape in Greece: Testing a Site-Location Model in the Argolid at Kandia,” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 18: 259-285.

Curtis Runnels, Muzafer Korkuti, Michael L. Galaty, Michael E. Timpson, John C. Whittaker, Sharon R. Stocker, Jack L. Davis, Lorenc Bejko, and Skënder Muçaj, 2004, “The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Albania: Survey and Excavation at the Site of Kryegjata B (Fier District),” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 17: 3-29.