Trade Models in the Study of Agricultural Origins and Dispersals

Authors

trade, agriculture,

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Curtis Runnels, Boston University

Curtis Runnels is Assistant Professor of Archaeology at Boston University. He received his PhD in 1981 from Indiana University and taught at Stanford University from 1981 to 1987. His main research interests involve prehistoric Greece. He has excavated at Franchthi Cave and Halieis. Since 1979 he has been Associate Director of the Stanford University Archaeological and Environmental Survey of the Southern Argolid. Two books have resulted from this research: Beyond the Acropolis: A Rural Greek Past (Stanford, Stanford University Press 1987, with Tjeerd van Andel), and A Greek Countryside: The Southern Argolid from Prehistory to the Present Day (Stanford, Stanford University Press, in press, with Michael Jameson and Tjeerd van Andel). In 1987 he directed a paleolithic survey of Thessaly and is currently surveying the Berbati-Limmes area in the Peloponnese with members of the Swedish Archaeological Institute.