CURRICULUM VITAE: JOHN BENNET 1 EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION 1980 BA 1st Class Hons, Classics, University of Cambridge, UK 1986 PhD Classics, University of Cambridge, UK EMPLOYMENT 2004 Professor of Aegean Archaeology, University of Sheffield, UK 1998-2003 Sinclair & Rachel Hood Lecturer in Aegean Prehistory, University of Oxford 1995-98 Professor of Classics, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA 1991-95 Associate Professor of Classics, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA 1987-91 Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA 1986-87 Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA 1983-86 Junior Research Fellow, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, UK VISITING APPOINTMENTS: 2009 Guest Professor, Göteborg University, Sweden 2001 Margo Tytus Fellow, University of Cincinnati, USA 2 TEACHING Current: First Year: AAP 108 World Civilisation; AAP110 The Classical World & its Legacy; AAP111 Discoverers and Discoveries Second Year: AAP200 Thinking Through Archaeology; 220 Archaeology & Texts Third Year: AAP323 The Aegean in the Late Bronze Age Masters Level: AAP6073 Current Issues in Aegean Prehistory; AAP6074 Mediterranean Landscapes; AAP6075 Europe 8000-800 BC; AAP6079 Linear B & Mycenaean Greek; AAP6081: Rethinking the Ancient Economy; AAP6102 History, Heritage & Identity; AAP6119 Homeric Epics & the Archaeological Record; AAP641 Research Design: Planning, Execution & Presentation Supervision Masters dissertations: MA Aegean Archaeology Previous: University of Oxford: Tutorials in Archaeology & Anthropology, Aegean Prehistory; Lectures in Aegean Prehistory, Linear B University of Wisconsin Madison: Lecture classes in Greek Archaeology, Roman Archaeology, Western Culture: Literature & the Arts; Language classes in Ancient Greek, Latin; Post-Graduate Seminars in Minoan Crete, Linear B Latin 104, 203: Elementary and Intermediate Latin 3 ADMINISTRATION 2004 Director, Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology 2006-10 Head of Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield (ex officio member of Faculty Executive Board, Faculty of Arts & Humanities) 2008 Selection Panel, cross-cutting Pro-Vice Chancellor posts in Teaching and Learning; External Affairs; Research and Innovation; Selection Panel, Director of Faculty Operations, Faculty of Arts and Humanities 2004-5 First Year Tutor & Examinations Officer, Department of Archaeology 4 PROFESSIONAL AND EXTERNAL STANDING 1
Marett Memorial Lecture, Exeter College, Oxford [previous lecturers include: Dorothy Garrod, EE Evans-Pritchard, Mortimer Wheeler, and Frederik Barth] (2004) External PhD examiner: Universities of Birmingham, Cambridge, Oxford, London (UK); Amsterdam-VU, Florence, Göteborg, Paris X-Nanterre, Trinity College, Dublin, Uppsala (Europe) UK Representative Comité International Permanent des Études Mycéniennes (2010-) Council member, British School at Athens (2010-14); member, Knossos and Crete Sub- Committee (2011-14) Editorial / Advisory Boards: Cambridge Classical Journal; MINOS: Revista de Filología Egea y del Epos Arcaico; Oxford Monographs in Classical Archaeology; Oxford Journal of Archaeology; Aegean Archaeology; Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology; American Journal of Archaeology (1994-98) Publication reviewer: (books) Austrian Science Fund (FWF); Wiley-Blackwell Publishers; EJ Brill; Cambridge Classical Journal; Cambridge University Press; INSTAP Press; Oxford University Press; Oxbow Books; Routledge; (journals) Aegean Archaeology; American Journal of Archaeology; Annual of the British School at Athens; Antiquity; Archaeometry; Cambridge Archaeological Journal; Classical Antiquity; European Journal of Archaeology; Hesperia; Journal of Archaeological Research; Journal of Archaeological Method & Theory; Journal of Field Archaeology; Journal of Hellenic Studies; Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology; Journal of Social Archaeology; Oxford Journal of Archaeology; World Archaeology Research proposal reviewer: Academy of Finland (2013; 2006); Université Catholique de Louvain (2012); SSHRC, Canada (2011); Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden; Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (2010); Austrian Academy of Sciences (2006); and following organisations: HRC; AHRB; Leverhulme Trust; National Geographic; National Endowment for the Humanities (US); National Science Foundation (US); McArthur Foundation (US) Co-organiser London Mycenaean Seminar [Seminar began in 1954 following the decipherment of Linear B by Michael Ventris] (2003-2013) Trustee, Mediterranean Archaeological Trust (2000-) 5 RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS My research crosses the boundaries between archaeological fieldwork and the interpretation and study of texts. I have participated in and directed archaeological fieldwork in various regions of Greece, including Knossos. Most recently, I carried out geophysical survey in the Gypsades vicinity of Knossos. Since the mid-1980s, I have developed methodologies with which to combine archaeological and textual data in ways that go beyond simply matching textual references to the material world, leading to widely-accepted reconstructions of the organisation and history of the Late Bronze Age polities of Knossos and Pylos. Through multi-period regional studies fieldwork in various parts of Greece and my interest in combining archaeology and text, I developed research in later historical periods, including the Ottoman period in Messenia and the Venetian on the island of Kythera. I also maintain a research interest in the origins and development of writing and administrative systems, coediting volumes on that and related topics. Related research relates to the nature and meaning of objects in the Greek Bronze Age and the way in which iconography, oral performance and physical presence combine to present power in Late Bronze Age Pylos. PUBLICATIONS Co-author of 1 book; co-editor of 4. Author / co-author of c. 55 refereed chapters, articles and conference papers (7 more in press). Books - in Print J T. Wilkinson, S. Sherratt and J. Bennet (eds) 2011. Interweaving Worlds: Systemic Interactions in Eurasia, 7th to 1st Millennia BC. Oxford: Oxbow Books. [308 pp.] J J. Baines, J. Bennet and S.D. Houston (eds) 2008. The Disappearance of Writing Systems Perspectives on Literacy and Communication. London: Equinox. [384 pp.] 2
J F. Zarinebaf, J. Bennet and J.L. Davis. 2005. A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the Early 18th Century. Hesperia Supplement 34. Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens. [328 pp.] P J. Bennet and J.M. Driessen (eds) 2002. A-NA-QO-TA: Studies Presented to J.T. Killen (= Minos 33 34 [1998-1999]). Salamanca: University of Salamanca Press. [375 pp.] J Y. Duhoux, T.G. Palaima and J. Bennet (eds) 1989. Problems in Decipherment (Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l Institut de Linquistique de Louvain, 49). Peeters: Louvain-la-Neuve. [216 pp.] Chapters in Print J. Bennet. 2012. Bronze Age Greece. In P. Bang & W. Scheidel (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press) 235-58. J. Bennet. 2011. The Geography of the Mycenaean Kingdoms. In Y. Duhoux & A. Morpurgo Davies (eds), A Companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World, vol. 2. Peeters: Leuven, 137-68. J C.W. Shelmerdine and J. Bennet. 2008. Mycenaean States: A. Economy & Administration. In C.W. Shelmerdine (ed), Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. New York: Cambridge University Press, 289-309. J. Bennet. 2008. Now you see it; now you don t! : the disappearance of the Linear A script on Crete. In J. Baines, S. Houston, & J. Bennet (eds), The Disappearance of Writing Systems (London: Equinox) 1-29. J. Bennet. 2007a. The Aegean Bronze Age. In I. Morris, R. Saller and W. Scheidel (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 175-210. J. Bennet. 2007b. Representations of Power in Mycenaean Pylos: Script, Orality, Iconography. In F. Lang, C. Reinholdt & J. Weilhartner (eds), ΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΣ ΑΡΙΣΤΕΙΟΣ. Archäologische Forschungen zwischen Nil und Istros. Festschrift für Stefan Hiller zum 65. Geburtstag (Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences) 11-22. J J.L. Davis and J. Bennet. 2007c. Preface to the Second Edition. In J.L. Davis (ed.), Sandy Pylos: An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino (Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies in Athens) xix-xxxiii. J. Bennet. 2007d. The Linear B Archives and the Organization of the Kingdom of Nestor. In J.L. Davis (ed.), Sandy Pylos: An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino (Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies in Athens) 111-33 [repr. of Bennet 1998b] J. Bennet. 2007e. Focus The PRAP Survey s Contribution. In J.L. Davis (ed.), Sandy Pylos: An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino (Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies in Athens) 134-8. [repr. of Bennet 1998c] J. Bennet. 2007f. Pylos: the Expansion of a Mycenaean Palatial Center. In M.L. Galaty and W. Parkinson (eds), Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II: Revised and Expanded Second Edition. Monograph 60. (Los Angeles, CA: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology) 29-39. [repr. of Bennet 1999] J.Bennet. 2005a. Τα αρχεία µε πινακίδες Γραµµικής Β και το Βασίλειο του Νέστορα. In J.L. Davis (ed.), Πύλος η Αµµουδερή (Athens: Papadimas) 143-63. [translation of Bennet 1998b] J. Bennet. 2005b. Η συµβολή των επιφανειακών ερεύνων του PRAP. In J.L. Davis (ed.), Πύλος η Αµµουδερή (Athens: Papadimas) 164-68. [translation of Bennet 1998c] P J. Bennet and I. Galanakis. 2005. Parallels and Contrasts: Early Mycenaean Mortuary Traditions in Messenia and Lakonia. In A. Dakouri-Hild and E.S. Sherratt (eds), Autochthon. Papers Presented to O.T.P.K. Dickinson on the Occasion of his Retirement. British Archaeological Reports, International Series - 1432. (Oxford: Tempus Reparatum) 144-55. P J. Bennet, L.V. Watrous and D. Hadzi-Vallianou. 2004. The Field Survey. In L.V. Watrous, D. Hadzi-Vallianou and H. Blitzer, eds, The Plain of Phaistos: Cycles of Social Complexity in 3
J P the Mesara Region of Crete. Monumenta Archaeologica 23. (Los Angeles, CA: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology) 3-17 C. Broodbank, J. Bennet and J.L. Davis. 2004. Aphrodite Observed: Insularity and antiquities on Kythera through outsiders eyes. In J.F. Cherry, C. Gamble and S. Shennan (eds), Explaining Social Change: studies in honour of Colin Renfrew (Cambridge: McDonald Institute) 227-39. J. Bennet. 2004. The Aegean 2000 1000 BC. Map spread in J. Onians (ed.), Atlas of World Art (London: Lawrence King 2004) 32-33 J. Bennet. 2002a. RE-U-KO-TO-RO ZA-WE-TE: Leuktron as a secondary capital in the Pylos kingdom? In J. Bennet & J. Driessen (eds), A-NA-QO-TA: Studies Presented to J.T. Killen (Salamanca: University of Salamanca Press) 11-30. J. Bennet. 2002b. Millennial Ambiguities. In Y. Hamilakis (ed.), Labyrinth Revisited: Rethinking Minoan Archaeology (Oxford: Oxbow Books) 214-25. J. Bennet. 2000a. Creta. In R.J.A. Talbert (ed.), Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Princeton, NJ: American Philological Association Princeton University Press) Map 60. J. Bennet. 2000b. Introduction; Directory. In R.J.A. Talbert (ed.), Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: Map-By-Map Directory, Vol. II (Princeton, NJ: American Philological Association Princeton University Press) 919-36. J. Bennet. 2000c. Linear A and B. In D. Huxley (ed.), Cretan quests: British explorers, excavators and historians (London: British School at Athens) 129-37. J.Bennet. 1999. Pylos: the Expansion of a Mycenaean Palatial Center. In M.L. Galaty and W. Parkinson (eds), Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces: New Interpretations of an Old Idea. Monumenta Archaeologica 41. (Los Angeles, CA: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology) 9-18. J. Bennet. 1998a. Minoan Civilization. In S. Hornblower & A.J. Spawforth (eds), The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, ed. by (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 469-72. [repr. of Bennet 1996b] J. Bennet. 1998b. The Linear B Archives and the Organization of the Kingdom of Nestor. In J.L. Davis, ed., Sandy Pylos: An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press) 111 33. J. Bennet. 1998c. Focus The PRAP Survey s Contribution. In J.L. Davis, ed., Sandy Pylos: An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press) 134 38. J. Bennet. 1996a. Homer and the Bronze Age. In B.B. Powell and I. Morris (eds), A New Companion to Homer (Leiden: E.J. Brill) 513-36. J. Bennet. 1996b. Minoan Civilization. In S. Hornblower & A.J. Spawforth (eds), The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 985-7. J. Bennet. 1996c. Bronze Age Pottery Marks from Kommos. In J.W. Shaw & M.C. Shaw, eds, Kommos I.2 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press) 313-21. J. Bennet. 1996d. Linear B Texts from the Bronze Age Aegean. In A.B. Knapp, ed., Sources for the History of Cyprus Volume II: Near Eastern and Aegean Texts from the Third to the First Millennia BC (Albany, NY: Institute of Cypriot Studies, SUNY Albany) 51 58 J. Bennet and S Voutsaki. 1991. Synopsis and Analysis of Early Travellers Accounts of Keos (to 1821). [with S. Voutsaki.] In J.F. Cherry, J.L. Davis and E. Mantzourani (eds), Landscape Archaeology as Long-Term History: Northern Keos in the Cycladic Islands (Monumenta Archaeologica 16). (Los Angeles: UCLA Institute of Archaeology) 365 82 J. Bennet. 1988. Outside in the Distance : Problems in Understanding the Economic Geography of Mycenaean Palatial Territories. In J.-P. Olivier and T.G. Palaima (eds), Texts, Tablets and Scribes: Problems in Mycenaean Epigraphy and Economy (Salamanca: University of Salamanca Press) 19-41. J. Bennet. 1987. The Wild Country East of Dikte: The Problem of East Crete in the LM III Period. In J.T. Killen, J.L. Melena and J.-P. Olivier (eds), Studies in Mycenaean and Classical Greek Presented to John Chadwick (Salamanca: University of Salmanca Press) 77-88. 4
Chapters in Press J. Bennet. 2013. Minoan Crete: a world of objects, a world of places. In Galanakis, Y. (ed.). The Aegean World. A Companion Guide to the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean Collections in the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Oxford / Athens: Ashmolean Museum / Kapon Editions 102-117. J J. Bennet and P. Halstead. in press. O-no! Writing and Righting Redistribution. In D. Nakassis, J. Gulizio & S.A. James (eds), Ke-ra-me-ja: Studies Presented to Cynthia Shelmerdine. Philadelphia, PA: INSTAP Academic Press. J. Bennet. in press. Linear B and Homer. In Y. Duhoux & A. Morpurgo Davies (eds), A Companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World, vol. 3. Peeters: Leuven. J. Bennet. in press. Οι επαρχίες της Μεθώνης και του Ναυαρίνου [transl. K Sklaveniti]. In O. Katsiardi-Hering (ed.), [Publication of Collection of Venetian Maps in Austrian War Archives]. Athens: Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece. J. Bennet. in press. Geography. In J.T. Killen & A. Morpurgo Davies (eds), Documents in Mycenaean Greek, 3rd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Refereed Journals - in Print J. Bennet. 2012. Crete (Prehistoric to Roman). Archaeological Reports 58: 58-74. J. Bennet. 2011. Crete (Prehistoric to Roman). Archaeological Reports 57: 63-72. P J. Bennet, J.L. Davis and F. Zarinebaf-Shahr. 2000. Pylos Regional Archaeology Project, Part III: Sir William Gell s Itinerary in the Pylia and Regional Landscapes in the Morea in the Second Ottoman Period. Hesperia 69: 343-80. P J. Bennet and M.L. Galaty. 1997. Ancient Greece: Recent Developments in Aegean Archaeology and Regional Studies. Journal of Archaeological Research 5: 75-120. J J.L. Davis, S.E. Alcock, J. Bennet, Y.G. Lolos and C.W. Shelmerdine. 1997. The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project. Part I: Overview and the Archaeological Survey. Hesperia 66: 391 494. J C.W. Shelmerdine and J. Bennet. 1995. Two New Linear B Documents from Bronze Age Pylos. Kadmos 34: 123-36. J. Bennet. 1994. Two New Pot Marks on Bronze Age Pottery from Kommos. Kadmos 33: 153-59. J. Bennet. 1993. Field Methods. In L.V. Watrous et al. A Survey of the Western Mesara Plain in Crete: Preliminary Report of the 1984, 1986, and 1987 Field Seasons, Hesperia 62: 191 248, 215-22. J. Bennet. 1990. Knossos in Context: Comparative Perspectives on the Linear B Administration of LM II III Crete. American Journal of Archaeology 94: 193-211. J. Bennet. 1985. The Structure of the Linear B Administration at Knossos. American Journal of Archaeology 89: 231-49. J J.A. MacGillivray and J. Bennet. 1982. A New Fragment of a Sheep Tablet from Knossos. Kadmos 21: 30-32. Refereed Conference Papers in Print/Press P J. Bennet and D. Harlan. In press. Academic Bilingualism: A Case Study in the Combination of textual and material data from post-medieval Kythera. To appear in J. Vroom & F. Kondyli (eds), Proceedings of the First Amsterdam Conference on Byzantine and Ottoman Archaeology in the Mediterranean. Amsterdam: Brepols. J. Bennet. In press. Palaces and Their Regions: Geographical Analysis of Territorial Exploitation in Late Bronze Age Crete and Greece. In J. Zurbach, F. Rougemont, P. Carlier (eds), Proceedings of ESF Exploratory Workshop on the Palatial Economy in the Ancient Near East and in the Aegean Paris, Sèvres, 17-18 Septembre 2010 (Rome: Biblioteca di Pasiphae) 5
P P P J. Bennet. 2008. Palace : speculations on palatial production in Mycenaean Greece with (some) reference to glass. in C. Jackson and E. Wager (eds), Vitreous Materials and Technology in the Bronze Age Aegean: a window on the East Mediterranean World (Oxford: Oxbow Books) 152-73. J. Bennet. 2007. Fragmentary Geo-metry: Approaching the Early Modern landscapes of the Morea and Cerigo through text, image and archaeology, in S. Davies and J.L. Davis (eds), Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece c.1500-1800 AD (Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies) 197-215. J. Bennet, E. Grammatikaki, A. Vasilakis and T. Whitelaw. 2007. The Knossos Urban Landscape Project 2005: Preliminary Results. In A. Sacconi, M. del Freo, L. Godart and M. Negri (eds), Colloquium Romanum: atti del XII colloquio internazionale di micenologia, Roma, 20-25 febbraio 2006 (Pisa / Rome: Fabrizio Serra) 103-9. J. Bennet. 2005. Response to E. Hallager, The uniformity in seal use and sealing practice during the LH/LMIII period, in A.L. D Agata and J.A. Moody (eds), Ariadne s Threads: connections between Crete and the Greek mainland in the post-palatial period (LMIIIA2 to SM) (Rome: Italian School at Athens) 269-74 J. Bennet. 2004. Iconographies of value: words, things and people in the Aegean Late Bronze Age. In J. Barrett and P. Halstead, eds, The Emergence of Civilisation Revisited (Oxford: Oxbow Books), 90-106 J. Bennet. 2001. Agency and Bureaucracy: Thoughts on the Nature & Extent of the Pylos Administration. In S. Voutsaki and J.T. Killen (eds), Economy and Politics in the Mycenaean Palace States. Cambridge Philological Society Suppl. Vol. 27 (Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society) 25 37 J. Bennet and C.W. Shelmerdine. 2001. Not the Palace of Nestor: the development of the Lower Town and other non-palatial settlements in LBA Messenia In K. Branigan, ed., Urbanism in the Aegean (Sheffield: Continuum) 135-40. J. Bennet. 1999. The Mycenaean Conceptualization of Space or Pylian Geography...Yet Again. In S. Deger-Jalkotzy, S. Hiller, O. Panagl (eds), Floreant Studia Mycenaea. Akten des 10. Mykenologischen Kolloquiums 1995, Salzburg (Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences) 131-57. J. Bennet and J.L. Davis. 1999. Making Mycenaeans: Warfare, Territorial Expansion, and Representations of the Other in the Pylian Kingdom. In R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Egée à l âge du Bronze. Aegaeum 19. (Liège: University of Liège) 105-20. J. Bennet. 1995. Space Through Time: Diachronic Perspectives on the Spatial Organization of the Pylian State. In W.-D. Niemeier and R. Laffineur (eds), POLITEIA. Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age. Aegaeum 12. (Liège: University of Liège) 587-602. J. Bennet. 1993. Collectors or Owners : Some Thoughts on their Likely Functions within the Palatial Economy of LM III Crete. In J.-P. Olivier (ed.), Mykenaïka. Actes du IX e colloque international sur les textes mycéniens et égéens organisé par le Centre de l Antiquité Grecque et Romaine de la Fondation Hellénique des Recherches Scientifiques et l École française d Athènes (Athènes, 2 6 Octobre 1990). (Paris: French School at Athens) 65-101. J. Bennet. 1988. Approaches to the Problem of Combining Linear B Textual Data and Archaeological Data in the Late Bronze Age Aegean. In E.B. French and K.A. Wardle (eds,), Problems in Greek Prehistory: Proceedings of the BSA Centenary Conference, Manchester, 14 18 April 1986 (Bristol: Bristol Classical Press) 509-18. J. Bennet. 1987. Knossos and LM III Crete: A Post-Palatial Palace? In R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds), The Function of the Minoan Palaces: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute in Athens, 11 16 June 1984 (Stockholm: Swedish Institute in Athens) 307-12. 6