In our 100th blog, we continue our Halloween themed content with a post by Dr. Creighton Avery, an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. Here, she delves into her research on the lives of adolescents in the Roman Empire, which she approaches through a bioarchaeological lens.
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Blog Post #99: (After)Lives: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Identification at Corinth with Hannah Lee
In this week’s blog, we continue our Halloween themed content with a blog post by Hannah Lee, a doctoral candidate in Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Here, she delves into her osteological work on the Corinth ‘Hero’ and reflects on the Greek practice of hero worship.
Blog Post #98: Cultural Finger Amputation with Brea McCauley
In this week’s blog post, we interview Brea McCauley, a Ph.D. candidate at Simon Fraser University, who details the practice of cultural finger amputation through numerous human societies throughout history around the globe.
Blog Post #97: Graduate Student Feature with Adrian Talotti Proestos
In this week’s blog post, we interview Adrian Talotti Proestos, a Ph.D. candidate at McMaster University, who takes us through his research which uses network analysis to trace interactions between Oenotrian communities in southern Italy.
Blog Post #96: Graduate Student Feature with Benjamin Winnick
In this week’s blog post, we interview Benjamin Winnick, a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of British Columbia. Ben takes as through his innovative research on ethnicity and ethnogenesis in ancient Greece, combining ancient texts and network theory.
Blog Post #95: Graduate Student Feature with Elizabeth Keyser
In this week’s blog post, we interview Elizabeth Keyser, a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, who guides us through a reassessment of popular and elite religious practices in the Mycenaean Late Bronze Age on mainland Greece.
Blog #94: Reconstructing Space, Place, and Power in Late Bronze Age Cyprus with Kevin Fisher
In this week’s blog we interview Dr. Kevin Fisher of UBC on his recently published monograph, “Monumentality, Place-making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus”, exploring the complex ways in which urban environments and monumental space shape human societies.
Blog #93: Piecing Together the Life of Phryne with Melissa Funke
In this week’s blog PtP member Dr. Melissa Funke discusses her newly published book, which uncovers the life of a famous upscale sex worker, alongside considering the real lives of sex workers in the ancient Greek world.
Podcast Season 3, Episode 11: Beyond the Battlefield: Women and Warfare in the Ancient Greek World with Elizabeth D. Carney
In this instalment of the Peopling the Past Podcast, we are joined by Dr. Elizabeth D. Carney is Professor of History and Carol K. Brown Scholar in the Humanities, Emerita, at Clemson University. Read along, as Dr. Carney tells us all about her research on the nature of ancient warfare in Macedonia, and the ways in which women, both elite and non-elite, participated in and experienced these conflicts.
Blog #92: The Libyans with Matthew McCarty
In the latest instalment of our Unknown Peoples Series, Matthew McCarty (University of British Columbia) takes us through his research on the ‘Libyans’, the indigenous peoples of the Maghreb — that is, the vast territory stretching across North Africa from modern western Libya, through Tunisia and Algeria, to the Atlantic coast of Morocco, and from the northern Sahara to the Mediterranean coast.
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