Professor Michael Franklin Lane
Associate Professor · Tenured
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
He/Him/His/Himself
About
B.A. in Anthropology (Indiana), M.Sc. in Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoeconomy and Ph.D. in Archaeology (Sheffield). Professional experience in sustainable development NGOs and cultural resource management.
Research interests
Late Bronze Age Linear B epigraphy and philology, LBA scribal practice and geographical imagination, LBA agricultural strategies, LBA ideological and religious practices
Teaching interests
Aegean archaeology (Neolithic-Classical), archaeological theories of the emergence and devolution of complex societies, economic archaeology, environmental archaeology, Ancient Greek, including Mycenaean Greek (Linear B)
Education
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Ph D, Aegean Archaeology
— University of Sheffield (2004) Names and Numbers: An Inquiry into Scribal Practice at Late Bronze Age Pylos in the South-western Peloponnese
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Other, Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoeconomy
— University of Sheffield (1993) On the Structure of Social Space and the Development of Writing
- BA, Anthropology — Indiana University (1989)
Publications
- The Ins and Outs of the Great Megaron: Symbol, Performance, and Elite Identities around and between Mycenaean Palaces 2016
- Archaeological geophysics of a Bronze Age agricultural landscape: the AROURA Project, Central Mainland Greece 2016
Presentations
- Mycenaean Northeastern Kopais (MYNEKO) 2016: Report of the First Year's Excavations at Aghia Marina Pyrghos, Aghios Ioannis (Aghios Gheorghios), and in the Plain Around Glas 2017
Grants and Contracts
- AROURA 2014: Summer Session of Preliminary Analyses 2014
Courses Taught
- Topics in Archaeology: Archaeological Methods and Techniques
- Topics in Archaeology: Archaeology of the Greek City-State
- Ancient Civilizations