My research focuses on continuities and changes to Mediterranean trade networks following the Bronze Age Collapse, particularly examining how the movement of resources and technologies across these networks contributed to the ongoing success, decline, or abandonment of Postpalatial communities over the course of the LHIIIC period and the EIA.
My thesis focuses on sites located at strategic points within long-distance networks extending across the Western Peloponnese, the Corinthian Gulf, and Attica, evaluating how changing conditions affected settlement patterns and internal sociopolitical arrangements. This involves identifying imported materials, technologies, and aspects of visual culture such as vase-painting styles, and their chronological and geographic distributions in order to elucidate shifting networks of exchange contacts across this timespan.
I also examine the site-specific distribution of any imported goods or technologies to appraise the relationship between a community's socio-political institutions and access to externally-acquired resources. This latter aspect of my thesis has involved the application of anthropological theory including New Economic Sociology, Network Theory, and the politics of value, as well as the examination of a number of rescue excavation reports, unpublished material, and the re-examination of past scholarship on trade and imports in the so-called 'Dark Ages'.
My research interests more broadly include archaeological evidence of crisis response, collective memory, and long-distance trade in prehistoric communities.
