Karl M. Petruso
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Professor of Anthropology
Dean, Honors College
EDUCATION:
• Ph.D. 1978 Indiana University, Classical Archaeology
• M.A. 1975 Indiana University, Classical Archaeology
• A.B. 1971 Villanova University, Classical Languages
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr. Petruso specializes in Mediterranean archaeology, more specifically the economic prehistory of the Aegean. He has published extensively on the weight metrology of Minoan and Mycenaean Greece and its ramifications for our understanding of the mechanics of ancient trade, the economic relationships among the polities of the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean, and the evolution of mathematics and technology in antiquity. His secondary interest is in ancient ships and seafaring. He has excavated underwater in the Aegean, and has participated in, directed and done research at archaeological sites in Greece, Egypt, Portugal and Cyprus. In 1992 he organized the first American archaeological project ever permitted in Albania, in a cave that preserved evidence of human occupation in the paleolithic, mesolithic and neolithic periods.
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES:
• ANTH 2339 Principles of Archaeology
• ANTH 3358 Survey of Old World Prehistory
• ANTH 3370 Archaeology of the Prehistoric Aegean
• ANTH 3371 Archaeology of Greece
• ANTH 3372 Archaeology of the Near East
• ANTH 3373 Archaeology of Egypt
GRADUATE COURSES:
• ANTH 5317: Archaeology of Exploration, Travel and Trade
• ANTH 5330 Archaeological Method and Theory
• ANTH 5330 Topics/Problems in Old World Archaeology
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
• 1992. Keos, Vol. VIII. Ayia Irini: The Balance Weights (Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern).
Representative Articles and Chapters:
• In press. "Archaeology and 'Discoveries' Sites." In David Buisseret, ed., The Oxford Companion to Exploration
• 2006. "Deconstructing Faculty Doors." Academe 92:1, pp. 38-41
• 2006. Review: Age of Bronze: Sacrifice, by Eric Shanower. Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2006-01-04)
• 2003. "Quantal Analysis of Some Mycenaean Balance Weights." METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age. Proceedings of the IXth International Aegean Conference, Yale University, 18-21 April 2002. Aegaeum, vol. 24 (Liege, 2003), pp. 285-293
• 1999. "The Palaeolithic of Southernmost Albania," in G.N. Bailey et al., eds., The Palaeolithic Archaeology of Greece and Adjacent Areas (Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Palaeolithic Archaeology of Greece and Adjacent Areas). British School at Athens Studies, no. 3, pp. 361-372 (co-authored)
• 1996. "Konispol Cave: Preliminary Report on the Excavations 1992-1994," Iliria 26, pp. 183-224 (co-authored)
• 1994. "Radiocarbon and Archaeomagnetic Dates from Konispol Cave, Albania," Antiquity 68:259, pp. 335-339 (co-authored)
• 1993. "Archaeology in Albania," American Journal of Archaeology 97, pp. 703-743 (co-authored)
• 1986. "Wool Evaluation at Knossos and Nuzi," Kadmos 25 (1986), pp.26-37
• 1985. "Additive Progression in Prehistoric Mathematics: A Conjecture." Historia Mathematica 12:2 pp. 101-106
• 1984. "Prolegomena to Late Cypriot Weight Metrology," American Journal of Archaeology 88, pp. 293-304
• 1980. "Reflections on Cycladic and Minoan Metrology and Trade." Chapter 10 in J. Davis and J. Cherry, eds., Papers in Cycladic Prehistory. UCLA Monographs in Classical Archaeology no. 14, pp. 135-42
