University of California, Berkeley -- Nemea, Greece

Bringing the Past to the Present

        Kim S. Shelton

          (for more pictures, click on photo above) 

                                                                                                    

                                                                                 e-mail:sheltonk@calmail.berkeley.edu                                                                            

 

(1993-present) Field Director, Petsas House Excavations, Mycenae, Greece--Archaeological Society of Athens
(2002-2005) Lecturer in Classics, University of Texas at Austin

                Undergraduate courses: Classical Mythology, Greek Archaeology, Mycenaean Archaeology, Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, The Trojan War: history or myth?, Modern Greek and Archaeological Field School (Mycenae, Greece)

                Direction of Undergraduate Honors Thesis: Natasha Ayers (Archaeological Studies), “Mycenaean Figures and Figurines: their typology, use and meaning”

                Graduate conference course: Interrelations of Eastern Mediterranean Cultures in the Early Bronze Age; Advanced Modern Greek

                Dissertation committees: Joann Gulizio “Continuity and Discontinuity in Greek Religion from the Late Bronze Age to the Historical Period;” Anne Dehnisch “The Local Pottery Assemblage from Iron Age Tel Yin’am, Eastern Lower Galilee, Israel”

                                Departmental service: Archaeology Major, Art, Colloquia and Modern Greek committees  

 EDUCATION

 
(1987-1993) University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in Art & Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, 1993 ("The Late Helladic Pottery from Prosymna"); M.A. in Classical Archaeology, 1989 ("The Etruscan Mirrors of the University Museum")

               (1983-1987) University of Texas at Austin B.A. in Archaeological Studies, Classical and Middle Eastern, with Honors

 Books

(in progress) The Excavation of Petsas House, Mycenae 1950/1951: the figurines. (Archaeological Society)

(in progress)Well Built Mycenae. The Helleno-British Excavations within the Citadel of Mycenae, 1959-1969. Fascicule 14: Tsountas House. (Oxbow Books)

The Late Helladic Pottery from Prosymna (Paul Astrom Forlag, 1996).

 Chapters and Articles

“Early Palatial Mycenae” with E.B. French in Autochthon. Papers presented to O.T.P.K. Dickinson on the Occasion of his Retirement. British Archaeological Reports International Series. (in press)

“The figurines from Petsas House and other find-spots at Mycenae,” Cultic Space and Mycenaean Figurines, Acta of the Swedish Institute at Athens. (Forthcoming).

“Accidental Tourist or In Search of the Past: The significance of Iron Age finds in Bronze Age Tombs,” Lighten our Darkness: Cultural Transformations at the Beginning of the 1^st Millennium BC - From the Alps to Anatolia. (Forthcoming).

“A Rare Beast Indeed: The pictorial pottery from chamber tombs at Mycenae,” and “A note on a recent find and join,” Pictorial Pursuits: Figurative Painting on Mycenaean and Geometric Pottery, Acta of the Swedish Institute at Athens. 2005.

 “Early Modern Pottery” in The Asea Valley Survey. A valley in Arcadia from the Paleolithic period until modern times. 2004.

 “Chamber Tombs” and “Geology of the Area,” The Mycenae Atlas. Archaeological Society of Athens, 2003.

 “T. 164. Sherds from the Dromos,” an appendix to Nikolas Papadimitriou, “T. 164 – an Early LH Built Chamber Tomb from Argos,” Annual of the British School at Athens 96 (2001) 76-78.

“Four Chamber Tomb Cemeteries at Mycenae,” Arcaiologikhv Efemerhvß (2000) 27-64.

“Tsountas' Chamber Tombs at Mycenae,” Arcaiologikhv Efemerhvß (1993) 187-210.

 Review

K. Branigan, (ed.). Cemetery and society in the Aegean Bronze Age. Co-authored with E.B. French,  Mortality, vol. 4, no. 1 (1999) 91-92.

 Current Projects

“A new Linear B tablet from Petsas House, Mycenae,” Minos.

“FS 267 – the LH III carinated kylix and its typology” with J. Verstrate

Final editing and layout of Well Built Mycenae. Fascicule on small stone objects, S. Diamant and K. Petruso.

 (July2004/July-August 2003/July-August 2002/August-September 2001/July-August 2000) Archaeologist/Field

                Director, Archaeological Society of Athens on-going Excavation of Petsas House, Mycenae, Greece.

(May-October 1999) Archaeologist/Collection Management - Mycenae Museum. Inventory and registration of British School of Archaeology at Athens and Archaeological Society of Athens excavation material.

(May-June 1997, 1998) Archaeologist/Pottery Specialist – Asea Valley Survey, Tegea, Arkadia. Study of Early Modern pottery for publication. J. and B. Forsen, dirs.

(August 1995, 1996) Pylos Regional Archaeological Project (PRAP), Chora, Messinia. Study of Early Modern pottery for publication. J. Davis, J. Bennett, C. Shelmerdine, dirs.

(August 1994-January 1995) Archaeologist/Collection Management – Nauplion Museum Storerooms (Leonardo). Inventory, computer data entry and preparation for transfer of Archaeological Society of Athens excavation material to Mycenae Museum.

(May-Aug 1994) Mycenae, Archaeological Site Storeroom. Inventory, computer data entry and preparation for transfer of Archaeological Society of Athens excavation material to Mycenae Museum.

(Summer 1991-1995) Archaeologist - Archaeological Society of Athens and British School of Archaeology at Athens, Survey and mapping project, Mycenae, Greece. Dr. Spyros Iakovidis and Dr. Elizabeth French, dirs. Team supervisor, contributor to the publication, editorial assistant

(Summer 1990) Archaeological Society of Athens Excavation at Gla, Greece. Dr. Spyros Iakovidis, Director
                Trench supervisor
(Summer 1989) Archaeological Society of Athens Excavation at Mycenae, Greece. Dr. Spyros Iakovidis, Director

                Trench supervisor

(Summer 1986) Archaeology in Annapolis, Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Mark Leone, Director

                Field excavator and assistant to field lab director

 (2005) Texas Exes Excellence in Teaching Award for professors in the College of Liberal Arts

(2002, 2003, 2004, 2005) Institute for Aegean Prehistory Excavation Grant

(2000-2003) Institute for Aegean Prehistory Mycenae Fellow

(1996-2001) Mediterranean Archaeological Trust. Grant for the study and publication of material from Tsountas House and for finds management at Mycenae Museum

(1992-1993) University Fellowship (University of Pennsylvania)

(1990‑91, 1991‑92) Colburn Fellowship for study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens(University of Pennsylvania)

(1990‑91) The Anna C. and Oliver C. Colburn Fellowship (Archaeological Institute of America)

(1988‑1992) Graduate Group in Classical Archaeology Departmental Fellowship (University of Pennsylvania)