Dr. Daniel Pullen

Professor of Classics
Department Chairman

Research and Teaching Specializations

• Prehistoric Aegean Archaeology, especially the Early Bronze Age
• Landscape Archaeology
• Complex Societies
• Greek Archaeology
• Egyptian and Near Eastern Archaeology

Background

Daniel J. Pullen (Ph.D., Indiana) specializes in prehistoric Aegean archaeology. He has received a university teaching award. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation. In addition to his field work, he has published papers on the emergence of agriculture and of writing in the Early Bronze Age. He currently co-directs SHARP: Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project, focusing on the Mycenaean harbor site of Korphos in the Corinthia that began in Summer 2007. He also is co-director of The Eastern Korinthia (Greece) Archaeological Survey and is studying the Early Bronze Age remains at Sardis, Turkey.

Research Projects in Progress

• Dynamics of craft specialization in Bronze Age Greece
• Publication of the prehistoric materials from the region of Sardis, Turkey

Recent Publications and Lectures

• The Early Bronze Age Village on Tsoungiza Hill, Ancient Nemea, Greece (Nemea Valley Archaeological Project 1). American School of Classical Studies in Athens (in press)
• Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age, edited by DJ Pullen, Oxbow Books (in press)
• Artifact and Assemblage: The Finds from A Regional Survey of the Southern Argolid, Greece, vol. 1: the Prehistoric and Early Iron Age Pottery and the Lithic Artifacts, ed. by Curtis Runnels, Daniel Pullen, and Susan H. Langdon, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995

• "The Early Bronze Age in Greece" in The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age, edited by C.W. Shelmerdine, CUP 2008, 19-46
• "Where's the Palace? The Absence of State Formation in the Late Bronze Age Corinthia" with T.F. Tartaron, in Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II, edited by M.L. Galaty and W.A. Parkinson, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 2007, 146-158
• "Variability in Early Helladic Settlement Patterns in the Northeast Peloponnesos: Survey versus Excavation Data," in The Aegean Early Bronze Age: New Evidence, International Conference, Athens, April 11th-14th 2008, edited by C.G. Doumas, A. Giannikouri & O. Kouka, in press.

• Korphos: Kalamianos: A Mycenaean Harbor on the Saronic Coast of the Corinthia, with T.F. Tartaron at Corinthia and the Northeast Peloponnese: Topography and History from Prehistory to the end of Antiquity, Loutraki Greece, March 2009
• Before the Palaces: Redistribution and Chiefdoms in Mainland Greece, AIA Philadelphia January 2009

Recent Courses

• Homosexuality in Antiquity
• History of the Ancient Near East

• Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
• Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age

• Mycenaean Architecture
• Political Economy in the Aegean Bronze Age