Dr. David Stone

Assistant Professor of Classics

Research and Teaching Specializations

• Roman archaeology
• Landscape archaeology
• North Africa
• Mortuary landscapes
• Roman economy

Background

David Stone (Ph.D., Michigan) specializes in Roman Archaeology. A desire to illuminate the lives of the inhabitants of the ancient countryside and the provinces of the Roman empire guides his scholarship. The University of Toronto Press published Mortuary Landscapes of North Africa, a volume he co-edited with Lea Stirling, in 2007. David has an extensive background in archaeological fieldwork; he has worked in Greece, Italy, Egypt and Israel, and for the last fifteen years has co-directed the Leptiminus Archaeological Project, an interdisciplinary research program investigating the town of Leptiminus (modern Lamta, Tunisia). He joined the Department in the Fall of 2003.

Major Archaeological Activities in Progress

• Director of the Chianti Region Interdisciplinary Survey Project.
• Co-director of the Leptiminus Archaeological Project.

Recent Publications and Lectures

• Mortuary Landscapes of North Africa. Phoenix Supplementary Series 43, ed. by David Stone and Lea Stirling, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
• Leptiminus (Lamta): a Roman Port City in Tunisia. The Field Survey. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series, ed. by David Stone, David Mattingly, and Nejib Ben Lazreg (in press)
• Africa Proconsularis: Culture and Imperialism in the Granary of Rome. David Stone (in prep)

• “Coloni and the Imperial Cult in the Countryside of Sitifis.” (2008) In L’Africa Romana: Atti del XVII Convegno. Carocci Press. Rome. 2165–2178
• “Burial, Identity, and Local Culture in North Africa.” (2007) In P. Van Dommelen and N. Terrenato (eds.), Articulating Local Cultures: Power and Identity Under the Expanding Roman Republic. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 63. 126–144
• “Pylos Regional Archaeological Project. Part VII: Historical Messenia, Geometric to Late Roman.” (2005) S. Alcock, A. Berlin, A. Harrison, S. Heath, N. Spencer, and D. Stone, Hesperia 74.2: 147–209.

Recent Courses

• The Ancient Economy
• Archaeology of the Late Roman Empire
• Art and Archaeology of Italy
• Great Discoveries in Archaeology
• Pompeii
• Roman Imperialism