Curtis N Runnels
Biographic Data
| ID | 227171 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Curtis N Runnels |
| GIVEN NAMES | Curtis N |
| FAMILY NAME | Runnels |
| SIGNATURE | RUNNELS C N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 206 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Flaked Stone Tools and Domestic Economy in a Classical Polis
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 91, Number 2, April-June 2022
Stone Age Seafaring in the Mediterranean
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 79, Number 2, April-June 2010
Warfare in Neolithic Thessaly
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 78, Number 2, April-June 2009
Harold North Fowler and the Beginnings of American Study Tours in Greece
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 76, Number 3, July-September 2007
Karstic Wetland Dwellers of Middle Palaeolithic Epirus, Greece
The coastal zone of western Greece from the Ambracian Gulf to the Albanian border is the, foreland of the great Pindos range. It is a complicated, actively rising landscape of limestone mountains and closed intra-montane basins. Archaeologically, this karst landscape is distinguished by numerous Middle Palaeolithic open-air sites embedded in the red sediments of the basins. In contrast,further inland, the river valleys of the western flank of the…
The Early Stone Age of the Nomos of Preveza
Curtis N. Runnels, Tjeerd H. van Andel, The Early Stone Age of the Nomos of Preveza: Landscape and Settlement, Hesperia Supplements, Vol. 32, Landscape Archaeology in Southern Epirus, Greece 1 (2003), pp. 47-134
Early Upper Palaeolithic Spilaion
Curtis N. Runnels, Evangelia Karimali, Brenda Cullen, Early Upper Palaeolithic Spilaion: An Artifact-Rich Surface Site, Hesperia Supplements, Vol. 32, Landscape Archaeology in Southern Epirus, Greece 1 (2003), pp. 135-156
A Greek Countryside
The earliest farmers in Europe
Some 9000 years ago the first European farmers established themselves in the empty plains of Thessaly, the only region in Greece that provided a reasonably assured harvest and was large enough for significant population growth. They flourished there and after more than a thousand years spread to the Balkans and beyond. The recognition that their success may have depended on the natural irrigation of river and lake floodplains leads us to a modifi…
From the Study of Its Past, Optimism about Archaeology's Future A History of Archaeological Thought. Bruce G. Trigger
An essay on the 'emergence of civilization' in the Aegean world
The fascicules of the final report on Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, the key Aegean sequence for the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, are starting to appear, along with the publications of the Stanford survey of the region. Here, those reports prompt a wider review of existing explanations for the emergence of Greek social complexity, and the identifying of a new and major impetus as the basis for a revised model
The Evolution of Settlement in the Southern Argolid, Greece
Curtis N. Runnels, Tjeerd H. van Andel, The Evolution of Settlement in the Southern Argolid, Greece: An Economic Explanation, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 56, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1987), pp. 303-334
The Olive in the Prehistoric Aegean
In 1972 Colin Renfrew suggested that the rise of Mycenaean civilization may have been made possible by the development of a polycultural triad of wheat, vine and olive in the Early Bronze Age. A careful examination of the botanical and archaeological evidence for the domestication of the olive lends little support to this aspect of the thesis. The palynological evidence from various points in Greece is inconclusive, but for most areas it would se…
Five Thousands Years of Land Use and Abuse in the Southern Argolid, Greece
Tjeerd H. van Andel, Curtis N. Runnels, Kevin O. Pope, Five Thousands Years of Land Use and Abuse in the Southern Argolid, Greece, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 103-128
Coastal Paleogeography of the Central and Western Mediterranean during the Last 125,000 Years and Its Archaeological Implications
In this paper we present paleogeographic maps of the central and western Mediterranean for 18,000 B.P. at the height of the last glacial maximum, and for 9,000 B.P. near the end of the rapid phase of the postglacial rise of the sea. Sea-level data for the past 125,000 years indicate that, in addition, the 18,000 B.P. map reasonably represents preceding cold stadials, while the 9,000 B.P. map depicts the configuration of intervening warm periods. …
Flaked-Stone Artifacts in Greece during the Historical Period
The evidence for historical flaked-stone artifacts in Greece is summarized. In recent years a number of such artifacts have been recognized in stratified deposits of the early Iron Age, the Protogeometric, Geometric, and Classical periods. Historical flaked-stone artifacts were probably used for making agricultural tools and were low-cost substitutes for metal. The evidence indicates that an ancient Greco-Roman flaking tradition may bridge the ga…
The earliest farmers in Europe
Some 9000 years ago the first European farmers established themselves in the empty plains of Thessaly, the only region in Greece that provided a reasonably assured harvest and was large enough for significant population growth. They flourished there and after more than a thousand years spread to the Balkans and beyond. The recognition that their success may have depended on the natural irrigation of river and lake floodplains leads us to a modifi…
Five Thousands Years of Land Use and Abuse in the Southern Argolid, Greece
Tjeerd H. van Andel, Curtis N. Runnels, Kevin O. Pope, Five Thousands Years of Land Use and Abuse in the Southern Argolid, Greece, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 103-128
Stone Age Seafaring in the Mediterranean
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 79, Number 2, April-June 2010
The Evolution of Settlement in the Southern Argolid, Greece
Curtis N. Runnels, Tjeerd H. van Andel, The Evolution of Settlement in the Southern Argolid, Greece: An Economic Explanation, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 56, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1987), pp. 303-334
Karstic Wetland Dwellers of Middle Palaeolithic Epirus, Greece
The coastal zone of western Greece from the Ambracian Gulf to the Albanian border is the, foreland of the great Pindos range. It is a complicated, actively rising landscape of limestone mountains and closed intra-montane basins. Archaeologically, this karst landscape is distinguished by numerous Middle Palaeolithic open-air sites embedded in the red sediments of the basins. In contrast,further inland, the river valleys of the western flank of the…
The Olive in the Prehistoric Aegean
In 1972 Colin Renfrew suggested that the rise of Mycenaean civilization may have been made possible by the development of a polycultural triad of wheat, vine and olive in the Early Bronze Age. A careful examination of the botanical and archaeological evidence for the domestication of the olive lends little support to this aspect of the thesis. The palynological evidence from various points in Greece is inconclusive, but for most areas it would se…
An essay on the 'emergence of civilization' in the Aegean world
The fascicules of the final report on Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, the key Aegean sequence for the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, are starting to appear, along with the publications of the Stanford survey of the region. Here, those reports prompt a wider review of existing explanations for the emergence of Greek social complexity, and the identifying of a new and major impetus as the basis for a revised model
Early Upper Palaeolithic Spilaion
Curtis N. Runnels, Evangelia Karimali, Brenda Cullen, Early Upper Palaeolithic Spilaion: An Artifact-Rich Surface Site, Hesperia Supplements, Vol. 32, Landscape Archaeology in Southern Epirus, Greece 1 (2003), pp. 135-156
Coastal Paleogeography of the Central and Western Mediterranean during the Last 125,000 Years and Its Archaeological Implications
In this paper we present paleogeographic maps of the central and western Mediterranean for 18,000 B.P. at the height of the last glacial maximum, and for 9,000 B.P. near the end of the rapid phase of the postglacial rise of the sea. Sea-level data for the past 125,000 years indicate that, in addition, the 18,000 B.P. map reasonably represents preceding cold stadials, while the 9,000 B.P. map depicts the configuration of intervening warm periods. …
Warfare in Neolithic Thessaly
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 78, Number 2, April-June 2009
Flaked-Stone Artifacts in Greece during the Historical Period
The evidence for historical flaked-stone artifacts in Greece is summarized. In recent years a number of such artifacts have been recognized in stratified deposits of the early Iron Age, the Protogeometric, Geometric, and Classical periods. Historical flaked-stone artifacts were probably used for making agricultural tools and were low-cost substitutes for metal. The evidence indicates that an ancient Greco-Roman flaking tradition may bridge the ga…
Harold North Fowler and the Beginnings of American Study Tours in Greece
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 76, Number 3, July-September 2007
Flaked-Stone Artifacts in Greece during the Historical Period
The evidence for historical flaked-stone artifacts in Greece is summarized. In recent years a number of such artifacts have been recognized in stratified deposits of the early Iron Age, the Protogeometric, Geometric, and Classical periods. Historical flaked-stone artifacts were probably used for making agricultural tools and were low-cost substitutes for metal. The evidence indicates that an ancient Greco-Roman flaking tradition may bridge the ga…
Coastal Paleogeography of the Central and Western Mediterranean during the Last 125,000 Years and Its Archaeological Implications
In this paper we present paleogeographic maps of the central and western Mediterranean for 18,000 B.P. at the height of the last glacial maximum, and for 9,000 B.P. near the end of the rapid phase of the postglacial rise of the sea. Sea-level data for the past 125,000 years indicate that, in addition, the 18,000 B.P. map reasonably represents preceding cold stadials, while the 9,000 B.P. map depicts the configuration of intervening warm periods. …
The Olive in the Prehistoric Aegean
In 1972 Colin Renfrew suggested that the rise of Mycenaean civilization may have been made possible by the development of a polycultural triad of wheat, vine and olive in the Early Bronze Age. A careful examination of the botanical and archaeological evidence for the domestication of the olive lends little support to this aspect of the thesis. The palynological evidence from various points in Greece is inconclusive, but for most areas it would se…
Five Thousands Years of Land Use and Abuse in the Southern Argolid, Greece
Tjeerd H. van Andel, Curtis N. Runnels, Kevin O. Pope, Five Thousands Years of Land Use and Abuse in the Southern Argolid, Greece, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 103-128
The Evolution of Settlement in the Southern Argolid, Greece
Curtis N. Runnels, Tjeerd H. van Andel, The Evolution of Settlement in the Southern Argolid, Greece: An Economic Explanation, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 56, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1987), pp. 303-334
An essay on the 'emergence of civilization' in the Aegean world
The fascicules of the final report on Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, the key Aegean sequence for the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, are starting to appear, along with the publications of the Stanford survey of the region. Here, those reports prompt a wider review of existing explanations for the emergence of Greek social complexity, and the identifying of a new and major impetus as the basis for a revised model
From the Study of Its Past, Optimism about Archaeology's Future A History of Archaeological Thought. Bruce G. Trigger
The earliest farmers in Europe
Some 9000 years ago the first European farmers established themselves in the empty plains of Thessaly, the only region in Greece that provided a reasonably assured harvest and was large enough for significant population growth. They flourished there and after more than a thousand years spread to the Balkans and beyond. The recognition that their success may have depended on the natural irrigation of river and lake floodplains leads us to a modifi…
A Greek Countryside
The Early Stone Age of the Nomos of Preveza
Curtis N. Runnels, Tjeerd H. van Andel, The Early Stone Age of the Nomos of Preveza: Landscape and Settlement, Hesperia Supplements, Vol. 32, Landscape Archaeology in Southern Epirus, Greece 1 (2003), pp. 47-134
Early Upper Palaeolithic Spilaion
Curtis N. Runnels, Evangelia Karimali, Brenda Cullen, Early Upper Palaeolithic Spilaion: An Artifact-Rich Surface Site, Hesperia Supplements, Vol. 32, Landscape Archaeology in Southern Epirus, Greece 1 (2003), pp. 135-156
Karstic Wetland Dwellers of Middle Palaeolithic Epirus, Greece
The coastal zone of western Greece from the Ambracian Gulf to the Albanian border is the, foreland of the great Pindos range. It is a complicated, actively rising landscape of limestone mountains and closed intra-montane basins. Archaeologically, this karst landscape is distinguished by numerous Middle Palaeolithic open-air sites embedded in the red sediments of the basins. In contrast,further inland, the river valleys of the western flank of the…
Harold North Fowler and the Beginnings of American Study Tours in Greece
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 76, Number 3, July-September 2007
Warfare in Neolithic Thessaly
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 78, Number 2, April-June 2009
Stone Age Seafaring in the Mediterranean
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 79, Number 2, April-June 2010
Flaked Stone Tools and Domestic Economy in a Classical Polis
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 91, Number 2, April-June 2022
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