Professor Michael Franklin Lane

Professor Michael Franklin Lane

Associate Professor · Tenured

Department of Ancient Studies

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

He/Him/His/Himself

About

B.A. in Anthropology (Indiana), M.Sc. in Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoeconomy and Ph.D. in Archaeology (Sheffield). Professional experience in sustainable development NGOs and cultural resource management.

Research interests

Late Bronze Age Linear B epigraphy and philology, LBA scribal practice and geographical imagination, LBA agricultural strategies, LBA ideological and religious practices

Teaching interests

Aegean archaeology (Neolithic-Classical), archaeological theories of the emergence and devolution of complex societies, economic archaeology, environmental archaeology, Ancient Greek, including Mycenaean Greek (Linear B)

Education

  • Ph D, Aegean ArchaeologyUniversity of Sheffield (2004)
    Names and Numbers: An Inquiry into Scribal Practice at Late Bronze Age Pylos in the South-western Peloponnese
  • Other, Environmental Archaeology and PalaeoeconomyUniversity of Sheffield (1993)
    On the Structure of Social Space and the Development of Writing
  • BA, AnthropologyIndiana University (1989)