Professor Michael Franklin Lane
Associate Professor · Tenured
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
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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 practicesTeaching 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
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Ph D, Aegean Archaeology
— University of Sheffield (2004) Names and Numbers: An Inquiry into Scribal Practice at Late Bronze Age Pylos in the South-western Peloponnese
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Other, Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoeconomy
— University of Sheffield (1993) On the Structure of Social Space and the Development of Writing
- BA, Anthropology — Indiana University (1989)