Dr. Galaty's background:
Michael Galaty received his Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison in 1998. His interests include the archaeology of Europe, the Balkans in particular, regional analysis, and ceramic studies. His dissertation research—which addressed ceramic manufacture and consumption in the Mycenaean state of Pylos—was conducted in Greece with the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project and was published as Nestor's Wine Cups (British Archaeological Reports #766, 1999). In 2000, Galaty edited Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces (UCLA), a volume of papers regarding the organization and evolution of Mycenaean state systems. Currently, he directs two research projects, both involving Millsaps students. The Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project operates in central Albania. An international team of archaeologists is surveying the hinterland of a Greek colony, Apollonia, which was founded in the territory of the Illyrians in 588 BC. Galaty also directs archaeological investigations at the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship , a circa 1000-acre property located in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia. Each year the Millsaps College archaeological field school is held at the Blue Ridge Center. Excavations are being conducted at the multi-component “Mountain View” parcel, site of a 19th-century home and Archaic Indian camp. Mike is also producing a documentary film on the travels of Rose Wilder Lane (daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House books) in northern Albania in the 1920s. |
Dr. Galaty's recent publications:
Monographs
1999 Nestor's Wine Cups: Investigating Ceramic Manufacture and Exchange in a Late Bronze Age "Mycenaean" State. British Archaeological Reports International Series #766. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.
Edited Volumes
in prep Archaeology Under Dictatorship. With C. Watkinson. For Routledge's series “Critical Perspectives on Identity, Memory and the Built Environment,” edited by H. Silverman.
1999 Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces: New Interpretations of an Old Idea. With William A. Parkinson. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series #41. Los Angeles: University of California.
Review: T. Palaima, The London Times Higher Education Supplement, June 9, 2000: 31.
Review: J. Rutter, American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 105(2): 345.
Articles
in prep A review article on “European Settlement Studies,” commissioned by the Journal of Archaeological Research, edited by G. Feinman and T.D. Price.
in prep The Practice of Archaeology Under Dictatorship. For Archaeology Under Dictatorship, to be published in Routledge's series “Critical Perspectives on Identity, Memory and the Built Environment,” edited by H. Silverman. With C. Watkinson.
in prep The Paleolithic and Mesolithic of Albania: the Results of Survey and Excavation at the Site of Kryegjata B (Mallakastra District). For the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology. With L. Bejko, J. Davis, M. Korkuti, S. Muçaj, C. Runnels, S. Stocker, M. Timpson, and J. Whittaker.
in prep Finding People in Potsherds: Ceramic Archaeology and the Search for Identity in Mycenaean Greece. For Power, Economy, and Identity, edited by T. Thurston. University of Pennsylvania Press.
in prep A Petrographic Analysis of Middle Woodland Ceramics from the Cork Site,
Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. For the Cobb Institute of Archaeology (Mississippi State University) and the Mississippi Department of Transportation.
in press Excavation of a Hellenistic Farmhouse in the Vicinity of Apollonia. For the proceedings of the Quatrième Colloque International sur l'Illyrie Mériondale et l'Epire dans l'Antiquité, Grenoble, France, October 10-12, 2002. With S. Muçaj, S. Stocker, M. Timpson, and J. Davis.
2002 Chapter Seven. Modeling the Formation and Evolution of an Illyrian Tribal System:
Ethnographic and Archaeological Analogs. The Archaeology of Tribal Societies, edited by W. Parkinson. International Monographs in Prehistory, Archaeological Series #15, Ann Arbor, MI, 109-122.
2002 Point-Counting, Petrography, and Context: Analysis of Ceramics from a Middle Woodland Site in Eastern Mississippi. La Tinaja: A Newsletter of Archaeological Ceramics, Volume 14(1): 2-6. With J. Rafferty.
2002 Bridging the Great Divide. Anthropology News. Volume 43(7): 14. With R. Wright.
2001 The Southeastern European Bronze Age. The Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 4: Europe, edited by P. Peregrine and M. Ember, 351-355. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press.
2000 The Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project: First Season, 1998. Iliria: Journal of the Albanian Institute of Archaeology 1998, 1-2: 246-265. (In English and Albanian.) With J. Davis, M. Korkuti, L. Bejko, S. Muçaj, and S. Stocker.
2000 A Wedding in Albania. Millsaps Magazine. Summer 2000, Issue 8: 20-25.
1999 Beyond Bunkers: Dominance, Resistance, and Change in an Albanian Regional Landscape. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology. Volume 12(2): 197-214. With S. Stocker and C. Watkinson.
1999 Wealth Ceramics, Staple Ceramics: Pots and the Mycenaean Palaces. Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces: New Interpretations of an Old Idea edited by M.L. Galaty and W.A. Parkinson, 49-59. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series #41.
1999 Putting Mycenaean Palaces in Their Place: An Introduction. With W. Parkinson. Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces: New Interpretations of an Old Idea edited by M.L. Galaty and W.A. Parkinson, 1-8. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series #41.
1999 Apollonia and Its Hinterland: Archaeology in Albania. Cobb Institute of Archaeology Newsletter Volume 9(2): 2.
1999 ‘Booknote' review of H. Maguire, ed. Materials Analysis of Byzantine Pottery. American Journal of Archaeology. Volume 103(2): 388-389.
1999 Archaeology in the ‘Land of the Eagle.' The Glyph: Journal of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego Society. Volume 1(16): 10-11. |
