Carl Knappett
Title: Walter Graham / Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory
Associate Professor
Degrees and Institutions from which they were received:
MA, Archaeology, St John’s College, University of Cambridge
PhD, Archaeology, St John’s College, University of Cambridge
Areas of Academic Interest:
Aegean Bronze Age political economies and geopolitics; Minoanisation in the Cyclades, Dodecanese and Asia Minor; Minoan pottery, particularly from the Middle and early Late Bronze Age; the Minoan harbour site of Palaikastro (site co-director); ceramic fabrics and technologies; material culture studies, including approaches drawing on cognitive science, ecological psychology and Peircean semiotics; regional interaction and social network analysis
Current Research:
Completing monographs on ‘An Archaeology of Interaction: Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society’ for Oxford University Press; ‘Block M at Palaikastro: The Proto- and Neopalatial Town. Excavations 1986-2003’, with Tim Cunningham, for British School at Athens Supplementary Volumes; and ‘From First to Second Palace at Knossos: an integrated ceramic and architectural study of Evans’s MM III deposits from the Palace of Minos’, with Colin Macdonald and Iro Mathioudaki, for British School at Athens Studies series.
Teaching:
FAH2017 Art and Archaeology of the Everyday
FAH 206 Prehistoric Aegean and East
Mediterranean Art and Archaeology
FAH 303 Emergence of Greek Civilization
Recent Publications (selected):
Books
Knappett, C. 2005. Thinking Through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Poursat, J-C., and C. Knappett, 2005. Le Quartier Mu IV. La Poterie du Minoen Moyen II: Production et Utilisation. Paris: Etudes Crétoises 33.
Macdonald, C.F.,
and C. Knappett, 2007. Knossos:
Protopalatial deposits in Early Magazine A and the South-west Houses. London: British School at Athens
Supplementary Volume no. 41.
Knappett. C. and L. Malafouris (eds.), 2008. Material Agency: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach. New York: Springer.
Articles
Knappett, C., Evans, T. and R. Rivers, 2008. ‘Modelling maritime interaction in the Aegean Bronze Age’, Antiquity. 82, 1009-24.
Knappett, C. and I. Nikolakopoulou, 2008. ‘Colonialism without colonies? A Bronze Age case study from Akrotiri, Thera,’ Hesperia 77, 1-42.
Knappett, C. 2008. ‘The material culture of Protopalatial Crete’, in C. Shelmerdine (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. Cambridge: CUP.
Knappett, C. 2007. ‘Materials with materiality? Response to Ingold ‘Materials against materiality’, Archaeological Dialogues 14(1), 20-23.
Knappett, C. and V. Kilikoglou, 2007. ‘Pottery fabrics and technology’, in J.N. Postgate and D. Thomas (eds.), Excavations at Kilise Tepe 1994-98: From Bronze Age to Byzantine in western Cilicia, 241-72. (Cambridge: McDonald Institute, BIAA Monograph No. 30).
Knappett, C. 2006. ‘Beyond skin: layering and networking in art and archaeology’, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 16(2), 239-251.
Knappett, C., Kilikoglou, V., Steele, V. and B. Stern, 2005. ‘The circulation and consumption of Red Lustrous Wheel-made ware: petrographic, chemical and residue analysis,’ Anatolian Studies 55, 25-59.
Knappett, C. 2004. ‘The affordances of things: a post-Gibsonian perspective on the relationality of mind and matter,’ in E. DeMarrais, C. Gosden & C. Renfrew (eds.), Rethinking Materiality: The Engagement of Mind with the Material World, 43-51. (Cambridge: McDonald Institute Monographs).
Professional Appointments/Awards:
Junior Research Fellow, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge (1998-2003)
Leverhulme Study Abroad Studentship (1999-2000)
Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Exeter (2003-2008)
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (2006-)