John Bennet (archaeologist)

John Bennet (born June 4, 1957 in Singapore ) is a British classical archaeologist and mycenaeologist .

Life

Bennet studied Classics at Cambridge University and graduated with a First Class Honors BA. Since 1983 he was Junior Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College and in 1986 was just there with a thesis on the administrative organization of Minoan Crete (II-IIIB) based on archaeological evidence material and Linear B texts for Ph.D. PhD in Classics. He then taught from 1986 to 1998 at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , most recently as a professor. From 1998 to 2003 he was Sinclair & Rachel Hood Lecturer in Aegean Prehistory at Oxford University and since 2004 Professor of Aegean Archeology at Sheffield University . On October 1, 2015, he will take over the position of Director of the British School at Athens . Visiting professorships led him to the University of Cincinnati as a Margo Tytus Fellow in 2001 and to the University of Gothenburg in 2009 .

Research priorities

Bennet works on the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures in the context of the Aegean Bronze Age , on the archeology and history of Crete, on Linear B texts as an early writing and administrative system, on the diachronic investigation of regions and on Greece under Ottoman rule . The connection between archaeological material and texts is a central concern of his methodology. He has carried out field research in Crete ( Knossos , surroundings of Phaistos ; surroundings of Chania ), on the Peloponnese ( Pylos and surroundings) and the islands of Keos and Kythera .

Fonts (selection)

• with Y. Galanakis, TC Wilkinson: ΑΘΥΡΜΑΤΑ. Critical Essays on the Archeology of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honor of E. Susan Sherratt. Archaeopress, Oxford 2014.
• with T. Wilkinson, S. Sherratt: Interweaving Worlds. Systemic Interactions in Eurasia, 7th to 1st Millennia BC. Oxbow Book, Oxford 2011.
• with J. Baines, SD Houston (Ed.): The Disappearance of Writing Systems. Perspectives on Literacy and Communication. Equinox, London 2008.
• with Fariba Zarinebaf, Jack L. Davis: A historical and economic geography of Ottoman Greece. The southwestern Morea in the 18th century. American School of Classical Studies, Princeton, NJ 2005 (Hesperia Supplement 34), abstract .
• with JM Driessen (Ed.): A-NA-QO-TA: Studies Presented to JT Killen . University of Salamanca Press, Salamanca (= Minos 33-34 [1998-1999]).
• with Yves Duhoux , Thomas G. Palaima (eds.): Problems in decipherment. Peeters, Louvain-la-Neuve 1989 (Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l'Institut de linguistique de Louvain, 49).

Web links

• Literature by and about John Bennet in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• University of Sheffield: Personal Page (with picture and list of scriptures)
• Democritus University of Thrace , Department of History and Ethnology: Curriculum vitae (with list of publications)
• Academia.edu : Personal page