51ĀŅĀ×

Ruth Palmer

Ruth Palmer, portrait
Associate Professor
Ellis 244

51ĀŅĀ× faculty member since 1995.

Education

Ph.D., University of Cincinnati (1989)

Specializations

  • Greek, Roman and Egyptian Archaeology
  • Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age Economy
  • Linear B and other Aegean Scripts
  • Food Studies for the Ancient Mediterranean

Courses Taught

  • CARS 2000 The Wonders of the Ancient Mediterranean
  • CARS 2010 Greek Archaeology
  • CARS 2020 Roman Archaeology
  • CARS 2030 Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
  • CARS 2040 Egyptian Archaeology
  • CARS 2170 Food, Drink, and Identity in the Ancient World
  • CARS 3420 Women in the Ancient Mediterranean

Research and Publications

Paper: ā€œAgrimia in the Knossos Tablets,ā€ in Aegean Scripts. Proceedings of the 14th Mycenological Colloquium, Copenhagen 2-5 September 2015, M.-L. Nosch and H. Landenius Enegren (eds), Ingunabula Graeca Vol. CV, 1, Roma 2017, 391-416.

Paper: ā€œManaging the Wild: Deer and Agrimia in the Late Bronze Age Aegean,ā€ in PHYSIS: L’environnement naturel et la relation homme-milieu dans le monde Ć©gĆ©en protohistorique, Touchais, Gilles, Robert Laffineur, and FranƧoise Rougemont, eds. Aegaeum 37, 2014, 391-399.

Paper: ā€œDeer in the Linear B Tablets.ā€ in Ɖtudes mycĆ©niennes 2010: Carlier, Pierre, Charles de Lamberterie, Markus Egetmeyer, Nicole Guilleux, FranƧoise Rougemont, and Julien Zurbach, eds. Pasiphae 10, 2012, 357-382.

Encyclopedia article: ā€˜Redistribution’ in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, R. Bagnall (ed.) Wiley-Blackwell 2013. 1500 words.

Encyclopedia articles: ā€œAgriculture, Greek,ā€ (1220 words); ā€œAnimal Husbandry,ā€ (1000 words), Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, 2010.

Paper: ā€œWheat and Barley in Mycenaean Society: 15 years later,ā€ in Colloquium Romanum II, L. Godart – A. Sacconi (eds), Pasiphae 2, Rome 2008, 621-639.

Chapter 2, ā€œHow to Begin: an Introduction to Linear B Conventions and Resources,ā€ in A Companion to Linear B.  Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World, Y. Duhoux and A. Morpurgo Davies (eds), Peeters, Louvain 2008, 25-68.

Paper: ā€œModels in Linear B Landholding: an Analysis of Methodologyā€, in J. Bennet and J. Driessen (eds.), A-NA-QO-TA Studies presented to J. T. Killen,Minos 33-34 (1998-1999), Salamanca 2002, 223-250.

Paper: ā€œWine in Bronze Age Crete: the Textual Evidence,ā€ 95-104, in A. K. Mylopotamikaki (ed.) Oinos palaios hedupotos: to kretiko krasi apo ta proistorika os ta neotera khronia, Hypourgeio politismou archaeiologiko institouto Kretes 2002.

Paper: ā€œTrade in Wine, Perfumed Oils and Foodstuffs: The Linear B Evidence and Beyond,ā€ 125-138, in V. Karageorghis and Ch. Stamatakis (eds.) Sea Routes: Interconnections in the Mediterranean 16th-6th c. BC. Proceedings of the International Symposium, Rethymnon, Crete Sept. 29-Oct. 2, 2002.

Article: ā€œFrau: 1. Minoische und Mykenische Kultur,ā€ Der Neue Pauly, Band 12/2. Verlag J. B. Metzler: Stuttgart.

Chapter 2: ā€œBridging the Gap: the Continuity of Greek Agriculture from the Mycenaean to the Historical Periodā€, in Prehistory and History:Class, Ethnicity and Political Economy, David Tandy (ed.), Critical Perspectives on Historic Issues: 10, Black Rose Books, 2001, 41-84.

Paper: ā€œPerishable Goods in Mycenaean Textsā€, Floreant Studia Mycenaea. Proceedings of the 10th International Colloquium on Mycenaean and Aegean Texts, S. Deger-Jalkotzy and G. Nightingale (eds.). Salzburg, 1999, 463-485.

Appendices A and B on Bronze Age and Iron Age Aegean and Cypriote burials with horses, in L. Edmunds, ā€œThe Horse and the Maiden.ā€ Dec. 20, 1999.

Chapter: ā€œThe Terracotta Disks from Alambra, Cyprusā€, in J. E. Coleman et al.,Alambra. A Middle Bronze Age Settlement in Cyprus. SIMA CXVIII, 1996, 218-233.

Paper: ā€œLinear A Commodities: a Comparison of Resourcesā€ in Politeia, R. Laffineur and W-D. Niemeier (eds.), Aegaeum 12 (1995), Liege, 133-154.

Chapter 17: ā€œWine and Viticulture in the Linear A and B Texts of the Bronze Age Aegeanā€ in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Origins and Ancient History of Wine Gordon and Breach 1995, pp. 269-286.

Book: Wine in the Mycenaean Palace Economy, Aegaeum 10 (1994), Liege.

Paper: ā€œWheat and Barley in Mycenaean Society,ā€ Mykenaika. 9th International Colloquium on Mycenaean and Aegean Texts, Athens, Greece, Oct. 2-6 1990; J.-P. Olivier (ed.) BCH Supplement XXV, 1992, pp. 473-495.

Response to V. Aravantinos ā€œThe Inscribed Sealings from Thebes,ā€ in T. G. Palaima (ed.), Aegean Seals, Sealings and Administration, Aegaeum 5, Liege 1990, pp. 168-170.

Article: ā€œSubsistence Rations at Pylos and Knossos,ā€ Minos 24 (1989), pp. 89-124.