The Near East and Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze and Iron Ages
Assyriology
Trade and Intercultural Relations
Nautical Archaeology
Publications
selected publications listing
2011 "Trade, Ancient Near East," in R. Bagnall et al., eds. Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History. In press.
2011 “From Luxuries to Anxieties: A Liminal View of the Late Bronze Age World-system.” In press for T. Wilkinson, S. Sherratt and J. Bennet, eds., Interweaving Worlds: Systemic interaction in Eurasia 7th to 1st millennia BC (Sheffield).
2010 "Sunk Costs at Late Bronze Age Uluburun," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 357:15-29.
2009 Scales of Fate:Trade, Tradition, and Transformation in the Eastern Mediterranean ca. 1350–1175 BCE. In series, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 357 (Münster: Ugarit-Verlag).
2009 "Seeing the World," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 356:67-73.
2007 “Vessel Volumetrics and the Myth of the Cyclopean Bronze Age Ship.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 50:1-18.
2005 “Money and Trade.” In D. Snell, ed., Blackwell Companion to the Ancient Near East, pp. 154-68. Oxford: Blackwell.