Ackland Art Museum (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Aegean Archaeology (Journal)
Aegean Archaeology, published semi-annually by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, is co-edited by Donald Haggis in the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The journal encourages contributions that concern the Aegean world – the cultures and societies that comprised the civilizations of the Aegean basin and its bordering regions, principally the Greek and Anatolian Aegean in the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Early Iron Age and Archaic periods.
Archaeological Field Projects (UNC and Duke)
Archaeology faculty members and graduate students at University of North Carolina and Duke, in departments of Classics, Art History, History, and Religious Studies are actively involved in fieldwork—archaeological surveys, excavations, and museum study, throughout the Mediterranean. Involvement in fieldwork is a regular feature and indeed an important component of both graduate and undergraduate training in classical archaeology and classics, providing a perspective on the topography and the material culture of the classical world not easily attained through coursework alone.
Cirriculum in Archaeology
The Curriculum in Archaeology offers an undergraduate major and a minor in archaeology. It also offers courses and fieldwork opportunities for students in many parts of the world, particularly in the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. Supporting the program are laboratories, computer facilities, and extensive archaeological collections which are maintained by the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, Department of Classics and Ackland Art Museum. The undergraduate degree in Archaeology focuses on the systematic study of the human past through its material remains, by means of the excavation, recovery, and interpretation of human artifacts and other associated materials. Historical, environmental, and comparative components enable the examination of different cultural systems through time and space, as well as the reconstruction of past lifeways, and the interpretation of ancient social, political, and economic systems. The geographic scope of the program includes the Americas, Europe and the Mediterranean, Egypt, and the Near East. The educational objective of the program is to provide students with a liberal arts education that draws on both the Social Sciences and the Humanities. It also effectively prepares students for graduate study in anthropological archaeology, Mediterranean archaeology, museology, and historical preservation; or careers in contract archaeology and cultural resource management. The Curriculum in Archaeology brings together faculty located in six units of the College of Arts and Sciences: Departments of Anthropology, Art, Classics, Religious Studies, the Curriculum in Women's Studies, and the Research Laboratories of Archaeology.
The Azoria Project
The Azoria Project is a case study of urbanization in the Mediterranean in the first millennium B.C., exploring the Early Iron Age and Archaic town of Azoria (ca. 1200-500 B.C.) on the island of Crete in the Greek Aegean. The goal is to examine changing dynamics of extra-island trade, crop and livestock processing, and local subsistence practices on this site, and to relate these changes to social processes involved in the formation of small-scale polities in the eastern Mediterranean during the first millennium B.C. The project is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Duke-UNC Consortium for Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology
The Duke-UNC Consortium for Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology represents collaboration between the institutions in order to enhance archaeology curricula and concentrations in the respective departments. The Consortium fosters an interdisciplinary dialogue on methods, theory, and practice in classical archaeology and material culture, providing students access to seminars, excavations, and other research opportunities, academic advising, and developing avenues for curricular and extra-curricular interaction.
Faculty Working Group on Early Mediterranean Societies
The IRSS Faculty Working Group on Early Mediterranean Societies brings together various disciplines to promote an integrated study of these societies through presentations by group members of their own research, discussion of common readings, and lectures by outside speakers. The focus of this group is cultural diffusion and societal interconnections, but any interdisciplinary subject falls within the group's purview. (Donald Haggis, Classics, 962-7640). The H.W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, the nation's oldest multidisciplinary social science university institute (founded in 1924), sponsors each semester a number of interdisciplinary working groups open to all interested UNC faculty; most groups also welcome graduate students. These groups meet regularly to discuss common research themes or methodological concerns and may develop common research proposals.
Hanes Art Center Visual Resources Library
The Department of Art's Visual Resources Library houses a teaching collection of more than 230,000 slides, 40,000 photographs, and a growing number of digital images. The facility also includes some 10,000 images of the Classics department archaeology collection. Undergraduates and graduate students are permitted to use collection materials for projects and course presentations. To learn more about the Visual Resources Library, please visit http://www.vrl.unc.edu/.
North Carolina (Triangle Area) Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America
The regional chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America offers an annual program of lectures and seminars—derived from the national chapter and local academic departments—bringing together local lay membership of the AIA with archaeology, classics, and ancient history faculty and students from University of North Carolina, Duke, and North Carolina State University.
Research Laboratories of Archaeology (UNC)
Founded in 1939, the Research Laboratories of Archaeology (RLA) was the first center for the study of North Carolina archaeology. Serving the interests of students, scholars, and the general public, it is currently one of the leading institutes for archaeological teaching and research in the South.
Nestor (Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory and Related areas)