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Bennet, John, 1957-


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    • Birth Date

        1957-06-04
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        • Organization: University of Sheffield
        • Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison
        • Organization: British School at Athens
    • Birth Place

        Singapore
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    • found: Watrous, Livingston Vance. The plain of Phaistos, 2004:ECIP t.p. (John Bennet)
    • found: Historical and economic geography of Ottoman Greece, 2005:CIP data sheet (John Bennet; b. June 4, 1957)
    • found: Archaeology and Homeric Epic, 2016:ECIP t.p. (edited by John Bennet) data view (John Bennet is Professor of Aegean Archaeology, Univ. of Sheffield, UK)
    • found: Univ. of Sheffield website, viewed Sept. 1, 2016:under Department of Archaeology (John Bennet was born in Singapore and grew up in the UK, in Yorkshire. He read Classics at Cambridge, where he also completed his PhD on the administrative organization of Late Minoan II-IIIB Crete based on archaeological and textual (Linear B) evidence and held a Junior Research Fellowship. From 1986 to 1998 he taught in the Department of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before taking up the Sinclair & Rachel Hood Lecturership in Aegean Prehistory at Oxford. In 2004 he was appointed to his current chair at the University of Sheffield, where he also directs the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology. From 1 October 2015, John will be based in Greece as Director of the British School at Athens. Publications: Books: Y. Galanakis, T.C. Wilkinson and J. Bennet (eds) 2014. ΑΘΥΡΜΑΤΑ: Critical Essays on the Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honour of E. Susan Sherratt. Oxford: Archaeopress. T. Wilkinson, S. Sherratt and J. Bennet (eds) 2011. Interweaving Worlds: Systemic Interactions in Eurasia, 7th to 1st Millennia BC. Oxford: Oxbow Books. J. Baines, J. Bennet and S.D. Houston (eds) 2008. The Disappearance of Writing Systems Perspectives on Literacy and Communication. London: Equinox. F. Zarinebaf, J. Bennet and J.L. Davis. 2005. A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the Early 18th Century. Hesperia Supplement 34. Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens. J. Bennet and J.M. Driessen (eds) 2002. A-NA-QO-TA: Studies Presented to J.T. Killen (= Minos 33-34 [1998-1999]). Salamanca: University of Salamanca Press)
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    • 2004-12-07: new
    • 2016-09-01: revised
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