Prof. Kim Shelton
"Prehistory and Protohistory in Nemea and Southern Corinthia"
Professor Shelton will be joining our Stanford AIA Chapter on Friday,December 5 at 8:00pm, Packard Building, Room 101
Reception to follow.
Lecture is free and open to the public.
Kim Shelton is the Director of the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology in the Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley. She is responsible for the present/future excavation and research program at the Pan-Hellenic Sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea. Kim previously taught for the University of Texas Classics department (2002-2005) and for nine years before that she was in a research position at the archaeological site of Mycenae, Greece. Her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology is from the University of Pennsylvania. Kim works on Aegean Bronze Age archaeology in general and Mycenaean pottery more specifically. She is working on a number of projects stemming from her work at Mycenae including the publication of Tsountas House, the earliest part of the Cult Centre and of Petsas House, a ceramic warehouse and domestic complex in the settlement currently under excavation.
For more information on Professor Shelton:
Professor Shelton's University site, Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley