Ttc - Documentary - Classical Archaeology Of Ancient Greece And Rome (Guidebook).pdf

Classical Archaeology of
Ancient Greece and Rome
Part I: Creating a Science of the Past

Professor John R. Hale

















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John R. Hale, .
Director of Liberal Studies, University of Louisville

John R. Hale, Director of Liberal Studies at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, is an archaeologist with
fieldwork experience in England, Scandinavia, Portugal, Greece, and Turkey, as well as in the Ohio River valley. At
the University of Louisville, Dr. Hale teaches introductory courses on archaeology, as well as more specialized
courses on the Bronze Age, the ancient Greeks, the Roman world, Celtic cultures, Vikings, and on nautical and
underwater archaeology. He has received awards for distinguished teaching, including the Panhellenic Teacher of
the Year Award and the Delphi Center Award. He has toured the United States and Canada as a lecturer for the
Archaeological Institute of America and has presented lecture series at museums and universities in Finland, South
Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
Archaeology has been the focus of Dr. Hale’s academic career from his . studies at Yale University to his
doctoral research at Cambridge University in England, where he received his . degree. The subject of his
dissertation was the Bronze Age ancestry of the Viking longship, a study that involved field surveys of ship designs
in prehistoric rock art in southern Norway and Sweden. During more than 30 years of archaeological work, Dr. Hale
has excavated at a Romano-British town in Lincolnshire and a Roman villa in Portugal and carried out
interdisciplinary studies of ancient oracle sites in Greece and Turkey, including the famous Delphic Oracle.
Currently, he is participating in an undersea search in Greek waters for lost fleets from the time of the Persian Wars.
In addition, Dr. Hale is a member of a scientific team seeking to develop and refine a method for da