Britt Hartenberger
Instructor
Education
Ph.D., Archaeology, Boston University, 2003
Research interests
Prehistoric economies and technology,
rise of social complexity, craft specialization, organization of production,
household studies
Regional focus: Near East
Bio
Britt Hartenberger's research has included
excavation and lithics and ceramics analysis at sites in Cyprus, Greece, Syria,
and Turkey. In 1998 she joined the Titris Höyük archaeological project
in Turkey, where a workshop for the production of specialized flint blades
was discovered. The analysis of this find and intra-site comparisons between
specialist and nonspecialist lithic production formed the basis of her dissertation.
Over the last several years of field research, she has been the lithics analyst
at sites in southeastern Turkey ranging in date from the Neolithic through
the Iron Age. Her future research plans include comparing craft production
and specialization between different industries and studying socioeconomic
differentiation in early urban sites.
