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Britt Hartenberger
Ph.D. 2003 Boston University |
Visiting Assistant Professor Archaeology 1025 Moore Hall (269) 387-3974 Web site |
Research interests: Prehistoric economies and technology, rise of social complexity, craft specialization, organization of production, household studies
Regional focus: Near East
Selected publications: Hartenberger, B. 2002. "Organization of Flint Sickle Blade Production at an Early Bronze Age Workshop in Anatolia" in P.B. Vandiver, M. Goodway, J.R. Druzik, and J.L. Mass, eds., Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology VI: Symposium held Nov. 27-28, 2001, Materials Research Society Symposia Proceedings 712:185-191.
Hartenberger, B. and C. Runnels. 2001. "The Organization of Flaked Stone Production at Bronze Age Lerna," Hesperia 70:255-283.
Hartenberger, B., S. Rosen, and T. Matney. 2000. "The Early Bronze Age
Blade Workshop at Titris Höyük: Lithic Specialization in an Urban
Context," Near Eastern Archaeology 63(1):51-58.
A closer look: 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.