Prof. dr. John Bintliff
- Professor of classical archaeology
- mediterranean archaeology
- landscape archaeology
- archaeological theory
- classical archaeology
- medieval-postmedieval archaeology
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2428 |
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| E-Mail: | j.l.bintliff@arch.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit Archeologie, Mediterranean Archaeology |
| Office Address: |
Academiegebouw Rapenburg 71 2311 GJ Leiden Room number c101 |
| Personal Homepage: | www.archaeology.leiden.edu/organisation/bintliff.jsp |
John Bintliff is Professor of Classical Archaeology. He was born in London, England in 1949, and studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University, where he also completed his Ph.D. in 1977 on the history and prehistory of human settlement in Greece. He became Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Bradford University, where he taught from 1977, then moved to Durham University as Reader in Archaeology in 1990, where he taught till moving to Leiden in 1999. In 1988 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Since 1978 he has been co-director (with Anthony Snodgrass of Cambridge University) of the Boeotia Project, an interdisciplinary landscape programme investigating the evolution of settlement in Central Greece, with the archaeological surface survey of town and country as its central approach. His research interests include the Archaeology of Greece from Prehistory to Postmedieval times, Mediterranean Archaeology from Prehistory to Postmedieval times, Landscape Archaeology and Archaeological Theory.
Research Projects
2012
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Bintliff, J.L. (2012)
The Complete Archaeology of Greece: from Hunter-Gatherers to the 20th Century A.D. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
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2011
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Bintliff, J.L. (2011)
Agricultural Revolutions. In: Wossink, A., Akkermans, P.M.M.G., Düring, B.S. (Eds.), Correlates of Complexity. Essays in Archaeology and Assyriology. Dedicated to Diederik J.W. Meijer on his 65th Birthday (PIHANS), 116. , pp. 15-25. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2011)
Archaeology education at the Faculty of Archaeology in Leiden University (translated into Japanese by Toshie Shibata). , Metaptyxiaka: the Annual of the Office for the Promotion of Education and Research at Nagoya University (March), 5. , pp. 29-53. Nagoya University.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2011)
Does German Archaeology have a future? In: Gramsch, A. & Sommer, U. (Eds.), A History of Central European Archaeology. Theory, Methods, and Politics, pp. 169-176. Budapest: Archaeolingua.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2011)
Introduction. In: Bintliff, J.L. & Pearce, M. (Eds.), The Death of Archaeological Theory?, pp. 1-6. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2011)
Koroneia Project: Reconstructing the History of a Forgotten City in Central Greece (translated into Japanese by Toshie Shibata and Yoshiyuki Suto). , Metaptyxiaka: the Annual of the Office for the Promotion of Education and Research (March), 5. , pp. 67-91. Nagoya University.
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Bintliff, J.L. & Bes, P. & Poblome, J. & Malfitana, D. (2011)
Late Roman Tablewares from the Survey at Ancient Tanagra. In: Attoui, R. (Ed.), When Did Antiquity End? Archaeological Case Studies in Three Continents (BAR International Series), 2268. , pp. 129-136. Oxford: Archaeopress.
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Bintliff, J.L. & Pearce, M. (2011)
The Death of Archaeological Theory? Oxford: Oxbow Books.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2011)
The Death of Archaeological Theory? In: Bintliff, J.L. & Pearce, E. (Eds.), The Death of Archaeological Theory, pp. 7-22. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
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2010
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Bintliff, J.L. (2010)
Classical Greek Urbanism: A Social Darwinian View. In: Rosen, R.M. & Sluiter, I. (Eds.), Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity, pp. 15-41. Leiden: Brill.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2010)
I Viotia stin Ottomaniki periodo. In: Sideris, A. (Ed.), Boiotia. Istoria ke Politismos, pp. 30-36. Athens: Foundation for the Hellenic World.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2010)
New perspectives in Greek Archaeology in the last twenty years. In: Harlaftis, G., Karapidakis, N., Sbonias, K., Vaiopoulos, V. (Eds.), The New Ways of History, pp. 49-69. London: Tauris Academic.
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Bintliff, J.L. & Slapsak, B. (2010)
Tanagra. A Survey of the City. In: Jeammet, V. (Ed.), Tanagras. Figurines for Life and Eternity, pp. 30-31. Paris: The Louvre.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2010)
The Annales, events, and the fate of cities. In: Bolender, D.J. (Ed.), Eventful Archaeologies: New Approaches to Social Transformation in the Archaeological Record, pp. 117-131. Albany N.Y.: Suny Press.
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Bintliff, J.L. & Slapsak, B. et al. (2010)
The Leiden-Ljubljana Ancient Cities of Boeotia Project: 2008 season. Pharos. Journal of the Netherlands Institute in Athens, XVI, pp. 31-60.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2010)
The Middle Bronze Age through the Surface Survey Record of the Greek Mainland: Demographic and Sociopolitical Insighs. In: Touchais, A.P., Touchais, A., Voutsaki, S., Wright, J. (Eds.), MESOHELLADIKA. La Grece continentale au Bronze Moyen. The Greek Mainland in the Middle Bronze Age (Supplement 52), pp. 755-763. Paris: Bulletin de Correspondence Hellenique.
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2009
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Bintliff, J.L. (2009)
Catchments, settlement chambers and demography: Case studies and general theory in the Greek landscape from Prehistory to Early Modern times. In: Favory, F. & Nuninger, L. (Eds.), Archaedyn. 7 Millenia of Territorial Dynamics. Settlement pattern, production and trades from Neolithic to Middle Ages., pp. 107-117. Dijon: University of Burgundy.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2009)
Introduction. Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece. The Corfu Papers. In Bintliff, J.L. & Stoeger, H. (Eds.) Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece. The Corfu Papers. BAR International Series (pp. v-xi). Oxford: Arcaeopress.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2009)
Is the Essence of Innovative Archaeology a Technology for the Unconscious? In: Kienlin, L. & Roberts, B.W. (Eds.), Metals and Societies: Studies in honour of Barbara S. Ottaway (UPA), pp. 181-190. Bonn: Verlag Rudolf Habelt.
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Bintliff, J.L. & Stöger, H. (2009)
Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece. The Corfu Papers. (BAR International Series, 2023). Oxford: Archaeopress.
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Bintliff, J.L. & Slapsak, B. et al. (2009)
The Leiden-Ljubljana Ancient Cities of Boeotia Project. Summer 2007-Spring 2008. Pharos. Journal of the Netherlands Institute in Athens, 15, pp. 18-42.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2009)
The implications of a phenomenology of landscape. In Olshausen, E. & Sauer, V. (Eds.) Die Landschaft und die Religion. Stuttgarter Kolloquium zur Historischen Geographie des Altertums 9 Vol. 9 (pp. 27-45). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
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2008
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Bintliff, J.L. (2008)
"In praise of the ancestors". Catchment and territory in agricultural landscapes: Revisiting the birth of a concept in the light of current research in landscape archaeology. In: Gallou, C., Georgiadis, M., Muskett, G. (Eds.), Dioskouroi. Studies Presented to W.G. Cavanagh and C.B. Mee (BAR International Series), 1889. , pp. 216-227. Oxford: Archaeopress.
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Bintliff, J.L. & Toebosch, T. (2008)
Archeologie: John Bintliff reconstrueert onopvallende Grieks steden door rond te lopen in het veld. NRC Handelsblatt
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Bintliff, J.L. (2008)
Chapter 13. The regional geology and early settlement of the Helos Plain. In: Taylour, W.D & Janko, R. (Eds.), Ayios Stephanos: Excavations at a Bronze Age and Medieval Settlement in Southern Laconia, pp. 527-550. British School at Athens Supplementary Volume 44.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2008)
Comments on Sastre "Community, identity and conflict". Current Anthropology, 49, p. 1037.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2008)
Considerations on Agricultural Scale-Economies in the Greco-Roman World. In: Alston, R. & Nijf, O., van (Eds.), Feeding the Ancient Greek City, pp. 17-31. Leuven: Peeters.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2008)
History and Continental Approaches. In: Bentley, R., A. & Maschner, H., D. (Eds.), Handbook of Archaeological Theories, pp. 147-164. Lanham, New York, Toronto, Plymouth, UK: Altamira Press.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2008)
Recent developments in the social and economic archaeology of the Mediterranean region from a long-term perspective. Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie, 40, pp. 36-47.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2008)
The Peleponnese in Hellenistic and Early Roman Imperial Times: The Evidence from Survey and the Wider Aegean Context. In Grandjean, C. (Ed.) Le Peloponnese d'Epaminondas a Hadrien Vol. 21. Ausonius Editions (pp. 21-52). Pessac Cedex: Ausonius.
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Bintliff, J.L. & Farinetti, E. (2008)
The Tanagra project: investigations at an ancient city and its countryside (2000-2002). Bulletin de Correspondence Hellenique, 2004-5, pp. 541-606.
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2007
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Bintliff, J.L. (2007)
Considerations for Creating an Ottoman Archaeology in Greece. In: Davies, Siriol & Davis, Jack, L. (Eds.), Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece (Hesperia Supplement), 40. , pp. 222-236. Athens: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2007)
Current Research on the Settlement of Boeotia in the Medieval and Early Modern Era: The Boeotian Village History Project. In Fittschen, K. (Ed.) Historische Landeskunde und Epigraphik in Griechenland (pp. 217-227). Münster: Scriptorium.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2007)
Emergent Complexity in Settlement Systems and Urban Transformations. In: Fellmeth, U., Guyot, P., Sonnabend, P. (Eds.), Historische Geographie der Alten Welt: Grundlagen, Erträge, Perpektiven (Spudasmata), 114. , pp. 43-82. Hildesheim Zuerich New York: Georg Olms Verlag.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2007)
Medieval and Post-Medieval. In: Pearsall, D., M. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Archaeology, pp. 1280-1298. New York: Academic Press.
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Bintliff, J.L. & Zlapsak, B. (2007)
Tanagra: la ville et la campagne environnante à la lumière des nouvelles méthodes de prospection, par les universités de Leyde et de Ljubjana. In Jeammet, V. & Becq, J. (Eds.) Tanagras: De l'objet de collection a l'objet archéologique (pp. 101-115). Paris: Picard Musée du Louvre Éditions.
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Bintliff, J.L. & Howard, P. (2007)
Testing the Hinterland. the work of the Boeotia Survey (1989-1991) in the southern approaches of the city of Thespiai. Cambridge: MacDonald Institute Monographs.
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Bintliff, J.L. (2007)
The Contribution of Regional Survey to the Late Antiquity Debate: Greece in its Mediterranean Context. In: Poulter, A., G. (Ed.), The Transition to the Late Antiquity on the Danube and Beyond (Proceedings of the British Academy), 141. , pp. 649-678. Oxford University Press for The British Academy.
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Bintliff, J.L. & Slapsak, B. (2007)
The Leiden-Ljubljana Ancient Cities of Boeotia Project. Seasons 2006. Pharos. Journal of the Netherlands Institute in Athens, 14, pp. 15-27.
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2006
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Bes, P. & Bintliff, J.L. & Poblome, J. (2006)
Puzzling over pottery. Thespiae, Tanagra and methodological approaches toward surface ceramics. In Malfitana, D., Poblome, J., Lund, J. (Eds.) Old Pottery in a New Century. Old Pottery in a New Century: Innovating Perspectives on Roman Potttery Studies (pp. 339-345). Catania: IBAM-CNR, The National Museum of Denmark, ROCT, Univ. Leuven.
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Bintliff, J.L. & Erdkamp, P.P.M. (2006)
T.R. - Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis
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Edinburgh University:
Visiting Professor