About
Archie Dunn is a Member of the Council of the British School at Athens, the Committee of the Cotton Foundation and the editorial board of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. He directs the Survey of Ancient Thisve/Byzantine Kastorion (Central Greece)in collaboration with the Greek Archaeological Service.
Biography
Archie Dunn is a member of the publications team for three major excavations (Corinth, Paphos, and Kourion), also for the intensive interdisciplinary survey of Boeotia, and has reports and contributions published and in press. He has published numerous reports and studies about his own surveys (The Strymon Delta, and Thisve/Kastorion, both in Greece); and numerous articles and commissioned conference papers about Byzantine settlement patterns, land-use, towns, the economy and sigillography. He has completed the edition with commentaries of some 200 Middle Byzantine seals from the excavations of Corinth. He organised a Table Ronde at the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies on “Landscape, archaeology and society”, and is the organiser of the British Symposium of Byzantine Studies in 2013 with the theme “ Byzantine Greece: microcosm of empire?”.
Teaching
Lectures and seminars on Late Roman and Byzantine archaeology (40 hours); classes on Byzantine sigillography, epigraphy, historical geography, Greek survey, and perceptions of the Byzantine archaeological heritage.
Postgraduate supervision
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Late Roman and Byzantine archaeology; archaeology of the later medieval Aegean world
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Regional histories and economic history of the Byzantine world
Research
The conduct of survey and excavation in dialogue with each other and with historical enquiry within Byzantine Studies; reconstructing the economic histories of individual regions, districts, and cities of the Late Roman and Byzantine world with special reference to Greece and the southern Balkans; aspects of the Late Roman and Byzantine rural economy; sigillography and epigraphy (edition and commentary); the economic, cultural and political activities of elites in Greek lands (1000 - 1700); representations of Macedonia (peoples, landscapes, monuments)by British and French artists during the First world War (exhibitions, edition and commentary for the centenary of the opening of the “Salonica Front” in Macedonia (1915)
Publications
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“Byzantine and Ottoman maritime traffic in the estuary of the Strymon: between environment, state, and market”, in J.Bintliff – H.Stöger edd., Medieval and Post-medieval Greece. The Corfu Papers, B.A.R. (I. S.) 2023, 2009, pp.15-31
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'Rural producers and markets: aspects of the archaeological and historical problem', M.Grünbart – E.Kislinger – A.Muthesius et al. edd., Material culture and well-being in Byzantium (400-1453), Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Denkschriften 356, 2007, pp.101-109
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'Lead seals and minor objects' [chapter] and 'The seals of Damianos, Archbishop of Cyprus' [Appendix] in A.H.S.Megaw ed., Kourion: excavations in the episcopal precinct, Dumbarton Oaks Institute, 2007
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'The rise and fall of towns, ports, and silk-production in western Boeotia: the problem of Thisvi-Kastorion', E.Jeffreys ed., Byzantine style, religion and civilization. In honour of Sir Steven Runciman, Cambridge U.P., 2006, pp.38-71
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'A Byzantine fiscal official’s seal from Knossos Excavations and the archaeology of ‘Dark-Age’ cities', Creta romana e protobizantina. Atti del Congresso Internazionale, Scuola Italiana Archeologica in Atene, 2005, vol.1, pp.139-146
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'The problem of Early Byzantine rural settlement in eastern and northern Macedonia', J.Lefort – C.Morrisson – J.-P.Sodini edd., Les villages dans l’empire byzantin (IVe-XVe siècle) [Proceedings of Table Rondes dedicated to 'Le village', XX. Congrès International des Études Byzantines], Paris, 2005, pp.267-278
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'Continuity and change in the Macedonian countryside, from Gallienus and Justinian', in: W.Bowden & L.Lavan (edd.), Late Antique Archaeology 2. Recent research on the Late Antique countryside (Leiden/Boston, 2004), pp 535-586
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[with A. Bryer & J. Nesbitt] 'Theodore Gabras, duke of Chaldia (†1098) and the Gabrades: portraits, sites and seals': memorial volume for Professor Nikos Oikonomidès, E. Chrysos (ed), The Greek National Research Foundation, Athens, 2003, pp 51-70
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'Was there a militarisation of the southern Balkans during Late Antiquity?', XVIII International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, Philip Freeman, B.A.R (I.S) (2002) pp. 705 - 712
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'Loci of marine traffic in the Strymon Delta iv - xviii cc: commercial, fiscal, manorial', Oi Serres kai ê periokhê tous apo tên arkhaiotêta stên metavyzantinê koinônia, Serres, 2000, vol.I, pp 339 - 360
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[with M.Atherden & J.Hall] 'Palynological evidence from the Strymon Delta, Macedonia, Greece', Proceedings of the 16th symposium of the Association for Environmental Archaeology, Oxbow Monographs, 2000, pp 6-18