R. Angus K. Smith

Department of Classics

Associate Professor, Greek Archaeology
Graduate Program Director
BA (Dartmouth College), MPhil (Cambridge), MA, PhD (Bryn Mawr)

Mailing Address:
Department of Classics
Brock University
St Catharines ON L2S 3A1 CANADA

Phone: 905 688 5550 ext. 3798
Fax: 905 984 4589
Email: rsmith@brocku.ca

Teaching 2012-2013:

• CLAS 1P91: Introduction to Greek Civilization (fall)
• CLAS 4V20/5V20: Archaeology of Technology (fall)
• CLAS 2P32: Introduction to Archaeology (winter)

Research:
Dr. Smith’s research interests focus on issues of mortuary archaeology and ceramic analysis in the Bronze Age Aegean. He is currently an associate director of excavations at the Minoan town of Gournia on Crete and co-directing the publication of excavations at the Mycenaean cemetery of Ayia Sotira near Ancient Nemea. He has published on the pottery and society of the Late Minoan III cemetery and settlement at Mochlos on Crete, as well as the cemetery at Ayia Sotira in Nemea.

Select recent publications:

• In press. With M. Dabney “Children and Adornment in Mycenaean Funerary Ritual at Ayia Sotira, Nemea,” in M.-L. Nosch and R. Laffineur (eds.) KOSMOS: 13th International Aegean Conference, held at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-23 April 2010.
  
• 2011. With Jeffrey S. Soles et al. Mochlos IIC. Period IV. The Mycenaean Settlement and Cemetery: The Human Remains and Other Finds (INSTAP Academic Press).
  
• 2011. With W. Gauss, M. Lindblom and J.C. Wright (eds.) Our Cups are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Oxford, U.K.: Archaeopress).
• 2011. "A Unique Ring-shaped Vase in the Myrsini Aspropilia Cemetery," in W. Gauss, M. Lindblom, R.A.K. Smith and J.C. Wright (eds.) Our Cups are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Oxford, U.K.: Archaeopress), pp. 267-273.
• 2010. Mochlos IIB: The Late Minoan III Settlement and Cemetery. The Pottery. INSTAP Academic Press.
• 2009. With E. Pappi, M.K. Dabney, S. Triantaphyllou, and J.C. Wright. "2006-2007 Excavations of the Mycenaean Cemetery at Ayia Sotira, Ancient Nemea," Aegean Archaeology 8 (2005-2006), pp. 95-109.

Select recent papers:

• 2011. With M.K. Dabney, J.C. Wright, E. Pappi, P. Karkanas, and S. Triantaphyllou “The Excavation of Mycenaean Chamber Tombs at Barnavos and Ayia Sotira in the Nemea Valley.” Invited paper for the conference Death, Decay, and Discovery: An interdisciplinary workshop on taphonomic approaches to understanding burial practice at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University.

• 2011. “Child Burials at the Mycenaean Cemetery of Ayia Sotira, Nemea, Greece.” Invited paper at Death and Identity in the Ancient and Medieval World, a workshop held at the Program for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University.

• 2010. “The Humble Dead: Mortuary Ritual in the Mycenaean Hinterland.” Invited paper for the Embassy of Greece, the Canadian Institute in Greece - Friends of CIG in Ottawa, the American Institute of Archaeology in Canada, the Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies, and the Parnassos Hellenic Cultural Society of Ottawa, at National Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa.

Service:

• Brock University representative to the Board, Canadian Institute in Greece, formerly Canadian Archaeological Institute in Athens.
• Member-at-Large, Executive of the Niagara Peninsula Chapter, Archaeological Institute of America.

Links:

Mochlos Excavations
Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete (INSTAP-SCEC)
Canadian Institute in Greece (formerly Canadian Archaeological Institute at Athens)
Niagara Peninsula Chapter, Archaeological Institute of America

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