The Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology
of the Mediterranean World (AAMW) is an interdisciplinary
program for research and teaching of archaeology,
particularly archaeology and art of the ancient
Mediterranean (Greece and Rome), Egypt, Anatolia,
and the Near East, based in the Penn Museum
of the University of Pennsylvania.
== History ==
Doctoral work in Mediterranean and Near Eastern
Archaeology has been a feature of the University
of Pennsylvania since 1898, largely in response
to the excavations undertaken by the Penn
Museum.
Nearly 200 dissertations in Old World Archaeology
and Art have been produced at Penn in the
course of the last century.
The eminent archaeologist Rodney Young, the
director of the Penn Museum's excavations
at Gordion that uncovered the royal tomb of
King Midas, strengthened the graduate program
during the 1960s and 1970s.
== Core faculty ==
The current Chair of the Program is Thomas
F. Tartaron.
Other notable faculty include Philip P. Betancourt,
Lothar Haselberger, Holly Pittman, and C.
Brian Rose.
== Current fieldwork ==
Gordion, Turkey
Halil Rud Archaeological Project, Iran
Marsa Matruh, Egypt
Villa Magna, Italy
Vrokastro, Crete, Greece
Mount Lykaion, Greece
Ur, Iraq
Tell es-Sweyhat, Syria
== Notable alumni ==
The AAMW program and its predecessors have
graduated a number of prominent archaeologists,
including:
George Bass (PhD., 1964), professor emeritus
at Texas A&M University and an early practitioner
of underwater archaeology
Crawford "Greenie" Greenewalt Jr. (PhD., 1966),
past director of the excavations at Sardis
and professor at the University of California,
Berkeley
Philip Betancourt (PhD., 1970), Director of
the Institute for Aegean Prehistory and professor
at Temple University
G. Kenneth Sams (PhD., 1971), past director
of the Gordion excavations and professor at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
Jeremy Rutter (PhD., 1974), ceramics specialist
and professor at Dartmouth College
Zahi Hawass (PhD., 1987), past Minister of
Antiquities of Egypt
Jodi Magness (PhD., 1989), co-director of
the excavations in the late Roman fort at
Yotvata, Israel and professor at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
== See also ==
Outline of archaeology
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology
and Anthropology
Vrokastro
