Home People Faculty

John K. Papadopoulos

PROFESSOR

Ph.D., University of Sydney, 1988

Office: Fowler A422
Phone: (310) 206-4997
Fax: 310-206-4723
E-mail: jkp@humnet.ucla.edu

Mailing Address:

Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
308 Charles E Young Dr. North
A210 Fowler Building/Box 951510
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1510

Personal Homepage

Class Websites

UCLA Appointments

Chair, Department of Classics

Research Interests

Aegean prehistory; Greek and Italian archaeology, history and culture of the Classical and later periods; the archaeology of colonialism; the integration of literary evidence with the material record in the study of the past

Research Summary

Professor Papadopoulos has excavated widely in Australia, both on Aboriginal and historic sites, and in Greece, Italy and, most recently, Albania. He has been a member of the excavation team at Torone in northern Greece since 1979 and field director of the excavations, as well as the geophysical and underwater surveys, from 1986 to 1995. He is codirecting the UCLA-Institute of Archaeology at Tirana excavations at the pre- and protohistoric burial tumulus of Lofkënd in Albania.

Among various other projects, he is currently working on a two-volume publication of the Early Iron Age material from the Athenian Agora. His teaching and research interests include the topography of Athens, Greek colonization, the Aegean Bronze Age, and the effective integration of literary evidence with the material record in the study of the past. He has a forthcoming monograph on The Art of Antiquity: Piet de Jong and the Athenian Agora.

Additional Links


Lofkënd Archaeological Project


Edit This Page
secondaryNav

Secondary Navigation

featPub

Featured Publication

featured pub picture

The Construction of Value

Scholars from Aristotle to Marx and beyond have been fascinated by the question of what constitutes value. The Construction of Value in the Ancient World makes a significant contribution to this ongoing inquiry, bringing together in one comprehensive volume the perspectives of leading anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, philologists, and sociologists on how value was created, defined, and expressed in a number of ancient societies around the world. Based on the basic premise that value is a social construct defined by the cultural context in which it is situated, the volume explores four overarching but closely interrelated themes: place value, body value, object value, and number value. The questions raised and addressed are of central importance to archaeologists studying ancient civilizations: How can we understand the value that might have been accorded to materials, objects, people, places, and patterns of action by those who produced or used the things that compose the human material record? Taken as a whole, the contributions to this volume demonstrate how the concept of value lies at the intersection of individual and collective tastes, desires, sentiments, and attitudes that inform the ways people select, or give priority to, one thing over another.

Available now!

utilityNav

Utility Navigation

 
Personal tools