Erich Kistler Author & Editor

Erich Kistler is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Innsbruck and directs the long-term Monte Iato Project. He has led several third-party-funded projects and co-edited Sanctuaries and the Power of Consumption (2015). His work contributes to debates on materiality, colonial entanglements, and local agency in the pre-Roman Mediterranean. Christian Heitz is Senior Scientist at the University of Innsbruck. His research spans the Aegean Bronze Age to Imperial Rome, with a current focus on pre- and early Roman southern Italy. He specializes in social structures, gender, iconography, and material culture, and directs excavations at Ascoli Satriano. Birgit Öhlinger is a Mediterranean archaeologist whose research focuses on material culture, cultural interactions and entanglements, local agency and identity in pre-Roman Sicily. She is Senior Scientist at the University of Innsbruck and Co-Director of the long-term excavation project at Monte Iato. She co-edited the volume Sanctuaries and the Power of Consumption (2015). Peter van Dommelen is Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. He is a Mediterranean archaeologist studying cultural interactions, Indigeneity and colonialism in the Iron Age and Phoenician-Punic West Mediterranean. His research concerns migration, rural landscapes, and ancient agriculture, which structure long-term fieldwork and ceramic studies on Sardinia. He co-edits the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Mediterranean World book series.