William Cavanagh Author

William Cavanagh has collaborated with fellow scholars and published mainly on Greek archaeology. Intensive survey of 70 km2 in central Laconia documented some 400 sites of all periods (Laconia Survey; Laconia Rural Sites Project with Christopher Mee). He has published on funerary archaeology (e.g. A Private Place: Death in Prehistoric Greece with Christopher Mee) and on mathematical approaches to archaeology (Bayesian Approach to Archaeological Inference). Until retirement he was Lecturer, Reader and then Professor at the University of Nottingham, where he is now Professor Emeritus of Aegean Archaeology and co-director of the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies. Christopher Mee (1950–2013) held the Charles W. Jones Chair of Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool. His many publications included Rhodes in the Bronze Age, A Rough and Rocky Place, Greek Archaeology: A Thematic Approach, as well as volumes on Laconia and funerary archaeology jointly with William Cavanagh. Josette Renard was Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University Paul Valéry-Montpellier III and is still a member of the UMR 7041 of the CNRS «Archéologie et Sciences de l’Antiquité». Her main field of research has been the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age of the Peloponnese.