Wonders Lost and Found: A Celebration of the Archaeological Work of Professor Michael Vickers
Edited by Nicholas Sekunda
Paperback (Published)
(February 2020)
ISBN: 9781789693812
8.07 x 11.46 inches
Price: $64.00
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Twenty-one contributions, written by friends and colleagues, reflect the wide interests of Professor Michael Vickers; from the Aegean Bronze Age to the use made of archaeology by dictators in the modern age. Seven contributions relate to Georgia, where the Professor has worked most recently, and made his home.
Wonders Lost and Found: A celebration of the archaeological work of Professor Michael Vickers comprises, in all, twenty-one contributions, all on archaeological themes, written by friends and colleagues of Professor Michael Vickers, commemorating his contribution to archaeology. The contributions, reflecting the wide interests of Professor Vickers, range chronologically from the Aegean Bronze Age, to the use made of archaeology by dictators of the 19th and 20th centuries. Seven contributions are related to the archaeology of Georgia, where the Professor has worked most recently, and has made his home.
Early Cycladic? Lead model boats in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford - Susan SherrattHelen Hughes-BrockBrian Gilmour, Marc Cox, Nathaniel Erb-Satullo, Nana Khakhutaishvili and Mark PollardJohn NealVakhtang LicheliBranko KiriginDavid BraundAmiran KakhidzeSujatha ChandrasekaranDarejan KacharavaEliso Kvavadze and Maia ChichinadzeKenneth LapatinDespina IgnatiadouSusan WalkerEberhard W. Sauer, Mark Robinson and Graham MorganMartin HenigNicholas SekundaDaphne Nash BriggsArthur MacGregorDavid W.J. GillClive Foss, Early Cycladic? Lead model boats in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford – Susan SherrattHelen Hughes-BrockBrian Gilmour, Marc Cox, Nathaniel Erb-Satullo, Nana Khakhutaishvili and Mark PollardJohn NealVakhtang LicheliBranko KiriginDavid BraundAmiran KakhidzeSujatha ChandrasekaranDarejan KacharavaEliso Kvavadze and Maia ChichinadzeKenneth LapatinDespina IgnatiadouSusan WalkerEberhard W. Sauer, Mark Robinson and Graham MorganMartin HenigNicholas SekundaDaphne Nash BriggsArthur MacGregorDavid W.J. GillClive Foss
Nicholas Sekunda was born in 1953 and lived in England for the first part of his life, completing his studies at Manchester University. He has held research positions at Monash University in Melbourne and at the Australian National University in Canberra. He then worked for a British Academy research project as sub-editor for the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names in Oxford, and later taught ancient history for a year at Manchester University. Since 1994 Nicholas has lived in Poland, where his father was born. He has taught at the Nikolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, and currently holds the post of Head of Department of Mediterranean Archaeology at Gdansk University. He has participated in excavations in England, Poland, Iran, Greece, Syria and Jordan, and now co-directs excavations at Negotino Gradište in the Republic of North Macedonia. He is the author of a number of books concerning Greek Warfare.
- Edited by Nicholas Sekunda
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