John Bintliff
Professor emeritus of Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology
- Name
- Prof.dr. J.L. Bintliff
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2564
- j.l.bintliff@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Research
- Mediterranean landscape archaelogy
- Prehistoric and Protohistoric towns
- Cities in the Greek World
- Cities in the Roman World
About
John Bintliff is Professor of Classical Archaeology. He was born in London, England in 1949, and studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University, where he also completed his Ph.D. in 1977 on the history and prehistory of human settlement in Greece. He became Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Bradford University, where he taught from 1977, then moved to Durham University as Reader in Archaeology in 1990, where he taught till moving to Leiden in 1999. In 1988 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Since 1978 he has been co-director (with Anthony Snodgrass of Cambridge University) of the Boeotia Project, an interdisciplinary landscape programme investigating the evolution of settlement in Central Greece, with the archaeological surface survey of town and country as its central approach. His research interests include the Archaeology of Greece from Prehistory to Postmedieval times, Mediterranean Archaeology from Prehistory to Postmedieval times, Landscape Archaeology and Archaeological Theory.
Professor emeritus Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology
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Professor emeritus of Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Oude Geschiedenis
- Bintliff J.L. (2015), The archaeological heritage of Askra [Askra, Greece, August 2015]. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (3 April 2008), The Event and the Fate of Ancient Cities (conference paper). Events and Archaeology Conference, 3.-5. April 2008. State University of New York, Buffalo. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (20 October 2008), The City in Late Antiquity: The Evidence from Central Greece (conference paper). Interdisciplinary Science and Archaeology Conference, 20th Oct. 2008. University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (21 November 2008), Problems and Theories from the 2008 Field Season, Beootia Urban Survey Project (conference paper). Mediterranean Survey Conference, 21th - 22nd November 2008. University of Amsterdam. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (6 June 2008), Corporate Communities and Citizenship in Ancient Greece: Houses and Social Space (conference paper). Penn-Leiden Conference on Ancient Values, 6th-8th June 2008. University of Leiden. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (19 September 2008), Ecotypes and the Place of Peasant Societies in the Archeaological Record of the Early Modern Era (conference paper). European Archaeology Conference, Malta, 18th -20th September 2008. University of Malta, Msida, Malta. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (27 November 2008), Keynote Lecture: New Insights into Eastern Desert Archaeology. Nomads of the Eastern Desert Conference and Cleveringa Lecture, Cairo 25th - 27th Nov. 2008. Dutch Institute in Cairo. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (17 May 2008), Economic Revolutions and their Long-Term Impact in Mediterranean Life (conference paper). Historical Geography of the Ancient World Conference, 17th-18th May 2008. University of Stuttgart. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (4 October 2008), Major Developments in Mediterranean Archaeology of the Last 25 Years (conference paper). TMP Jubilee Conference, 3rd - 4th October, 2008. University of Groningen. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (18 September 2008), Archaeology and Ritual (conference paper). European Archaeology Conference, Malta, 18th-20th September 2008. University of Malta, Msida, Malta. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (12 April 2008), Problems in the sampling of major urban sites using intensive survey techniques (conference paper). Mediterranean Survey Conference, 11th -12th April 2008. University of Groningen. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (23 June 2008), GIS and the Historical Geography of Mediterranean Landscapes (conference paper). GIS and Archaeology Conference, 22nd to 24th June 2008. University of Burgundy, Dijon. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (24 May 2007), Hidden Lanscapes - a Review and Update on the Debate (conference paper). Conference on Hidden Landscapes of Mediterranean Europe, 24-27 May 2007. University of Siena, Siena, Italy. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (2 May 2007), Sampling in Urban Survey (conference paper). International Symposium on the Study of Urban Landscape Survey in Italy, 01-03 May, 2007. Dutch-Belgian-British School at Rome. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (13 March 2007), Greece in the Hellenistic Era. invited lecture. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (29 March 2007), The History of Regional Field Survey in Greece. inivited lecture. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (12 November 2007), Sample Problems in Urban Survey (conference paper). International Survey Workshop, 12-13 Nov. 2007. University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (10 November 2007), GIS and the source-critical analyis of survey data (conference paper). International Conference on GIS Technologies and Archaeological Survey, 08-11 Nov 2007. University of Merida, Merida, Spain. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (11 October 2007), Urbanism in Ancien Greece (conference paper). International Roundtable, The Archaeology of Urbanism, Leiden, 11-13. Oct. 2007. University of Leiden. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (14 March 2007), Ethnic Identity Formation in Ancient Greece (conference paper). International Conference on Ethnicity and Identity, 01. March 2007. University of Cambridge, Cambridge. [lecture].
- Bintliff J.L. (2 February 2007), Ottoman Archaeology in Greece (conference paper). International Conference on Crossing Cultural Frontiers, 02-04 Feb, 2007. British Institute in Amman, Jordan. [lecture].