Study of 1929-1931 C.F.A. Schaeffer Excavations

PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage.

Caroline Sauvage is an associate professor in the department of Classics and Archaeology, and is the National Endowment for the Humanities chair of Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and the director of the LMU archaeology center. She received her BA in Art History and Archaeology as well as her MA and PhD in Archaeology from the Université Lumière Lyon 2 in France. Her research interests include trade and maritime exchanges in the eastern Mediterranean, the development and use of textile tools during the Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, and the definition of social groups. Her main focus is on exchanges, the status of objects, the use of objects and representations as social and identity markers across the eastern Mediterranean. She has been conducting extensive fieldwork in Cyprus, Egypt and Syria since 2002.