Middle and Late Bronze Age Metal Tools from the Aegean, Eastern ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
There are numerous individuals, institutions, and fellowships that contributed to
this study or helped me to carry out the work. The topic of this study was suggested to me
by my advisor, Professor James Wright of Bryn Mawr College, as a means of combining
my research interests in metallurgy and cultural interactions between the Aegean and
eastern Mediterranean during the Middle and Late Bronze Age. Neither of us expected
that there were so many metal tools from these periods and regions. I thank Professor
Wright for his patience as he helped me work through compiling and analyzing this
material. His constant advice, encouragement, careful readings of drafts, and remarkable
expertise were instrumental to the shaping and completion of this study, as well as to my
own scholarly development.
I am grateful to the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology and
the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Bryn Mawr College for supporting my
research as well as my entire graduate school education. In addition to Professor Wright,
my experience at Bryn Mawr has been enriched through discussions, preliminary
examinations and/or classes with Professors Mehmet-Ali Ataç, Richard Hamilton, Peter
Magee, Alice Donohue, Pamela Webb, Stella Miller-Collett, and Brunilde Ridgway. I am
also indebted to Michael Toumazou (Davidson College), Derek Counts (University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee), P. Nick Kardulias (College of Wooster), and Aleydis van de
Moortel (University of Tennessee) for their advice, suggestions and support during the
course of the dissertation but also in shaping me as a field archaeologist.
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