Spring/Summer 1997
The Interdepartmental Archaeology Graduate Program Study Guidelines include information on applying and completing the program.	ARCHAEOLOGY PROGRAM Study Guidelines Now Available Byock gets 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship for excavation of Viking site by Helle Girey THE LONG-AWAITED STUDY guidelines for the Interdepartmental Archaeology Graduate Program have been printed, and thanks go to Angie Hiltz who did a great job on the design and layout and to Marilyn Gatto, Publications volunteer, for help with proofreading. We congratulate Professor Jesse Byock, on being awarded the 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship award. The Guggenheim Fellowship is the most prestigious honor presented to scholars, artists, and writers. Professor Byock teaches old Norse and medieval Scandinavian history and will use his fellowship to support excavation of a Viking site. In student news, Margaret Abraham and Mike Hilton received an M.A., and Benille Emmanuel has advanced to C. Phil. Steve Martin received his Ph.D. with a dissertation titled "A Dietary Reconstruction for the Virgin River Branch Anasazi: Subsistence in a Marginal Environment." After completing his M.A. paper, "Geomorphology and Archaeology in Southeastern Alaska: An Interdisciplinary Integration," Mike Hilton left for Alaska to start work on his dissertation. Jana Owen received a Fulbright to continue her studies of the incense route in the Sultanate of Oman. She will undertake a year of analysis of the 1993-1995 field seasons along the 200 km of coastline. Rowan Flad and Gwen Bennett both received a Title VI Fellowship for Chinese studies, and Maura Keane received the Fishbaugh Fellowship for next year. Brendan Burke will be in Ankara this summer at the American Research Institute in Turkey, studying materials relevant to his work on textile production in the Bronze and Iron Ages. His work is supported by a 1984 Foundation fellowship that he received for the 1997-1998 academic year. Gwen Bennett has received the Lenart Fellowship for summer field research. She will go to China to plan for the long-term joint US-China project with Shandong and Yale Universities at the Longshan period Liangchengzhen site investigating the origins of state-level societies in the southeastern Shandong region. She will also continue the excavations in the Chifeng area of Inner Mongolia. Rowan Flad will also be in China on a summer Chinese language study program with Princeton University. Kara Nicholas is presently in Metaponto, Italy, finishing the analysis of the ceramics of a rural sanctuary for her dissertation concerning ritual practices. Benille Emmanuel goes to Sri Lanka to study some previously undeciphered epigraphic materials of the Anuradhapura kingdom. Others on the move are Peter Aperlo (Denmark), Erin Clancey (Belize), Cigdem Eissenstat and Peri Johnson (Turkey), Freya Evenson (Greece), Laura Gilliam (Peru), and Bradley Parker, who will be returning from two years in Finland. Helle Girey is the Student Advisor for the Interdepartmental Archaeology Graduate Program.
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