Dr. Grace Erny

Biography

Grace Erny's research focuses primarily on the archaeology and history of Greece and the Aegean in the first millennium BCE. Her current book project investigates economic inequality and social differentiation in rural communities during the Early Iron Age, Archaic, and Classical periods in Crete. Her published and in-progress work includes contributions on statistical approaches to survey data from Crete and analyses of the Homeric epics, contemporary archaeology in the Greek countryside, and the sociology of gender in Mediterranean survey archaeology. Additionally, she has examined conservatism in Cretan material culture. Erny has served on staff for various archaeological projects in Greece, including the Western Argolid Regional Project, Bays East Attica Regional Survey, and the Anavlochos Project in eastern Crete, and has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Israel, Cyprus, and the American Southwest.

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