Dr. Peter Van Dommelen

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Peter van Dommelen is a Mediterranean archaeologist specializing in the rural Indigenous Mediterranean past and present, with a regional focus on the western Mediterranean. His research includes long-term fieldwork on the island of Sardinia, concentrating on Mediterranean prehistory and the Indigenous colonial worlds as part of Classical Antiquity, roughly spanning a millennium BCE. Van Dommelen received his degrees in Archaeology and Classics from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, specializing in Theoretical Classical Archaeology. He taught Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Glasgow from 1997 to 2012 before joining Brown University. He has served as director of the Joukowsky Institute from 2015 to 2023 and held visiting positions at multiple European universities. His key research themes include rural landscapes, indigeneity, colonialism, and connectivity. He has published extensively on these subjects and is actively involved in editorial roles in archaeology journals, contributing to the discourse around material culture and rural archaeology in the Mediterranean.

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