Kim Shelton

Kim Shelton is Director of the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology at the University of California Berkeley. She directs the excavations at the Sanctuary of Zeus, Ancient Nemea; the Petsas House, Mycenae; and the TAPHOS chamber tomb project at Aidonia, all in Greece, where she has been a field archaeologist for more than 30 years. As a specialist in ceramics and the political economy of the prehistoric Aegean, her research is focused on workshop dynamics and their relationship to the market economy of pottery, the regional needs of a diverse population, and the Mycenaean palatial administration. Her research on ancient Greek ritual and religion explores the earliest manifestations of Greek religious ritual through permanent architectural establishments and ritual paraphernalia from the Bronze Age to the Archaic periods.