Alan F. Greene

Dr. Alan F. Greene is an affiliate researcher at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. As an anthropological archaeologist, his research focuses on the relationship between everyday aspects of the material economy, such as ceramic containers, and the macro-scale political-economic parameters of emergent complex polities in the Bronze Age South Caucasus. Alan specializes in the sociobiographical anthropology of craft goods, as well as compositional and structural methods of materials analysis, tracing artifacts through habitual production regimes, spheres of exchange and consumption trends in ancient societies. Alan is a co-director of the Making of Ancient Eurasia (MAE) project, an analytical collaboration between anthropologists and material scientists at Argonne National Laboratory (http://mae.stanford.edu).