Jean-Claude Poursat Author

Jean-Claude Poursat is Professor emeritus at the Université Clermont Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He is the renowned excavator of 'Quartier Mu' at Malia, one of the most extensive town complexes of Middle Bronze Age Crete, and the author of many publications on various aspects of the Aegean Bronze Age. Carl Knappett holds the Walter Graham/ Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Thinking through Material Culture, An Archaeology of Interaction, and most recently, Aegean Bronze Age Art: Meaning in the Making. He currently directs a fieldwork project at the Minoan town of Palaikastro.