Professor emeritus James Wright received the prestigious Anna Marguerite McCann Award for Fieldwork Reports at this year’s annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) for ”Ayia Sotira: A Mycenean Chamber Tomb Cemetery in the Nemea Valley, Greece”, a book that he has coauthored with research associate Mary K. Dabney.
This book draws on work done as part of the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project, a previous fieldwork site for the department. This publication is praised for its “admirably international … personnel” and its “truly interdisciplinary” approach. It also stands out because of its “application of stratigraphic micromorphology”, which “offers readers an excellent case study in a context where hard-to-distinguish fills, cuts, and re-fills are of major interpretive importance”, and “the incorporation of systematic paleobotanical and phytolith analysis.” The Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology congratulates Professor Wright and indeed all his collaborators, students, and workmen, for their achievements!
For a more personal account of this important publication, see https://www.brynmawr.edu/news/professor-emeritus-james-c-wright-reflects-book-20-years-making.