The Critique of Archaeological Economy

Stefanos Gimatzidis
received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Classical Archaeology from the Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece, and his Ph.D. from the Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology of the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, in 2007. He specializes in the Early Iron Age archaeology of the Mediterranean, Archaic and Classical periods with a focus on the Aegean, Balkans and the Levant. From 2005 to 2011, he was employed at the Ministry of Culture of Greece. Starting in 2011, he has led various international research projects as senior researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and worked extensively in Greece, the central Balkans, Italy, Turkey and Lebanon. In 2015, he began lecturing at the University of Vienna’s Institute for Classical Archaeology, and since December 2017, he has been employed as project director at the Austrian Archaeological Institute. 

Reinhard Jung
is an archaeologist and a specialist for the Bronze and Early Iron Age in southern Europe and the Near East. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology of the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, in 1999, and his postdoctoral degree (venia legendi) in pre- and protohistory from the University of Tübingen, Germany, in 2013. From 2002 to 2013, he directed research projects at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the DAI Athens, Greece, and the University of Salzburg, Austria. From 2013 to 2015, he co-directed excavations at the Bronze Age settlement site of Punta di Zambrone in Calabria, Italy. Since 2013, he has been a senior researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology, and since 2015 he is head of the research group “Mediterranean Economies.” In addition, he teaches at the University of Tübingen, Germany.