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Jenny Webb studied classics and ancient history at the University of Melbourne. She subsequently worked on a number of excavations in Cyprus and studied at the British School of Archaeology at Athens, where she undertook a PhD on the architectural and iconographic evidence for ritual practice in Late Bronze Age Cyprus for the University of Melbourne. She has held teaching positions at the University of Adelaide, the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University. She held an Australian Research Council Fellowship at La Trobe University from 1998 to 2002 and co-directed (with David Frankel) the Australian Cyprus Expedition excavations at Early and Middle Bronze Age Marki Alonia in central Cyprus from 1991 to 2001 (a project funded by three Australian Research Council Large Grants). In 2003 and 2004 she co-directed (with David Frankel and Professor Maria Iacovou of the University of Cyprus) the Australian Cyprus Expedition survey and excavations at two Bronze Age cemeteries at Deneia in central Cyprus (funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Program Grant). She is currently Senior Research Associate with the Archaeology Program, La Trobe University and co-director (with David Frankel) of excavations at the Chalcolithic site of Politiko Kokkinorotsos in central Cyprus (funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Program Grant). In 2001 she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Research interests:

Jenny Webb’s research interests centre on the archaeology and material culture of Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Cyprus, with a particular focus on the identification and understanding of prehistoric households, gender relationships, settlement size, population movements, resource networks and social hierarchy and the production, consumption and discard of ceramics and ground stone. She has also written extensively on Late Bronze Age sealing systems, ideology, religion, iconography, political economy and early state formation. She has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology (Sheffield Academic Press) since 1999. In 2006 she was appointed Coordinator of Bronze Age Ceramics for the project ‘Associated Regional Chronologies of the Ancient Near East’ (Cyprus Regional Group), funded by the European Science Foundation to 2010.

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