Emma C Blake

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Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Blake, E. C. (2024). Identity Studies in Archaeology. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009459747
• Blake, E. C. (2014). Social Networks and Regional Identity in Bronze Age Italy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.

Chapters

• Blake, E. C. (2022). Middle Bronze Age Sicily: Imports, networks, and the myth of insular unity
  . In Critical Approaches to the Archaeology of Cyprus and the wider Mediterranean(pp 163-176). London: Equinox.
• Blake, E. C., Schon, R., & Giglio, R. (2021). Mapping Cross-Channel Connections: the Arizona Sicily Project, preliminary report of the 2018 and 2019 seasons. In Trinacria, "an island outside time". International archaeology in Sicily(pp 159-165). London and Oxford: Oxbow.
• Blake, E. C. (2016). States and Technological Mobility: AView from the West. In Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Ancient Mediterranean(pp 181-192). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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  Blake, E.2016. Commentary: States and Technological Mobility: A View from the West. In Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Ancient Mediterranean (E. Kiriatzi and C. Knappett, eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 181-92.
• Blake, E. C. (2013). Italy in Late Bronze Age Europe: from margin to counterpoint. In Counterpoint. A Festschrift in Honor of Kristian Kristiansen on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday(pp 601-6). Goteborg: Goteborg University Press.
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  Chapter in edited volume: S. Bergerbrandt and S. Sabatini, eds. Counterpoint: Essays in Archaeology and Heritage Studies in Honour of Professor Kristian Kristiansen. Gothenberg University Press. In press.;Your Role: Author.;
• Blake, E. C. (2013). Social networks, path dependence, and the rise of ethnic groups in pre-Roman Italy. In Regional Network Analysis in Archaeology(pp 203-21). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Blake, E. C. (2014). Late Bronze Age Sardinia: Acephalous Cohesion. In Cambridge Handbook of the Mediterranean World in the Bronze-Iron Ages(pp 96-108). Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Schon, R., Blake, E. C., & Modrall, E. (2012). Phoenicio-Punic Pottery in the Hinterland of Motya and Marsala: The Question of Hellenization in Punic Sicily and the Preliminary Data from the Marsala Hinterland Survey. In L’Africa romana: atti del XIX Convegno di studio, Sassari 16-19 Dicembre 2010(pp 1597-1610). Sassari, Italy: Editrice Archivio Fotografico Sardo.

Journals/Publications

• Blake, E. C., Schon, R., Wigodner, A., Ducati, F., & Moses, V. (2023). Rapporto Preliminare della prima missione archeologica a Segesta dell’ Università dell’Arizona (Stagione 2022). Elymos, 2, 49-73.
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  Peer reviewed multi-author journal article.
• Blake, E. C. (2016). The New-Old Interest in Roman Foodways. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, 10, 25-30.
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  Blake, E.2016. The New-Old Interest in Roman Foodways. In Ex Terra Scientia: Papers in Honor of David Soren (R.H. Wilkinson and P. P. Creasman, eds). Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 10: 25-30.
• Blake, E. C. (2014). Dyads and Triads in Community Detection: a view from the Italian Bronze Age. Les Nouvelles de l'archeologie, 135, 28-32.
• Leidwanger, J., Knappett, C., Arnaud, P., Arthur, P., Blake, E. C., Broodbank, C., Brughmans, T., Evans, T., Graham, S., Greene, E., Kowalzig, B., Mills, B., Rivers, R., Tartaron, T., & Van de Noort, R. (2014). A manifesto for the study of ancient Mediterranean maritime networks. Antiquity, 342.
• Blake, E. C., & Schon, R. (2010). The Marsala Hinterland Survey: Preliminary Report. Etruscan Studies.
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  Field report;Your Role: Co-author;Full Citation: E. Blake and R. Schon, 2010. The Marsala Hinterland Survey: Preliminary Report. Etruscan Studies 13: 49-66.;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;
• Blake, E. C., & Schon, R. -. (2010). The Marsala Hinterland Survey: Preliminary Report. Etruscan Studies, 13, 49-66.
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  Full Citation: Blake, E. and R. Schon (2010) "The Marsala Hinterland Survey: Preliminary Report," Etruscan Studies 13: 49-66

Presentations

• Schon, R., Blake, E. C., & Wigodner, A. (2024, August). Assemblages, not Objects: Survey Methods and the Archaeology of Contemporary Migrant Journeys in Western Sicily. European Association of Archaeology Annual Meetings. Rome, Italy: European Association of Archaeology.
• Schon, R., Blake, E. C., Ducati, F., Wigodner, A., & Moses, V. (2024, January). Excavating Domestic Space at Segesta, Sicily: Results of the Arizona Sicily Project’s 2022 and 2023 Seasons.. Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meetings. Chicago, IL: Archaeological Institute of America.
• Blake, E. C. (2023, April). The Arizona Sicily Project: Survey and Excavations in the province of Trapani. UC Boulder Classics Department Lecture Series. University of Colorado - Boulder: UC Boulder Classics Department.
• Giglio, R., Blake, E. C., Schon, R., & Wigodner, A. (2023, December). La Zona Residenziale di M. Barbaro, Segesta. Nuove Ricerche. L'isola dei Tesori: Ricerca Archeologica e Nuove Acquisizioni,. Agrigento, Sicily, Italy: Archaeological Superintendency of Sicily.
• Schon, R., Blake, E. C., Wigodner, A., & Ducati, F. (2023, August). Excavations of Domestic Space at Segesta, Sicily: Results of the 2022 and 2023 seasons of the Arizona Sicily Project. European Association of Archaeology Annual Meeting. Belfast, Ireland: European Association of Archaeology.
• Blake, E. C., & Schon, R. (2022, May). Excavations at Segesta, Sicily. Central Mediterranean Prehistory Seminar. online: University College London.
• Schon, R., & Blake, E. C. (2021, September). L’Arizona Sicily Project:risultati di ricognizione nel retroterra di Marsala. Convegno Internazionale di Studi sulla Sicilia e sull'Area Elima. Erice, Sicily.
• Schon, R., & Blake, E. C. (2015, February). Sicily: Crossroads of the Mediterranean. From Dispersal to Diaspora: 50,000 years of Mobility around the Mediterranean. Haury 216: UA School of Anthropology.
• Blake, E. C. (2013, 2013-03-01). Regional social networks in the Recent and Final Bronze Age of peninsular Italy. University of Rome 1-La Sapienza.
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  Invited public lecture in an ongoing seminar series at La Sapienza.;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Blake, E. C. (2012, 2012-11-01). Prelude to Rome: Networks and Ethnicities in Early Italy. Fellows Lecture Series. American Academy in Rome.
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  As Rome Prize Fellow I was invited to give a talk on my research.;Invited: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Blake, E. C. (2012, 2013-04-01). From social networks to ethnic groups in pre-Roman Italy. Society for American Archaeology. Memphis, TN.
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  ;Submitted: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Blake, E. C. (2011, 2011-04-01). Social networks, path dependence, and the rise of ethnic groups in pre-Roman Italy. University of Arizona School of Anthropology.
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  Lecture given in weekly School of Anthropology Lecture Series;Submitted: Yes;Type of Presentation: University;
• Blake, E. C., & Schon, R. (2011, 2011-03-01). The Marsala Hinterland Survey: Coastal Archaeology in Western Sicily. SAA. Sacramento, CA.
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  ;Your Role: I co-direct the project that generated the data for the talk, and contributed ideas to it, and edited a draft of the talk;Submitted: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
• Blake, E. C. (2010, 2010-03-01). Social Networks and Emergent Ethnicities in Pre-Roman Italy. University of Pennsylvania, AAMW.
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  Invited talk at Univ. of Pennsylvania's Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World (AAMW) Lecture Series.;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Blake, E. C. (2010, 2010-06-01). Discussant: '-isations'. Mobile technologies across dynamic landscapes: perspectives from Mediterranean prehistory: Fitch Laboratory Workshop. Athens, Greece.
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  Invited discussant to workshop at the Fitch Laboratory, the British School of Athens;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
• Blake, E. C. (2010, 2010-12-01). The Ancient Stone Towers of Sardinia: 4000 years of Use and Reuse. Archaeological Institute of America Tucson Chapter Lecture series. University of Arizona.
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  Invited public lecture;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Blake, E. C., & Schon, R. (2010, 2010-06-01). Ricognizione Archeologica nella Retroterra di Marsala. Marsala, Italy.
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  Translation: Archaeological Survey in the Hinterland of Marsala: the 2008 and 2009 seasons;Your Role: co-wrote and co-presented the paper;Invited: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Blake, E. C., Modrall, E., & Schon, R. (2010, 2010-12-01). La ceramica di epoca punica nell'entroterra di Mozia e Marsala: la questione della ellenizzazione nella Sicilia punica e dati preliminari dal Marsala Hinterland Survey. L'AFRICA ROMANA XIX CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE DI STUDI. Sassari, Italy.
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  ;Your Role: Co-director of the project that was the subject of the presentation; provided data for background sections and edited the final presentation.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
• Blake, E. C. (2009, 2009-05-01). Local Communities and the Reception of Mycenaean imports in Bronze Age Italy. Theoretical Archaeology Group. Stanford, California, USA.
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  20 minute talk;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Blake, E. C., & Schon, R. (2009, 2009-01-01). Preliminary Results of the Marsala Hinterland Survey. Archaeological Institute of America. Philadelphia, PA.
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  Paper given at annual meetings.;Your Role: Co-author;Refereed: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;

Reviews

• Blake, E. C. (2024. Review of M. Maiuro and J. Botsford Johnson (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy(p. 3).
• Blake, E. C. (2022. Review, K. McDonald, Italy Before Rome. A Sourcebook(pp 1-2).
• Blake, E. C. (2010. Bruni, Stefano (ed.). Etruria e Italia preromana: studi in onore di Giovannangelo Camporeale.
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  http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010-01-46.html;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: E. Blake, 2010. Review: â€;Electronic: Yes;
• Blake, E. C. (2009. Review, S. Dyson and R. Rowland, Jr., Archaeology and History in Sardinia from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: E. Blake, 2009. S. Dyson and R. Rowland, Jr. Archaeology and History in Sardinia from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages. Journal of Roman Studies 99.1: 286-7.;