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Email

bedavis@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Associate Professor in Archaeology
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
Education
PhD
University of Melbourne
Post Graduate Diploma
University of Melbourne
Graduate Diploma
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
Stanford University
ORCID

0000-0001-9471-2903

A/Prof Brent Davis

Associate Professor in Archaeology
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies

30 Scholarly works
0 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2017

    Book Chapter

    Like Dolmen, Like Dromos: Contextualizing the Solar Orientations of Some Mycenaean Tholoi
  • 2017

    Book Chapter

    Cypro-Minoan in Marking Systems of the Eastern and Central Mediterranean: New Insights into Old Problems
  • 2016

    Book Chapter

    The symbolism of the scorpion in minoan religion: A cosmological approach on the basis of votive offerings from the peak sanctuary at Ayios Yeoryios Sto Vouno, Kythera
  • 2015

    Journal article

    Adornment, ritual and identity: Inscribed Minoan jewellery
    DOI: 10.1017/S0068245415000015
  • 2015

    Journal article

    An ivory bowl from Early Iron Age Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel): manufacture, meaning and memory
    DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2015.1009154
  • 2015

    Journal article

    Disentangling entangled objects: Iron Age inscriptions from Philistia as a reflection of cultural processes∗
  • 2014

    Book

    Minoan Stone Vessels with Linear A Inscriptions [Aegaeum 36]
Brent Davis

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2019
The Michael Ventris Award for Mycenaean Studies 2019 University of London
2013
Honorary Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies (HonFSHPS)
2010
Postgraduate Travel Grant, USD $313 Archaeological Institute of America
2008
Recognition for Outstanding Academic Achievement in 2007, Dean's Awards University of Melbourne

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Recent linguistics-based advances in the study of Linear A
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    Investigations into the Language(s) behind Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A
    DOI: 10.1017/9781009490122
  • 2023

    Journal article

    A Canaanite jar with a Cypro-Minoan inscription from Tiryns: TIRY Avas 001
    DOI: 10.1515/kadmos-2023-0001
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Deciphering Kober’s Contribution to the Decipherment of Linear B
  • 2020

    Book Chapter

    Names and designations of people in linear a: A contextual study of tablets ht 85 and 117[
  • 2020

    Book

    NEOTEROS: Studies in Bronze Age Aegean Art and Archaeology in Honor of Professor John G. Younger on the Occasion of His Retirement [Aegaeum 44]
  • 2019

    Journal article

    Technological Insights on the Philistine Culture: Perspectives from Tell es-Safi/Gath
    DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.7.1.0076
  • 2019

    Book Chapter

    Curation in the Bronze Age Aegean: Objects as Material Memories

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