Specializations

Ancient history and prehistory, with special interest in the evolution of warfare and of religion

Representative Publications

THE GREEK ACCOUNTS OF EASTERN HISTORY.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press, for the Center for Hellenic Studies, 1973

BASILEUS.  THE EVIDENCE FOR KINGSHIP IN GEOMETRIC GREECE.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1983

IN SEARCH OF THE SHROUD OF TURIN:  NEW LIGHT ON ITS HISTORY AND ORIGINS.  Totowa, N. J.:  Rowman and Allanheld, 1984.

THE COMING OF THE GREEKS:  INDO-EUROPEAN CONQUESTS IN THE AEGEAN AND THE NEAR EAST.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1988.

THE END OF THE BRONZE AGE:  CHANGES IN WARFARE AND THE CATASTROPHE CA. 1200 B.C.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1993.

(editor) GREATER ANATOLIA AND THE INDO-HITTITE LANGUAGE FAMILY. Papers presented at a colloquium hosted by the University of Richmond, March 18-19, 2000.  Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man, 2001.

EARLY RIDERS: THE BEGINNINGS OF MOUNTED WARFARE IN ASIA AND EUROPE.  London:  Routledge, 2004.

MILITARISM AND THE INDO-EUROPEANIZING OF EUROPE. London: Routledge, 2017.