Aegean Prehistorian – Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece; Chronology of Egypt, the Near East and the Aegean in the Bronze and Early Iron Age

Married Carolyn Talbot Seely; children: Kate, Elizabeth, Thomas, Jonathan.

Born Tsingtao, China, July 3, l935; B.A. (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Harvard College, 1957; Ensign/Lt. (jg) U.S.N., 1957-60; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1963. Practice of law, 1963-70, International, Corporate and Non-Profit law. General Counsel, Archaeological Institute of America, 1968-1976; Advisor, United States Department of State, International Convention on Illicit Traffic in Antiquities. Investment management, 1971-97; Chairman, The Millburn Corporation, Millburn Ridgefield Corporation, CommInVest, 1977-97, ShareInVest, 1982-97. President, Board of Trustees and Founder, Institute for Aegean Prehistory, 1982-; President, Board of Directors, Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation, 1984-

Litt.D. (hon.) University of Sheffield, 1997; Ph.D. (hon.) Eberhard-Karl University, Tübingen, 1998; D. (hon.) University of Athens, 1998; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of London; Corresponding Member, Austrian Archaeological Institute; Ring of Honour, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz; Foreign Corresponding Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities; Foreign Corresponding Member, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften; Corresponding Member, Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts; Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France); Honorary Fellow for Life, Archaeological Institute of America; Honorand of Festschrift (in 3 volumes) published by the Université de Liège entitled Meletemata: Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year.

Author: “Crete and the Cyclades in LM I: The Tale of the Conical Cups”, The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality, 1984; “Trade and Rule in Palatial Crete”, The Function of the Minoan Palaces, 1987; “The Isles of Crete? The Minoan Thalassocracy Revisited”, Thera and the Aegean World III, Vol. 1, Archaeology, 1990; “Round-Table Comments”, Aegean Seals, Sealings and Administration, Aegaeum 5, 1990; “The Nature and Control of Minoan Foreign Trade”, Bronze Age Trade in the Mediterranean, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 90, 1991; “The Absolute Chronology of Late Helladic IIIA2”, Sardinian and Aegean Chronology, 1998; “Present Arms / Oars / Ingots: Searching for Evidence of Military or Maritime Administration in LM IB”, POLEMOS: Le contexte guerrier en égée à l’âge du bronze, Aegaeum 19, 1999; “The White Slip I of Tell el-Dab‘a and Thera: Critical Challenge for the Aegean Long Chronology”, The White Slip Ware of Late Bronze Age Cyprus, Proceedings of an International Conference Organized by the Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation, Nicosia in Honour of Malcolm H. Wiener, 2001; “Report on the Final General Discussion: Introductory Remarks”, LH III C Chronology and Synchronisms, 2003; “Time Out: The Current Impasse in Bronze Age Archaeological Dating”, METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age, Aegaeum 24, 2003; “The Absolute Chronology of the Late Helladic IIIA2 Revisited,” BSA 98, 2003; “Chronology Going Forward (With a Query about 1525/4 B.C.)”, Timelines: Studies in Honour of Manfred Bietak, 2006; “Pots and Polities”, Pottery and Society: The Impact of Recent Studies in Minoan Pottery, Gold Medal Colloquium in Honor of Philip P. Betancourt, 2006. “Picasso and the Cuban Missile Crisis”, Apollo, October 2001; “The Antitrust and Opinions of Judge Learned Hand: the Court as Economist” (Thesis, privately printed). Forthcoming:The Chronology of the Late Bronze Age from Egypt to the Aegean: Science, Texts, Interconnections; “Times Change: The Current State of the Debate in Old World Chronology”; “Egypt & Time”; “Palatial Potters in Mycenaean Greece”. Co-author (with James M. Allen), “Separate Lives: The Ahmose Tempest Stela and the Theran Eruption”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 57, 1998. Editor: “Discussions”, Trade, Power and Cultural Exchange: Hyksos Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World 1800-1500 B.C., Ägypten und Levante 5, 1995. Pottery and Society: The Impact of Recent Studies in Minoan Pottery, 2006.

Occasional lecturer at the Universities of Heidelberg, Tübingen, Vienna, Salzburg, Warsaw and New York ( Institute of Fine Arts).

Member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Member, Board of Trustees, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Member, Visiting Committee to the Paintings Department, Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Fellow of the Frick Collection. Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Chair, Independent Task Force on “Non-lethal Technologies: Military Implications and Options”, 1995. Member, advisory boards, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, the Malcolm Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and the Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory for Near Eastern and Aegean Dendrochronology; Occasional Columnist, Newsday.

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