H. Arthur Bankoff
Date
of Birth: 22 February 1945
Place of Birth: New York, N.Y. U.S.A.
Education:
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, B.A. 1965
Harvard
University, Ph.D. (Anthropology) 1974
Scholastic Awards and Honors:
New
York State Regents' Scholarship 1961-1965
The
Scholars' Program, Brooklyn College 1961-1965
Woodrow
Wilson Graduate Fellowship 1965-1966
National
Defense Education Act (Title IV) Fellowship 1966-1969
Research
Awards:
Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship
Program (Yugoslavia) 1970-1971
Wenner-Gren
Foundation for Anthropological Research 1970-1971
International
Research and Exchanges Board, Ad Hoc Awards Program 1975
National
Geographic Society 1976
National
Geographic Society 1977
National
Science Foundation, Anthropology Program 1980
National
Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Research Grants (Archaeology) 1980
Professional
Staff Congress-City University of New York Research Awards Program 1980/81
National
Geographic Society 1981
National
Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Research Grants (Archaeology) 1981
International
Research and Exchanges Board, Research (Eastern European Program) 1984
Council
for the International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Program), Senior Research
Fellowship 1984-1985
Professional
Staff Congress-City University of New York Research Awards Program 1984/85
International
Research and Exchanges Board, Grant for New Collaborative Research 1985
Professional
Staff Congress-City University of New York Research Awards Program 1987/88
International
Research and Exchanges Board, Developmental Grant Program, 1993
Professional
Staff Congress-City University of New York Research Awards Program 1993/94
Institute
for Aegean Prehistory 1994
Samuel
H. Kress Foundation 1994
Brooklyn
College, Presidential Resource Grant 1994
Professional
Staff Congress-City University of New York Research Awards Program 1994/95
Samuel
H. Kress Foundation 1995
Brooklyn
College, Presidential Resource Grant 1995
Professional
Staff Congress-City University of New York Research Awards Program 1995/96
Samuel H. Kress Foundation
1996
Professional
Staff Congress-City University of New York Research Awards Program 1996/97
Brooklyn
College, Presidential Resource Grant 1996
Professional
Staff Congress-City University of New York Research Awards Program 1997/98
Brooklyn
College, Library Faculty Fellow Spring 1998
Professional
Staff Congress-City University of New York Research Awards Program 1998/99
Professional
Staff Congress-City University of New York Research Awards Program 1999/2000
Professional
Staff Congress-City University of New York Research Awards Program 2000/2001
Tow
Travel Fellow, Brooklyn College 2001
Current Position:
Professor and Chairman,
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Brooklyn College CUNY (since 1986)
Director,
Brooklyn College Archaeological Research Center (since 1981)
Archaeological
Advisor, NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (since 1997)
Professional Society Memberships:
American
Schools of Oriental Research
Arheolosko
Drustvo Srbije
Register
of Professional Archaeologists
Research/Fieldwork Experience: 1968 Tepe Yahya, Iran. Site supervisor 1969 Timna, Israel. Site supervisor Sticna, Slovenia, Yugoslavia. Site supervisor Mokrin, Banat, Yugoslavia. Site supervisor 1970 Velabit, Backa, Yugoslavia. Site supervisor Batina Skela, Croatia, Yugoslavia. Site supervisor Museum research, Yugoslavia (Fulbright) 1974 Museum research and site survey, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia 1976 Gravesend, Brooklyn. Project director 1977 Gravesend, Brooklyn. Project director Morava Valley Project (Phase I:Survey). Smederevska Palanka, Yugoslavia. American Principal Investigator 1978 Gravesend, Brooklyn. Co-director 1979 Marine Park, Brooklyn. Co-director Museum study in Greece and Yugoslavia 1980 Morava Valley Project (Phase II: Excavation). Smederevska Palanka, Yugoslavia. Co-director 1981 Morava Valley Project (Phase II: Analysis). Smederevska Palanka, Yugoslavia. Co-director 1984 Museum/site research, Yugoslavia (Fulbright) 1985 Pozlatska Reka, Krusevac, Yugoslavia. Co-director 1986 Duryea House, Brooklyn. Co-director 1987 Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn. Co-director 1988 Saint Andrews Church, Staten Island. Co-director Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn. Co-director Globoder, Krusevac, Yugoslavia. Co-director 1989 City Hall Park, New York. Co-director 1990 Van Cortlandt Mansion, Bronx. Co-director 1991 Van Cortlandt Mansion, Bronx. Co-director Elmhurst Park, Queens. Director 1992 Van Cortlandt Mansion, Bronx. Co-director Brooklyn College Archaeological Field School at Idalion, Cyprus. Co-director 1993 Bartow-Pell House, Bronx. Director Brooklyn College Summer Archaeological Field School Abroad (Kamenska Chuka, Bulgaria). Director 1994 Timothy Knapp House, Rye NY, Director Wyckoff House, Brooklyn, Director Brooklyn College Summer Archaeological Field School Abroad (Kamenska Chuka, Bulgaria). Director 1995 Timothy Knapp House, Rye NY, Director Wyckoff House, Brooklyn. Director Brooklyn College Summer Archaeological Field School Abroad (Kamenska Chuka, Bulgaria). Director 1996 Timothy Knapp House, Rye NY, Director Wyckoff House, Brooklyn. Director Brooklyn College Summer Archaeological Field School Abroad (Kamenska Chuka, Bulgaria). Director 1997 Brooklyn College Summer Archaeological Field School Abroad (Caesarea, Israel). Director Combined Caesarea Expeditions, Fieldwork Director Marine Park, Brooklyn, Director Timothy Knapp House, Rye, NY. Director Stone Street Monitoring Project, Manhattan. Director 1998 Lott House, Brooklyn, Director 1999 Lott House, Brooklyn, Director 2000 Brooklyn College Winter Archaeological Field School Abroad (Betty’s Hope, Antigua). Director Lott House, Brooklyn, Director 2001 Lott House, Brooklyn, Director
Languages: Serbian, Bulgarian, French, German, Hebrew
Publications:
1972 Decorated pottery
from the cemetery of Mokrin. In M. Giric (ed.), The Early Bronze Age Cemetery
of Mokrin, vol. 2, pp. 57-65
1974 The End of the Middle Bronze Age in the Banat, Yugoslavia. Ph.D. thesis, Harvard.
1976a Copper trading in the Yugoslav Banat. Apulum 13:17-24.
1976b Digging Brooklyn: Archaeology in Gravesend. Brooklyn College Alumni Association Bulletin, Winter 1976:9.
1977 Metal ores and trade on the Middle Danube. In V. Markotic (ed.), Ancient Europe and the Mediterranean. London. pp. 13-17.
1978 The Gravesend project. In R. Miller (ed.), Brooklyn, U.S.A. New York. pp. 16-24.
1979 A house-burning in Serbia. Archaeology 32(5):8-14. (with F. A. Winter)
1980 The culture history of the Lower Morava Valley, Yugoslavia. Current Anthropology 21(2):268-269. (with F. A. Winter and H. Greenfield)
1981 Brooklyn College-Beograd Narodni Muzej Excavations at Novacka Cuprija 1980. Archaeological News 10(1/2):9-12. (with F. A. Winter)
1982 The Morava Valley Project in Yugoslavia: Preliminary report, 1977-1980. Journal of Field Archaeology 9(2):149-164. (with F. A. Winter)
1983a The Lower Morava Valley Project. In D. R. Keller and D. W. Rupp (eds.), Archaeological Survey in the Mediterranean Area (BAR International Series 155). London. pp. 203-205. (with F. A. Winter)
1983b Economic prehistory. Review of M. R. Jarman, G. N. Bailey, and H. N. Jarman (eds.), Early European Agriculture. Science 220:598-599.
1984 Northern intruders in LH IIIC Greece: A view from the North. Journal of Indo-European Studies 12 (1-2):1-30. (with F. A. Winter)
1985a Review of P. Wells, Rural Economy in the Early Iron Age: Excavations at Hascherkeller 1978-1981. American Antiquity 1985b Decision-making and cultural change in the Yugoslav Bronze Age. Balcanica 15:7-31. (with H. Greenfield)
1985c Excavation of Smederevska Palanka, Yugoslavia. National Geographic Research Reports, Vol. 18 for 1977, pp. 131-142. (with F. A. Winter)
1986a Diffusion and cultural evolution in Iron Age Serbia. Comparative Studies in the Development of Complex Societies, Volume 3 (World Archaeological Congress, Southampton and London)
1986b Praistorijski lokalitet "Novacka Cuprija". Zbornik radova Narodnog Muzeja 12(1):17-62. (with D. Krstic, M. Vukmanovic, and F. A. Winter)
1986c Istrazivanje praistorijskih naselja u mikroregiji Ribarske Reke kod Krusevca. Glasnik (Srpsko Arheolosko Drustvo) 3:51-62. (with A. Palavestra)
1986d "Pozlatska Reka", Pozlata, Krusevac - lokalitet poznog bronzanog doba. Arheoloski pregled 26:67-68. (with A. Palavestra)
1986e Prehistoric settlements in the Ribarska Reka microregion near Krusevac. Balcanica 16-17:17-42. (with A. Palavestra)
1987a Erasmus Hall High School: Report of the Trial Excavations Conducted by the Brooklyn College Summer Archaeological Field School. Brooklyn College:Brooklyn, N.Y. (with F. A. Winter)
1987b Archaeological Walking Tour of Lower Manhattan. Professional Archaeologists of New York City:New York. (with F. A. Winter and K. S. Rubinson)
1988 Arheoloska rekognosciranja u okolini Smederevske Palanke. Zbornik radova Narodnog Muzeja 13(1):57-76 (with D. Krstic and F. A. Winter)
1989a Diffusion and cultural evolution in Iron Age Serbia. In T. Champion (ed.), Centre and Periphery: Comparative Studies in Archaeology. Unwin and Hyman:London. pp. 159-172 (with F. A. Winter).
1989b A. McPherron and D. Srejovic, Divostin. Book Note, American Antiquity (June 1989).
1990a The later aeneolithic in Southeastern Europe. American Journal of Archaeology 94:174-191. (with F. A. Winter)
1990b Humka iz starijeg gvozdenog doba u Globoderu kod Krusevca. Glasnik (Srpskog arheologskog drustva) 6:84-91. (with A. Palavestra and F. A. Winter)
1992a Excavations at Van Cortlandt Park, 1990 and 1991. Brooklyn College:New York. (with F. A. Winter)
1992b Elmhurst Park, Queens; Brick Cistern Excavation. Arcoplex:New York.
1992c Absolute chronology of southeastern Europe: Mesolithic through eneolithic. In R. W. Ehrich (ed.), Chronologies in Old World Archaeology, 3rd edition. Chicago University Press:Chicago. Vol. 1:375-394; Vol. 2:341-363. (with R. W. Ehrich)
1992d Idalion: The 1992 Season. Newsletter of the American School of Classsical Studies at Athens 30:50-51. (with P. Gaber, J. Hardin, M. Mordan, and F. A. Winter)
1996 Handmade Burnished Ware and the Late Bronze Age of the Balkans. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 9.2:193-209. (with Nathan Meyer and Mark Stefanovich)
1998a Archaeological monitoring and excavation in the Stone Street Historic District, Lower Manhattan. New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
1998b Kamenska Chuka 1993-1995. In M. Stefanovich, H. Todorova, and H. Hauptmann (eds.), James Harvey Gaul - In Memorium. pp. 255-338. (with Mark Stefanovich)
2000a Ceramics and Clay Sources: Heavy Mineral Studies from Kamenska Chuka, Southwest Bulgaria. In L. Nikolova (ed.), Technology, Style and Society: Contributions to the Innovations between the Alps and the Black Sea in Prehistory. BAR International Series, No. 854, pps. 291-302. (with M. Stefanovich, G. Ajdanlijsky, S. Strashimirov, I. Kulov, and N. Meyer).
2000b Not your typical New Yorkers: Uncovering Brooklyn’s historic past at the Hendrick I. Lott House. This Side Up! 4/2000:15-16.(with C. Ricciardi and A. Loorya).
2001 Remembering Africa under the eaves: A forgotten room in a Brooklyn farmhouse bears witness to the spiritual lives of slaves. Archaeology 54(3):36-40. (with C. Ricciardi and A. Loorya).
in press Archaeology and history at Van Cortlandt Park, the Bronx. Bulletin of the Bronx Historical Society. (with F. A. Winter and C. Ricciardi) (2002)