Caroline Sauvage

Professor of Archaeology | NEH chair of Mediterranean Studies | Director of the Archaeology Center Loyola Marymount University

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Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

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Biography

Caroline Sauvage is professor of archaeology in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts. She is also the NEH chair of Mediterranean Studies, and the Director of the LMU Archaeology center. She received her B.A. in art history and archaeology as well as her M.A. and Ph.D. in archaeology of the Ancient World from the Université Lumière Lyon 2 in France. Her research interests include trade and maritime exchanges in the eastern Mediterranean, as well as the development and use of textile tools during the Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age. Her research focuses on exchanges, the status of objects, and their representations and use as identity markers across the eastern Mediterranean. She is the author of “Routes maritimes et Systèmes D’échanges Internationaux au Bronze Récent en Méditerranée Orientale” (2012).

Education

Université Lumière Lyon 2

B.A.

Archaeology

2000

Université Lumière Lyon 2

"Maitrise" of Archaeology

Archaeology

2001

Université Lumière Lyon 2

Specialized Diploma

Egyptology

2002

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Areas of Expertise

textile tools
Archaeology
International Trade
Social Identity Through Archaeological Objects
Late Bronze Age
Archaeology of the Ancient World
Trade and Maritime Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean
Early Iron Age
Textiles

Accomplishments

Leon Levy – Shelby White Grant for Archaeological Publication

2024 – 2027 Leon Levy – Shelby White Grant for Archaeological Publication

Incoming Extra-European Fellow

2014 – 2015 Incoming Extra-European Fellow, Marie Curie 7th framework program

Award of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (Paris)

2011 Award of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (Paris) - Fondation Louis De Clercq (2 K).

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Media Appearances

A Conversation With Caroline Sauvage

The Magazine of Loyola Marymount University  online

2014-12-08

Caroline Sauvage is an associate professor of classics and archaeology in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts. She received her B.A. in art history and archaeology as well as her M.A. and Ph.D. in archaeology of the Ancient World from the Université Lumière Lyon 2 in France. Her research interests include trade and maritime exchanges in the eastern Mediterranean, as well as the development and use of textile tools during the Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age. Her research focuses on exchanges, the status of objects, and their representations and use as identity markers across the eastern Mediterranean. She is the author of “Routes maritimes et Systèmes D’échanges Internationaux au Bronze Récent en Méditerranée Orientale” (2012). Sauvage was interviewed by Editor Joseph Wakelee-Lynch.

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Research Focus

Technological developments and innovations: Mediterranean ships; textile tools.

Technological developments and innovations: Mediterranean ships; textile tools.

Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age transition in the northern coastal Levant and Cyprus.

Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age transition in the northern coastal Levant and Cyprus.

Definition of social identity through the use of archaeological objects, images and texts.

Definition of social identity through the use of archaeological objects, images and texts.

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Courses

CLAR4371

Textile Lab: from fiber production to social identity

CLAR4330

Cultures in Contact: Late Bronze Age

CLAR3390

Archaeology of the Levant

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Articles

2023, À la découverte du royaume d’Ougarit (Syrie du IIe millénaire). Les fouilles de C.F.A. Schaeffer à Minet el-Beida et Ras Shamra (1929–1937),

la collection C.F.A. Schaeffer d’Ougarit au Musée d’Archéologie Nationale de St-Germain-en-Laye, Contributions to the Archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna

SAUVAGE, C. and LORRE, C. (eds),

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2012, Routes maritimes et systèmes d’échange internationaux au Bronze Récent en Méditerranée Orientale,

TMO 62, Lyon

Sauvage, C.

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2010, Regards croisés sur l’étude archéologique des paysages anciens. Nouvelles recherches dans le bassin méditerranéen, en Asie centrale, et au Proche et Moyen-Orient

TMO 56

Alarashi, H. Chambrade, M.-L. Gondet, S. JouveneL, A. Sauvage, C. Tronchère, H. (eds.)

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