Lawrence Archaeological Lecture Examines Sardinia's Role in Mediterranean Cultural Developments

APPLETON, WIS. -- The cross-cultural role played by the island of Sardinia in Mediterraenean prehistory will be the focus of an Archaeological Institute of America lecture at Lawrence University.

Robert Tykot, associate professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida, presents the slide-illustrated lecture, "Sardinia in the Mediterranean," Tuesday, Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Lawrence's Wriston Art Center auditorium. An informal reception will follow the address, which is free and open to the public.

Tykot spent parts of six years as the field director of an excavation at Bauladu, Sardinia, an island once considered "a cultural backwater." Tykot will challenge that perception with evidence of the Italian island's position as a mainstream of Mediterranean cultural developments, including materials from as early as the 6th millennium B.C. that were regularly exchanged between the island and mainland France and Italy.

Tykot, who earned his Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University, has taught at South Florida since 1996.