Stephen A. Collins-Elliott

Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Last Updated: 3 November 2019

Roman archaeologist focusing on Italy and North Africa, computational approaches, and regional analysis. Contact: sce@utk.edu Curriculum Vitae

Papers

Collins-Elliott, S.A. and C.S. Jazwa. doi: 10.1080/14614103.2020.1763020 2020. “Dynamic Modeling of the Effects of Site Placement on Environmental Suitability: A Theoretical Example from Northwest Morocco.Environmental Archaeology.

Collins-Elliott, S.A. doi: 10.1111/arcm.12481; arxiv; github 2019. “Quantifying Artifacts over Time: Interval Estimation of a Poisson Distribution using the Jeffreys Prior.Archaeometry 61: 1207-1222.

Brughmans, T.,doi: 10.16995/traj.367 J.W. Hanson, J.W., M.J. Mandich, I. Romanowska, I., X. Rubio-Campillo, S. Carrignon, S. Collins-Elliott, K. Crawford, D. Daems, F. Fulminante, T. de Haas, P. Kelly, M. del C. Moreno Escobar, E. Paliou, L. Prignano, and M. Ritondale. 2019. “Formal Modelling Approaches to Complexity Science in Roman Studies: A Manifesto.Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal 2.4:1-19.

Collins-Elliott, S.A. doi: 10.1558/jma.38081; github 2018. “A Behavioral Analysis of Monetary Exchange and Craft Production in Rural Tuscany via Small Finds from the Roman Peasant Project.Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 31: 155-179.

Collins-Elliott, doi: 10.7834/phoenix.71.3-4.0250 S.A. 2017. “Either a God or a Wild Beast: Exile, Autonomy, and the Human Condition in Plutarch’s Sertorius.Phoenix 71: 250-264.

Akerraz, A. fastionline and S.A. Collins-Elliott. 2017. “Gardens of the Hesperides: The Rural Archaeology of the Loukkos Valley. Interim Report on the 2016 Season.FOLD&R Archaeological Survey 5.

Collins-Elliott, S.A. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2017.01.006; arxiv; github 2017. “Bayesian inference with Monte Carlo approximation: Measuring regional differentiation in ceramic and glass vessel assemblages in Republican Italy, ca. 200 BCE – 20 CE.Journal of Archaeological Science 80: 37-49.

Collins-Elliott, S.A. doi: 10.19282/AC.27.2016.01 2016. “Agglomerative clustering using cosine and Jaccard distances: A computational approach to Roman vessel taxonomy.Archeologia e Calcolatori 27: 7-25.

Collins-Elliott, S.A. doi: 10.1515/etst-2015-0023 and K. Bowes. 2016. “New Evidence of the gens Ciartia: An Etruscan Tile Stamp from Cinigiano (GR), loc. Tombarelle.Etruscan Studies 19: 149-154.

Collins-Elliott, S.A. jstor 2014. “Social Memory and Identity in the Central Apennines under Augustus.Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 63: 194-213.

Archaeological Projects

Gardens of the Hesperides: The Rural Archaeology of the Loukkos Valley (INSAP-UTK)

Book Projects

Collins-Elliott, S.A. In prep. The Rise of Rome and the Culture of Mass Consumption, ca. 400 BCE - 50 CE.

Reviews

Collins-Elliott, S.A. cj-online 2016. Review of: Quinn, J.C and N. C. Vella, eds. 2014. The Punic Mediterranean: Identities and Identification from Phoenician Settlements to Roman Rule. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. CJ-Online 15.09.06.

Other Stuff

2019-11-16 Fitting a Zipf-Mandelbrot Distribution Using Monte Carlo Least Squares