I am an archaeologist interested in the origins and life cycles of ecoNomic and social institutions. My work is primarily in Iron Age Southwestern Spain (c. 825-550 BC), and in the Middle Bronze-Iron Ages in the Southern Levant (c. 1925-586 BC). My dissertation examines the social repercussions of regional ecoNomic specialization at the site of El Castillo de Doña Blanca (Spain), using pottery analysis to shed light on the organization of production, modes of exchange, and techNological inNovation/dissemination among Phoenician and indigeNous potters.