Carrie Atkins in Cyprus

Carrie Atkins

Associate Professor
Historical Studies - Classical Civilization
  • E-mail:
    carrie.fulton@utoronto.ca
  • Room:
    MN 4274
  • Office Hours:
    Please refer to the syllabus and/or contact via email.
  • Mailing Address:

    3359 Mississauga Road, Maanjiwe nendamowinan, 4th floor
    Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
    Canada

Biography:

Carrie is an archaeologist with a focus on maritime connections in the ancient Mediterranean, especially through the study of shipwrecks and underwater sites. Her current book project, Shipping Roman Luxury: Shipwrecks, Networks, and Transportation (c. 200 BCE - 200 CE), forthcoming with OUP, examines the cross-cultural circulation of raw materials, finished objects, and people across maritime networks in the Roman Mediterranean, analyzing information from over 115 shipwrecks alongside other material, papyrological, epigraphic, and literary evidence. Carrie has participated in the underwater excavation of a first-century BCE shipwreck in Turkey and underwater surveys in Cyprus. She has also co-directed an excavation of a ship at the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York. Her current archaeological project is an underwater survey of an anchorage and submerged site along the south-central coastline of Cyprus at Maroni-Tsaroukkas. Carrie’s research interests also emphasize the development of digital technologies for recording and analyzing maritime data.

Education:

PhD in Classics (Cornell University)
MA in Anthropology with a specialization in Nautical Archaeology (Texas A&M University)
AB in Classics and Biology (Bowdoin College)
 

Specialization:

  • Roman archaeology (Republic and Empire)
  • Trade networks and the ancient economy
  • Greek and Roman maritime archaeology

For more information: https://utoronto.academia.edu/CarrieAtkins

Publications

  • Atkins, C.E. (forthcoming). Shipping Roman Luxury: Shipwrecks, Networks, and Transportation (c. 200 BCE–200 CE). Oxford University Press.
  • Atkins, C. (2025). “Shipwreck Assemblages and Network Analysis: Reconstructing the Furniture Trade Using First-century BCE Shipwrecks.” American Journal of Archaeology 129(1): 89-118. DOI: 10.1086/732758.
  • Atkins, C. (2022). “Ceramics and stone anchors: re-assessing the anchorage at Maroni Tsaroukkas within Bronze Age trade.” In Critical Approaches to Cypriot and Wider Mediterranean Archaeology, edited by S.W. Manning, 296–312. Sheffield: Equinox.
  • Atkins, C. and S.W. Manning. (2022). “Re-survey of the anchorage at Maroni Tsaroukkas, Cyprus: defining and viewing a Late Bronze Age coastscape.” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 41: 278–302.
  • (Atkins) Fulton, C. (2018). “Agents of Appropriation: Shipwrecks, Cargoes, and Entangled Networks in the Late Republican Mediterranean.” In Rome, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation, edited by M. Loar, C. MacDonald, and D. Padilla-Peralta, 194–213. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • (Atkins) Fulton, C., A. Viduka, J. Hollick, A. Woods, A. Hutchison, D. Sewell, S. Manning. (2016). “Use of Photogrammetry for Non-Disturbance Underwater Survey: An Analysis of In Situ Stone Anchors.” Advances in Archaeological Practice 4(1): 17–30.
  • Sewell, D., C. (Atkins) Fulton, A. Viduka. (2016). “Interaction, production, and exchange in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The case of Tochni Lakkia.” In Actas del V Congreso Internacional de Arqueología Subacuática: Un patrimonio para la humanidad, Cartagena, 15-18 de Octubre de 2014. Cartagena, Spain: Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática, 496–503.
  • Carlson, D. N. and C. E. Atkins. (2008). “Leaving No Stone Unturned: The 2007 Excavation Season at Kızılburun, Turkey.”  INA Annual 2007: 22–28.