Caroline Sauvage

Associate Professor of Classics and Archaeology

  • Los Angeles CA UNITED STATES

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

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Biography

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).

Education

Université Lumière Lyon 2

Ph.D.

Archaeology

2006

Université Lumière Lyon 2

M.A.

Archaeology

2002

Université Lumière Lyon 2

Specialized Diploma

Egyptology

2002

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Areas of Expertise

Classics
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

Accomplishments

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).

Leon Levy – Shelby White Grant for Archaeological Publication

2008 – 2011 Leon Levy – Shelby White Grant for Archaeological Publication

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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

International trade, systems of trade and interconnections in the eastern Mediterranean and Egypt.

International trade, systems of trade and interconnections in the eastern Mediterranean and Egypt.

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.

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.

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Courses

CLAR2340

Methods and Theories in Archaeology

CLAR2360

Ancient Near East

CLAR3330

Introduction to Near Eastern Religions

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Articles

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

TMO 62, Lyon, 2012

Sauvage, C.

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

2010, TMO 56

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

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Senses and Textiles in the Eastern Mediterranean During the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages (1550-1000 BCE)

in K. Neumann and A. Thomason, The Routledge Handbook on the Senses in the Ancient Near East, Routeledge, 2022, 35-61

Sauvage, C.

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