Ian's most recent book is Archaeology as Cultural History: Words and Things in Iron Age Greece (Blackwell 2000). With support from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, he is now writing a book on freedom and economic growth in ancient Greece. He has just finished co-authoring with Barry Powell (University of Wisconsin) a textbook called The Greeks, to appear with Prentice-Hall in 2004. With Joe Manning, he has co-edited The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models (Stanford in press). He is also co-editing The Dynamics of Ancient Empires with Walter Scheidel, and The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World with Scheidel and Richard Saller (University of Chicago).
Ian also directs the excavation of Monte Polizzo, a sixth-century BC indigenous Sicilian town, examining imperialism and cultural interaction.
