Carl Knappett teaches in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto, where he holds the Walter Graham/Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory. His previous books include Thinking Through Material Culture (2005), An Archaeology of Interaction (2014), and Network Analysis in Archaeology (2013). He conducts fieldwork at various Bronze Age sites across the Aegean, and directs the new excavations at the Minoan town of Palaikastro in east Crete.