Caspar Meyer is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture at the Bard Graduate Center in New York. His research focuses on the cultural dynamics of craft production in the Greek city states of the Aegean and among the mobile pastoralists of Eurasia. Another area of his interest is the history of the instruments and media which archaeologists have developed to aid the transformation of artifacts into written explanations. He previously taught at Birkbeck College, University of London, and held research fellowships at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the Centre Louis Gernet in Paris. He is the editor of West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture.