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According to Wikipedia, Ian Matthew Morris is a British historian, archaeologist, and Willard Professor of Classics at Stanford University. Early life Morris was born on 27 January 1960 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. He attended Alleyne's High School, a comprehensive school in Stone, Staffordshire. He studied at the University of Birmingham, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1981. He undertook a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1985. His doctoral thesis was titled "Burial and society at Athens, 1100-500 BC".

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The Cambridge economic history of the Greco-Roman world (2007) (348)
An Introduction To The Algae. (1971) (327)
The Use and Abuse of Homer (1986) (255)
The Historical Dimension in Mortuary Expressions of Status and Sentiment [and Comments and Reply] (1989) (244)
The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations (2013) (211)
Burial and Ancient Society: The Rise of the Greek City State (1989) (209)
A New Companion to Homer (1997) (162)
Why the West Rules—For Now (2010) (154)
Economic Growth in Ancient Greece (2004) (152)
Evolutionary history (2022) (144)
Children and Childhood in Classical Athens (1992) (137)
Increased Affluence Explains the Emergence of Ascetic Wisdoms and Moralizing Religions (2015) (130)
Archaeology as Cultural History: Words and Things in Iron Age Greece (1991) (127)
Gift and Commodity in Archaic Greece (1986) (125)
Why the West rules--for now : the patterns of history, and what they reveal about the future (2010) (123)
The Archaeology of Ancestors: The Saxe/Goldstein Hypothesis Revisited (1991) (122)
Review Article: The Athenian Economy Twenty Years after the Ancient Economy (1994) (117)
Classical Greece : ancient histories and modern archaeologies (1996) (114)
The ancient economy : evidence and models (2005) (105)
Peter Turchin. Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth. (2017) (99)
Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity: Conclusion (1992) (98)
Archaeology as cultural history (2000) (92)
Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity: Bibliography (1992) (92)
The early polis as city and state (2003) (75)
Burial and Ancient Society: The Rise of the Greek City-State (1989) (74)
Archaeology as a social science (2012) (74)
The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium (2009) (71)
An explicit counterexample to the Lagarias-Wang finiteness conjecture (2010) (71)
Mediterraneanization (2003) (71)
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve (2015) (67)
The Early Roman Empire: The State and the Economy (2007) (64)
Mather sets for sequences of matrices and applications to the study of joint spectral radii (2011) (62)
Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity: Contents (1992) (58)
Circulation, Deposition and the Formation of the Greek Iron Age (1989) (57)
The Growth of Greek Cities in the First Millennium BC (2005) (56)
War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots (2014) (56)
Tomb cult and the ‘Greek renaissance’: the past in the present in the 8th century BC (1988) (46)
Homer and the Iron Age (1997) (45)
Lefkandi II: The Protogeometric Building at Toumba, Pt. 2: The Excavation, Architecture and Finds (1994) (44)
Democracy 2500? : Questions and challenges (1998) (42)
The Early Roman Empire: Production (2007) (42)
The Eighth‐Century Revolution (2005) (40)
A rapidly-converging lower bound for the joint spectral radius via multiplicative ergodic theory (2009) (40)
The generalized Berger-Wang formula and the spectral radius of linear cocycles (2009) (36)
Continuity properties of the lower spectral radius (2013) (36)
Attitudes toward death in Archaic Greece. (1989) (34)
Maximizing measures of generic Hölder functions have zero entropy (2008) (34)
A sufficient condition for the subordination principle in ergodic optimization (2007) (33)
Ergodic optimization for generic continuous functions (2010) (32)
On equality of Hausdorff and affinity dimensions, via self-affine measures on positive subsystems (2016) (32)
Classical Greece: Production (2007) (29)
THE ABSOLUTE CHRONOLOGY OF THE GREEK COLONIES IN SICILY (1996) (29)
STANFORD UNIVERSITY EXCAVATIONS ON THE ACROPOLIS OF MONTE POLIZZO, SICILY, I: PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE 2000 SEASON (2001) (27)
Negotiated Peripherality in Iron Age Greece: Accepting and Resisting the East (1996) (27)
Entropy for Zero-Temperature Limits of Gibbs-Equilibrium States for Countable-Alphabet Subshifts of Finite Type (2007) (27)
Household and Gender (2007) (25)
Archaeology and Gender Ideologies in Early Archaic Greece (1999) (24)
The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society (2005) (23)
An inequality for the matrix pressure function and applications (2015) (21)
Hellenistic Greece and Western Asia Minor (2007) (21)
Composing Culture: The Authority of an Electronic Text [and Comments and Reply] (1991) (21)
Structure of equilibrium states on self‐affine sets and strict monotonicity of affinity dimension (2016) (21)
Lyapunov optimizing measures for C1 expanding maps of the circle (2008) (20)
Equilibrium states of generalised singular value potentials and applications to affine iterated function systems (2017) (19)
Ergodic properties of matrix equilibrium states (2016) (19)
Early Iron Age Greece (2007) (18)
The Late Republic (2007) (17)
Criteria for the stability of the finiteness property and for the uniqueness of Barabanov norms (2009) (17)
Domination, almost additivity, and thermodynamic formalism for planar matrix cocycles (2018) (16)
The Evolution of War (2012) (15)
The Iron Age in the Western Mediterranean (2007) (15)
The Collapse and Regeneration of Complex Society in Greece, 1500-500 BC (2005) (14)
War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in civilisation, from primates to robots (2014) (14)
To Make a New Thermopylae: Hellenism, Greek Liberation, and the Battle of Thermopylae* (2000) (13)
Approximating the maximum ergodic average via periodic orbits (2008) (13)
The Community-Led Infrastructure Finance Facility (2006) (13)
On a Devil's staircase associated to the joint spectral radii of a family of pairs of matrices (2011) (13)
Classical Greece: Distribution (2007) (13)
The Mañé–Conze–Guivarc’h lemma for intermittent maps of the circle (2009) (12)
Characterization of dominated splittings for operator cocycles acting on Banach spaces (2015) (12)
Burial and Ancient Society after ten years (1998) (10)
The Western Provinces (2007) (10)
The little magazine in contemporary America (2015) (9)
The Athenian Empire (478-404 BC) (2005) (9)
Measuring Sex, Age and Death in the Roman Empire: Explorations in Ancient Demography (review) (2000) (9)
Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics (2005) (9)
An Introduction to Seshat (2019) (8)
The Aegean Bronze Age (2007) (8)
Lefkandi III: The Early Iron Age Cemetery at Toumba. The Excavations of 1981 to 1994: Plates (1998) (8)
Extremal sequences of polynomial complexity (2012) (8)
The Measure of Civilization (2013) (8)
Village society and the rise of the Greek state (1994) (7)
7. The Economic Sociology of the Ancient Mediterranean World (2010) (7)
A necessary and sufficient condition for a matrix equilibrium state to be mixing (2016) (7)
The distribution of power: Hierarchy and its discontents (2015) (7)
Effective estimates on the top Lyapunov exponents for random matrix products (2019) (7)
A New Sufficient Condition for the Uniqueness of Barabanov Norms (2011) (7)
An introduction to Seshat: Global History Databank (2019) (6)
A converse statement to Hutchinson’s theorem and a dimension gap for self-affine measures (2019) (6)
Iron Age Greece and the meanings of “princely tombs” (1999) (6)
Archaeology and Greek slavery (2011) (6)
Kakadu National Park, Australia (2019) (6)
Rank one matrices do not contribute to the failure of the finiteness property (2011) (5)
The Gortyn Code and Greek Kinship (1990) (5)
Military and Political Participation in Archaic-Classical Greece (2005) (5)
Prevalent uniqueness in ergodic optimisation (2020) (5)
The Transition to Late Antiquity (2007) (5)
A rigorous version of R. P. Brent's model for the binary Euclidean algorithm (2014) (5)
A strongly irreducible affine iterated function system with two invariant measures of maximal dimension (2019) (5)
An explicit formula for the pressure of box-like affine iterated function systems (2017) (5)
Marginally unstable discrete-time linear switched systems with highly irregular trajectory growth (2021) (4)
On Falconer's formula for the generalised Renyi dimension of a self-affine measure (2015) (4)
Plagues and Socioeconomic Collapse (2017) (4)
Why western science conquered the world (2010) (4)
Analyticity of the affinity dimension for planar iterated function systems with matrices which preserve a cone (2019) (3)
THE STRONG PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY AND THE ARCHAIC ORIGINS OF GREEK DEMOCRACY (2021) (3)
Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity: Taking it with you: grave goods and Athenian democracy (1992) (3)
Sparta in Modern Thought: Politics, History and Culture (2012) (3)
Generic properties of the lower spectral radius for some low-rank pairs of matrices (2015) (3)
Some observations on Käenmäki measures (2017) (3)
Response to Papadopoulos (I): The Kerameikos Stratigraphy and the Character of the Greek Dark Age (2016) (3)
The unexpected origin of human values (2015) (3)
Turchin, Peter. 2016. Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth. (2017) (3)
Troy and Homer (2005) (3)
Greek cities in the first millenniumBCE (2015) (3)
Reinventing History: The Enlightenment Origins of Ancient History (2008) (3)
Dominated splittings for semi-invertible operator cocycles on Hilbert space (2014) (2)
A note on configurations in sets of positive density which occur at all large scales (2013) (2)
How long is the chaos game? (2020) (2)
A short proof that the number of division steps in the Euclidean algorithm is normally distributed (2015) (2)
Fast approximation of the affinity dimension for dominated affine iterated function systems (2018) (2)
The Relative Clause in Broad Perspective (1969) (2)
Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity: At the bottom of the graves: an example of analysis (1992) (2)
ON THE ACROPOLIS OF MONTE POLIZZO , SICILY , II : PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE 2001 SEASON (2003) (2)
Navigating the Grotesque; or, Rethinking Greek Historiography (2008) (2)
Burial and society at Athens, 1100-500 BC (1985) (2)
Microelectronics in Scottish Education. (1982) (1)
Mecca and Macoraba (2018) (1)
Household archaeology and gender ideology in archaic greece (1999) (1)
On affine iterated function systems which robustly admit an invariant affine subspace (2021) (1)
Fast Approximation of the $p$-Radius, Matrix Pressure, or Generalized Lyapunov Exponent for Positive and Dominated Matrices (2019) (1)
A note on the marginal instability rates of two-dimensional linear cocycles (2023) (1)
Greek Multicity States (2013) (1)
Empire and Military Organization (2021) (1)
Inequalities for some matrix pressure functions and applications (2015) (1)
L q -spectra of self-affine measures: closed forms, counterexamples, and split binomial sums (2018) (1)
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: China, the European Union, and the United States in the Twenty-First Century (2013) (1)
Shrines of the Mighty: Rediscovering the Battlefields of the Persian Wars (2007) (1)
How war made the world more peaceful (2014) (1)
Totally Ergodic Generalised Matrix Equilibrium States have the Bernoulli Property (2020) (1)
The Living Treasure of Kakadu (2000) (0)
Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity: The anthropology of a dead world (1992) (0)
The Meanings of Death (1995) (0)
Book Review:Lending and Borrowing in Ancient Athens Paul Millett (1993) (0)
A Natural History and Field Guide to Australia's Top End (2014) (0)
The Ma˜ nh lemma for intermittent maps of the circle (2009) (0)
Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization.Richard Sennett (1995) (0)
Themistocles: Defender of Greece (2003) (0)
Chapter 5. War-Making Capacity (2013) (0)
Epidemic Smallpox, Roman Demography, and the Rapid Growth of Early Christianity, 160 Ce to 310 Ce Introduction and Motivation for Research the Great Pestilence Hypotheses of a Plague-christianity Interaction Evidence of Infant Exposure (0)
Did food and fuel help shape our value systems (2015) (0)
T. G. Parkin, Demography and Roman Society (Ancient society and history). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Pp. xvi + 225, 10 figs, 12 tables, ISBN 0-8018-4377-4. £22.50. (1993) (0)
Some observations on K\"aenm\"aki measures (2017) (0)
Chapter 7. Discussion: The Limits and Potential of Measuring Development (2013) (0)
and for the uniqueness of Barabanov norms (2010) (0)
MODERN THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO HOMER John Peradotto [ From (2001) (0)
Review of Nash, Walter (1993) Jargon: Its uses and abuses (1999) (0)
Scale, Information-Processing, and Complementarities in Old-World Axial Age Societies (2022) (0)
The correct interpretation of s 17(4)(c) of the Road Accident Fund Act 56 of 1996 : practice note (2014) (0)
Book Review:Diseases in the Ancient Greek World Mirko D. Grmek, Mireille Muellner, Leonard Muellner (1991) (0)
Chapter 2. Methods and Assumptions (2013) (0)
Book Review:Ritualised Friendship and the Greek City Gabriel Herman (1990) (0)
科学は真に"科学的"か? (1967) (0)
Absent Archimedes – what? (2022) (0)
Chapter 10. My Correct Views on Everything (2015) (0)
History in Revolution (2008) (0)
A variational principle relating self-affine measures to self-affine sets (2023) (0)
Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity: ‘Mos Romanus’: cremation and inhumation in the Roman empire (1992) (0)
Greek Traders (2005) (0)
Por qué aún domina Occidente (2012) (0)
Lyapunov-maximizing measures for pairs of weighted shift operators (2015) (0)
On dense intermingling of exact overlaps and the open set condition (2022) (0)
Chapter 2. Foragers (2015) (0)
Book Review:Troy and the Trojans: A Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College, October 1984 Machteld J. Mellink (1989) (0)
Chapter 3. Energy Capture (2013) (0)
Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity: Famous last words: the inscribed tombstone (1992) (0)
Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity: ‘Dem bones’: skeletal remains (1992) (0)
Chapter 6. Information Technology (2013) (0)
Prelude to Democracy: Political thought in Early Greek Texts (2008) (0)
Chapter 1. Introduction: Quantifying Social Development (2013) (0)
Chapter 1. Each Age Gets the Thought it Needs (2015) (0)
Book Review:Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet Barry B. Powell (1993) (0)
The first great divergence : China and Europe , 500-800 CE ” (0)
Barry Cunliffe. By steppe, desert, and ocean: the birth of Eurasia . 2015. ix+530 pages, numerous colour and bw 978-0-19-968917-0 hardback £30. (2016) (0)
Chapter 5. The Evolution of Values: Biology, Culture, and the Shape of Things to Come (2015) (0)
Map of sites in Greece discussed in this book (1992) (0)
When Bad Things Happen to Rich People (2014) (0)
Chapter 3. Farmers (2015) (0)
Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity: Preface (1994) (0)
An irreducible linear switching system whose unique Barabanov norm is not strictly convex (2023) (0)
Événements de circonstance: the Classical Tradition in the Age of Revolution (2012) (0)
What is Ancient History? (2016) (0)
Power and institutions in medieval islam and christendom (2019) (0)
Chapter 4. Social Organization Chapter (2013) (0)
A stability dichotomy for discrete-time linear switching systems in dimension two (2023) (0)
Map of sites in the Roman empire discussed in this book (1992) (0)
A note on configurations in sets of positive density which occur at all large scales (2015) (0)
Introduction: Quantifying Social Development (2013) (0)
The power of Topoi : J. Ober, Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens : Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People, 1989 (1993) (0)
Lest we forget (2010) (0)
Book Review: Intelligence-Led Policing (2008) (0)
Against Method (2022) (0)
Troy and Homer: Towards a Solution of an Old Mystery. By Joachim Latacz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. [xix] + 342. $45.00 (cloth). (2006) (0)
Networked information services in context sensitive environments (2002) (0)
Equilibrium states of generalised singular value potentials and applications to affine iterated function systems (2018) (0)
dead, disposal of (2015) (0)
Figures and Tables (2015) (0)
Chapter 14. Classical Archaeology (2008) (0)
The Next 40 Years Will Be the Most Important in History (2011) (0)
Chapter 4. Fossil Fuels (2015) (0)
ISLAM AND THE DISSOLUTION OF LATE ANTIQUITY (2013) (0)
Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity: Monuments to the dead: display and wealth in classical Greece (1992) (0)

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