Aldrete: chapter is published, and book soon to come

Prof. Greg Aldrete of Humanistic Studies reports the book manuscript presenting the research from the Linothorax Project has just finished the peer review process and has been formally accepted for publication by Johns Hopkins University Press. Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery: Reconstructing and Testing Ancient Linen Armor was written by Aldrete, former student and UW-Green Bay graduate Scott Bartell, and Alicia Aldrete. Additionally, newly in print is the project’s first major scholarly publication. A chapter titled “The UW-Green Bay Linothorax Project: Reconstructing and Testing Ancient Linen Body Armor” appears in the book, Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, from the German publisher Oldenbourg Verlag. The publication is the result of a major conference on experimental archaeology that took place in Berlin, at which the UW-Green Bay team presented a poster.