About the Authors

Nicholas Rauh is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Purdue University.  Since 1996 he has served as project director to the Rough Cilicia Archaeological Survey Project. Recent project-related publications include N. K. Rauh, R. F. Townsend, M. Hoff, L. Wandsnider, “Pirates in the bay of Pamphylia: an archaeological inquiry,” in The Sea in Antiquity, Graham Oliver, Roger Brock, Tim Cornell, and Stephen Hodkinson, eds., (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports International Series 899, 2000), pp. 151-180; N. K. Rauh and K. W. Slane, “Amphora Production in Western Rough Cilicia,” Journal of Roman Archaeology 13 (2000), pp. 319-330; N. K. Rauh, “Rough Cilicia Regional Archaeological Survey Project,” Near Eastern Archaeology 62 (1999), pp. 54-55; and N. K. Rauh, “Who Were the Cilician Pirates?” in Res Maritimae: Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity, Stuart Swiny, Robert Hohlfelder, and Helena Swiny, eds. (Atlanta, Ga.:  Scholars Press, 1997),  pp. 263-283.

Larry Theller is a GIS specialist for the Center for Advanced Applications in GIS, a group housed in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University.  The CAAGIS center provides training and data support to research efforts in many areas of the Purdue system.  Larry also assists departmental faculty who teach GIS courses, which utilize software products such as ESRI’s MapObjects, Arc INFO, and ArcView; Farmwork’s Farm Site Mate; and SSToolbox, by the SST Development Group Inc.  His current passion is mapping small lakes in Canada with a canoe-borne GPS.