Dr. Benjamin Luley
Professor of Anthropology, Gettysburg College
Benjamin Luley is an archaeologist whose research focuses on Iron Age and Roman Europe and the Mediterranean, with particular interest in how the expansion of the Roman Empire affected the Celtic peoples of France. A native of central Pennsylvania, he holds a B.A. in history and anthropology from Penn State University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago. Ben excavates at the archaeological site of Lattara in southern France, where he and colleagues uncovered the remains of a first-century B.C. tavern, and has also led Gettysburg College students in fieldwork at the Revolutionary War site of Camp Security near York, Pennsylvania. Locally, he has excavated on Seminary Ridge and at the Hopkins House in collaboration with the American Battlefield Trust and Gettysburg History, as well as on the Gettysburg College campus. He also served as an advisor during the creation of Gettysburg History’s Beyond the Battle Museum.