In June and July, Tina McGeorge led the Hagios Charalambos Human Bone Project comprised of a dozen students from six countries (America, United Kingdom, Canada, China, Ireland, and Romania), who studied the loose teeth from…
Joe Shaw’s recent donation to the Study Center Library inspired this book review-commentary on The Mesara Master: Her Embroidered Pictorial Narrative of a Springtime Wedding in Crete, written by Joseph W. Shaw, Aristomenes Polyzois, Giuliana…
All of us at the INSTAP Study Center wish to congratulate our former petrography intern, Stavroula Fouriki, on the completion of her Ph.D. entitled "Exploring the 'ceramic landscape' of Late Bronze Age Chania, Crete (c.…
This lecture considers Minoan and Mycenaean dress within the broader milieu of the ancient Near East and Egypt. As valuable as precious metals, a significant commodity of trade, luxurious in design and decoration, Minoan dress rivaled…
Mathilde Van Dalen is a full-time student at ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels, Belgium where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in conservation-restoration of ceramic and glass objects. She is currently in the first year of…
With gratitude... All of us at the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete would like to thank Henry "Nick" Ervin for his generous donation of books to the Center's library. Nick's interest in Greece and…
Charlotte Pearson, from the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, was visiting Crete to develop collaborations with archaeological teams interested in establishing a tree-ring and radiocarbon-based chronology for Crete. Recent developments in Accelerator Mass…
The Study Center congratulates Evi Margaritis, Artemios Oikonomou, Efthymia Nikita and Thilo Rehren, the editors of this valuable guide which contains 23 chapters offering state-of-the-art information on the application of different types of environmental science…
Download the full program here! Guided by archaeologist and wine writer Al Leonard, and leading archaeologists including Tom Brogan (Director of the INSTAP SCEC) and Kostas Chalikias (Assistant Director of INSTAP), as well as guest…
We want to thank the staff of the Heraklion Museum for helping our members and staff on two recent projects. The first was organized by Leslie Day and involves a new study of Harriet Boyd’s…