The 2020 petrography intern, Stavroula Fouriki, examined thin sections of Late Minoan IB–IIIB:2 pottery from Chania as part of her doctoral research at the University of Sheffield. She is using petrography and elemental analyses to…
Kathy Hall and Matina Tzari have finished conserving nearly 2,000 objects excavated by Dr. Metaxia Tsipopoulou in Ceremonial Area 2 of the Minoan cemetery of Kephala Petras. In 2014 our staff spent six months sorting…
“Work at the Study Center during the Covid-19 Pandemic,” Eleanor Huffman and Thomas M. Brogan, pp. 1–2. “Neopalatial Building B.2 on Chryssi Island,” Chrysa Sofianou, pp. 3–5. ““Intergenderism” in Neopalatial Seal Imagery with a Special…
Dr. Maria Anastasiadou, this year’s recipient of the Harriet Boyd Hawes Fellowship, will spend six weeks at INSTAP SCEC exploring the topic of “Intergenderism in Minoan Seal Imagery.” A summary of her results will appear…
In July Prof. Natalia Poulou brought a small team of students from the University of Thessaloniki to complete her study of the Byzantine pottery from Pseira and to continue excavation of a Byzantine bath complex…
On March 18, 2020, the INSTAP Study Center closed along with the majority of Greek businesses as part of a government plan to control the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Some of our employees were…
Study Center zooarchaeologist, Dimitra Mylona, publishes Innovative Study of Aegean coastal communities in the Bronze Age.
Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan reports on her recent sabbatical at the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete Video: “A Site for All Periods: The Diachronicity of Mochlos, East Crete”
Study Center Director, Thomas Brogan, delivers the M. Joukowsky Lecture to AIA societies in Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, and San Diego
On January 4, 2020, the new Friends of the INSTAP Study Center (FISC) organization held its foundational gathering at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) in Washington, D.C. Tom Brogan presented…