Dear friends and supporters, We are happy to announce the launch of our planned giving program, called Aegean Legacy Circle (https://instapstudycenter.net/aegean-legacy-circle/). Planned giving is intended as a way for donors to make charitable contributions…
Until quite recently the received wisdom was that none of the Mediterranean islands were colonized until the Neolithic, ca. 9000 years ago in the case of the Aegean (Crete), despite the fact that archaic humans…
Nick Ervin visited the Study Center back in April and asked the staff about their work and needs. One of the much-needed items for the William D.E. Coulson conservation lab was a new compact ultrasonic…
Congratulations to Matina Papadaki who just finished sorting the last heavy residue samples from the 2004-2020 campaigns of the Petras Excavation Project directed by Dr. M. Tsipopoulou. Matina estimates the total number of samples to…
Diane Kounalakis, president of the Pancretan Association of America, and Anne Gryllakis Roberts visited the Study Center in late July, where they learned about our activities and recent projects. Diane and Anne had the chance…
It is our great pleasure to report a new gift by Nick Ervin which will enrich our library’s holdings in early travel to Crete. The donation includes the following: Sieber’s Travels in the Island of…
We would like to provide an update for our friends and supporters regarding our ongoing fundraising campaign to establish an Emergency Site Conservation Fund that will cover immediate site conservation costs for vulnerable archaeological sites…
It is always a pleasure to host the Summer Session of the ASCSA. This year’s group of 20 students is led by Professor Amelia Brown of the University of Queensland and Professor Amy Smith of…
Our 2024 conservation intern, Eleftheria Iakovaki, is enthusiastic to begin her summer INSTAP internship experience. Thanks to the generosity of donors she will be with us in the lab for 8 weeks, helping to conserve…
In June we hosted at the SCEC Anna Tsoupra, our petrography intern for 2024. Anna is in the final year of her Ph.D. at the Dept. of Earth Sciences, Univ. of Evora (Portugal). Her thesis…