The natural world is a common theme in Bronze Age Cretan art and a popular topic of studies of Cretan material. As a subject in glyptic, however, its consideration is lacking. Through an iconographic study…
A webinar by Laura Ursprung Nerling, doctoral candidate in the Dept. of Ancient Mediterranean Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia, highlighted the results of her study of Prepalatial and Protopalatial larnakes from Crete. She noted…
After more than a century of intense archaeological research in Greece and the broader Mediterranean region, we are witnessing the alarming deterioration of built heritage. The increasing corpus of at-risk archaeological contexts has led to…
This fall Antigoni Kalara began work on her dissertation for the Dept. of History and Archaeology at the University of Athens under the supervision of Prof. Yiannis Papadatos. She had only planned to stay a…
This talk by Sotiria Kiorpe (above), doctoral candidate in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Thessaloniki, offered the first synthesis of the taphonomic and osteological evidence from the macroscopic study of the human…
Kentro: The Newsletter of the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete, volume 23 (Fall 2020) Is Now Available! Download Kentro Volume 23 (Fall 2020) Newsletter
This fall Carly Henkel (above right) began her doctoral studies under the supervision of Dr. Evi Margaritis (above left) at the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Cultural Research Center (STARC) of The Cyprus Institute…
This year’s Seager Fellow, Charles Sturge, is a graduate student in the Dept. of Classics at the University of Cincinnati and an associate member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. His dissertation…
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…