Elite competition is often seen as one of the principal forces behind social change. Such behavior creates new connections between people and new institutions. Such is the case for social change in Iron Age Greece…
The timing and process of the dispersal of domestic animals from the Near East to Europe is an old and familiar question to researchers of the Neolithic. Every generation tackles it with new methodologies and…
The Friends of the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete have launched a new group on Facebook. To join the group, please contact Dr. Elizabeth Shank at elizabethshank@hotmail.com for details. Join Now!
The excavation at Pylos of the Tomb of the Griffin Warrior in 2015 provided welcome new material from the 15th century BCE Aegean which has continued to stimulate lively discussion in print and anecdotally among…
Three decades of survey and excavation have brought to light important settlements of the LM IIIC period in the north isthmus of Ierapetra. Among the significant finds are a range of cult objects such as…
Since the early 1970s, intensive surveys have yielded important information about rural settlement patterns and land use across all periods of Crete's history. Analysis of survey results, however, has often consisted largely of building settlement…
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…
