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…
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…