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…
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…