1st CIRCULAR Ladies and gentlemen, At the closing session of the 13th International Congress of Cretan Studies (ICCS), it was decided that the organization of the next 14th ICCS would be undertaken by the Philological…
Join us in celebrating International Archaeology Day by supporting the next generation of scholars in our field! Your contributions will directly fund our internships and fellowships at the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete for the year…
The excavations, including those of the last five years, of the flourishing Early Cycladic II settlement, Skarkos II, on the island of Ios, have provided valuable evidence for the craft activities of the Early Cycladic…
A talk in Greek by Dimitra Mylona presented by the Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory and the Hellenic Open University on 18 Sept 2024. Now available on YouTube. Enjoy!
On the 26th of September, the Study Center was delighted to welcome students and faculty from the 1st Gymnasio (middle school) of Ierapetra and Loekamp Gymnasium at Marl (Germany) to the Study Center. This visit…
Carly Henkel and Evi Margaritis have recently published an article, titled “Revisiting the Archaeobotany of Prehistoric Crete”, that will appear in the October 2024 issue of the American Journal of Archaeology. This paper not only…
Many thanks to Georgos Mastorakis who so enjoyed a tour of the building that he decided to make a donation of materials always needed in the conservation lab!
Analysing iconography is a viable path, among many others, for gaining a better understanding of the interrelations between the Cyclades and Minoan Crete during the Neopalatial period and thus for approaching issues traditionally characterised by…
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…