A5085527291- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Law, logistics, and international trade
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Marine and environmental studies
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Ancient Near East History
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
2012-2024
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
2021
The cultural use of pigments in human societies is associated with ritual activities and the creation social memory. Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Turkey, 7100-5950 cal BC) provides a unique case study for exploration links between burials, demographic data colourants contemporary architectural contexts. This presents first combined analysis funerary evidence pigment Anatolia discusses possible processes underlying observed statistical patterns. Results reveal that were either applied directly to...
The Neolithic inhabitants of Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia used local wetland and riparian environments for a variety different tasks throughout the site's occupation. These tended to vary year as resources became available residents organized their labor focus on particular tasks. authors summarize paleoenvironmental archaeological data from recent analyses at describe how use fluctuated over course typical Çatalhöyük, well these patterns changed Çatalhöyük's later reorganized ways which...
This paper examines agriculture, farming and dietary resources in east Crete, re-evaluates the role of grape olive its prehistoric economy, these being key debates on emergence social complexity. To do so bioarchaeological, paleoenvironmental landscape survey data from Bronze Age town at Palaikastro territory are combined. The results indicate a highly compartmentalised landscape, including intensive crop cultivation extensive animal herding with careful monitoring to maintain productivity....
The Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük offers an exceptional dataset for studying pigment usage over one-thousand years the existence settlement. inhabitants produced a rich palette colors, with pigments applied to objects, in architectural paintings, and treatment dead. This article discusses evidence at based on data collected during twenty-five research under directorship Ian Hodder (1993–2017).
This is a report on the second season of five-year (2022–2026) archaeological project at site Mycenaean Pefkakia, which collaboration between Polish Archaeological Institute Athens and Ephorate Antiquities Magnesia. In 2023, following an extensive geophysical survey geoarchaeological corings conducted during previous season, two trenches were opened in sectors designated as B C. Sector B, burial ground from late Hellenistic–Roman period was found, several amphora burials well single tile...
We explore the ways in which residents of Neolithic Çatalhöyük Anatolia differentiated themselves as well they did not. integrate numerous data sets order to assess patterns inequality (A) across buildings with contemporaneous occupations, (B) between that or not burn at abandonment, and (C) through time. use Gini coefficients so maximize comparability other studies ancient modern worlds, discussing underlying our results clarify enhance value quantitative analyses. evaluate whether...
Abstract The Kastro peninsula constitutes the extension towards West of Myrina, Lemnos capital, on western coast island, in North Aegean Sea. ongoing research project rock-cut features and rock-art this complex site included a five-year (2002–2007) subsurface investigation, during which, among other mobile finds, charcoal seashell samples were also collected, associated situ to features. Subsequently, an attempt bring about information dating site, investigation based 14 C has been...
The highly perishable nature of earthen architecture in the Bronze Age Aegean, where walls were largely built sundried mudbricks set on a stone socle, has hindered an accurate perception buildings this period and region. recent proliferation research is slowly recognising their systematic use construction, but primary evidence still difficult to collect. Here, we explore potential marine shells generate data for reconstruction especially Crete. We argue that tiny molluscan inadvertently...
The dataset presented here includes four .csv files with primary archaeobotanical, large mammal bone, mollusc and fish remains data, recovered during the PALAP project at Palaikastro, east Crete, Greece, between 2013 2015. data describe bioarchaeological from south-east sector of Bronze Age town systematic sampling employing flotation, dry-sieving hand collection. All were identified quantified using established methodologies then stored premises British School Athens in Crete (Ayios...
Archaeologists have adopted the Gini coefficient to evaluate unequal accumulations of material, supporting narratives modelled on modern inequality discourse. Proxies are defined for wealth and household, render 21st century-style economic tensions perceptible in past. This ‘property paradigm’ treats material culture as a generic rather than substantive factor pasts. We question this framing while suggesting that can prompt deeper exploration value. Our study grows from multi-material...
Open spaces at Çatalhöyük are once simple and multifarious. We use familiar terms to refer them. At times we conflate them with the accumulation of discard waste, other frame as an extension domestic sphere. Yet these portrayals inevitably fall short encapsulating intricacy open in Neolithic architectural landscape. As common physical social setting for inhabitants Çatalhöyük, represent materialized consensus. This study highlights multiplicity complexity spaces. It also emphasizes how...