Aegeus-Society for Aegean Prehistory and the Swedish Institute at Athens are very pleased to announce the Aegean Lectures for the academic year 2017-2018. All lectures until April will take place at the Swedish Institute (Mitseon 9, Athens), at 19:00 on the following dates:

Friday, 10 November 2017

Living, dying, and praying on a Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age mountainous site: preliminary results of the 2015-2017 archaeological fieldwork on the Anavlochos, Crete
Florence Gaignerot-Driessen (Humboldt research fellow at the University of Heidelberg/EFA/CNRS Archéorient/Aegis)

Friday, 1 December 2017

Working (with) class. Ideology, ritual and labour in Middle Bronze Age Erimi (Cyprus)
Luca Bombardieri (Università di Torino)

Friday, 26 January 2018

The northeastern Aegean bone industries as case study of local cultural dynamics
Rozalia Christidou (CNRS/UMR 5133-Archéorient, research associate)

February 2018

Clothing and texile crafts in the Aegean Neolithic. Experimentations, technology, and design (lecture in Greek)
Kalliope Sarri (Postdoc researcher, Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen)

Friday, 30 March 2018

Maritime dialogues: Scales and modes of interaction between prehistoric Heraion of Samos and the rest of the Aegean (lecture in Greek)
Ourania Kouka (University of Cyprus)

Friday, 27 April 2018

Excavating a looted cemetery: methods and results from Chalcolithic Souskiou-Laona on Cyprus
Lindy Crewe (Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute)

Beginning of June 2018 (Annual Meeting of Aegeus)

How the West was Won: Iklaina and Mycenaean State Formation
Michael B. Cosmopoulos (University of Missouri-St. Louis)