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
We would like to inform you that from January onwards we will upgrade the rest sections of our website. As a consequence, our website will be updated sporadically.
Also, due to our heavy workload, the newsletter of January and February will not be sent to our members. Brief notices, however, will continue to be sent via email.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Dear members and friends,
Summer has come to an end, and Aegeus returns to its duties! We are very pleased to announce the Aegean lectures for autumn, which are organized in collaboration with the Swedish Institute (Mitseon 9, Athens).
Happy new academic year!
Aegeus is pleased to invite you to its Annual Meeting which will take place on Thursday the 2nd of June 2016, at 6:30 pm, at the British School a t Athens, Upper House.
Aegeus’ work undertaken during the previous year will be presented, and Prof. John Bennet (British School at Athens – University of Sheffield) will give a lecture entitled “What were Aegean texts for?”.
Aegeus-Society for Aegean Prehistory and the Swedish Institute at Athens are very pleased to announce the Aegean lectures for the period January – June 2016 and invite you to our first lecture. The lectures will take place at the Swedish Institute at Athens (Μitseon 9, Acropolis Metro station), every month.
We wish you a very prosperous and happy new year! We are pleased to inform you that we have added a review-article in our journal “Aegean Studies”. The review-article, written by Dr Vasso Fotou, is entitled: Calculating the manpower requirements for the construction of Neopalatial buildings in Crete: pitfalls, challenges and possibilities. For further information please see the section of our journal Aegean Studies.
It is our great pleasure to inform you that the Archaeological Receipts Fund (TAP) donated to the library of Aegeus dozens of monographs on prehistoric archeology, as well as the journals Αρχαιολογικό Δελτίο and Αρχαιολογικά Ανάλεκτα εξ Αθηνών. We would like to express our warmest thanks to the Archaeological Receipts Fund for this important donation.
Aegeus begins the new academic year with a significant donation! The Archaeological Society at Athens donated to the library of Aegeus dozens of monographs on prehistoric archeology, as well as the journals Αρχαιολογική Εφημερίς, Praktika and Ergon. We would like to express our warmest thanks to the Archaeological Society and in particular to the Secretary General Dr Vasileios Ch. Petrakos for this very generous and most valuable donation.
Dear members and friends, we wish you a happy summer! During the summer, our website will be updated only sporadically as most of us are participating in excavations and other research projects. Please, don’t forget to renew your subscription. Our next newsletter will be sent on 1 October.
See you in October!
On April 29 Sophia Tsourinaki, professor and ancient textile specialist, led a tour at SEN Heritage Looms of the Society for the Education of Young Women (SEYW). We would like to thank her for this tour, and in particular for her introductory presentation on prehistoric weaving equipment and techniques. It is our pleasure to note that the tour was attended by a lot of people who are not prehistoric archaeologists!
On Wednesday, April 29, at 6.00 pm, Sophia Tsourinaki, professor and ancient textile specialist, will lead a tour at the Historical Weaving Mill of the Society for the Education of Young Women (SEYW).
We would like to thank cordially Theodoros Giannopoulos for his excellent lecture on the Indo-European problem and the “Coming of the Greeks”. We would, also, like to give our sincere thanks to the numerous members and friends who attended the lecture.
We would like to thank cordially Peter Pavuk for his lecture on the survival of Middle Helladic traditions into Late Bronze Age in Central Greece, that he gave on March 27, 2015. We would, also, like to give our sincere thanks to the numerous members and friends who attended the lecture.
