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Aegeus Society For Aegean Prehistory

AEGEAN LECTURES | 2025

Friday 14 March 2025, 19:00

The Mycenaean cemetery at Kolikrepi, Spata (lecture in Greek)

Swedish Institute at Athens (Μitseon 9, Acropolis Metro station)

The Mycenaean cemetery at Kolikrepi, Spata (lecture in Greek)

The site of Kolikrepi is located west of Spata (Attica), between the cemeteries of chamber tombs at Magouleza and Velanideza. During rescue archaeological works in 2009, conducted by the 2nd Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities (now Ephorate of Antiquities of East Attica), was found and excavated an extended unlooted cemetery dating from LH IIA up until LH IIIC.

Friday 16 Μay 2025, 19:00

Reconstructing a timber and mudbrick building at Malia: an experimental study of Minoan carpentry techniques during Protopalatial period (TiMMA Project)

Swedish Institute at Athens (Μitseon 9, Acropolis Metro station)

Reconstructing a timber and mudbrick building at Malia: an experimental study of Minoan carpentry techniques during Protopalatial period (TiMMA Project)

The scope of the project was the construction of an experimental structure using the building techniques characteristic of the Protopalatial period at Malia. This included walls with a rubble stone base and an upper section of plastered sun-dried bricks, reinforced with horizontal timber elements. The roof was designed to be flat, constructed with timber beams and reeds, finished with the typical layers of earth-based.

Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 18:30

Wetlands as refugia? Reassessing the emergence of Phaistos as a central place between the late fifth and late 3rd millennia BC

The lecture will take place at the British School at Athens, as part of the Annual Meeting of Aegeus

Wetlands as refugia? Reassessing the emergence of Phaistos as a central place between the late fifth and late 3rd millennia BC

Phaistos is mainly known in Aegean archaeology as a place where, at the beginning of the second millennium BC, a palace of Minoan type was constructed on a hill with a commanding view over the Messara plain. The plain, the largest in Crete, is commonly considered to be a fertile agricultural heartland and the emergence of Phaistos as a central place has been traditionally linked to its favorable position for controlling the production of agricultural surplus and the significant population growth that this sustained.