Cyprus and the Levant from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age: Commercial and Cultural Connectivity on the Longue Durée

Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

ISAW Lecture Hall, 15 E 84th St., 5:30 PM. Please note that pre-registration is required; see link below

Cyprus, acknowledged as the island of copper already during ancient times, plays an integral part in discussions involving ancient Mediterranean connectivity. Research of recent years, including advances made by the project ComPAS, funded by the European Research Council, has acknowledged that Cypriot and Levantine communities were connected both commercially and culturally throughout the Late Bronze Age and into the Early Iron Age. Our lecture will present new and exciting data, that attest to the uninterrupted albeit transformed connectivity between the two regions. The evidence entails raw materials, prestigious artifacts and a plethora of ceramic fine wares and transport vessels that elucidate the involvement of the island’s communities within the oscillating character of Mediterranean long-distance trade. 

Biographies

Artemis Georgiou is Assistant Research Professor at the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus. She is the Principal Investigator of the research project ‘ComPAS’, a European Research Council Starting Grant(GA 947749) that investigates Mediterranean connectivity in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. She completed her BA at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus and continued with Masters’ and Doctoral studies at the University of Oxford. She received a postdoctoral Marie Sklodowska Curie Career Integration Grant for the research project ‘ARIEL’, which was implemented at the University of Cyprus, between the years 2013-2017. In 2018-2020, she held a University of Cyprus Internal Research and Teaching fellowship, and during 2020-2021 she was the Edgar Peltenburg Postdoctoral Fellow for Cypriot Prehistory at the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute.Artemis Georgiou participated in a number of archaeological fieldwork projects in Cyprus, Greece and Israel. In recent years, she has been collaborating with several missions for the study of pottery remains, such as the Palaepaphos Urban Landscape Project, the Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environment Project, the French Mission at Kition, the Lefkandi-Xeropolis project, the Archaeological Committee’s excavations at Mycenae, the Hazor Lower Acropolis project and the Tel Shiqmona Project in Israel. She has disseminated her research in numerous lectures and academic publications.

Anna Georgiadou is a research associate for the project ComPAS (ERC_STG_2020_947749) at the University of Cyprus, Archaeological Research Unit, and post-doctoral fellow at the University Lyon 2, Research unit HiSOMA, UMR 5189. She holds a BA degree in Archaeology and History of Art (2005) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She continued her postgraduate studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, at the University of Aix-Marseille, France (2006-2007) and completed her doctoral studies at the University Aix-Marseille, in international cotutelle with the University of Athens (2013). During 2014, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Haifa, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, Israel, and, between 2015-2017 she has undertaken post-doctoral research at theMaison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, HiSOMA, Université Lyon 2. Anna Georgiadou was the principal investigator of the research project MuseCo (Bringing Life to Old Museum Collections. EXCELLENCE HUBS/1216/0093, RIF, 2018-2021) at the Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus, and she coordinated the research project SCAUT (Saving Cypriot Antiquities Under Threat, 2020-2023, FOC-Swiss Federation), undertaken in collaboration with the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus. Anna Georgiadou has participated and been involved as Iron Age pottery expert in various research and excavation projects in Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Turkey and Lebanon. She has two monographs in preparation and has published numerous articles in collective edited volumes, peer-reviewed journals, and book chapters.