Olga Vassi (Ephorate of Antiquities of Chios) and Andrew Bevan (UCL) report on the first year of fieldwork in a new collaboration between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Chios and the BSA. Since 2021, this project has been implementing a comprehensive, intensive field survey of some 10 sq.km around Emborio, with a view both to enhancing the understanding of the hinterland of the site’s prehistoric and Archaic communities, and to contextualising a range of other known nearby...

Dimitra Malamidou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres), Nicolas Zorzin (National Cheng Kung University-Taiwan) and James Taylor (York) report on the second excavation season conducted at the Neolithic village of Toumba Serron on the eastern side of the Strymon valley of Northern Greece; a collaborative research programme between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres and the BSA.  Excavation work was preempted in November (2022) by a final visit to the site...

Michael Loy (Cambridge), Anastasia Christophilopoulou (Cambridge) and Naoíse Mac Sweeney (Vienna) report on the third season of the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project’s five-year research programme. Work this year focused on intensively exploring the Karlovasi basin in the northwest of Samos island (Fig. 1, Fig. 2). Five weeks were devoted to fieldwalking, with two weeks of ceramics study and ethnographic work already having taken place early in the year.  Intensive field...

Chrysa Sofianou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Lasithi), Carl Knappett (Toronto), Andrew Shapland (Oxford) and Theotokis Theodoulou (Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities) report on the third campaign of underwater exploration at Palaikastro. This year the synergasia between the British School at Athens and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lasithi saw the continuation of underwater survey and mapping. Over the course of five diving days, 5.5 km were covered. The dives...

Dimitra Malamidou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres), Nicolas Zorzin (National Cheng Kung University-Taiwan) and James Taylor (York) report on the first excavation season conducted in Toumba Serron, as part of a five-year collaborative research programme between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres and the BSA.  With the support of magnetometry operations done in 2021 it was possible to evaluate the limits of the site and the settlement’s organisation, but, despite some good...

Anastasia Christophilopoulou (Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge), Michael Loy (Cambridge), Naoíse Mac Sweeney (Vienna)  report on the second season of the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project five-year research programme. The season involved intensive pedestrian field survey in the Marathokampos basin of the island’s southwest, with an aim of fully documenting the spatial extent of two known sites, and locating any smaller sites in their hinterland: the first ‘Agios...

Theotokis Theodoulou (Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities), Chryssa Sofianou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Lasithi),m Carl Knappett (Toronto) and Andrew Shapland (Oxford) report on the second year of a three-year synergasia between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lasithi, the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, and the BSA. The team investigated both the Chiona promontory, which forms the southern breakwater of Chiona beach, and the coastline just to its southeast, East...

Jim  Crow (Edinburgh) and Mark Jackson (Mark Jsckson) report on a synergasia between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades and the British School at Athens, at Kato Choria, Naxos. Following several seasons of regional field survey and documentation of field structures in the vicinity of Apalirou Kastro in south Naxos (Fig. 1), the aim of the 2022 season was to initiate excavation of selected structures in the lower settlement of Kato Choria. To this end, a team of 10...

Theotokis Theodoulou (Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities), Carl Knappett (Toronto) and Andrew Shapland (Oxford) share this summary of the first year of fieldwork in a new three-year collaboration between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lasithi (Chryssa Sofianou), the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities and the BSA. In July-August 2021 an underwater survey was conducted in the area around Palaikastro. Sporadic underwater finds over the years have suggested sea level change and an ancient...

Olga Vassi (Ephorate of Antiquities of Chios) and Andrew Bevan (UCL) report on the first year of fieldwork in a new collaboration between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Chios and the BSA. Due its position at the interface between the eastern Aegean and western Anatolia, as well as its size and considerable natural resources, Chios has played an important role in major patterns of cultural, demographic and political flux. In particular the site of Emborio in southeastern Chios that provides...

Dimitra Malamidou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres), Nicolas Zorzin (National Cheng Kung University-Taiwan) and James Taylor (York) report on the first short season of this five-year collaborative research programme between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres and the BSA focusing on the Neolithic site of Toumba and the neighbouring Strymon valley.

Work accomplished in this first season included: magnetometer survey, drone (AUV) survey, and a pedestrian survey, as well as first...

Anastasia Christophilopoulou (Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge), Michael Loy (BSA), Naoíse Mac Sweeney (Vienna) and Jana Mokrišová (Cambridge) report on the first season of an intensive survey project on the island of Samos. In the first millennium BC, Samos was a powerful player in maritime trade and a place of pilgrimage due to its famed Sanctuary of Hera, which attracted more international visitors and dedications than any other Greek sanctuary. The island was also exceptional being...

Koutroulou Magoula. The Koutroulou Archaeology and Archaeological Ethnographic Project completed its tenth season in 2019. The tell site in the region of the village of Vardali, near Neo Monastiri, has an area of about 3.7ha and stands 6.6m above the surrounding plain. The site was a settlement founded in the Middle Neolithic (6000-5800 BC), also used for burials in the Late Bronze Age (15th-14th c. BC) and in the 12th c. AD. Among this year’s discoveries completion of the uncovering of an...

Olynthos. Bettina Tsigarida (Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella), Zosia Archibald (Liverpool) and Lisa Nevett (Michigan) report on a sixth, and final, season of this collaborative project seeking to recover a uniquely detailed picture of Greek households as social and economic units, within their broader urban and regional settings (Fig. 1). The project’s goals for its final season were: on the North Hill, to complete investigation of house B ix 6 and to clarify the nature of the...

Knossos, Gypsades. Ioanna Serpetsidaki (Ephorate of Antiquities of Herakleion), Gianna Ayala (Sheffield), Amy Bogaard (Oxford) and Eleni Hatzaki (Cincinnati) report on a short season of fieldwork undertaken by Dr John Pouncett (Oxford) on this collaborative project that seeks to investigate a neighbourhood within the southern suburbs of Minoan Knossos (Fig. 1). The 2014-15 excavations of Building 1 and adjacent areas, combined with Hood’s nearby excavations and Hogarth’s houses A and B,...

Keros-Dhaskalio. Colin Renfrew and Michael Boyd (Cambridge/BSA) report on a fourth and final field season of this project, which has focused on the ‘Small Cyclades’, the archipelago of small islands located between Naxos, Ios and Amorgos in the south-central Cyclades. Combining survey with excavation, the project has uncovered remarkable evidence for architecture and town planning, craft activities, and the widespread import of raw materials and finished goods: the first clear evidence for...

Koutroulou Magoula. Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika (Director Emerita, EPSNE), Vasilis Tsamis (UCL) and Yannis Hamilakis (Brown) report on the fourth season of a second five-year programme of collaborative work on the Middle Neolithic tell site. As in 2017, the major focus was on exploration of the slope and periphery, while excavation also continued on the top of the tell (Fig. 1). Work there helped clarify questions about the use of space in different temporal moments and to understand better...

Olynthos. Bettina Tsigarida (Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella), Zosia Archibald (Liverpool) and Lisa Nevett (Michigan) report on a fifth season of this collaborative project seeking to recover a uniquely detailed picture of Greek households as social and economic units, within their broader urban and regional settings (Fig. 1). Goals for the 2018 season on the North Hill were to continue investigation of house B ix 6, working towards completely revealing its final occupation phase and...

Knossos, Gypsades. Ioanna Serpetsidaki (Ephorate of Antiquities of Herakleion), Gianna Ayala (Sheffield), Amy Bogaard (Oxford) and Eleni Hatzaki (Cincinnati) report on a mixed season of study and fieldwork on this collaborative project that seeks to investigate a neighbourhood within the southern suburbs of Minoan Knossos (Fig. 1). Study of stratigraphy, architecture and ceramics led by Hatzaki confirmed and refined the sequence of occupation observed in the 2014 and 2015 excavation seasons,...

Knossos Roman Geophysics. Daniel Stewart (Leicester) and Jennifer Baird (Birkbeck) report on a fourth and final season of geophysical investigations at Knossos with the overall goal of providing a working knowledge of the urban layout into which excavated but largely unstudied archaeological materials from BSA excavations of Roman Knossos can be placed (Fig. 1). Four seasons of geophysical prospection suggest that there was no overarching orthogonality imposed on the city in its latest period...

A monumental Mycenaean rock-cut chamber tomb came to light at Prosilio in the municipality of Levadia, near Orchomenos in Boeotia, during the first season of a five-year programme of excavations conducted there in collaboration between the Greek Ministry of Culture & Sports/Ephorate of Antiquities of Boeotia and the British School at Athens/University of Cambridge (Figs 1-2). The tomb is one of the largest of its kind ever to have been discovered in Greece. A rock-cut passageway...

Olynthos. Bettina Tsigarida (Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella), Zosia Archibald (Liverpool/BSA), and Lisa Nevett (Michigan/BSA) report on the fourth season of this collaborative project which aims to recover a uniquely detailed picture of Greek households as social and economic units, within their broader neighbourhood, urban and regional settings (Fig. 1).

On the North Hill the team continued to investigate house B ix 6, working towards its complete excavation by the end of the...

Keros-Dhaskalio. Colin Renfrew and Michael Boyd (Cambridge/BSA) report on a third season of the Keros-Naxos Seaways project, which seeks to extend our understanding of the Early Bronze Age settlement pattern from Keros to the neighbouring zones of southeast Naxos and Kato Kouphonisi, to investigate the nature of Early Bronze Age settlement on Keros, and to investigate in detail the settlement on Dhaskalio.

Seven trenches were opened in 2017 on...

Koutroulou Magoula. Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika (Director Emerita, EPSNE) and Yannis Hamilakis (Brown/BSA) report on the third year of a second five-year programme of collaborative work at this Middle Neolithic site in Thessaly with the aims of refining our understanding of intra-site organisation, including indoor and outdoor spaces, and of the extent and nature of human involvement from the Neolithic to the present. In 2017 excavation not only continued on the top of the tell, but also...

Knossos Roman Geophysics. Daniel Stewart (Leicester/BSA) and Jennifer Baird (Birkbeck/BSA) report on a third season of geophysical survey focused on Roman Knossos in order to provide a spatial framework into which excavated material from Roman Knossos can be situated (Fig. 1). The major aim in 2017 was to deploy Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) in areas which had already revealed promising results, in order to assess its value as a technique at Knossos, as well as to complete systematic GPS...

Kythera Island Project. C. Broodbank (Cambridge/BSA), E. Kiriatzi (BSA Fitch Laboratory), A. Bevan (UCL/BSA) and I. Petrocheilos (Ioannina) report on a single season of investigation on the inland urban centre of ancient Kythera, now known as Paliokastro, a 2.5km2 area unavailable for investigation by the Kythera Island Project (KIP) in 1998-2001 (Fig. 1).

Excavations by Ioannis Petrocheilos documented the existence of a town there from at least...

Olynthos. Bettina Tsigarida (Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella), Zosia Archibald (Liverpool/BSA), and Lisa Nevett (Michigan/BSA) report on the third season of this collaborative project which aims to build a holistic picture of Greek households within their urban and regional settings. Fieldwork was split over two seasons in April and July 2016 with four objectives: to excavate further house B ix 6 on the North Hill; to continue field survey beyond the fenced archaeological site to the south,...

Keros-Dhaskalio. Colin Renfrew and Michael Boyd (Cambridge/BSA) report on a new programme of excavations on the small islet of Dhaskalio opposite Kavos on Keros in August – October 2016, which follow those of the recently published excavations of the Cambridge Keros Project (2006-2008). This year’s excavations constitute the second season of a projected four-year programme, of which the first (in 2015) was the Southeast Naxos Survey (as reported last year). The excavations of 2006-2008 had...

Kenchreai Quarries Survey. Chris Hayward (Edinburgh/BSA) reports on this project’s final fieldwork season, during which research questions arising from the 2013 survey and subsequent study were pursued. Fieldwork had four components: pick-up survey of a sherd concentration near the northern edge of the 2013 field area southwest of the so-called ‘Ploughed Field’; geophysical investigation, using magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar, of specific targets; excavation to investigate site...

Knossos Roman Geophysics. Daniel Stewart (Leicester/BSA) and Jennifer Baird (Birkbeck/BSA) report on a second season of geophysical survey focused on Roman Knossos in order to generate a working knowledge of its urban layout to aid the understanding of extant remains and facilitate the study of the extensive collection of Roman material culture from BSA excavations retained in the Stratigraphic Museum. The 2016 season had six main aims: continued use of magnetometry over the broader survey...

Olynthos. Bettina Tsigarida (Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella), Zosia Archibald (Liverpool/BSA), and Lisa Nevett (Michigan/BSA) report on the second season of this collaborative project which aims to build a holistic picture of Greek households within their urban and regional settings. The research design comprises two strands of investigation: excavation, using modern scientific techniques designed to reveal the organisation of domestic activity and aspects of the domestic economy, including...

Southeast Naxos Survey. Colin Renfrew (Cambridge/BSA) and Michael Boyd (Cambridge/BSA) report on a new phase of the Keros project: archaeological survey of southeast Naxos. The project’s starting point was to analyse the context of the settlement at Dhaskalio on Keros and the Special Deposits at Kavos on Keros in their wider context within the Mikres Kyklades and surrounding islands, following the Keros Island Survey of 2012 and 2013. However, the survey was carried out as a diachronic...

Knossos Roman Geophysics. Daniel Stewart (Leicester/BSA) and Jennifer Baird (Birkbeck/BSA) report on the first season of geophysical survey focused on Roman Knossos in order to generate a working knowledge of the urban layout to aid the understanding of extant remains, and facilitate the study of the extensive collection of Roman material culture from BSA excavations retained in the Stratigraphical Museum. The initial 2015 season, carried out in September, had three main aims: firstly, to test...

Palace and Landscape at Palaikastro. Carl Knappett (Toronto/BSA), Nicoletta Momigliano (Bristol/BSA) and Alexandra Livarda (Nottingham/BSA) report on a third season of excavation (in the Argyrakis, Mavrokoukalakis and Papadakis plots) which revealed the full extent of three buildings (AP1, AM1, and MP1) occupied in Late Minoan I and Late Minoan III, with some indications of earlier habitation (Fig. 1). Excavation carried out in 2015 completed the plan of Building AP1 (Fig. 2) and confirmed...

Knossos, Gypsades. Ioanna Serpetsidaki (Ephorate of Antiquities of Herakleion), Eleni Hatzaki (Cincinnati), Gianna Ayala (Sheffield), and Amy Bogaard (Oxford) report on the second season of this collaborative project whose overall aim is to reveal a Knossian neighbourhood by uncovering fine-grained data on consumption, the nature and role of agricultural production and broader issues surrounding the emergence, maintenance and decline of the Knossian urban elite. The primary goal of the 2015...

Koutroulou Magoula. Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika (Director Emerita, EPSNE) and Yannis Hamilakis (Southampton) report on the first year of a second five-year programme of collaborative work at this Middle Neolithic site in Thessaly with the aims of refining our understanding of intra-site organisation, including indoor and outdoor spaces, and of the extent and nature of human involvement from the Neolithic to the present. Additional goals are the examination of people, plant and animal interaction,...

Lefkandi, Xeropolis. Irene Lemos (Oxford/BSA) reports on continuing study of material that took place over two periods in Spring and Summer of 2015. The former focused on study of the exceptional figurines from Region II and small finds from both Regions I and II, while the stratigraphical sequences of the ‘Ritual Zone’ were also examined to provide contextual information for bioarchaeological specialists to use in conference papers for a conference. During the latter, work continued...

Kenchreai Quarries Survey. Chris Hayward (Edinburgh/BSA) reports on the second of two planned study seasons of field data and finds recovered in 2013. Research has focused mainly on the larger of the two quarried areas at Kenchreai – Complex A (Fig. 1). Other than one sherd from Complex B, all Prehistoric pottery was recovered from the area later occupied by Complex A. Two foci of Prehistoric activity occur in the north, centred on the Ploughed Field and Peripheral Areas 3 and 7, with...

Olynthos. B. Tsigarida (formerly 16th EPCA), Z. Archibald (Liverpool/BSA), and L. Nevett (Michigan/BSA) report on the first season of a project which aims to build a holistic picture of Greek households within their urban setting. Geophysical survey (magnetometry and resistivity), excavation and field survey were used to investigate the spatial organisation and preservation of a largely unexcavated zone in the north-east of the North Hill, and the eastern boundary of the site adjacent to the...

Knossos, Gypsadhes. I. Serpetsidaki (former 23rd EPCA), E. Hatzaki (Cincinnati/BSA), G. Ayala(Sheffield/BSA), and A. Bogaard (Oxford/BSA) report on the first season of excavation aimed at revealing a Knossian neighborhood and uncovering fine-grained information to help in the reconstruction of the Knossian economy through time. As part of the University of Oxford’s ERC-funded project Agricultural Origins of Urban Civilisation (AGRICURB), the new excavation features large-scale...

Palace and Landscape at Palaikastro. C. Knappett (Toronto/BSA), N. Momigliano (Bristol/BSA) and A. Livarda (Nottingham/BSA) report on the second season of excavation(in the Argyrakis and Mavrokoukoulakis plots) which revealed parts of three buildings (AP1, AM1, and MP1) occupied in Late Minoan I and Late Minoan III. (Fig. 1) While much of building AP1 lies within the neighbouring plot to the south, its eastern and northern exterior walls (with a threshold) were revealed, plus a number of...

Lefkandi – Xeropolis. I. Lemos (Oxford/BSA) reports on continuing study. In collaboration with the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (Eretria excavations) and Dr Matthieu Ghilardi (CNRS), cores were drilled at Lefkandi, Eretria, and Aliveri for a project to investigate the evolution of the coastline of central and southwest Euboea. Preliminary examination indicates that cores from the eastern harbour of Xeropolis include marine incursions and macro fauna. New radiocarbon dates from...

Kenchreai Quarries Survey. C. Hayward (Edinburgh/BSA) reports on continuing study of the large ploughed field in Complex A (Fig. 1) and the ‘inscribed quarries’ in Complex B to date and characterise activity in broad terms of settlement, supply, or production, and to assess the scale on which provision was made for different forms of activity (and from what sources of supply). The ‘ploughed field’ yielded ca.40% of all the pottery collected in the 2013 survey (over 11,000 sherds and...

Kythera Island Project. C. Broodbank (Cambridge/BSA) and E. Kiriatzi (BSA Fitch Laboratory) report the completion of a programme of site revisits (Fig. 1) in order to take GPS readings, note current site condition and any changes over the last 12-16 years, check the profile of the material on the ground relative to that collected and studied, improve and standardize site descriptions, and create a full photographic record. A few additional sites were encountered, although their very small...

Palaikastro. C. Knappet (Toronto), N. Momigliano (Bristol) and A. Livarda (Nottingham) report on the second season of the Palace and Landscape at Palaikastro (PALAP) project in 2013, which focused on exploration of a new area of the settlement. (Fig.) The so-called ‘palace fields’ were thus named following a 2001 geophysical survey which indicated possible buried features of a scale and alignment consistent with a palatial building. With further geophysical work in 2012 apparently...

Keros Island Survey. C. Renfrew (Cambridge), M. Marthari (Director Emerita, ΚΑ’ ΕΠΚΑ) and E. Dellaporta (Director, 2nd EBA) report on the second and final season of intensive survey. In addition to walking a further 445 tracts, including some of the more remote and mountainous parts of the island, intensive collection was carried out at 25 areas of interest, or ‘polygons’ (complete collection was carried out in 5m2 circles, with diagnostic ceramics and other special finds collected...

Lefkandi, Xeropolis. I. Lemos (Oxford) reports on further work on the so-called ‘megaron’ in region I (now termed Building M), with some eight use-phases identified from LHIIIC Middle to Early Protogeometric. Study of Sub-Geometric and Late Geometric occupation in the area revealed two small Iron Age buildings which reused materials from earlier structures. (Fig.) One is associated with Walls 68 (in the north) and 69 (in the east), while the other probably reused the west wall of the second...

Kenchreai Quarries Survey. C. Hayward (Edinburgh) reports on the first season of intensive pick-up survey in the ancient quarries of Kenchreai, conducted to identify the periods of quarrying and the types and locations of post-quarrying activity. Building upon his earlier close study of these quarries, the results of this combined archaeological and geoarchaeological survey will for the first time permit a holistic understanding of a major Greek quarry complex, the material culture of stone...

Plakari. M. Groot (Amsterdam) reports on study of faunal remains from two seasons of excavation (Fig.). Evidence of Early Iron Age cult activity at the site comes from a bothros containing votive offerings, pottery types linked to consumption of food and drink, and large quantities of animal bone.The assemblage consists of a mixture of heavily fragmented burned and unburned bones - the burned bones being the remains of burned sacrifice, while the unburned bones are the refuse of sacrificial...

Koropi. A. Hadjikoumis (BSA) reports on analysis of the animal bone assemblage recovered during rescue excavation of an EBA site at the Medical Centre of Koropi conducted by O. Kakavogianni in the 1980s. Based on ca.3,500 identified items, this is the first study of a large and well-defined assemblage in Bronze Age Attica, shedding light on many aspects of economic life, social practice, and the surrounding environment. Analysis revealed a well-developed agropastoral economy with a high...