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...

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...

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...