Artemis Georgiou
Principal Investigator
Artemis Georgiou is Assistant Research Professor at the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus. 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 (CAARI). She participated in a number of archaeological fieldwork projects in Cyprus and Greece. 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 and the Hazor Lower Acropolis project. Her research interests include the archaeology and history of Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd and 1st millennia BC, the study of material culture, and Mediterranean interregional connectivity.
Anna Georgiadou
Anna Georgiadou is a Research Scientist at the Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus. She received her BA degree in Archaeology and History of Art from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She continued her postgraduate studies in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Aix-Marseille and completed her doctoral studies at the University Aix-Marseille, in international cotutelle with the University of Athens. Her doctoral research focused on the Early Iron Age pottery workshops of Cyprus. During 2014, Georgiadou worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Haifa, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, Israel. Between 2015-2017 she has undertaken post-doctoral research at the University of Lyon 2. She was a teaching associate at the University of Cyprus, Department of History and Archaeology during 2016. From 2018 to 2022 she was the principal investigator of the programme MuseCo, Bringing Life to Old Museum Collections: The Interdisciplinary Study of Pottery from the Cypriot Iron Age Polities of Salamis, Soloi, Lapithos and Chytroi (EXCELLENCE/1216/0093, 2018-2022, https://www.ucy.ac.cy/museco/) hosted at the University of Cyprus. She also coordinates the research project SCAUT, Saving Cypriot Antiquities Under Threat (2020-2023, University of Cyprus). She has been involved in various research and excavation projects, in Cyprus, Greece, France, Israel, Egypt and Turkey. Her research interests include: material culture studies, pottery analysis, typology, technology and production in Iron Age Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean, cross-Mediterranean interconnections and Iron Age chronology.
Cassandra Donnelly
Cassandra Donnelly completed her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, with the dissertation “Signs of Writing? Writing and Trade in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean”. At Texas, Cassie studied at the Program in Aegean scripts and prehistory, where she learned Linear B and Cypro-Minoan, and also studied Ugaritic and other Semitic languages. Since graduating, she is under contract to author a book on Cypro-Minoan with Cambridge University Press’s Elements Series and a chapter on Cypro-Minoan for the Cambridge Companion to the Bronze Age Aegean Scripts. She is currently editing an interdisciplinary volume on “Extra-Scribal Writing in the Ancient Near East 1650-750 BCE” for Transnational London’s Life and Society in the Ancient Near East series, which is being peer-reviewed collaboratively by the volume’s participants not through traditional blind peer-review. Cassie is also a collaborator in charge of publishing Cypro-Minoan potmarks for the Maroni-Vournes KAMBE project, Kition-Bamboula, and the east Attica BEARS project. As a researcher with the ComPAS project, her purview is to decipher the system (or systems) of marks on Marine Transport Containers from Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Cyprus and their implications for understanding the multi-level mechanisms involved in seaborne commerce.
Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou
Maria Dikomitou Eliadou received her BA in History and Archaeology from the University of Cyprus, an MA in Mediterranean Archaeology by the University of Bristol and a second MA in Artefact Studies by University College London. She received her doctoral title by University College London. Her doctoral research focused on the compositional and technological characterisation of Early and Middle Bronze Age pottery from Cyprus. Since then, she has worked in a number of roles and projects at the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus, including managing the MSCA-ITN "New Archaeological Research Network for Integrating Approaches to ancient material studies" (NARNIA, GA no. 265010). From 2018 to 2020, she held an MSCA-IF (ReCyPot, GA no. 747339) at the UCL, before returning to Cyprus as a member of the interdisciplinary research project “Bringing Life to Old Museum Collections: The Interdisciplinary Study of Pottery from the Cypriot Iron Age Polities of Salamis, Soloi, Lapithos and Chytroi” (MuseCo), hosted at the University of Cyprus. Maria has been involved in numerous interdisciplinary research projects, on ceramic artefacts (tableware, transport, storage and cooking pots, terracotta figurines) from different regions in Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean, from prehistory to the High Middle Ages. Her research interests focus on ceramic technology and production, its differing modes of organisation, ceramic distribution, as well as technological and cultural change, and how these can be identified, recorded and explained by modern archaeology. In addition to her participation in the ComPAS research project as a postdoctoral researcher, she is also an Associate Research Scientist and the project manager of the European H2020 MSCA-ITN "Training the next generation of archaeological scientists: Interdisciplinary studies of pre-modern Plasters and Ceramics from the eastern Mediterranean" (PlaCe, GA no. 956410, https://place-itn.cyi.ac.cy).
Cydrisse Cateloy
Cydrisse completed her PhD at the Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne University in 2022. Her thesis is titled ‘Measuring the trade in the eastern Mediterranean: Middle and Late Bronze Age Levantine amphorae under study’. During her PhD research, she has studied Levantine amphorae from practically all findspots across the eastern Mediterranean from the Levant to the Aegean, including Cyprus, Egypt and Turkey. She has also taken part in the study of the material from the Uluburun shipwreck under the supervision of Cemal Pulak. Cydrisse is a keen scuba diver and has participated in several underwater excavations and surveys. Her research interests include Near Eastern Archaeology, with an emphasis on Late Bronze and Iron Age periods, long-distance trade and international networks in the eastern Mediterranean and underwater archaeology.
Andreas Charalambous
Dr Andreas Charalambous complete a Chemistry degree at the Faculty of Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2005. He continued with graduate studies in Advanced Chemical Analysis (degree acquired in 2007) and he received a PhD in Advanced Chemical Analysis – Archaeometry in 2010 from the Chemistry Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has worked as a research fellow at the Archaeometry Laboratory of the Cultural and Educational Technology Institute (CETI) at Xanthi (2006-2009). Since 2011 he has been working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in various Research Programs (e.g. NARNIA, STARLAB) at the Archaeological Research Unit of the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus. For ComPAS, he will be analysing an extensive sample set of Maritime Transport Containers with a portable XRF
Marcella Giobbe
Marcella Giobbe received a BA in Mediterranean and Near Eastern Archaeology from the University L’ Orientale of Naples (Italy), an MPhil in Archaeology from the University G. d’ Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara (Italy), and an MSc in Archaeological Materials from the University of Sheffield (UK). For her PhD at the University of Oxford (Clarendon Scholar) she used a multidisciplinary analytical approach on Iron Age and Archaic pottery assemblages (11th- 7th century BC) from Campania Region (Italy), in order to investigate how material culture was employed to promote new social and economic relations during the formative stages of the Greek ‘Colonisation’ of Southern Italy. She held posts as ceramic and thin section petrography specialist in a number of international archaeological projects in Italy, France, Greece, Egypt, and Cyprus and as visiting researcher at UCL, Qatar (2017). Between 2021-2022 she was awarded the Fitch laboratory bursary and the Macmillan-Rodewald Studentship at the British Archaeological School at Athens. Her research interests focus on material culture production and technology between the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Archaic period in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean. Specifically, she applies science-based analytical techniques to the study of archaeological materials to investigate dynamics of human mobility, migration, and cross-cultural contacts.
Maria Choleva
Maria Choleva is an archaeologist specializing in Aegean prehistory, pottery techniques, and the anthropology of technology. Her research focuses on the materiality of craft knowledge, exploring the cultural appropriation and transmission of pottery making practices in prehistoric societies. She uses the innovation of the potter’s wheel in the Bronze Age Aegean as a case study. Her work adopts an anthropological approach to the study of pottery technology, emphasising the role of body techniques in shaping social roles and cultural knowledge. This approach combines archaeological analysis of ceramic assemblages, archaeomaterials studies and social theories of practice and embodiment. Maria holds a B.A. in Archaeology from the University of Athens, and a M.A in Prehistoric Archaeology and PhD in Archaeology, Ethnology and Prehistory from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. After receiving her PhD, she was a Fyssen Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Louvain, where she worked on her project “A story of a ‘savoir-faire’. The transmission of the potter’s wheel and the emergence of new technological traditions in the Aegean during 3rd millennium”. In 2019-2020, she worked on the project “Tracing the materiality of social acts: learning and performing the potter’s wheel in Early Helladic mainland Greece” as a postdoctoral INSTAP fellow at the Fitch Laboratory of the British School Athens. In 2020, she was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece and was affiliated with the University of Athens for her project “Changing traditions and social practices in a changing world: the innovation of the potter’s wheel in the Aegean during 2nd millennium”. Recently, she has been a research fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University (2022-2023) and at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), Koç University (2023-2024), where she has been working on her first monograph, provisionally entitled “Making an artisan for the potter’s wheel in the prehistoric Aegean: an anthropological interdisciplinary approach to artefacts”. In 2021, she also taught courses on the Bronze Age Aegean as a lecturer at the University of Thessaloniki. Maria has participated in various field and research projects in Greece and Turkey, and is co-editor of the biannual Greek humanities journal Krisi.
Maria Stefani
Maria Stefani received a BA in History and Archaeology from the University of Cyprus and a Masters in Archaeological Heritage in a Globalizing World from the Faculty of Archaeology at the University of Leiden. Her Masters' thesis is titled 'Cultural heritage and the Cyprus conflict: a biography of the Apostolos Andreas Monastery'. Maria has worked as an archaeologist for the Cyprus Museum at the Department of Antiquities and as a tutor for high school children. She is also a member of the USURUM project, a bicommunal programme aimed at producing and promoting historical knowledge about the villages abandoned and deserted during the intercommunal conflicts in Cyprus, as well as cultivating and promoting environmental consciousness amongst Cypriot youth.
As a member of the ComPAS, Maria Stefani is in charge of the project's management and other practical issues.