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MARIA IACOVOU

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PROFESSOR
Department of History and Archaeology
Archaeological Research Unit, EM 102
12, Gladstonos str.
 

STUDIES
Undergraduate studies in Classics and Classical Archaeology: State University of New York at Albany (B.A. summa cum laude 1978).
Graduate studies in Pre-Classical Archaeology: Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati (Ph.D. 1984).
Post-doctoral Research Fellow: Institute of Classical Studies, University of London (1986).

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
1982: Temporary Archaeological Officer in the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.

1987-1997: Director of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, editor-in-chief of the publication programme and curator of the Foundation’s Cyprological collections.

1998-2008: Associate Professor of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, University of Cyprus.

2009- : Professor of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, University of Cyprus.


SCHOLARSHIPS AND RESEARCH AWARDS

1976-78: Fulbright Commission Travel Grant for studies in the United States of America.

1976-78: Tuition scholarship from the State University of New York at Albany.

1979-84: Louise Taft-Semple Fellow of the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati.

1986: Centenary Bursar of the British School at Athens.

1986: Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classical Archaeology, University College London.

1992: Grantee of the Archaeological Society of Athens in Greece.

1996: Stanley Seeger Visiting Research Fellow of the Hellenic Studies Programme, Princeton University.

2004: British Academy Visiting Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford Universit.y

2004-05: Foreign Research Fellow of the Alexander Onassis Foundation in Greece.

2011: Onassis Foundation (USA) Senior Visiting Scholar in the United States.

2018: Patron of the Greek Archaeological Committee United Kingdom (GACUK)

 

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
1998: “Cyprus. The Historicity of the Geometric Horizon”, Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus.

2000: “Archaeological Field Survey in Cyprus: Past History and Future Potentials”, Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus.

2002: “The Philia Culture and the Transition from Chalcolithic to Early Cypriot”, Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus.

2006: “Parallel Lives: Ancient Island Societies in Crete and Cyprus”, Archaeological Research Unit; University of Crete; British School at Athens.

2010: “Cyprus and the Aegean in the Early Iron Age. The legacy of Nicolas Coldstream”, An Archaeological Workshop in memory of Professor J. N. Coldstream, Archaeological Research Unit.2012 (May): Basileis and poleis on the island of Cyprus. The Cypriote Polities in their Mediterranean context, Cultural Foundation and Archaeological Research Unit.

2012 (Μay): "Basileis and poleis on the island of Cyprus. The Cypriote Polities in their Mediterranean context" 

2015: ARIEL: "Ceramic identities and affinities of the region of Paphos during the Bronze Age (3rd and 2nd millennia BC)". An International Workshop organized within the framework of ARIELwith Marie Curie Fellow, Dr. Artemis Georgiou. Archaeological Research Unit.

2019 (November): "PORPHYRA: The materiality of purple dye production and use in Cyprus and the Aegean from Prehistory to the Late Roman period. An International Workshop organized with the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) Study Center for East Crete and the Archaeological Research Unit.

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

  • Αssistant Dean, Faculty of Letters (1998-2000).
  • Vice Chairperson, Department of History and Archaeology (1998-2000; 2006-2008).
  • Chairperson, Department of History and Archaeology (2000-2003).
  • Μember of the Senate, University of Cyprus (2000-2003).
  • Member of the Board of the Faculty of Letters (1998-2003; 2005-2008).
  • Member of the Finance Committee, University of Cyprus (2001-2002).
  • Member of the University of Cyprus Academic Committee for the School of Tour Guides (2000-2001).
  • Representative of the University of Cyprus to the 31st General Assembly of UNESCO, Paris (Νοvember 2001).
    Co-ordinator of the Department’s post-graduate programme in “Mediterranean Archaeology from Prehistory to Late Antiquity” (2005-2009).
  • Member of the Committee for the Examination and Evaluation of Academic Degrees in History, Archaeology and the Classics. The Cypriote Council for the Recognition of Academic Titles (2005- ).
  • Μember of the ad hoc Committee on the Environment, University of Cyprus (2007-2010).
  • Μember of the Senatorial Committee for the Environment (2011- ).
  • School of Letters Representative to the Student Welfate Committee  (2016 - 2018)
  • University of Diaspora Assessment Committee (2018)
  • Acting Director Archaeological Research Committee (2019)
  • Member of the Board of the School of Graduate Studies  (2019- )

MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARDS

  • Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology: SIMA monographs, Sweden (Editorial Board Member)
  • Annual of the British School at Athens
  • LEMA: Levantine and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology
  • Studi Ciprioti Member Italy Edizioni Ca' Foscari Digital Publishing 
  • Archaeologia Polona, Journal of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland (International Advisory Board Member)
 

INVITED LECTURES ABROAD (selection of recent lectures)

2013: ‘The Palaepaphos Urban Landscape Project and the economic needs of island-based micro-states’. Colloquium, From Ptolis to Polis: Issues in the Transition of Political Economies, the American School of Classical Studies, Athens.

2014: The archaeology of urban formation in the Mediterranean: Cycles of social complexity in the context of Ancient Cyprus”. Invited speaker, La Citta Visibili Conference (Alghero, Sardinia).

2015:  From ‘the mythical age of Cypriote archaeology’ to a 21st century landscape project: The polity of Ancient Paphos in its economic context. The J.L. Myres Memorial Lecture, New College, University of Oxford.

2017: Political economy, state formation and urbanism in the land of Ancient Paphos (PULP 2006-2017), The Greek Archaeological Committee UK Annual Lecture, King's College, London.

2019: An unintentional colonial gift: Herbert Horatio Kitchener and the antiquity of the toponymic history of Cyprus, The National Archives, Kew Gardens, London.

 

University of Cyprus DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS - Supervisor

2007 Girogos Georgiou

2010 Anna Satraki

2021 Elisavet Stephani

2021 Thea Christoforou

2023 Zinon Socratous

 

University of Cyprus POST-DOCTORAL Researchers - Supervisor

Georgiou Artemis: The Foundation Horizon of Ancient Paphos 2018-2020
Diakou Stella: The Study of the Hadjiabdullah Complex at Palaepaphos (Ancient Paphos) 2017
Georgiou Artemis: Archaeological Investigations of the Extra-Urban and Urban Landscape in eastern Mediterranean centres: A case-study at Palaepaphos, Cyprus”, a Marie Sklodowska Curie Career Integration Grant 2013-2017.

 

TEACHING IN UNIVERSITIES OUTSIDE CYPRUS - Seminars on the archaeology of Cyprus

2010: Trinity College Dublin

2011: University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia

2011: Trinity U., San Antonio, Texas

2011: Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia

2011: Columbia University, New York

2013: University of Sassari, Sardinia 

2017: Trinity College, Dublin

2017: University of Sassari, Sardinia

 

 

TEACHING IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS

ΑΡΧ 118 Introductory course: the archaeology of the Mediterranean in the Bronze Age

ΑΡΧ205 Excavation methods and landscape analysis 

ΑΡΧ209 From Minoan Crete to Mycenaean Greece 

APX 210 Aegean Prehistory from Poliochni to Golden Mycenae

ΑΡΧ218 The archaeology of the city-kingdoms of Cyprus  

ΑΡΧ 221 Cyprus and the Creto-Mycenaean Aegean 

ΑΡΧ 276 Ancient Cyprus from Prehistory to the Roman Age 

ΑΡΧ 236 Ancient and Byzantine Cyprus: Historical and Archaeological sources

ΑΡΧ306  Political organisation, Urbanism and Internationalism: Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age

ΑΡΧ309 The Archaeology of Cypriot Protohistory

ΑΡΧ 310 Interpretative approaches to the archaeology of Cypriot prehistory 

ΑΡΧ 324  The Cypriot city-states in the first millennium BC

ARC 615 Practical Training in Field Archaeology

ΑΡΧ 651 Mediterranean Island Landscapes

ΑΡΧ722 Interpreting the Image 

ΑΡΧ723 Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus and Crete 

ΑΡΧ730 Τhe Aegean, Cyprus and the Near East in the Early Iron Age

ΑΡΧ731 From the shores of Libanon to Spain 

ΑΡΧ 732 Mediterranean Archaeology in the Early Iron Age: Commerce, Colonialism and Political organisation

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Urbanism and state formation in the second and first millennia BC.
  • The Mediterranean island cultures in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages.
  • The archaeology of migration/colonisation episodes.
  • Ancient Cyprus: landscape studies, economic systems, urban topography and historical cartography
RESEARCH PROJECTS
 
2002-2003: «The Digital Archaeological Atlas of Palaepaphos»: a cultural resources management project of the Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus.
 
2002-2004 (Phase I), 2007- (Phase II): “Aphrodite’s Cultural Route” project. Member of scientific team. Project management: Cyprus Tourism Organisation.
 
2003-2007:  'Deneia:  study of regionalism, population and society in Bronze Age Cyprus' in collaboration with Pro. David Frankel and Dr Jenny Webb, La Trobe University, Melbourne. Funding: The Australian Research Council Discovery-Project Grant.
 
2006-2007: Special scientist (archaeologist) of the Natura 2000 Cyprus Network Project. Management plans for the protection of the Troodos forest zones of “Μadari-Papoutsa” and “Limnatis”.

2007-2010: Principal investigator of the UC applied research programme, ‘A long-term response to the need to make modern development and the preservation of the archaeo-cultural record mutually compatible operations. Pilot application at Kouklia-Palaipaphos.’

2006-2024 : Scientific director of the landscape archaeology project, PALAEPAPHOS THE URBAN LANDSCAPE PROJECT (PULP) 

2006-2024 : Director of the UC excavation project at Palaepaphos-Kouklia

2013-1017: Supervisor of the Marie Curie Awards Career Integration Grants (CIG),  ARIEL: Archaeological Investigations of the Extra-Urban and Urban Landscape in Eastern Mediterranean centres: A case-study at Palaepaphos (Cyprus)

2017-2019: Scientific director of MEANING: From the metalliferous sources to the citadel complex of Ancient Paphos: archaeo-environmental analysis of the mining and the built environment, A.G. Leventis Foundation and University of Cyprus Research Programmes

2022-2024: Scientific director of INSIGHT:A unique monument at the crossroads of political transformation: Investigation and documentation of the Palaepaphos-Laona tumulus. A.G. LEVENTIS FOUNDATION and University of Cyprus Research Programmes.

2023-2025: Member. TRIQUETRA: Toolbox for assessing and mitigating Climate Change risks and natural hazards threatening cultural heritage HORIZON-CL2-2022-HERITAGE-01-08 — Effects of climate change and natural hazards on cultural heritage and remediation.

 

 

ΜΟΝΟGRAPHS and EDITED VOLUMES

  • Brogan, T., Mylona, D. Iacovou, M. (eds) (Forthcoming): PORPHYRA: The materiality of purple dye production and use in Cyprus and the Aegean from Prehistory to the Late Roman period.[Conference proceedings].
  • Georgiou, A. & M. Iacovou (eds) (Forthcoming): Paphos, the Foundation Horizon, The Palaepaphos Urban Landscape Project, vol. I (SIMA)
  • Hatzopoulos, M and M. Iacovou (eds), 2014: BASILEIS ET POLEIS SUR L'ILE DE CHYPRE: Les régimes politiques chypriotes dans leur contexte méditerranéen. Cahier du Centre des Etudes Chypriotes vol. 40. Paris.
  • Counts, D. and M. Iacovou (eds), 2013: New Approaches to the Elusive Iron Age Polities of Ancient Cyprus, BASOR vol. 370 Special Issue [volume pages 1-205].
  • Iacovou, M. (ed.), 2012: Cyprus and the Aegean in the Early Iron Age. The legacy of Nicolas Coldstream. Nicosia: The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
  • Cadogan, G., M. Iacovou, K. Kopaka and J. Whitley (eds), [2012], Parallel Lives: Ancient Island Societies in Crete and Cyprus, London: British School at Athens Studies vo.20.
  • Iacovou, M. (ed.) 2004. Archaeological Field Survey in Cyprus: Past History, Future Potentials. London: British School at Athens Studies vol. 11.
  • Iacovou, M. and D. Michaelides (eds) 1999. Cyprus. The Historicity of the Geometric Horizon. Nicosia: University of Cyprus. 
  • Papanikola-Bakirtzis D. and M. Iacovou (eds) 1998: Byzantine Medieval Cyprus: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation 
  • Iacovou, M. 1988. The Pictorial Pottery of Eleventh Century B.C. Cyprus. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, vol. LXXIX. Goteborg.


COLLECTION and EXHIBITION CATALOGUES - MINOR MONOGRAPHS* - OTHER**

  • Ιακώβου, Μ. 1996:* Angeliki Pieridou 1918-1973. The unknown soldier of the archaeology and the traditional culture of Cyprus. Nicosia: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
  • Iacovou, M. 1994:** 16th Century Rare Maps of Cyprus. Twelve Facsimiles from the Map Collection of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. Nicosia.
  • Iacovou, M. 1994: Monnaies de Chypre - Cypriote Coinage. Nicosie: Banque de Chypre Fondation Culturelle.
  • Iακώβου, M. 1993:* Enkomi – Salamis – Famagusta 16th c. BC – 16th c. A.D. Athens: ‘Panorama’ Cultural Society. Series: The Eastern Mediterranean.
  • Iacovou, M. 1991: Κυπριακή Νομισματοκοπία. Από τον Ευέλθοντα στο Μαρκαντώνιο Βραγαδίνο. Cypriote Coinage from Evelthon to Marc Antonio Bragadino. Nicosia: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
  • Hadjipaschalis, Α. and Μ. Ιacovou 1989: Maps and Atlases-Χάρτες και Άτλαντες. Nicosia: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
  • Iacovou, M. 2021: MEANING 2017-2019. FROM THE METALLIFEROUS SOURCES TO THE CITADEL COMPLEX OF ANCIENT PAPHOS: ARCHAEO-ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE MINING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT (2021). The A.G. Leventis Research Projects 2000-2020: 20 Years of Research at the University of Cyprus. Nicosia: University of Cyprus
  • Ιακώβου, M./M. Iacovou, Το Οδοιπορικό του Ανδρέα Φιλίππου/The Itinerary of Andreas Philippou (2021). Αντρέα Φιλίππου, Η Εγκατάλειψη και Φθορά του Κυπριακού Τοπίου/The Abandonment and Decay of the Cyprus Landscape.. Nicosia: Εν ΤΥΠΟΙΣ.


Editor of ARCHAEOLOGICAL GUIDE BOOK series Publisher: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation

  • Guide to Kourion. Text by The Department of Antiquities, Cyprus. Nicosia. 1987.
  • Guide to the Paphos Mosaics. Text by W.A. Daszewski, and D. Michaelides. Nicosia 1989.
  • The House of the Dragoman of Cyprus Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios. Text by Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou. Nicosia 1991.
  • Guide de Khirokitia. Text by Alain le Brun. Nicosie 1996. • Guide to Kalavasos-Tenta. Text by Ian Todd. Nicosia 1998. • Lemba and Kissonerga. Text by Paul Croft et al. Nicosia 1999.
  • Guide to Amathus. Text by Pierre Aupert et al. Nicosia 2000.


Editor of CYPRUS CARTOGRAPHY series Publisher: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation

  • Helen Wallis, Vignettes in the Cartographic History of Cyprus, Nicosia 1992.
  • Tony Campbell, Cyprus. The Reliability of Early Maps, Nicosia 1994.
  • Susan Gole, Maps of Cyprus on the Table of the British House (1878-1920), Nicosia 1996.• Susan Gole, Maps of the Mediterranean in British Parliamentary Papers 1801-1921, Nicosia 1996.


CHAPTERS IN BOOKS and MULTI-AUTHORED VOLUMES

  • Iacovou, M. (2022). Laona, the mystery mound and the Palaepaphos Urban Landscape Project. In Samantha S. Reiter and Matthew J. Walsh (Ed.), TEA The European Archaeologist Issue 74 (pp. 44-53). Prague: European Association of Archaeologists
  • Iacovou, M. (2021). THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE OF PRE-PTOLEMAIC CYPRUS CYCLES OF DEVOLUTION AND TERRITORIALIZATION. In A. Guieu-Coppolani, M-J Werlings et J. Zurbach (Ed.), Le pouvoir et la parole. Mélange en mémoire de Pierre CARLIER. (pp. 225-256). Paris: Etudes Anciennes 76 - De Boccard
  • Iacovou, M. (2021). Cyprus in the context of Phoenician studies: the homeland evidence. In N. Chiarenza, B. D’Andrea, A. Orsingher (Ed.), LRBT: Dall’archeologia all’epigrafia. Studi in onore di Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo (pp. 291-312). Turnhout: Semitica et Classica Supplementa, 3 - Brepols
  • Iacovou, M. 2020: Greeks on the Island of Cyprus:“At home” on the Frontiers, in Franco De Angelis (ed.), A Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World, 248-271, Wiley Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ
  • Georgiou, A.& Iacovou, M. (2019). 4.23: CYPRUS Chapter. In Lemos, I. & Kotsonas, A. (Eds.), A COMPANION TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF EARLY GREECE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1133-1162, UK: Blackwell.
  • Iacovou, M. (2017). Αποτυπώματα μιας χαμένης μνήμης: νέα δεδομένα για την πολιτεία της Aρχαίας Πάφου. In Παπαδημητρίου, N. and Tόλη, M. (Ed.), ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΚΥΠΡΟΣ Πρόσφατες εξελίξεις στην αρχαιολογία της ανατολικής Μεσογείου (pp. 189-214). Athens: Ίδρυμα Νικολάου & Ντόλλης Γουλανδρή – Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης.
  • Iacovou, M. (2017). Ο τύμβος της Λαόνας στην Παλαίπαφο. Από την αναγνώριση στη μέθοδο διερεύνησης. In Vlachou, V. and Gadolou, A. (Ed.), ΤΕΡΨΙΣ STUDIES IN MEDITERRANEAN ARCHAEOLOGY IN HONOUR OF NOTA KOUROU (pp. 317-329). Brussels: Centre de Recherches en Archéologie et Patrimoine.
  • Iacovou, M. (2014). Political economies and landscape transformations. The case of ancient Paphos. In Webb, J. (Ed.), STRUCTURE, MEASUREMENT AND MEANING STUDIES ON PREHISTORIC CYPRUS IN HONOUR OF DAVID FRANKEL (pp. 161-174). UPPSALA: Åströms förlag.
  • Iacovou, M. (2014). ‘Working with the shadows’: in search of the myriad forms of social complexity. In Galanakis, Y., Wilkinson, T., and Bennet, J. (Ed.), ΑΘΥΡΜΑΤΑ. Critical Essays on the Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean in honour of E Susan Sherratt (pp. 117-126). Oxford: Archaeopress.
  • Iacovou, M. (2014). Chapter 53. Cyprus during the Iron Age through the Persian period. From the 11th Century BC to the Abolition of the City-Kingdoms (c.300 BC). In STEINER, M.L. & KILLEBREW, A.E. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE LEVANT (c. 8000–332 BCE) (pp. 795-824). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Iacovou, M. (2014). Chapter 43. Cyprus during the Iron Age I period (Late Cypriot IIC-IIIA) Settlement Pattern Crisis (LC IIC–IIIA) to the Restructuring (LC IIIB) of its Settlement Pattern. In STEINER, M.L. & KILLEBREW, A.E. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE LEVANT (c. 8000–332 BCE) (pp. 660-674). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Iacovou, M. 2012: 'Early Iron Age', 62-65 in Ancient Cyprus Cultures in Dialogue, D. Pilides and N. Papademetriou (eds), Brussels, Nicosia: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus. 
  • Iacovou, M. 2010. “The Iron Age City-Kingdoms”. In Cyprus Crossroads of civilizations, S. Hadjisavvas (ed.). Nicosia: The Government of the Republic of Cyprus: 2010, 121-125.
  • Iacovou, M., J. Webb, E. Peltenburg, D. Frankel. 2008. « Chypre: des premieres communautes neolithiques a l/emergence de l/urbanisme», In La prehistoire du Sud-Est Europeen. Traditions et innovations. G. Kourtessi-Philippakis (ed.). ETUDES BALKANIQUES, N°15. Recherches interdisciplinaires sur les mondes hellenique et balkanique. Paris: De Boccard. 275-293.
  • Iacovou, M. 2008. Cyprus from Migration to Hellenisation. Greek Colonisation: An Account of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas, vol. 2. G.R. Tsetskhladje (ed.). Mnemosyne 193. Leiden: Brill, 219-288.
  • Iacovou, M. 2007. Advocating Cyprocentricism: An Indigenous Model for the Emergence of State Formation on Cyprus. In “Up to the Gates of Ekron” (1 Samuel 17:52), Essays on the Archaeology and History of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honor of Seymour Gitin. S. White Crawford, A. Ben-Tor, J.P. Dessel, W.G. Dever, A. Mazar, and J. Aviram (eds). Jerusalem: The Israel Exploration Society: 461-475.
  • Iacovou, M. 2006. ‘Greeks’, ‘Phoenicians’ and ‘Eteocypriots’. Ethnic Identities in the Cypriote Kingdoms. In Sweet Land...: Cyprus through the Ages, Chrysostomides, J. and Ch. Dendrinos (eds). Porphyrogenitus: Camberley: 27-59.
  • Ιακώβου, Μ. 2006. H Kύπρος στον ορίζοντα του διεθνισμού. Πολιτειακή οργάνωση και αστικοποίηση στην Ύστερη Xαλκοκρατία Chapter 2: 114-145 in the History of the Greeks. Vol. 15: CYPRUS. Αthens: Domi Editions.
  • Ιακώβου, Μ. 2006. Πρωτοϊστορική Κύπρος. Η Ιστορικότητα της Πρώϊμης Εποχής του Σιδήρου Chapter 4: 158-183 in the History of the Greeks. Vol. 15: CYPRUS. Αthens: Domi Editions.
  • Iacovou, M. 2003. The Late Bronze Age Origins of Cypriot Hellenism and the Establishment of the Iron Age Kingdoms. In From Ishtar to Aphrodite. 3200 Years of Cypriot Hellenism, Sophocles Hadjisavvas (ed.). New York: Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA): 79-85.
  • Iacovou, M. 2001. Cyprus from Alashiya to Iatnana: the protohistoric interim. In IΘAKH, Festschrift fur Jorg Schafer, Stephanie Bohn and Klaus-Valtin von Eickstedt (eds). Ergon Verlag: 85-92.
  • Ιακώβου, Μ. 1999. Κύπρος. Ιστορική – Αρχαιολογική ανασκόπηση από τους προϊστορικούς χρόνους στη ρωμαϊκή εποχή [Cyprus. History and Archaeology from the Prehistoric Age to the Roman period]. In Cyprus, a Plundered Civilisation. Μaria Anagnostopoulou (ed). Αthens: The Greek Parliament: 50-79.
  • Iacovou, M. 1992. Additions to the Corpus of Eleventh Century B.C. Pictorial Pottery. In Studies in Honour of Vassos Karageorghis, G.C. Ioannides (ed). Nicosia: Cypriote Studies: 217-226.


ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED PERIODICALS

  • Gkouma, M., Karkanas, P. & Iacovou, M. (2021). A geoarchaeological study of the construction of the Laona tumulus at Palaepaphos, Cyprus. Geoarchaeology, 36(), 1-16.
  • Iacovou, M. 2019: Palaepaphos: Unlocking the landscape context of the sanctuary of the Cypriot goddess, in G. Papantoniou, A. Sarris, Ch. E. Morris & A. K. Vionis (eds), Unlocking Sacred Landscapes: Digital Humanities and Ritual Space, Open Archaeology 5, 204–234
  • Iacovou, M. & A. Karnava 2019: An administrative ostracon from Kouklia-Hadjiabdoullah, Cahier du Centre d’etudes chypriotes 49: 37-52
  • Iacovou, M. & Mylona, D. 2019: Purple dye production under royal management Evidence from the Cypro-Classical citadel of Ancient Paphos. Cahier du Centre d’Études Chypriotes, 49: 
  • Lorenzon, M. & Iacovou, M. 2019 The Palaepaphos-Laona rampart. A pilot study on earthen architecture and. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 23: 348-361.
  • Iacovou, Μ. 2013: 'Historically Elusive and Internally Fragile Island Polities: The Intricacies of Cyprus's Political Geography in the Iron Age', in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 370: 15-47.
  • Counts, D. and M. Iacovou 2013: 'New Approaches to the Elusive Iron Age Polities of Ancient Cyprus: An Introduction', in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 370: 1-13.
  • Iacovou, M. 2008: Cultural and political configurations in Iron Age Cyprus. The sequel to a protohistoric episode. Forum Article in Αmerican Journal of Archaeology 112.4, 625-657.
  • Iacovou, M. 2008: The Palaepaphos Urban Landscape Project: Τheoretical background and preliminary report 2006-2007. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 263-89.
  • Iacovou, M. 2007: Site size estimates and the diversity factor in Late Cypriote settlement histories. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 348: 1-23.
  • Iacovou, M. 2004: Phoenicia and Cyprus in the first millennium BC: Two distinct cultures in search of their distinct archaeologies. Review Article in Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 336: 61-66.
  • Frankel, D., M. Iacovou, J. Webb 2003: Deneia: Preliminary Survey 2002-2003. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: 11-22.
  • Iacovou, M. 2002: Amathous: an Early Iron Age Polity in Cyprus. The Chronology of its Foundation. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: 101-126.
  • Iacovou, M. 2000: European Cartographers as Classical Scholars. Pierre Moullart-Sanson and his sources for the kingdoms of Cyprus. Cahier du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes 30: 79-94.
  • Iacovou, M. 1999: The Greek Exodus to Cyprus: The Antiquity of Hellenism. Mediterranean Historical Review, 14(2) 1-28.
  • Iacovou, M. and A. Hermary 1999: Amathus Diplostrati T.109. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: 151-162.
  • Ιακώβου, Μ. 1995: Κυπριακή Πρωτοϊστορία. Η Κύπρος πριν από τα Βασίλεια. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: 95-110.
  • Karageorghis, V. and M. Iacovou, 1990: Amathus Tomb 521. A Cypro-Geometric I Group. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: 76-100.
  • Karageorghis, V. and M. Iacovou 1982: Cypro-Geometric material from Palaepaphos. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: 123-137.


PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  •  Iacovou, M. 2023: The first urban landscape of Southwest Cyprus Paphos in the ‘Age of Transformations’, in P. Fischer and Teresa Bürge (eds), The Decline of Bronze Age Civilisations in the Mediterranean: Cyprus and Beyond. SIMA
  • Iacovou, M. 2023: The Cyprus response “from within”: A region-specific landscape approach to the island’s political geography , (12th - 6th c. BC), in  Mait Kõiv, Raz Kletter, Urmas Nõmmik, Vladimir Sazonov and Ivo Volt (eds),  Responses to the 12th Century BC Collapse: Recovery and Restructuration in the Early Iron Age Near East and Mediterranean. Melammu Workshops and Monographs: Zaphon.
  • Iacovou, M. 2018: From the Late Cypriot polities to the Iron Age ‘kingdoms’. Understanding the political landscape of Cyprus from within, in A. Cannavó & L. Thély (eds), Les royaumes de Chypre à l’épreuve de l’histoire. BCH-Supplément 60, 7–23.
  • Papantoniou, G, Kyriakou, N. Sarris, A. and Iacovou, M. 2015. SACRED TOPOGRAPHY IN IRON AGE CYPRUS: THE CASE OF VAVLA-KAPSALAES. In Papadopoulos, C., Paliou, E., Chrysanthi, A. Kotoula, E. and Sarris, A. (Ed.), Archaeological Research in the Digital Age,1st CAA GR Conference (pp. 70-75). Rethymnon: Institute for Mediterranean Studies – Foundation of Research and Technology. 
  • Iacovou, M. 2014: 'Beyond the Athenocentric misconceptions: the Cypriot polities in their economic context', 95-117 in BASILEIS ET POLEIS SUR L'ILE DE CHYPRE: Les régimes politiques chypriotes dans leur contexte méditerranéen. M. Hatzopoulos and M. Iacovou (eds), Paris.
  • Iacovou, M. 2013. 'The Cypriot Syllabary as a Royal Signature. The political context of the syllabic script in the Iron Age', 133-152 in Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its context, Philippa Steele (ed.), Cambridge University Press.
  • Iacovou, M. 2013: 'Aegean-style material culture in Late Cypriote III: Minimal evidence, maximal interpretation', 585-618 in The Philistines and other "Sea "Peoples" in text and archaeology, Ann Killebrew and Gunnar Lehmann (eds), Society of Biblical Literature: Atlanta, Georgia
  • Iacovou, M. 2013: Paphos before Palaepaphos. New evidence for the history of the Paphian kingdom. In Proceedings of an International Conference held in the University of Cyprus in honour of Dr Ino Nicolaou, D. Michaelides (ed.). (SIMA Pocket-book 179), 275–291, Uppsala.
  •  Iacovou, M. 2012. Cyprus’s political trajectory in antiquity: state formation and the minimum requirement economic model. In Parallel Lives: Ancient Island Societies in Crete and Cyprus, Cadogan, G., M. Iacovou, K. Kopaka and J. Whitley (eds). London: British School at Athens Studies vol. 20. London
  •  Iacovou, M. 2012. External and internal migrations during the 12th century BC. Setting the stage for an economically successful Early Iron Age in Cyprus. In Cyprus and the Aegean in the Early Iron Age. The legacy of Nicolas Coldstream. M. Iacovou (ed.). Nicosia: The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
  •  Iacovou, M. 2012. From Regional Gateway to Cypriot Kingdom. Copper Deposits and Copper Routes in the Chora of Paphos. In Eastern Mediterranean Metallurgy and Metalwork in the Second Millennium BC. A conference in honour of James D. Muhly. V. Kassianidou and G. Papasavvas (eds). Oxford: Oxbow: 56-67.
  • Iacovou, M. 2006. A contretemps. The Late Helladic IIIC syntax and context of Early Iron Age Pictorial Pottery in Cyprus. In Pictorial Pursuits. Figurative Painting on Mycenaean and Geometric Pottery, Eva Rystedt and Berit Wells (eds), Stockholm: Swedish Institute in Athens: 191-203.
  • Iacovou, M. 2006. From the Mycenaean QA-SI-RE-U to the Cypriote PA-SI-LE-WO-SE: The basileus in the kingdoms of Cyprus. In Ancient Greece from the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer, S. Deger-Jalkotzy and I. Lemos (eds). Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh Leventis Studies 3: 315-335.
  • Iacovou, M. 2005. The Early Iron Age Urban Forms of Cyprus, in Mediterranean Urbanization 800-600 B.C., Robin Osborne and Barry Cunliffe (eds), Proceedings of the British Academy 126. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 17-43.
  • Iacovou, M. 2005. Cyprus at the dawn of the first millennium BC: cultural homogenization versus the tyranny of ethnic identifications. In Archaeological Perspectives on the Transmission and Transformation of Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean, Joanne Clarke (ed.). Oxbow: Levant Supplementary Series 2: 125-134.
  • Iacovou, M. 2004. Mapping the ancient kingdoms of Cyprus. Cartography and classical scholarship during the Enlightenment. Ιn Eastern Mediterranean Cartographies, George Tolias and Dimitris Loupis (eds). Athens: Institute for Neohellenic Research, Tetradia Ergasias 25-26: 263-285.
  • Iacovou, M. 2004. Editor’s Preface, in Archaeological Field Survey in Cyprus: Past History Future Potentials. M. Iacovou (ed.).British School at Athens Studies 11: 11-15.
  • Iacovou M. 2002. From ten to naught. Formation, consolidation and abolition of Cyprus’ Iron Age polities. Actes du colloque international ‘Le temps des royaumes de Chypre, XIII-IV s. av. J.-C. Hommage a Marguerite Yon’. A. Hermary (ed.). Cahiers du Centre d’Etudes Chypriotes 32: 73-87.
  • Iacovou, M. 2001. Survey archaeology and its scientific potentials: Not a panacea but a step in the right direction. Ιn Whither Archaeology, Zbigniew Kobylinsky (ed.). Warsaw: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences: 136-148.
  • Iacovou, M. 1999. Excerpta Cypria Geometrica. Materials for a History of Geometric Cyprus. In Cyprus. The Historicity of the Geometric Horizon, M. Iacovou and D. Michaelides (eds). Nicosia: University of Cyprus: 141-163.
  • Iacovou, M. 1998. Philistia and Cyprus in the Eleventh Century: from a similar prehistory to a diverse protohistory. In Mediterranean Peoples in Transition: Thirteenth to Early Tenth Century B.C.E., S. Gitin, A. Mazar, E. Stern (eds). Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Journal: 332-344.
  • Iacovou, M. 1997. Images in Silhouette: The missing link of the figurative representations on Eleventh Century BC Cypriote Pottery. In Four Thousand Years of Images on Cypriote Pottery, V. Karageorghis, R. Laffineur, Fr. Vandenabeele (eds). Brussels-Liege-Nicosia: 61-71.
  • Iacovou, M. 1994. The Topography of Eleventh Century BC Cyprus. In Cyprus in the 11th century B.C., V. Karageorghis (ed). Nicosia. University of Cyprus: 149-165.
  • Iacovou, M. 1991. Proto-White Painted Pottery: A Classification of the Ware. In Cypriot Ceramics. Reading the Prehistoric Record, J. Barlow, D. Bolger, B. Kling (eds). University Museum Monograph 74. Philadelphia: 199-205.
  • Iacovou, M. 1989. Society and Settlements in Late Cypriote III. In Early Society in Cyprus, E. Peltenburg (ed). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press: 52-59.


PAPERS ACCEPTED IN CONFERENCES FOLLOWING REVIEW OF THE ABSTRACT

  • Agapiou, A., Iacovou, M. and Sarris, A. 2011. Spatial analysis of the Bronze Age sites of the region of Paphos in southwest Cyprus with the use of Geographical Information Systems. In CAA 2010 - Fusion of Cultures: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, F. J. Melero and Pedro Cano (eds), Granada (Spain)
  • Iacovou, M., E. Stylianides, A. Sarris and A. Agapiou 2009: ‘A long-term response to the need to make modern development and the preservation of the archaeo-cultural record mutually compatible operations: the GIS contribution’, 22nd CIPA Symposium, October 11-15, 2009. Kyoto, Japan (Comite International de Photogrammetrie Architecturale) (cipa.icomos.org/text%20files/KYOTO/199.pdf – last accessed 3/12/11).
  • Sarris, A., Kokkinou, E., Soupios, P., Papadopoulos, E., Trigkas, V., Sepsa, U., Gionis, D., Iacovou, M., Agapiou, A., Satraki, A., Stylianides, St.: 2008. Geophysical investigations at Palaepaphos, Cyprus. Proceedings of the International Conference Computer Applications in Archaeology, CAA Budapest.
  • Sarris, A., Stamatis, G., Papadopoulos, N., Kokkinou, E., Topouzi, S., Kokkinaki, E., Moissi, E., Iacovou, M., Kassianidou V., Papassavas, G., Papantoniou, G., Dikomitou, M. and Stylianidis, St.: 2006. Palaepaphos, Cyprus: The contribution of Geographical Information Systems and geophysical prospection in the study of archaeological topography and settlement patterns. Proceedings of the International Conference Computer Applications in Archaeology “The World in Your Eyes,” Tomar, Portugal (March 21-24, 2005): 199-204.
  • Iacovou, M. 2000. Survey to the rescue of the archaeological landscape. The link between regional survey projects and cultural heritage management. In A Living World Heritage. The Shared Ethical Responsibilities of Universities. Byblos & Beirut: UNESCO Fifth International Seminar: 70-75.


BOOK REVIEWS

  • Iacovou, M. (2019). Philippa Steele (2019), Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus, Cambridge U. Press. Journal of Greek Archaeology, 4, 443-448.
  • Iacovou, M. (2017) Gaignerot-Driessen, Fl., Driessen, J. (2017). Cretan Cities: Formation and Transformation. Journal of Greek Archaeology, 2(2), 395-401.
  • Iacovou, M. 2007: Kypris: the Aphrodite of Cyprus. Ancient Sources and Archaeological Evidence, by Jacqueline Karageorghis, Pp. xvii+269, figs. 329. A.G. Leventis Foundation, Nicosia 2005. In American Journal of Archaeology 111.3: 586-588.
  • Iacovou, M. 2005: Klavdhia-Tremithos. A Middle and Late Cypriote Bronze Age Site, by Kjell Malmgren (with an appendix by Parvine H. Merrillees). (SIMA Pocket Book 159.) Pp. 159, figs. 15, pls. 46. Paul Astroms Forlag, Jonsered 2003. In American Journal of Archaeology 109.1: 104-106.