OURANIA KOUKA

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Position

PROFESSOR

Entity

Archaelogical Research Unit

Building/ Office

Archaeological Research Unit, 007

Address

12, Gladstonos str.

https://ucy.academia.edu/OuraniaKouka

She is Professor for 'The Archaeology of Prehistoric Aegean' and Deputy Director of the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus. Her teaching, fieldwork research, publications and research projects (Heraion of Samos, Liman Tepe in Izmir, Miletus etc.) are relevant with the Aegean, Anatolia, Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean in general.

She was born in 1962 in Piraeus, Greece. Undergraduate Studies at Ethnikon & Kapodistriakon University at Athens, Greece: B.A. in History and Archaeology (1985). Graduate studies in Prehistory and Protohistory, Classical and Christian Archaeology at the Ruprecht–Karls Universität Heidelberg (Ph.D. 1997 at the Institut für Ur– und Frühgeschichte und Vorderasiatische Archäologie).

She worked at the 19th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities in Komotini, Thrace for the Archaeological and Ethnographical Research Project on Samothrace (1982–1989). She was a scientific assistant at the Institute for Prehistory, Protohistory and Archaeology of the Near East, University of Heidelberg (1991–1996). As the Head of the Group for Prehistory and Protohistory, Foundation of the Hellenic World–Internet Applications Systems she was responsible for the organization of the production, planning, research and composition of texts of web sites on all periods of the Aegean Prehistory (1997–2000). Furthermore, as a scientific collaborator of the programme ‘Corpus Artis Cycladicae’ under the auspices of the Archaeological Society at Athens and the scientific supervision of Prof. emer. Chr.G. Doumas, she worked on the organization of the documentation, publication and editing of volumes, including various categories of Early Cycladic artefacts stored at Museums and Private Collections in Greece (2000–2003).

She is the director of the excavations at Prehistoric Heraion on Samos (Sacred Road) (since 2009 under the auspices of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Athen), co–director of the Samos Archaeological Survey (since 2021) with the Ephorate of Samos and Ikaria, and member of the excavations of Ankara University at Liman Tepe, Izmir (since 2000). Previous fieldwork has been conducted at Agios Mamas/Nea Olynthos, Chalkidice (Freie Universitat Berlin), Tiryns, Argolid (Deutsches Archaologisches Institut Athen), Mikro Vouni, Samothrace and Archaeological and Ethnographic Survey on Samothrace (19th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Komotini), Akrotiri, Thera (University of Athens) and Maroneia, Komotini (Archaeological Society at Athens). Study and sampling of pottery for publication and/or archaeometric analysis has been undertaken at Panormos on Naxos, Akrotiri on Thera, Liman Tepe, Bakla Tepe, Miletus, Ηeraion of Samos, Kastro-Tigani, Agathonisi, Pythagoreion Museum Plot, Lemba Archaeological Project, Cyprus (Lemba, Kissonerga–Mosphilia), and the National Archaeological Museum at Athens (Schliemann’s legacy pottery from Troy).

She taught ‘Archaeological Documentation’ at the College Year in Athens (2001–2002, 2002–2003). Furthermore, she was a visiting lecturer in: the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Programme of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies and the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete on the ‘Management of Cultural Heritage’ (2002–2003); graduate programme of the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete (2003–2004); graduate programme of the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus, where she taught Prehistory of the Aegean and Anatolia (2003–2004, 2004–2005). Since September 2005 she belongs to the academic staff of the Department of History and Archaeology and the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus for teaching the ‘Αrchaeology of Prehistoric Aegean’ as a Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and since 01.01.2024 as a Professor. Since 2001 she is supervising or is member of committees for supervision of Masters, PhD and Habilitation Theses in universities of Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany and France.

In 2008 she was elected as a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute (Römisch–Germanische Kommission, Frankfurt) for her initiation for interregional and interdisciplinary cooperation among European countries and between Greece and Turkey. In 2017–2020 she acted as a member of the Academic Advising Board of the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology (OREA), Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is also member of the following associations and institutions: European Association of Archaeologists, West– und Süddeutscher Verband für Altertumsforschung e.V., Archaeological Institute of America, Institution of Theran Studies, ΙCOMOS Cyprus, Association of Cypriot Archaeologists, Association of Greek Archaeologist 'Eos', and the Society of Aegean Prehistory 'Αegeus'. Since 2015 she is member of the Council of the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus. In 2020 she was elected as a member of the Archaeology Liaison Group of ARWA–The International Association for Archaeological Research in Western and Central Asia. In 2021 she was elected as a Member of the Acting Committee of ICOMOS–Cyprus.

Since September 2022 she is the Εditor of the International Series AEGAEON: Archaeology and History of the Aegean, Circum–Aegean and the SW Balkans, Brepols Publishers. Besides, she is a member of the Εditorial Βoard of the International Series LEMA: Levantine and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology: The East, Brepols Publishers. Moreover, since 2021 she is member of the Scientific Committee of the Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien (ÖJI), the Ergänzungshefte zu den Jahresheften (ErghÖJh), and the Sonderschriften des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts (SoSchrÖAI).

She is acting as a reviewer of articles of the periodicals Prähistorische Zeitschrift, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Athen, Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien, Jahresbericht für Mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte–Sachsen–Anhalt, Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, Opuscula Atheniensia, Quarterly International, Access Archaeology, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), TÜBA–AR, of numerous conference proceedings, as well as evaluator of research projects, habilitation theses, and academic positions.

She participated in or organized numerous conferences and has delivered public lectures and seminars on the Aegean, Anatolian and Cypriote Prehistory in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, France, Spain, Belgium, United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, and the USA.

Her postgraduate studies as well as her studies, publications, postdoctoral and other research projects have been granted by the following institutions: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Institute of Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP), American School of Classical Studies at Athens, American Research Institute in Turkey, A.G. Leventis Foundation, Fritz Thyssen–Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung, The J. F. Costopoulos Foundation, Αegean Airlines, Universal Life, COSMOTE, OREA–Institut–Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and University of Cincinnati–UC Classics Margo Tytus Visiting Scholar Program Fellowship.

LABORATORY DIRECTION

Laboratory for Archiving, Study and Publication of Excavation/s Projects (at the Archaeological Research Unit, Room 007).

FIELDWORK

Samos Αrchaeological Survey (2021-2025), Samos (2009 onwards; Director of the Excavation of the University of Cyprus); Liman Tepe (Klazomenae), Izmir (2000 onwards Ankara University); Agios Mamas / Nea Olynthos, Chalkidice (Freie Universität Berlin) (1994, 1995); Tiryns, Argolid (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Athen) (1985); Mikro Vouni, Samothrace, Vrichos Choras, Samothrace, Archaeological and Ethnographic Survey on Samothrace (19th EPCA, Komotini) (1982–1989); Akrotiri, Thera (University of Athens) (1982); Maroneia, Komotini (19th EPCA) (1982).

RESEARCH PROJECTS

2021-2025: Samos Αrchaeological Survey (Project Director - Cooperation with the Ephorate of Samos and Ikaria).

2021–present: Early Bronze Age Pottery Technology from Troy: Analyzing Legacy Ceramics from Schliemann’s Excavations at the National Archaeological Museum at Athens (cooperation with Dr. Sergios Menelaou).

2020-2022: BORDER - Borderlands as areas of Mobility and Connectivity during the Third Millennium BC: Examining Regional Ceramic Technologies between the East Aegean Islands, Western Anatolia and Cyprus (HORIZON 2020, RESTART 2016-2020-2nd Opportunity-Supervision of and cooperation with the Post-doctoral Researcher Sergios Menelaou).

2019-present: The Early and Middle Bronze Age Settlement at Heraion on Samos (Area of Hera Temple) - Excavations of Hans Walter 1958-1960 (Study and publication of architecture, stratigraphy, pottery and small finds).

2018-present: Pythagoreion of Samos during Prehistory (in cooperation with Maria Viglaki, former Curator of the 21st Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquites of Cyclades).

2014-2020: The Chalcolithic Period at Kastraki on the Island of Agathonisi, Southseast Aegean (excavated by Dr. Pavlos Triantafyllidis, Ministry of Culture).

2009-2013 (excavation); 2014-2019 (study seasons); final publication in progress: Director of the Project “The Prehistoric Settlement at the Heraion of Samos (Sacred Road) (Indipendent Project -Permit by the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports through the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Athen: Prof. Dr. W.-D. Niemeier-Excavations at the Altar of the Heraion, Samos).

2007–2008: Kastri Group Pottery. The Transmission of Style and Technology in the Early Bronze II Aegean – Petrographic Analysis of selected Ceramics from Panormos on Naxos, Akrotiri on Thera, Liman Tepe and Bakla Tepe, Izmir Region – Internal Project of the University of Cyprus (O. Kouka with Post–Doctoral Research Associate Dr. Maria Relaki).

2005-2006: ARCANE Project – Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. Synchronizing Cultures and Civilizations of the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Third Millennium BC. Coordination with Prof. Emer. Chr.G. Doumas of the Aegean Regional Group and topic coordinator (study) of the Architecture and Settlement Planning. Programme funded by the European Science Foundation (http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/arcane/).

2005-2012: Souskiou-Laona Settlement Project, Cyprus, University of Edinburgh (Director Prof. Emer. E. Peltenburg). Collaborator-Advisor for the connections between Anatolia and Cyprus.

2005-present: Study of the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age settlement at Miletus (Milet I-ΙΙ)(Director: Prof. Dr. W.-D. Niemeier and Dr. B. Niemeier).

2003-present: Organization and coordination of the interdisciplinary project ‘Kastri Group Pottery: The Transmission of Style and Technology in the Early Bronze Aegean II’of the Archaeological Society at Athens (with Prof. Emer. Chr. G. Doumas). Further participants: National Research Center of Natural Sciences ‘Demokritos’ – Laboratory for Archaeometry (Dr. V. Kilikoglou), Ankara University – Department of Prehistory and Near Eastern Archaeology (Prof. H. Erkanal, Prof. V. Şahoglu), Sheffield University-Department of Archaeology and Prehistory (Dr. P. Day) and University of Western Ontario – Department of Archaeology and Prehistory (Dr. D.E. Wilson).

2000-present:Collaborator of the Izmir Region Excavations and Reseasch Project, conducted by the University of Ankara (Director: Prof. H. Erkanal until 2019 and henceforth Prof. V. Şahoğlu) – Excavation and publication of material from the Chalcolithic and the Bronze Age settlement at Liman Tepe, Izmir. (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/8635/).

UNDERGRADUATE COMPULSORY AND ELECTIVE COURSES
ARCH 117 Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology
AΡΧ 201 Samos and the East Aegean during Prehistory: Field Methodology
and Archaeological Interpretation
ARCH 207 The Neolithic Period in the Aegean
ARCH 214 Buit Environmrnt and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean
(10th – 2nd mill. BC)
ARCH 217 Cultural entities in the Aegean and Western Anatolia during the
Early Bronze Age (3rd mill. BC)
AΡΧ 219 Introduction to Aegean Prehistory (Stone Age – Bronze Age)
ARCH 256 The Emergence of the Bronze Age: Anatolia and Cyprus
in the 4th and 3rd mill. BC.
ARCH 266 Methodological and Interpretative Approaches in Aegean Prehistory
ARCH 278 Big Discoveries in the Prehistoric Aegean
ARCH 287 Archaeology of Death: Burial Habits in the Eastern Mediterranean
(11th – 3rd mill. BC)
ARCH 294 Cyclades and the East Aegean: Cultural Complexity from the
Early through the Late Bronze Age
ARCH 226 The Early Prehistory of Cyprus and Anatolia (11th – 3rd mill. BC)
(IN ENGLISH – FOR ERASMUS STUDENTS)

UNDERGRADUATE SEMINARS
ARCH 315 Island Archaeology: Island Societies in the Neolithic and
Early Bronze Age Aegean
ARCH 318 Aegean of multiple Speeds: From the Neolithic Household
to the Minoan Palaces
ARCH 319 Art and Society in Cyprus and Anatolia
(Neolithic-Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age)
ARCH 320 Built Environment and Society in the Prehistoric Aegean
ARCH 321 The Cyclades and Crete during Prehistory

POSTGRADUATE SEMINARS

MASTER’S PROGRAMME IN FIELD ARCHAEOLOGY ON LAND AND UNDER THE SEA
(in English)

ΑRCH 650 Settlement Analysis and Spatial Archaeology
(Early Urbanism in the Aegean and Anatolia (7th–2nd mill. BC.)

ARCH 661 Study of Pottery and Small Finds

PROSTGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN MEDITERRANEAN ARCHAEOLOGY (in Greek)

ΑRCH 701 Art and Society in the Aegean and Anatolia in the Neolithic
and the Early Bronze Age (11th – 3rd mill. BC)
ΑRCH 709 Cultural Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean from
the 11th through the beginning of the 2nd mill. BC
ΑRCH 710 Early Urbanization in the Aegean and Anatolia
ΑRCH 720 Archaeology of Death: Burial Customs in the Eastern
Mediterranean (11th – 3rd mill. BC)

PROSTGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN CONSERVATION OF MONUMENTS AND SITES
(in Greek)

ΑRCH 762 Built Environment from Prehistory to the Late Antiquity
(Built Environment in the Aegean and Anatolia during Prehistory)

Webpages:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3434-1626

https://ucy.academia.edu/OuraniaKouka;

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=new_profile&hl=en

Historiography of Prehistoric Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean;
Theoretical and Methodological Approaches in Prehistory;
Process of Neolithization in the Near East and Europe;
Transition from the Stone to the Early Bronze Age;
Fourth and Third mill. BC in the Aegean, Anatolia, Cyprus and the Near East;
Second mill. BC in the Aegean and Anatolia;
Island Archaeology – Diachronic approaches;
Settlement and Landscape Archaeology;
Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Surveys;
Inter–settlement and household organization in Prehistory;
Policy, economy and society in Prehistory;
Industrial installations, early metallurgy, and ceramic technology in Prehistoric Aegean, Cyprus and Anatolia;
Trade and cultural networks in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean during the Stone and Bronze Ages.

A selection of her publications can be found online: https://ucy.academia.edu/OuraniaKouka

I. BOOKS

KOUKA O. (in progress). SAMOS Volume I.2. The Excavations 1981, 2009-2013 North of the Sacred Road of Heraion. Stratigraphy – Architecture – Chronology. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.

KOUKA, O. (in progress). SAMOS Volume I.4. The Excavations 1981, 2009-2013 North of the Sacred Road of Heraion: The Middle Bronze Age. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.

KOUKA, O. (in progress). The Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age settlement at Miletus (Milet I-II) (to be published in the Serie MILET of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut).

KOUKA, O. (in progress). The Chalcolithic Period at Kastraki on the Island of Agathonisi, Southseast Aegean.

KOUKA, O. (in progress). The Settlement of the Early Bronze Age I – early Early Bronze Age II Period at Liman Tepe (Klazomenae). Stratigraphy and Architecture.

KASSIANIDOU, V., DEMESTICHA, ST., IACOVOU, M. KOUKA, O., OLYMPIOS, M., PAPASAVVAS, G., PARANI, M., SARRIS, A., & VIONIS, A. (eds.) (in progress). CONVIVIUM: An International Conference in Honour of Prof. Emeritus Demetrios Michaelides on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday Oxford: Oxbow.

ΠΑΠΑΣΑΒΒΑΣ, Γ., ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ, Μ., ΚΑΣΣΙΑΝΙΔΟΥ Β., ΠΑΡΑΝΗ, Μ., ΚΟΥΚΑ, Ο., ΒΙΩΝΗΣ, Α., ΔΕΜΕΣΤΙΧΑ, ΣΤ. & ΟΛΥΜΠΙΟΣ, Μ. (eds.), (in progress). ΕΥΦΡΟΣΥΝΑ ΕΡΓΑ: Μελέτες προς Τιμήν της Ομότιμης Καθηγήτριας του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου Ευφροσύνης Ριζοπούλου-Ηγουμενίδου Λευκωσία: Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου-Ερευνητική Μονάδα Αρχαιολογίας.

DOUMAS, Chr.G., KOUKA, O. & GIANNIKOURI, A.(eds.) (in progress). The Aegean Early Bronze Age: New Evidence, International Conference, Athens, April 11^th-14^th 2008, Ministry of Culture – Archaeological Institute of Aegean Studies.

ŞAHOĞLU, V., TUĞCU, İ., KOUKA, O., GÜNDOĞAN, Ü., ÇAYIR, Ü., TUNCEL, R. & ERKANAL-ÖKTÜ, A. (eds.) 2023. HAYAT: Arkeolojiye Adanmış bir Haşam. Hayat Erkanal Anısına Akdeniz Arkeolojisi Üzerine Çalışmalar / HAYAT: A Life Dedicated to Archaeology. Studies ın Mediterranean Archaeology in Memory of Hayat Erkanal, ANADOLU–Ek Dizi / ANATOLIA–Supplements, Anı Armağan Serisi III.4 / Festschrift Series III.4, Ankara: Ankara University.

JONES, J.-E. & O. KOUKA 2015. Elis 1969. The Peneios Valley Rescue Excavation Project. British School at Athens Survey 1967 and Rescue Excavations at Kostoureika and Keramidia 1969, Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology.

PANAGIOTOPOULOS, D., KAISER, I. & KOUKA, O. & (eds.) 2015. Ein Minoer im Exil. Festschrift für Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, Bonn: Habelt Verlag GmbH.

KARAGEORGHIS, V. & KOUKA, O. (eds.) 2011. On Cooking Pots, Drinking Cups, Loomweights and Ethnicity in Bronze Age Cyprus and Neighbouring Regions, International Archaeological Symposium – Nicosia, November 6^th-7^th 2010, Nicosia, Nicosia: A.G. Leventis Foundation.

KARAGEORGHIS, V. & KOUKA, O. (eds.) 2009. Cyprus and East Aegean: Intercultural Contacts from 3000 to 500 BC, International Archaeological Symposium – Pythagoreion Samos, 17^th -18^th October 2008, Pythagoreion, Nicosia: A.G. Leventis Foundation.

KOUKA, O. 2002. Siedlungsorganisation in der Nord- und Ostägäis während der Frühbronzezeit (3. Jt. v.Chr.), Ph. Dissertation Universität Heidelberg 1996, Internationale Archäologie 58, VML Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH, Rahden/Westf.

Βιβλιοκρισίες: Alram-Stern, E., Prähistorische Zeitschrift 79, 2004, 121-123.

Kilian-Dirlmeier, I., Germania 82, 2004, 520-521.

II. ON-LINE BOOKS

ΚΟΥΚΑ, Ο. & K. ΣΑΡΡΗ 1999. Εποχή του Χαλκού στα νησιά του Αιγαίου (The Bronze Age of the Aegean Islands), Foundation of the Hellenic World (http://www.ime.gr/chronos/02/islands/gr/index.html/).

ΚΟΥΚΑ, Ο. 1999. Ηπειρωτική Ελλάδα - Πρώιμη Χαλκοκρατία (The Early Bronze Age of the Greek Mainland), Foundation of the Hellenic World (http://www.ime.gr/chronos/02/mainland/gr/eh/index.html).

ΚΟΥΚΑ, Ο. 1998-1999. Εποχή του Λίθου (Stone Age), Foundation of the Hellenic World (http://www.ime.gr/chronos/01/gr/start.html).

ΚΟΥΚΑ, Ο. & E. ΖΥΜΗ 1997. Περιήγηση στην αρχαία Μίλητο (A Walk Through Ancient Miletus), Foundation of the Hellenic World (http://miletus.ime.gr).

III. CHAPTERS OR ARTICLES IN BOOKS

ΚΟUΚΑ, Ο. forthcoming, Το Αγαθονήσι κατά την Προϊστορία / Agathonissi in Prehistory, in Σταμπολίδης, Ν. – Γ. Τασούλας (εκδ.), Άγονη Γραμμή ΙΙ, Athens: Museum and Cycladic Art.

ERKANAL H., TUNCEL, R. & KOUKA, O. forthcoming. Early Bronze Age Settlement Planning and Architecture in Western Anatolia, in: Erkanal, H. & Şahoğlu, V. (eds.), Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East (ARCANE). Vol. V. Western Anatolia, Brussels: Brepols.

ΚΟUΚΑ, Ο. 2023. Aspects of Personal and Communal Symbolism in the Εarly Bronze I – II (Early) Settlement at Liman Tepe, in: ŞAHOĞLU, V., TUĞCU, İ., KOUKA, O., GÜNDOĞAN, Ü., ÇAYIR, Ü., TUNCEL, R. & ERKANAL-ÖKTÜ, A. (eds.) 2023. HAYAT: Arkeolojiye Adanmış bir Haşam. Hayat Erkanal Anısına Akdeniz Arkeolojisi Üzerine Çalışmalar / HAYAT: A Life Dedicated to Archaeology. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology in Memory of Hayat Erkanal, ANADOLU–Ek Dizi / ANATOLIA–Supplements, Anı Armağan Serisi III.4 / Festschrift Series III.4, Ankara: Ankara University, 267-286.

KOUKA, O. 2020. The Prehistoric Settlement under the Heraion of Samos, in: Diakidou, A.-E.. (ed.), The A.G. Leventis Research Projects 2000-2016. Final Reports, Nicosia: University of Cyprus.

ΚOUKA, O. 2018. The Prehistoric Settlement under the Heraion of Samos, in: Gagatsis, A. (ed.), The A.G. Leventis Research Projects 2000-2016. Final Reports, Nicosia: University of Cyprus, 61-72.

ΚΟΥΚΑ, Ο. 2017. Διαπολιτισμικές σχέσεις και νέες κοινοτικές ταυτότητες: Το Ανατολικό Αιγαίο, η Δυτική Μικρά Ασία και η Κύπρος στο κατώφλι της Εποχής του Χαλκού, στο: Παπαδημητρίου, Ν. & M. Tόλη (επιμ.), Αρχαία Κύπρος. Πρόσφατες εξελίξεις στην αρχαιολογία της ανατολικής Μεσογείου, Αθήνα: Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης, 43-68.

KOUKA, O. 2015. Prehistoric Heraion Reconsidered: Glimpses on the Excavations 2009-2013 North of the Sacred Road, in: Panagiotopoulos, D., Kaiser, I. and Kouka, O. (eds.), Ein Minoer im Exil. Festschrift für Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier. Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie (Aus dem Institut für Klassische Archäologie der Universität Heidelberg) Bd. 270. Bonn: Habelt, 223-242.

KOUKA, O. 2014. The Prehistoric Settlement under the Heraion of Samos, in: Gagatsis, A. and P. Eteokleous (eds.), A. G. Leventis Research Projects 2000-2016. Reviews and Contribution, 51-63, Nicosia: University of Cyprus.

KOUKA, O. 2013. Prehistoric Heraion on Samos Revisited: Cultural Transformation, Interaction and Urbanism in the East Aegean, in: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung - Jahresbericht 2013, 120-122.

ΚΟΥΚΑ, Ο. 2006. Η «Προϊστορική» Χαλκοκρατία: Πρώιμη και Μέση Εποχή του Χαλκού, Ιστορία των Ελλήνων, Κύπρος,τόμος 19, εκδόσεις ΔΟΜΗ Α.Ε., Αθήνα, 64-89. (The Prehistoric Bronze Age: Early and Middle Bronze Age, History of Greeks, Cyprus, Vol. 19, DOMI A.E., Athens, 64-89).

IV. ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS WITH PEER-REVIEW

KOUKA, O. – MENELAOU, S. forthcoming. Crafting Choices Mobility, and Pottery Circulation in the Aegean Middle Bronze Age (2000-1750 BC): The Case of Heraion on Samos. Journal of Archaeological Science.

MENELAOU, S.–KOUKA, O. 2022. Tracing interaction on Samos island: Pottery traditions and connectivity at Kastro-Tigani and Heraion during the Aegean Late-Final Neolithic/Western Anatolian Middle-Late Chalcolithic, The Annual of the British School at Athens 117, 1-52 (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annual-of-the-british-school-at-athens).

MENELAOU, S.–KOUKA, O. 2020. “Cooking up” Pottery Recipes: a Diachronic Technological and Provenance Analysis of Cooking Ware Ceramics from Prehistoric Heraion on Samos, Greece (ca. 4500–1700 BC), Second International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (ICAS-EMME 2), Nicosia, 12-13 November 2019, The Cyprus Institute, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

KOUKA, O. 2019. Prähistorisches Heraion: ein frühurbanes Zentrum der Ostägais - Προϊστορικό Ηραίον: Ένα πρωτοαστικό κέντρο στο ανατολικό Αιγαίο, . DAI-AtheNea, 22-27.

KOUKA, O. 2017. Die prähistorische Siedlung im Heraion. DAI- AtheNea, 76-79.

KOUKA, O. 2016. Die prähistorische Siedlung im Heraion von Samos, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Athen, AtheNea, 70-75.

MENELAOU, S.–O. KOUKA–P. DAY 2016. Pottery production and exchange at the Heraion, Samos during the late third millennium BC: First steps in the study of technology and provenance, International Conference Interdisciplinary Studies of Ancient Materials from the Mediterranean, Nicosia, 17-19 September 2014, University of Cyprus, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 7, 480-488.

NIEMEIER, W.-D. & KOUKA, O. 2014. e-Jahresbericht 2012/13 des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Abteilung Athen: Samos, Heraion, 49-50.

KOUKA, O. 2013. Minding the Gap: Against the Gaps: The Early Bronze Age and the Transition to the Middle Bronze Age in the Northern and Eastern Aegean/Western Anatolia, American Journal of Archaeology 117.4, 569-580.

KOUKA, O. 2012. Prehistoric Ionia Reconsidered: New Excavations at the Heraion, Samos, and on the Western Littoral of Asia Minor (The Mycenaean Seminar 2010-11), Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies University of London 55.2, 125-126.

NIEMEIER, W.-D. & KOUKA, O. 2013. e-Jahresbericht 2012/13 des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Abteilung Athen: Samos, Heraion. 49-50.

NIEMEIER, W.-D. & KOUKA, O. 2012. Jahresbericht 2011 des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Abteilung Athen: Samos, Heraion, AA 2012/1 Beiheft 1(Jahresbericht 2011): 100-1.

NIEMEIER, W.-D. & KOUKA, O. 2011. Jahresbericht 2010 des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Abteilung Athen: Samos, Heraion, AA 2011/1 Beiheft 1(Jahresbericht 2010): 104-6.

NIEMEIER, W.-D. & KOUKA, O. 2010. Jahresbericht 2009 des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Abteilung Athen: Samos, Heraion, AA 2010/1 Beiheft 1(Jahresbericht 2009): 112-4.

KOUKA, O. 1998. Siedlungsorganisation in der Nord- und Ostägäis während der Frühbronzezeit (3. Jahrtausend v. Chr.), Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt, 3. 1, 1998, 53-59.

V. ARTICLES IN CONFRERENCE PROCEEDINGS WITH PEER-REVIEW

KOUKA, O. in progress. Searching for Mortuary Landscapes in the Early Bronze Age East Aegean, in: Şahoğlu, V. & KOUKA, O. (eds.), Death, Rituals and Symbolism in Prehistoric Aegean, ARWA International Online Workshop Dedicated to the Memory of Hayat Erkanal, 11 – 12 December 2022, AEGAEON: Archaeology and History of the Aegean, Circum-Aegean and the SW Balkans, Vol. 2, Brepols Publishers.

KOUKA, O.– S. MENELAOU in progress. «Κρήτη και Μυτιλήνη, Σάμο κι Iκαριά, Νάξο και Σαντορίνη …»: Interconnections of Samos in the Aegean Middle Bronze Age, in: KOPANIAS, K., MANER, Ç., STAMPOLIDIS, N. & FAPPAS, I. (eds.), NOSTOI II: Travelling in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea + Inland Routes from the Early Bronze to the End of the Early Iron Age, Athens, November 11-13, 2022, AEGAEON: Archaeology and History of the Aegean, Circum-Aegean and the SW Balkans, Vol. 1, Brepols Publishers.

KOUKA, O. in progress. Rings of the same chain? Reconstructing cultural identities in the maritime landscapes of the East Aegean islands and Western Anatolian littoral in the Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age (mid 5^th – late 3^rd millennium BCE), in: MENELAOU, S., KOUKA, O. & OĞUZHANOĞLU, U. (eds.), Borderlands, Interaction Zones, and Bounded Spaces in the Prehistoric Eastern Mediterranean: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Reconstruction of Connectivity, EAA, 31 August- 3 September 2022, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies (JEHAMS).

KOUKA, O. forthcoming. At the Mouth of the Maeander River: The Early Bronze Age in Miletus, in MARKETOU T.–S. VITALE (eds), The Southeast Aegean/Southwest Coastal Anatolian Region: Material Evidence and Cultural Identity I. The Early and Middle Bronze Age, International Conference, Athens, 12-14 May 2016, Italian School of Athens.

KOUKA, O.– S. MENELAOU–Y. MANIATIS forthcoming. Filling in the Puzzle: A Holistic Approach on the Early Bronze Age at the Heraion on Samos, in MARKETOU T.–S. VITALE (eds), The Southeast Aegean/Southwest Coastal Anatolian Region: Material Evidence and Cultural Identity I. The Early and Middle Bronze Age, International Conference, Athens, 12-14 May 2016, Italian School of Athens.

KOUKA, O.–Y. MANIATIS forthcoming. The Middle Bronze Age at Heraion on Samos: A Bright Epilogue in the Settlement History at Heraion?, in T. MARKETOU–S. VITALE (eds), The Southeast Aegean/Southwest Coastal Anatolian Region: Material Evidence and Cultural Identity I. The Early and Middle Bronze Age, International Conference, Athens, 12-14 May 2016, Italian School of Athens.

KOUKA, O. & ŞAHOĞLU, V. forthcoming. New Data on the Aegean Early Bronze Age I – Early Bronze Age II (early) Chronology from Liman Tepe, Izmir, in: Doumas, Chr.G., Giannikouri, A. & Kouka, O. (eds.), The Aegean Early Bronze Age: New Evidence, International Conference, Athens, April 11^th-14^th, Ministry of Culture – Archaeological Institute of Aegean Studies.

KOUKA, O. 2020. Emerging Complexity: The East Aegean/Western Anatolia and Crete in the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000–1700 BCE), in Lebeau, M. (ed.), Identity, Diversity & Contact. From the Southern Balkans to Xinjiang, from the Upper Palaeolithic to Alexander, International Congress The East, Volume 1, Brepols Publishers n. v., Turnhout, Belgium, 1-25.

KOUKA, O. 2019. Local and Imported in Action: Western Anatolian and Cycladic Figurines at Early Bronze Age Miletus, in Marthari, M. - C. Renfrew -M. Boyd (eds), Beyond the Cyclades. Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context from Mainland Greece, the North and East Aegean, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 237-248.

ERKANAL, H., AYKURT, A, KOUKA, O., BOYÜKULUSOY, K., TUĞCU, İ., REINFELD, M., BOYCE J.I., RIDDICK, N., ŞAHOĞLU, V. 2019. Liman Tepe 2018 Yılı Kara ve Su Altı Kazıları (Land and Underwater Excavations at Liman Tepe in 2018), in: 41.2. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, 417-439.

KOUKA, O. 2019. Aspects of Mobility between Crete and the Southeast Aegean in the Middle Bronze Age: the new Evidence from Heraion on Samos, in 12th International Congress of Cretan Studies, Herakleion 21-25.9.2016 (https://12iccs.proceedings.gr/en/authors/688).

KOUKA, O.-S. MENELAOU 2018. Settlement and Society in the Early Bronze Age Heraion: Exploring Stratigraphy, Architecture and Ceramic Innovation after mid–3^rd Millennium BC, in Horejs, B.–E. Alram-Stern (eds), Pottery Technologies and Sociocultural Connections between the Aegean and Anatolia during the 3^rd Milllennium BC, Conference Vienna, 21-23.10.2015. Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 119-142.

KOUKA, O. 2017. Η προϊστορική κατοίκηση στο Ηραίον Σάμου: Οι ανασκαφές 2009-2013 βόρεια της Ιεράς Οδού, in: Tριανταφυλλίδης Π. (επιμ.), Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στα νησιά του Αιγαίου, Διεθνές Επιστημονικό Συνέδριο, Ρόδος, 27 Νοεμβρίου-1 Δεκεμβρίου 2013, Tόμος B’, Μυτιλήνη: Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού-Εφορεία Αρχαιοτήτων Λέσβου-Γενική Γραμματεία Αιγαίου και Νησιωτικής Πολιτικής, 163-180.

KOUKA, O. 2016. The Embodiment of Land Ownership in the Aegean Early Bronze Age, in Mina, M. -S. Triantaphyllou- Y. Papadatos (eds), Embodied Identities in the Prehistoric Eastern Mediterranean: Convergence of Theory and Practice, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 129-135.

KOUKA, O. 2016. The Built Environment and Cultural Connectivity in the Aegean Early Bronze Age, in Molloy, B.P.C (ed.), Of Odysseys and Oddities, Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology, Oxbow Books, 203-222.

KOUKA, O. 2014. Past Stories – Modern Narratives: Cultural Dialogues between East Aegean Islands and the Western Anatolian Mainland in the 4^th Millennium BC, in: Horejs, B. & M. Mehofer (Eds.), Western Anatolia before Troy. Proto-Urbanisation in the 4^thMillennium BC?, Proceedings of the International Symposium held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 21‒24 November, 2012, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften-Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Oriental and European Archaeology Volume 1, Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 43-63.

ERKANAL, H., ŞAHOĞLU, V., AYKURT, A., KOUKA, O. & TUĞCU, İ. 2012. Liman Tepe 2010 Yılı Kara Kazıları (Excavations at Liman Tepe in 2010), in: XXXIII. Vol. 4. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, 463-478.

KOUKA, O. 2011. Symbolism, ritual feasting and ethnicity in Early Bronze Age Cyprus and Anatolia,in: Karageorghis, V. & Kouka, O. (eds.), On Cooking Pots, Drinking Cups, Loomweights and Ethnicity in Bronze Age Cyprus and Neighbouring Regions, International Archaeological Symposium – Nicosia, November 6^th-7^th 2010, A.G. Leventis Foundation, 43-56.

ERKANAL, H., ŞAHOĞLU, V., TUNCEL, R., KOUKA, O., KESKIN, L. & TUĞCU, İ. 2011. Liman Tepe 2009 Yılı Kara Kazıları (Excavations at Liman Tepe in 2009), in: XXXII. Vol. 4. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, 446-462.

ERKANAL, H., ŞAHOĞLU, V., TUNCEL, R., KOUKA, O., KESKIN, L. & TUĞCU, İ. 2010. Liman Tepe 2008 Yılı Kara Kazıları (Excavations at Liman Tepe in 2008), in: XXXI. Vol. 4. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, 347-360.

KOUKA, O. 2009. Third MillenniumBC Aegean Chronology: Old and New Data under the Perspectives of the Third Millennium AD, in: Manning, St. & Bruce, M.J. (eds.), Tree-Rings, Kings, and Old World Archaeology and Environment: Papers Presented in Honor of Peter Ian Kuniholm, Oxford and Oakville: Oxbow Books, 133-149.

KOUKA, O. 2009. Cross-Cultural Links and Elite Identities: the Eastern Aegean/Western Anatolia and Cyprus from the Early Third Millennium through the Early Second Millennium BC, in: Karageorghis, V. & Kouka, O. (eds.), Cyprus and East Aegean: Intercultural Contacts from 3000 to 500 BC, Proceedings of the International Archaeological Symposium – Pythagoreion Samos, 17^th -18^th October 2008,A.G. Leventis Foundation - German Archaeological Institute at Athens, 31-47.

KOUKA, O., DAY, P., DOUMAS, Chr., ERKANAL, H., KILIKOGLOU, V., RELAKI, M & ŞAHOĞLU, V. 2009. New Light on the ‘Kastri Group’: A Petrographic and Chemical Investigation of Ceramics from Liman Tepe and Bakla Tepe, in: 24. Arkeometri Sonuçları Toplantısı, 335-346.

ERKANAL, H., ŞAHOĞLU, V., TUNCEL, R., KOUKA, O., KESKIN, L. & TUĞCU, İ. 2009. 2007 Yılı Liman Tepe Kazıları (Excavations at Liman Tepe in 2007), in: XXX. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, Vol. 1, 299-322.

KOUKA, O. 2008. Zur Struktur der frühbronzezeitlichen insularen Gesellschaften der Nord- und Ostägäis: Ein neues Bild der sogenannten ¨Trojanischen Kultur¨, in: Erkanal, H., H. Hauptmann, V. Şahoğlu & R. Tuncel (eds.) 2008. The Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age, Proceedings of the International Symposium, October 13^th-19^th 1997, Urla-Izmir (Turkey), Ankara University – Research Center for Maritime Archaeology (ANKÜSAM), Publication No: 1, Ankara: Ankara University, 285-300.

KOUKA, O. 2008. Diaspora, Presence or Interaction? The Cyclades and the Greek Mainland form the Final Neolithic to Early Bronze II, in: Brodie N.J., Doole J., Gavalas G. & Renfrew C. (eds.), Horizon – Όρίζωυ: A Colloquium on the prehistory of the Cyclades, Cambridge, 25^th-28^th March 2004, McDonald Institute Monograph Series, Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 311-319.

DAY, P.M., WILSON, D.E., KARIOTIS, ST., KOUKA, O., RELAKI, M. 2006. The World in a Chamber: The Kastri Group and a Late EC II Deposit from Akrotiri, Thera, 107^th Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Montreal, Canada, January 2006 - Abstracts.

ERKANAL, H., ARTZY, M. & KOUKA, O. 2004. 2002 Yılı Liman Tepe Kazıları (Excavations at Liman Tepe in 2002), in: XXV. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, Vol. 2, 165-178.

ERKANAL, H., ARTZY, M. & KOUKA, O. 2003. 2001 Yılı Liman Tepe Kazıları (Excavations at Liman Tepe in 2001), in: XXIV. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, Vol. 1, 423-436.

ΚOUKA, Ο. 1999. Έκφραση πολιτικής εξουσίας, οικονομικής οργάνωσης και κοινωνικής διαφοροποίησης στη νησιωτική κοινωνία της Πολιόχνης κατά την Πρώιμη Εποχή του Χαλκού, in: Eliten in der Bronzezeit. Ergebnisse zweier Kolloquien in Mainz und Athen, Mainz 1999, 59-78.

ΚOUKA, Ο. 1997. Οργάνωση και χρήση του χώρου στη Θερμή Λέσβου κατά την Πρώιμη Εποχή του Χαλκού, in: Doumas, Chr. G. & La Rosa, V. (ed.), Η Πολιόχνη και η Πρώιμη Εποχή του Χαλκού στο Βόρειο Αιγαίο (Poliochni e l’ antica eta del bronzo nell’ Egeo settentrionale), ΔιεθνέςΣυνέδριο, Αθήνα, 22-25 Απριλίου 1996, Αθήνα 1997, 467-497.

VI. ΒOOK REVIEWS

KOUKA, O. Die deutschen Ausgrabungen auf der Argissa-Magula in Thessalien II: Das frühe und das beginnende Neolithikum im Lichte transägäischer Beziehungen, by Agathe Reingruber (Beiträge zur ur- und frühgeschichtlichen Archäologie des Mittelmeer-Kulturraumes 35), American Journal of Archaeology 113. 4, 2009, 113 (http://www.ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/113.3/05_Kouka.pdf).

KOUKA, Ο. 2002 Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 1.1 (1988) – 13.2 (2000), European Journal of Archaeology 5.3, 386-388 (Periodical Review).

CONFERENCE PAPERS

12.12.22: Searching for Mortuary Landscapes in the Early Bronze Age East Aegean, Death, Rituals and Symbolism in Prehistoric Aegean, ARWA International Online Workshop Dedicated to the Memory of Hayat Erkanal, 11 – 12 December 2022.

12.11.22: «Κρήτη και Μυτιλήνη, Σάμο κι Iκαριά, Νάξο και Σαντορίνη …»: Interconnections of Samos in the Aegean Middle Bronze Age, NOSTOI II: Travelling in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea + Inland Routes from the Early Bronze to the End of the Early Iron Age”, Athens, November 25th-28th, 2021 (with Sergios Menelaou).

02.09.22: Rings of the same chain? Reconstructing cultural identities in the maritime landscapes of the East Aegean islands and Western Anatolian littoral in the Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age (mid 5^th – late 3^rd millennium BCE), EAA, 31 August- 3 September 2022.

18.05.22: Crafting choices, mobility and pottery circulation in the Aegean middle Bronze Age (2000-1750 BC): the case of Heraion on Samos, 43^rd International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA 2022), Lisboa, 16-20 May 2022 (Poster with Sergios Menelaou).

17.03.22: Pottery production and circulation at the Middle Bronze Age Heraion on Samos, Greece: A preliminary petrographic analysis, ICAS-EMME 3, Nicosia, 14-18 March 2022, The Cyprus Institute and the University of Cyprus (with Sergios Menelaou).

20.02.2021: Space management as a social indicator in the North and East Aegean Islands and beyond during the 3^rd mill. BCE., Webinar: Anatolia in the 3rd Millenium BC General Situation and Recent Studies, 19-22 February 2021.

08.02.2020: Όψεις κοινοτικής πολυπλοκότητας στο Ανατολικό Αιγαίο και τη Δυτική Μικρά Ασία κατά την Εποχή του Χαλκού, To Αρχαιολογικό Έργο του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου, Ερευνητική Μονάδα Αρχαιολογίας, Λευκωσία, 08.02.2020.

Rousou M., Tengberg M., Kouka O. (2019): Archaeobotany of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Cyprus: summary of current and recent data, στο: 2 nd International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (ICAS-EMME 2), 12-14 Νοεμβρίου, Κυπριακό Ινστιτούτο, Λευκωσία, Κύπρος.

14.11.2019: Kouka, O. (with S. Menelaou), “Cooking up” pottery recipes: a diachronic technological and provenance analysis of cooking ware ceramics from prehistoric Heraion on Samos, Greece (5th to early 2nd millennia BC), 2^nd International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (ICAS-EMME 2), Nicosia, Cyprus, 12-14 November 2020.

11.10.2019: Kouka, O. (with S. Menelaou), Experimenting with clays: towards the definition of local pottery production in prehistoric southern Samos (Poster presentation), 7^th Symposium on Archaeometry, Hellenic Society of Archaeometry, Athens, Greece, 9-12 October 2019.

18.09.2019: Kouka, O. (with S. Menelaou), Pottery production and technological traditions at Neolithic and Chalcolithic Samos, Greece: preliminary data from Kastro-Tigani and Heraion, European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics 2019, Barcelona, 16-18 September 2019.

18.04.2019: Kouka, O. Emerging Complexity: The East Aegean/Western Anatolia and Crete in the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1700 BCE), ICE 1-International Congress Congress- The East, Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, 16-18 April 2019.

May 2019: Kouka O. (with H. Erkanal, A. Aykurt, I. Tugcu), Excavations at Liman Tepe in 2018, in: 41st Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, Turkish Ministry of Culture, Diyarbakir, 17-21 May 2019.

22.11.2018: Social dynamics and space management in the Early Bronze Age North and East Aegean, Household Archaeology in Old World Prehistory. An interdisciplinary approach, 21^st–22^nd November 2018, Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

25.05.2018: Between East and West: Positioning the Early Bronze Age Heraion (Samos) within Aegean Exchange Networks through the Ceramic Evidence, Poster presentation (co-presented by S. Menelaou and P.M. Day), 42nd International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA), Autonomous University of Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán (Mexico), 20-26 May 2018.

11.02.2018: O προϊστορικός οικισμός του Ηραίου Σάμου: Οι εργασίες κατά το 2017, To Αρχαιολογικό Έργο του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου, Ερευνητική Μονάδα Αρχαιολογίας.

November 2017: Pottery Production and Life Style in the Middle Bronze Age Settlement of Heraion of Samos, Tavşan Adası and the Southeast Aegean/Southwest Coastal Anatolian Region (SASCAR)–A Ceramic Perspective (November 10-11, 2017, University of Halle, Germany.

11.02.2017: Διαπολιτισμικές σχέσεις Μινωικής Κρήτης και Νοτιοανατολικού Αιγαίου κατά τη Μέση Εποχή του Χαλκού: Νέες μαρτυρίες από το Ηραίον Σάμου, To Αρχαιολογικό Έργο του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου, Ερευνητική Μονάδα Αρχαιολογίας.

September 2016: Aspects of Mobility between Crete and the Southeast Aegean in the Middle Bronze Age: the new Evidence from Heraion on Samos, 12th International Congress of Cretan Studies, Herakleion, Crete, 21-25 September 2016.

May 2016: Kouka, O., S. Menelaou and P. M. Day, Fashioning Ceramics and Weaving Worlds: the Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age transition at the Heraion, Samos, 41st International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA 2016), Kalamata, 15-20/5/2016:

May 2016: 3 papers held in the confrerence: The Southeast Aegean/Southwest Coastal Anatolian Region: Material Evidence and Cultural Identity I. The Early and Middle Bronze Age, International Conference, Athens, 12-14 May 2016:

Kouka, O., S. Menelaou and Y. Maniatis, Filling in the Puzzle: A Holistic Approach on the Early Bronze Age at the Heraion on Samos.
Kouka, O. and Y. Maniatis, The Middle Bronze Age at Heraion on Samos: A Bright Epilogue in the Settlement History at Heraion?
At the Mouth of the Maeander River: The Early Bronze Age in Miletus.

13.02.2016: Η προϊστορική κατοίκηση στο Ηραίον Σάμου: Οι ανασκαφές 2009-2013 βόρεια της Ιεράς Οδού, To Αρχαιολογικό Έργο του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου, Ερευνητική Μονάδα Αρχαιολογίας.

October 2015: (with S. Menelaou and P. Day), Exploring the East Aegean Ceramic Technological Tradition: Preliminary Results from an Integrated Analysis of Pottery form the Early Bronze Age Heraion on Samos, In: Pottery Technologies and Sociocultural Connections between the Aegean and Anatolia during the 3^rd Milllennium BC, Conference, Vienna, 21-23.10.2015.

October 2015: (with P. Day, D. Wilson, St. Kariotis, V. Kilikoglou, M. Relaki and Chr. Doumas) Distinctive Forms, Familiar Technologies: Anatolianising Types and Aegean Traditions in the Ceramic of Late EB II, in: Pottery Technologies and Sociocultural Connections between the Aegean and Anatolia during the 3^rd Milllennium BC, Conference Vienna, 21-23.10.2015. Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

September 2015: (with S. Menelaou and P. Day), A Technological Assessment of Ceramics from the Early Bronze Age Heraion Settlement of Samos, Greece: Towards an Integrated Approach, 13^th EMAC European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics, 24-26 September, Athens.

May 2015: Local and Imported in Action: Western Anatolian and Cycladic Figurines at Early Bronze Age Miletus, Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context from beyond the Cyclades:Mainland Greece, the North and East Aegean, Athens, Archaeological Society, 25th-26th May 2015.

September 2014: (with S. Menelaou and P. Day), Pottery Production and Exchange at the Heraion, Samos during the Late Third Millennium BC: First Steps in the Study of Technology and Provenance, International Conference ‘Interdisciplinary Studies of Ancient Materials from the Mediterranean’, “NARNIA, Interdisciplinary studies of ancient material from the Mediterranean”, Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 17-19 September 2014.

November 2013: Η προϊστορική κατοίκηση στο Ηραίον Σάμου: Οι ανασκαφές 2009-2013 βόρεια της Ιεράς Οδού, International Conference 'The Archaeological Work in the Aegean Islands, Archaeological Institute of Aegean Studies, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Rhodes, 27th November-1st December 2013'.

June 2013: Bordered by the Sea: Heraion and Miletus in the Fourth Millennium BCE, in: Communities in Transition: The Circum-Aegean Later Neolithic Stages (c. 5000/4800-3200/3000 BCE), Athens, June 7 to 9 2013, Danish Institute at Athens.

April 2013: Kilikoglou, V., O. Kouka, M. Relaki, V. Şahoğlu & D.E.: Wilson, Populations, Potters, or Shapes: What’s on the Move in the Kastri Group?, in: Society for American Archaeology 78^th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii April 3-7, 2013.

January 2013: Built Environment and Cultural Connectivity in the Aegean Early Bronze Age, in: Of Odysseus and Oddities: Scales and Modes of Interaction Between Prehistoric Aegean Societies and their Neighbours, Sheffield Aegean Round Table 2013, Sheffield, January 25^th -27^th 2013.

January 2013: Against the Gaps: The Early Bronze Age and the Transition to the Middle Bronze Age in the North and Eastern Aegean/Western Anatolia, in: Gold Medal Colloquium in Honor of Jeremy B. Rutter: Minding the Gap: A Problem in Eastern Mediterranean Chronology. Then and Now, 114^th Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Archaeology, Seattle, January 3^rd-6^th 2013.

November 2012: Past Stories – Modern Narratives: Cultural Dialogues between East Aegean Islands and Western Anatolian Mainland in the Fourth Millennium BC, in: Western Anatolia before Troy. Proto-Urbanisation in the 4^thMillennium BC?, Symposion Wien, 21.24.11.2012, Kunsthistorisches Museum.

May 2012: Excavations at Liman Tepe in 2011 (in Turkish), in: XXXIV Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, Turkish Ministry of Culture, Ankara.

May 2011: Excavations at Liman Tepe in 2010 (in Turkish), in: XXXIII Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, Turkish Ministry of Culture, Ankara.

May 2010: Excavations at Liman Tepe in 2009 (in Turkish), in: XXXII Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, Turkish Ministry of Culture, Ankara.

May 2010: Kouka, O., Day, P.M., C. Doumas, S. Kariotis, V. Kilikoglou, M. Relaki, V. Şahoğlu & D.E. Wilson, New Light on the ‘Kastri Group’: Analyzing late EB II Ceramics from the Cyclades and the Izmir Region, in: International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East, STARC-Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center, Paphos, Cyprus, 29 April-1 May 2010.

April 2010: Erkanal, H., V. Şahoğlu, O. Kouka, R. Tuncel, L. Keskin & İ. Tuğcu, Liman Tepe Excavations, in: 7^th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), London, University College London.

November 2010: Symbolism, ritual feasting and ethnicity in Early Bronze Age Cyprus and Anatolia, International Archaeological Symposium - On Cooking Pots, Drinking Cups, Loom Weights and Ethnicity in Bronze Age Cyprus and Neighbouring Regions, Nicosia, 6^th -7^th November 2010.

September 2009: Kouka, O., P. Day, M. Relaki, D. Wilson & S. Kariotis, Ceramic Intruders in the Cyclades? Provenance and Technology of a ‘Kastri Group’ Deposit from Akrotiri, Thera, in: 10^th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics, London, 10-12 September 2009.

May 2009: Excavations at Liman Tepe in 2008 (in Turkish), in: XXXI Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, Turkish Ministry of Culture, Ankara.

October 2008: East Aegean, Western Anatolia and Cyprus: Intercultural Contacts in the 3^rd and the first half of the 2^nd mill. BC., in: International Archaeological Symposium – Cyprus and East Aegean: Intercultural contacts from 3000 to 500 BC, Pythagoreion Samos, 17^th-8^th October 2008.

July 2008: Identifying Land Ownership in the Aegean Early Bronze Age, in: 6^th World Archaeological Conference, Dublin, 29 June-4 July 2008. Session: Analytical Limitations and Potential in Studying Land Ownership in Archaeology.

May 2008: New Light on the ‘Kastri Group’: A Petrographic and Chemical Investigation of Ceramics from Liman Tepe and Bakla Tepe, in: XXX. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, Turkish Ministry of Culture, Ankara, 16-31 May 2008.

May 2008: Excavations at Liman Tepe in 2007 (in Turkish), in: XXX Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, Turkish Ministry of Culture, Ankara, 16-31 May 2008.

April 2008: New Data on the Aegean Early Bronze Age I – Early Bronze Age II (early) Chronology from Liman Tepe, Izmir, in: The Early Bronze Age in the Aegean: New Data, International Conference, Athens, April 11^th-14^{th 2008}, Ministry of Culture – Archaeological Institute of Aegean Studies.

November 2006: Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology (in Greek), in: Διαχρονικές όψεις του Ελληνισμού στην Ανατολική Μεσόγειο, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου, Ο εορτασμός της Δεκαετηρίδος 1996-2006, 25 Νοεμβρίου 2006 (10^th Anniversary of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cyprus), Nicosia.

November 2006: Third Millennium BC Aegean Chronology: Old and New Data under the Perspectives of the Third Millennium AD, in: Tree-Rings, Kings, and Old World Archaeology and Environment: Cornell Dendrochronology-Archaeology Conference in Honor of Peter Ian Kuniholm, 3-5 November 2006, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

January 2006: The World in a Chamber: The Kastri Group and a Late EC II Deposit from Akrotiri, Thera, 107^th Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Montreal, Canada, January 5^th-8^th 2006.

January 2006: Complexity and Urbanism in Western Anatolia: The Early Bronze Age I Settlement at Liman Tepe and the Beginnings of Urbanization in the Aegean, in: Environments of Complexity, BANEA-British Association of Near Eastern Archaeology Annual Meeting 2006, 5-7 January 2006, Edinburgh.

May 2005: Excavations at Liman Tepe in 2004 (in Turkish), in: XXVΙΙ. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, Turkish Ministry of Culture, Antalya, 30 May-3 June 2005.

May 2004: Excavations at Liman Tepe in 2002 (in Turkish), in: XXVI. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, Ankara, Turkish Ministry of Culture, Konya, 25-30 May 2004.

March 2004: ‘Diaspora’, ‘Presence’ or Interaction? The Cyclades and the Greek Mainland in the Final Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age, in: Όρίζωυ: A Colloquium on the prehistory of the Cyclades, Cambridge, 25^th-28^th March 2004, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge.

May 2003: Excavations at Liman Tepe in 2002 (in Turkish), in: XXV. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, Ankara, Turkish Ministry of Culture, Ankara, 26-31 May 2003.

May 2002: Excavations at Liman Tepe in 2001 (in Turkish), in: XXIV. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, Ankara, Turkish Ministry of Culture, Ankara 27-31 May 2002.

October 1997: Zur Struktur der frühbronzezeitlichen insularen Gesellschaften der Nord- und Ostägäis: Ein neues Bild der sogenannten ¨Trojanischen Kultur¨, in: The Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age, International Symposium, 13.-19. October 1997, Urla, German Archaeological Institute at Istanbul – University of Ankara.

May 1997: Expression of Political Authority, Economic Organization and Social Stratification in the Island Society of Poliochni during the Early Bronze Age (in Greek), in: Eliten in der Bronzezeit. Ergebnisse zweier Kolloquien in Mainz und Athen, Athens.

April 1996: Spatial Organization in Thermi of Lesbos during the Early Bronze Age (in Greek), in: Η Πολιόχνη και η Πρώιμη Εποχή του Χαλκού στο Βόρειο Αιγαίο (Poliochni e l’ antica eta del bronzo nell’ Egeo settentrionale), Διεθνές Συνέδριο, Αθήνα, 22-25 Απριλίου 1996, Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene – Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών.

INVITED LECTURES AND SEMINARS

03.05.22: Two sides of the same coin? Cultural Aspects of Heraion and Miletus from the Chalcolithic through the Middle Bronze Age (c. 4500 – 1700 BCE), Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Vorderasiatische Archäologie,Universität Heidelberg.

19.07.21: Between the East and the West: The East Aegean Islands from the 4th through the early 2nd mill. BCE., ARWA. LECTURES SERIE 2021, ARWA - The International Association for Archaeological Research in Western and Central Asia.

01.02.2021: Maritime dialogues in the East Aegean Islands and Western Asia Minor during Prehistory, 30 years of Archaeological Research Unit at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia.

08.02.2020: Όψεις κοινοτικής πολυπλοκότητας στο Ανατολικό Αιγαίο και τη Δυτική Μικρά Ασία κατά την Εποχή του Χαλκού, Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου 2019, Ερευνητική Μονάδα Αρχαιολογίας, Λευκωσία.

16.12.19: 'Έργα και Ημέραι' 2018 στο Ηραίον Σάμου και το Liman Tepe Σμύρνης, Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου 2018, Ερευνητική Μονάδα Αρχαιολογίας, Λευκωσία.

June 2019, ERKANAL, H., AYKURT, A, KOUKA, O., BOYÜKULUSOY, K., Excavations at Liman Tepe 2018, in 41. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı.

20.12.2018: Harald Hauptmann: Sein Beitrag zur Ägäischen Vorgeschichte und seine akademische Lehre, Akademischer Gedenkfeier für Professor Harald Hauptmann, Alte Aula der Univesrität Heidelberg.

15.08.2018: Works and Days at Prehistoric Heraion on Samos and Miletus, Ankara Üniversitesi Mustafa V. Koç Deniz Arkeolojisi Araştırma Merkezi, Urla/Izmir.

30.03.2018: Θαλάσσιοι διάλογοι: Μεγέθη και τρόποι αλληλεπίδρασης μεταξύ προϊστορικού Ηραίου Σάμου και του υπόλοιπου Αιγαίου, Αιγαιακές διαλέξεις – Αιγεύς και Σουηδικό Αρχαιολογικό Ινστιτούτο Αθηνών.

31.07.2017: Heraion versus Miletus? Settlement, Society and Interaction in the East Aegean from the Chalcolithic through the Middle Bronze Age, Ankara Üniversitesi Mustafa V. Koç Deniz Arkeolojisi Araştırma Merkezi, Urla/Izmir.

17.05.2017: Seminar: The Embodiment of Land Ownership in the Aegean Early Bronze Age (3200-2000 BCE), University of Uppsala, Sweden.

16.05.2017: Lecture: Cultural Identity and Interaction in the East Aegean during Prehistory: The Recent Excavations at Heraion on Samos, Greece, University of Uppsala, Sweden.

09.05.2017: Πέρα από τη Θεσσαλία: Οι έρευνες και η συνεισφορά του καθ. H. Hauptmann στην παγκόσμια αρχαιολογική και εθνογραφική έρευνα, Διαχρονικό Μουσείο Λάρισας.

18.01.2017: Seminar: Πτυχές της Κυπριακής Προϊστορίας, Archaeological Society of Athens.

09.11.2016: Seminar: Τὰ νησιὰ τοῦ Ἀνατολικοῦ Αἰγαίου καὶ ἡ παράκτια δυτικὴ Μικρὰ Ἀσία κατὰ τὴν Eποχὴ τοῦ Xαλκοῦ, Archaeological Society of Athens.

02.11. 2016: Seminar: H Τροία από την Πρώιμη έως την Ύστερη Εποχή του Χαλκού, Archaeological Society of Athens.

14.03.2016: Liman Tepe – Heraion – Miletus in Prehistoric Times, Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati, USA.

19.02.2016: The Prehistoric Settlement at Heraion on Samos, Greece from the Late Chalcolithic through the Middle Bronze Age

Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati, USA.

15.12.2015: Cycladica from Heraion and Miletus, in Cycladic Seminar, Archaeological Society at Athens.

11.11.2015: Cultural Identity and Interaction in the Eastern Aegean during Prehistory: The Excavations 2009-2013 at Heraion on Samos, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.

10.08.2015: Cultural Identity and Interaction in the Eastern Aegean during Prehistory: The Excavations 2009-2013 at Heraion on Samos, Ankara Üniversitesi Mustafa V. Koç Deniz Arkeolojisi Araştırma Merkezi, Urla/Izmir.

07.03.2014: Κοινωνική ταυτότητα και πολιτιστικός διάλογος στο Ανατολικό Αιγαίο κατά την Προϊστορία: Οι ανασκαφές στο Λιμάν Τεπέ Σμύρνης, τη Μίλητο και το Ηραίον Σάμου, Association of Cypriot Archaeologists, Nicosia.

03.02.2014: Διαπολιτισμικές σχέσεις και νέες κοινοτικές ταυτότητες: Το Ανατολικό Αιγαίο, η Δυτική Μικρά Ασία και η Κύπρος
στο κατώφλι της Εποχής του Χαλκού, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens.

23-25.04.2013: Recent Excavations at the Heraion of Samos, and on the Western Littoral of Asia Minor (Liman Tepe, Miletus), University of Geneve, University of Lausanne and University of Bern.

28.03.2011: Aegean Early Bronze Age Intercultural Contacts: New Evidence from Liman Tepe, Miletus and the Samian Heraion, Austrian Archaeological Institute – Serie of Lectures on ‘Frühbronzezeitliche Handels- und Fernverbindungen’.

19.01.2011: Prehistoric Ionia Reconsidered: New Excavations at the Heraion, Samos, and on the Western Littoral of Asia Minor, Mycenaean Seminar, University College London.

07.04.2010: Beyond Troy... The Excavations at Liman Tepe, Izmir and the Early
Urbanization in the Aegean (3rd mill. BC), Istanbul University, Istanbul.

25.03.2010: Intercultural Contacts between Cyprus and the East Aegean / Western Anatolia in the Third Millennium BC, Bosporus University, Istanbul.

10.12.2009: Das 3. Jahrtausend v.Chr. in der Ostägäis im Lichte der neuen Forschungen in Liman Tepe, Türkei, University of Vienna.

December 2007: Jenseits von Troia: Die Ausgrabungen in Liman Tepe (Türkei) und die frühe Urbanisierung in der Ägäis im 3. Jt. v.Chr., Institut für Interdisziplinäre Zypernstudien, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and at the Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Archäologien Europas (Zentrum für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des Schwarzmeerraumes e.V.), Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

February 2006: Troy and Beyond ... The Excavations at Liman Tepe, Izmir (in Greek), Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus.

February 2004: The North and East Aegean during the 3^rd mill BC: Cultural Innovation and Early Urbanization (in Greek), Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus.

Μay 2001: Cultural Identity, Interaction, Competition and Urbanization on the northeastern Aegean islands and western Asia Minor during the Early Bronze Age, American Research Institute in Turkey/ARIT Istanbul and at the

Department of Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Ankara.

Αpril 2001: Die nordägäischen Inseln und die ersten Städte in der Ägäis, Württembergerisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart.

Νοvember 1998: Prehistory and Protohistory on the Internet (in Greek), Foundation of the Hellenic World, Athens.

July 1995: Samothrake-6000 Jahre menschlicher Anwesenheit auf einer Insel der nordöstlichen Ägäis, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.