Fitch Laboratory Director

Dr Evangelia Kiriatzi

British School at Athens
52 Souedias Street
Athens, 10676
+30 211 1022 835

e.kiriatzi@bsa.ac.uk

My research focuses on the study of technology in pre-industrial societies, with emphasis on ceramics and the study of technological landscapes, though the integrated application of scientific techniques (ceramic petrology, elemental analysis, scanning electron microscopy), in combination with landscape resources prospection, replication experiments and ethnoarchaeology. Most of my work has originally focused on prehistoric Aegean but has gradually expanded across the Mediterranean and up to the early modern times. Moreover, I have developed a particular interest in exploring issues of identity and mobility of potters through the transmission of technological knowledge within and across different landscapes. Most of my research time in the last 20 years has been associated with three large-scale diachronic and collaborative projects in central coastal Macedonia and the Aegean islands of Aegina and Kythera. More recently, I have been involved in research in western Anatolia, central Italy, the Iberian peninsula and the British Isles.

As Fitch Laboratory Director, I have put a lot of emphasis on developing the infrastructure and capacities of the laboratory for undertaking new research initiatives in areas beyond the Aegean, for expanding its collaboration networks beyond the UK and Greece, and for carrying out training programmes, both practice- and course-based, for postgraduate students and young scholars from around the world.

I received a BA in History and Archaeology, with additional (course-based) training in geology, from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a PhD in Archaeology from the same university. I previously held research jobs in Thessaloniki, London, Cambridge and Sheffield (UK), and visiting posts in Cincinnati and Doha (Qatar). I am currently Honorary Research Associate at the MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

 

Selected Publications

Books

  • 2011. W. Gauss and E. Kiriatzi, Pottery Production and Supply at Bronze Age Kolonna, Aegina: An Integrated Archaeological and Scientific Study of a Ceramic Landscape. Ägina Kolonna, Forschungen und Ergebnisse 5. Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Edited volumes

  • 2018. V. Kilikoglou, E. Kiriatzi, A. Hein, N. Müller, I. Karatasios, J. Gait (eds.) Developments in the analytical studies of ancient ceramics in Europe: methodological and archaeological implications. Journal of Archaeological Science Report, Special Issue.
  • 2016. E. Kiriatzi and C. Knappett (eds.), Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean. Cambridge University Press.

Articles (only selection)

  • In press, Kiriatzi E., Broodbank C., Social Places and Spaces on and beyond Kythera during the Second Palace Period: Exploring the Island’s Landscape and Connectivity. In Eder, B, and Zavadil M. (eds.), (Social) Place and Space in Early Mycenaean mainland Greece. OREA Publications.
  • In press, Fantuzzi L., Sáez Romero A.M., Kiriatzi E., Williams C.K., Revisiting the trade connections between Corinth and the Punic West in the Classical period: the ‘Corinth Punic Amphora Building Project’. In Nervi C., Soria V., Minetto, G. (eds.), The Western Mediterranean Sea: a crossroad of objects, humans and ideas”, Archaeopress.
  • 2018. Müller N.S, Hein A., Georgakopoulou M., Kilikoglou V., Kiriatzi E., The effect of inter- and intra-source variation: A comparison between WD-XRF and NAA data from Cretan clay deposits, J Archaeol Sci Rep 21, 929-37
  • 2018. Marzec E., Kiriatzi E., Müller N.S., Hein A., The provenance and technology of a group of Hellenistic Colour Coated ware pottery from the excavations at Nea Paphos, J Archaeol Sci Rep 21, 1035-43
  • 2018. Charalambidou X., Kiriatzi E., Müller N.S. Müller Celka S., Verdan S., Huber S., Gex K., Ackermann G., Palaczyk M., Maillard P., Eretrian ceramic production through time: Geometric to Hellenistic periods, J Archaeol Sci Rep 21, 983-94
  • 2018. Gait J., Müller N.S., Kiriatzi E., Baird D., Examining the dynamics of Early Bronze Age pottery production and distribution in the Konya Plain of south central Anatolia, Turkey. In E Alram-Stern & B. Horejs (eds), Pottery technologies and sociocultural connections between the Aegean and Anatolia during the 3rd millennium BC, 197-214. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
  • 2018. Müller Celka S., Kiriatzi E., Charalambidou X., Müller N.S., Early Helladic II-III Pottery Groups from Eretria (Euboea). In E. Alram-Stern & B. Horejs (eds), Pottery technologies and sociocultural connections between the Aegean and Anatolia during the 3rd millennium BC, 197-214. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
  • 2017. Charalambidou X., Kiriatzi E., Müller N.S., Scales of Ceramic Analysis on Naxos (Cyclades). In S. Handberg & A. Gadolou (eds.), Material Koinai in the Greek Early Iron Age and Archaic Period. Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 22, Aarhus.
  • 2017. Gauss W., Kiriatzi E., Lindblom M., Lis B., Morrison J.E., Aeginetan Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Cooking Pottery. In J. Hruby & D. Trusty (eds.), From Cooking Vessels to Cultural Practices in the Late Bronze Age Aegean, 46-56. Oxbow Books.
  • 2017. Georgakopoulou M., Hein. A., Müller N.S., Kiriatzi E., Development and calibration of a WDXRF routine applied to provenance studies on archaeological ceramics, X-Ray Spectrom 46, 186-99
  • 2017. Kotsonas A., Kiriatzi E., Charalambidou X., Roumpou M., Müller N.S., Bessios M., Transport Amphorae from Methone: An interdisciplinary study of production and trade ca. 700 BC. In C. Strauss, I. Malkin, Y.Z. Tzifopoulos (eds.), Panhellenes in Methone – Graphê in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Methone, Macedonia – ca 700 BCE, 9-19. De Gruyter.
  • 2016. Charalambidou X, Kiriatzi E., Müller N.S., Georgakopoulou M., Müller Celka, S., Krapf, T., Eretrian ceramic products through time: Investigating the early history of a Greek metropolis, J Archaeol Sci Rep 7, 530-5
  • 2016. Kordatzaki G., Kiriatzi E., Müller N.S., Voyatzis M.; Romano D., Petrakis S., Forsén J., Nordquist G., Rodriguez-Alvarez E., Linn S., A diachronic investigation of local pottery production and supply at the Sanctuary of Zeus, Mount Lykaion, Arcadia, Peloponnese, J Archaeol Sci Rep 7, 526-9
  • 2016. Kiriatzi E., and Andreou S., Mycenaean and Mycenaeanising pottery across the Mediterranean: A multi-scale approach to technological mobility, transmission and appropriation. In Kiriatzi and Knappett (see above).
  • 2014. Broodbank C. and Kiriatzi E., Pottery mobility, landscape survey and maritime activity: a view from Kythera. In Y. Galanakis, T. Wilkinson and J. Bennet (eds.), ΑΘΥΡΜΑΤΑ. Critical Essays on the Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honour of E. Susan Sherratt. Oxford: Archaeopress. 41-50.
  • 2013. Andreou S., Heron C., Jones G., Kiriatzi V., Psaraki K., Roumpou M., Valamoti S.M., 2013. Smelly barbarians or perfumed natives? An investigation of oil and ointment use in Late Bronze Age northern Greece. In S. Voutsaki & S.M. Valamoti (eds.) Diet, Economy and Society In The Ancient Greek World. Towards a Better Integration of Archaeology and Science. Pharos Supplement 1. 173-87.
  • 2012. Kiriatzi E., Georgakopoulou M., Broodbank C., Johnston A., Landscape history through the study and analysis of ceramics and metallurgical finds: the example of the Kythera Island Project (in Greek). In N. Zacharias, M. Georgakopoulou, K. Polikreti, Y. Facorellis, Th. Vakoulis (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry, 289-304. Athens: Papazisi Publications.
  • 2012. Pentedeka A., Georgakopoulou M., Kiriatzi, E., 2012. Understanding local products and exploring sources of imports: petrographic and chemical analysis of Classical pottery from Kolonna, Aegina. In G. Klebinder-Gauß, Keramik aus klassischen Kontexten im Apollon-Heiligtum von Ägina-Kolonna. Lokale Produktion und Importe. (Ägina-Kolonna. Forschungen und Ergebnisse VI), 102-70. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Science
  • 2010. Kiriatzi E., ‘Minoanising’ pottery traditions in the SW Aegean during the MBA: Understanding the social context of technological and consumption practices. In A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, J. Wright (eds.) Mesohelladika-La Grèce continentale au Bronze Moyen. BCH Supplement 52. 683-99.
  • 2010. Pentedeka A., Kiriatzi E., Spencer L., Bevan A., Conolly J., From Fabrics to Island Connections: Macroscopic and Microscopic Approaches to the Prehistoric Pottery of Antikythera. Annual of the British School at Athens 105, 1-81.
  • 2009. Kiriatzi E. and Broodbank C., 2009. The Kythera Island Project of the British School at Athens: research objectives, methodologies and preliminary results. In G.N. Leontsinis (ed.), Scientific Research on Kythera. Scientific Conference, 19-21 September 2003, Open University, Municipality of Kythera. 241-62.
  • 2007. Broodbank C. and Kiriatzi E., The first ‘Minoans’ of Kythera re-visited: Technology, demography and landscape in the pre-palatial Aegean, AJA 111, 241-74
  • 1999. Day P.M, Kiriatzi E., Tsolakidou A., Kilikoglou V., Group therapy in Crete: A comparison between analyses by NAA and thin section petrography of Early Minoan pottery, J Archaeol Sci 26, 1025-36.