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Reflections on the 2018 EAA Annual Meeting

This past September, as thousands of archaeologists convened in the medieval center of Barcelona, I was getting ready to present the preliminary results from the interviews that Dr. Ioanna Antoniadou and I conducted in Zakros this summer. The talk was part of the 2018 meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. It was called “Linking the Archaeological Past and Agricultural Present: Tourism, Heritage, and Olive Production in the Zakros Valley, Crete.” See below for the Read more…

By Becky Seifried, ago

Interviewing the Zakrites

While the academic year is starting up in many places, here in Greece the summer is still winding down. For me, this means having the time to finish up the projects I’ve been working on over the summer months. One of these was the ethnographic fieldwork I conducted this July in Zakros, a village on the very eastern edge of Crete. Dr. Ioanna Antoniadou, an archaeologist and professional ethnographer who is collaborating on the project, Read more…

By Becky Seifried, ago

Dispatch from Thebes

Thebes seems like the right place to announce the launch of the EUROFRONT website. EUROFRONT is a two-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie project that began last August. It’s being hosted by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS-FORTH) in Rethymno, Crete, with a 6-month secondment at the University of Zagreb’s Department of Archaeology. I first came to Thebes in 2012, when Bucknell University’s excavation of the Ismenion Hill was in its early days of digging (more here). The Read more…

By Becky Seifried, ago