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AEGIS – is an archaeological research group based at the UCLouvain. It is part of the Centre for the Study of Ancient Worlds (CEMA), within the Institute of Civilizations, Arts and Letters (INCAL). It brings together around twenty scholars, including currently two postdoctoral fellows and seven doctoral students.
For more than two decades, AEGIS has brought together researchers from Belgium, Greece, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, and the United States who are dedicated to the study of Minoan Crete and Aegean Protohistory. Our research explores the complexity of Bronze Age societies across the eastern Mediterranean (c. 3100–1100 BCE).
Through a range of research projects, AEGIS members adopt a multidisciplinary approach to Protohistoric Aegean communities. Field archaeology is combined with spatial and architectural analysis, geoarchaeological and paleoenvironmental studies, ceramic and materials analysis, and computational modelling.
This integrated perspective allows AEGIS to develop a diachronic understanding of material production, social organisation, and the economic and political dynamics of Minoan Crete and the Bronze Age Aegean. Particular emphasis is placed on complex networks of interaction, in which material production played a central role. By examining both practices and their representations, we seek to understand the societal processes and structures that shaped these communities.
The diverse landscape of Crete – sea, plains, and mountains – with the Bronze Age site of Sissi,
a location of long-term occupation, in the foreground (N. Kress / © EBSA)
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