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.