Teaching

AKL 621: Pottery and Figurines of the Geometric and Archaic era

Semester: Winter 2025

The seminar focuses on the development of the typology and technology of pottery and figurines from the 12th to the end of the 7th century BC. Ceramic technology, fine and coarse pottery, decoration, uses and biographies of vases, figurines and the life and activity of potters and painters are some of the issues that will be discussed. Emphasis will be placed on the archaeological context of the examined vessels and figurines and the importance of pottery mainly for the archaeology of the early historical period will be underlined.

In the frame of the seminar, students will be cataloguing and studying origical ceramic material kept at the Collection of the Cast Museum of the Sector of Archaeology and History of Art.

Classical Archaeology I: The Archaeology of Ritual and Memory in the Early Iron Age

Semester: Winter 2025

The course is offered to postgraduate students during the first term of their studies.

It is dedicated to the archaeological traces of ritual activity in all contexts - domestic, sacred and funerary during the Early Iron Age. It is also interested in the notion of memory and its archaeological reflection at the time.

AKL 100: Classical Archaeology: Ancient Greek Sanctuaries 

Semester: Spring 2025

The course offered to second-year undergraduate students, aims at introducing students in the archaeology of cult in ancient Greece from the Early Iron Age to the end of the Hellenistic period. It explores the evolution and function of ancient Greek sanctuaries and cult practices.

After examining the genesis of the first cult sites and their development, the most important sanctuaries of the ancient Greek world and their components are discussed in detail. Votive offerings, cult practices and new research methods are brought into discussion too.

APR 520: Excavation Methods - Field Archaeology in Epirus

Semester: Spring 2025

This course, destined for undergraduate students in their last semester of studies,  aims at introducing students to the excavation methods both in theory and practice through their participation at the systematic excavation at the archaeological site of Dourouti within the University Campus.

The practice at the field will be combined with a series of lectures, during which all stages related to a systematic or rescue archaeological investigation will be discussed in detail (birth of the archaeological question, planning and implementation of excavation, study and publication of finds, legislation, scientific ethics). The lectures will focus on surface survey, systematic and rescue excavation techniques, underwater research, but also the use of new technologies in modern field research.

Geophysical and geochemical surveys, use of satellite systems, remote sensing and aerial photography, extensive and/or intensive surface survey will be discussed. A special focus will be placed on the excavation methods depending on the type of excavation (land, underwater, rescue, systematic, excavation in a cave). Excavations, archaeological research and the main main prehistoric, Classical and Roman sites (settlements, sanctuaries, cemeteries) in Epirus are at the centre of this course.