dr. Eleftheria Pappa

Research

I am currently working on a NWO-funded (Veni) post-doctoral project on the identification of patterns in cultural consumption practices and their interpretation among various communities of Phoenician and indigenous origin in Atlantic Europe and Africa, in regions where the former settled (8^th – 6^th c. BC). The project derived out of my doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford, which examined cultural and commercial exchanges in the central and western Mediterranean from the end of the Late Bronze to the 7^th c. BC, focusing on the motives, structures and evolution of the so-called phenomenon of Phoenician “expansion” in the western Mediterranean.

Fieldwork

Fieldwork experience includes excavations in England, as at the hillfort of South Cadbury in Somerset, England (South Cadbury Environs Project, seasons of 2003/2004), but principally at the site of Lefkandi in Euboea, Greece (Xeropolis Excavations, Lefkandi Project, seasons of 2006/2007/2008).

Research Interests

Aspects of Mediterranean archaeology from the Late Bronze Age to the 6/5^th c. BC: Phoenician sites and culture in the western Mediterranean, Early Iron Age Greek communities in Africa, Spain, the Black Sea, indigenous cultures of Iberia and north Africa (9^th-6^th c. BC); Late Bronze Age Atlantic contacts; cognitive archaeology of the 1^st millennium BC Near East; intercultural contacts in archaeology; the anthropology of colonisation.

Teaching

2007/8 - 2009/10:
Tutor in early Greek/Mediterranean archaeology (900-500 B.C.) for Christ Church, Merton and St John Colleges.

2007
Tutor for the OPUS programme (exchange programme between University of Oxford and American Universities)

Education

DPhil, Archaeology, Hertford College, University of Oxford, 2/2010
MPhil, Classical Archaeology, University of Oxford, 6/2006 (Distinction)
BA, Archaeology, University of Bristol, 6/2004 (First Class)

Publications

• 2010. From sea-faring men to travelling images: the Phoenician commercial expansion in south-eastern Spain as a stimulus for artistic interactions in Iberia, in Duistermaat, K. and Regulski, I. (eds.), Intercultural Contacts in the AncientMediterranean”, Proceedings of the Conference of the Netherlands-FlemishInstitute in Cairo, 26-29 October 2008, (OLA 202), Leuven: Peeters, 161-178 (forthcoming).
• 2009. Phoenicians in the West: remarks on some western Phoenician ceramic assemblages from Atlantic Iberia, in Interconnections in the Eastern Mediterranean- Lebanon in the Bronze and Iron Ages, Proceedings of the International Symposium Beirut 2008, BAAL Hors-Série VI, Beirut: Ministère de la Culture, Direction Géneral des Antiquitès, 11-74.
• 2009. Reflections on the earliest Phoenician presence in north-west Africa, Talanta XL-XLI (2008-2009): 53-72