Aegean Lecture

Fri­day 22 May 2015, 19:00 (Μit­seon 9, Acrop­o­lis Metro sta­tion)

The Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens and Aegeus – So­ci­ety for Aegean Pre­his­tory in­vite you to the lec­ture:

Reap­prais­ing Kir­rha. New ev­i­dence on land­scape,
econ­omy  and so­ci­ety from South­ern Pho­cis

Julien Zur­bach (Ecole Nor­male Supérieure, Paris) & Raphaël Or­ge­o­let (Aix-Mar­seille Uni­ver­sity)

Af­ter a long hia­tus, new sys­tem­atic ex­ca­va­tions at the hill of Kir­rha be­gan in 2009 un­der the aus­pices of the French School of Ar­chae­ol­ogy and the 10th Ephor­ate of Pre­his­toric and Clas­si­cal An­tiq­ui­ties (now Ephor­ate of An­tiq­ui­ties of Pho­cis). The re­sults of the three ex­ca­va­tion sea­sons, though pro­vi­sional, have shed new light on this ma­jor site of the north­ern coast of the Corinthian Gulf.

The lec­ture will pre­sent the work in progress in the dif­fer­ent fields en­com­passed by the pro­ject.
Ge­o­mor­pho­log­i­cal and palaeo-en­vi­ron­men­tal stud­ies have dra­mat­i­cally changed our un­der­stand­ing of the site and its evo­lu­tion. On a strict ar­chae­o­log­i­cal ground, work in two large ar­eas on dis­tinct parts of the hill have opened mul­ti­ple win­dows into sev­eral pe­ri­ods and as­pects of life at Bronze Age Kir­rha. Par­tic­u­larly, the lec­ture will fo­cus on the im­por­tant ceme­tery of the tran­si­tional MH III / LH I-II pe­riod on the west­ern slope of the hill, as well as the do­mes­tic and craft-pro­duc­tion re­lated ar­eas in the east­ern part of the set­tle­ment.