Emilia BanouAssociate Professor, Prehistoric ArchaeologyUniversity of the Peloponnese -Department of History, Archaeology, and Cultural Resources Management, Palaio Stratopedo – Anatoliko Kentro, GR – 24100 Kalamata- Tel.: +3027210 65114, +3027210 65159 / Fax: +3027210 65112 -eban@uop.gr, eban@otenet.gr
Education• PhD, University of Freiburg, Department of Archaeology • Certificate of postgraduate studies in Open and Dist. Learning, Hellenic Open University.• ΒΑ, University of Athens, Department of History and Archaeology Academic positions• Associate Professor, University of the Peloponnese, Department of History, Archaeology, and Cultural Resources Management (2017-)• Assistant Professor, University of the Peloponnese (2009-2017)• Visiting faculty, Hellenic Open University (2001-2019)Administrative positions•Deputy Head of the Department of History, Archaeology, and Cultural Resources Management (2021-)• Member of the Research Committee of the University of the Peloponnese (2018-2019, 2020-)Research projectsExcavations: Minoan peak sanctuary at Ayios Yeoryios sto Vouno, Kythera (Director) (2011-2015) Surveys: Intensive survey at the Minoan peak sanctuary at Ayios Yeoryios sto Vouno, Kythera (Director) (2011), Intensive survey at Vapheio-Paliopyrgi, Laconia (Co-director) (2016-2017), Intensive Survey of Northern Messenia (2021-), Investigations of prehistoric quarries at Vapheio (2011) and Ayios Vasileios, Laconia (2021).
Publications (selected)Monographs· Τα μικροαντικείμενα μινωικών χρόνων από πηλό, λίθο και πολύτιμες ύλες [The finds made of clay, stone and precious materials], in Y. Sakellarakis (ed.), KYTHIRA. The Minoan Peak Sanctuary at Ayios Yeoryios sto Vouno. 2A. The finds, Athens: Arch. Society of Athens, 2012, 250-507. · Beitrag zum Studium Lakoniens in der mykenischen Zeit, Tuduv Verlag, München, 1996. Papers• Banou E.– A. P. Chapin - L. Hitchcock, “The Eurotas Valley in the 2nd Millennium B.C. The Area of Vapheio-Palaiopyrgi in Context, in C. Wiersma- M.P. Tsouli (eds), Middle Helladic and Late Laconia. Competing Principalities? Netherlands Insitute at Athens, 2022, 21-31. •Banou E.– M. Tsouli – G. Tsiaggouris, « Ceramic Evidence on the Transition to the Mycenaean in Southern Laconia: Prehistoric Pottery from Passavas near Gytheio”, in C. Wiersma- M.P. Tsouli (eds), Middle Helladic and Late Laconia. Competing Principalities? Netherlands Institute at Athens, 2022, 137-150. • E. Banou – Aik. Panagopoulou, “Bronze Age Circulation in the Aegean in the 2nd Millennium B.C.: Technological investigations of Bronze Finds from the Minoan Peak Sanctuary at Ayios Yeoryios sto Bouno, Kythera”, in Ph. Baas(ed.), Proceedings of the XΧth Int. Congress on Ancient Bronzes: resource, reconstruction, representation, role, Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2019, 107-115. • B. Davis, E. Banou, L.A. Hitchcock and A.P. Chapin, “Curation in the Bronze Age Aegean: Objects as Material Memories, στο Mneme. Past and Memory in the Aegean Bronze Age. Proceedings of the 17th International Aegean Conference, University of Udine, Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Humanities, 17-21 April 2018, Liège: Peeters, 2019, 435-441. · E. Banou – B. Davis, “The Symbolism of the Scorpion in Minoan Religion: A Cosmological Approach on the Basis of Votive Offerings from the Reak Sanctuary at Ayios Yeoryios sto Vouno, Laconia’, στο E. Alram-Stern, F. Blakolmer, S. Deger-Jalkotzy, R. Laffineur, and J. Weilhartner (eds), in METAPHYSIS, Ritual, Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age, 15th International Aegean Conference, Vienna 22-25 April 2014, Liège: Peeters, 2016, 123-128. · L. A, Hitchcok - A. P. Chapin, E. Banou and J. H. Reynolds, “The Conglomerate Quarry at the Mycenaean Site of Vapheio-Palaiopyrgi, in Laconia”, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 85 (2016): 1, 65-90. · “Egyptian Influence and Aegean Transformation at Akrotiri, Thera: The Jug No. 8960 with a Libation Scene”, Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 7:3 (2015), 18-23. |