Το Σπίτι της Κύπρου και το Εργαστήριο Αρχαιολογίας και Ιστορίας της Τέχνης του Τμήματος Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας του Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών σας προσκαλούν τη Δευτέρα  26 Φεβρουαρίου 2024 και ώρα 19.00 στη διάλεξη

της Jennifer M. Webb, AM FAHA FSA PhD, Έκτακτη Καθηγήτρια Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, Πανεπιστήμιο La Trobe, Μελβούρνη / Ανώτερη Ερευνητική Συνεργάτις, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου / Επιμελήτρια, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology (SIMA), Εκδόσεις Astrom, Λευκωσία

με θέμα : “Ancient Lapithos How legacy data has contributed toward a new understanding of the Middle Bronze Age in Cyprus”

«Αρχαία Λάπηθος Πώς έχουν συμβάλει τα δεδομένα παλαιών ανασκαφών σε μία νέα κατανόηση της Μέσης Εποχής του Χαλκού στην Κύπρο»

Η διάλεξη εντάσσεται στο πρόγραμμα διαλέξεων του MA in Greek and East Mediterranean Archaeology του ΕΚΠA.

Προλογίζει:

Γιώργος Βαβουρανάκης, Καθηγητής Προϊστορικού Αιγαίου ΕΚΠΑ, Διευθυντής Εργαστηρίου Αρχαιολογίας και Ιστορίας της Τέχνης.

Η διάλεξη εντάσσεται στην ετήσια σειρά διαλέξεων «Η αρχαιολογία της Κύπρου» και θα πραγματοποιηθεί στην αγγλική γλώσσα.

The Middle Bronze Age in Cyprus (ca 2000–1700 BC) has typically been seen as a transitional period between two much more interesting and exciting periods, the Early Bronze Age on the one hand and the Late Bronze Age on the other. It has long been thought that at this time the island was largely isolated from the outside world and comprised of small agricultural, egalitarian and essentially peaceful communities. This has now changed significantly as a result of new excavations and the publication of data from a number of sites excavated in the north of Cyprus prior to the Turkish invasion of 1974. This talk will focus on one of these so-called legacy projects, specifically material from 80 tombs excavated at Lapithos in 1913 and 1917. It will describe the detective work involved in untangling the archival record and locating objects stored in the Cyprus Museum for over a century and show how this research has led to a new understanding of the Middle Bronze Age as a dynamic period during which some communities were developing complex economic and political structures linked with specialised production, internal resource networks and the international metals trade.

Με τη στήριξη του Υφυπουργείου Πολιτισμού της Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας

Jennifer M. Webb is an Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and a Senior Research Associate of the University of Cyprus. She is an expert on Bronze Age Cyprus and has co-directed excavations at Marki, Deneia and Politiko. She has also published excavations by James Stewart at Karmi in 1961 and Porphyrios Dikaios at Ambelikou in 1942 and co-published, with Giorgos Georgiou of the Cyprus Department of Antiquities, an Early Bronze Age cemetery at Psematismenos. Jenny has, in addition, published six volumes on collections of Cypriot antiquities and two volumes on tombs excavated at Lapithos in 1913 and 1917.

She is co-Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology. Since 2009 she has presided over the publication of 40 volumes, half of which are on the archaeology of Cyprus.

She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2017 for 'significant service to education'. She has a Hellenic Distinction for services to Greek culture from the Greek Community of Melbourne and is an Honorary Life Member of the Cypriot Community of Melbourne and Victoria. Her publications include twenty-four authored and edited monographs and 140 book chapters and journal articles.