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Barry Molloy is our Co-Director and Project
Manager.
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Barry is a researcher in the UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin, Ireland. His duties include the organisation of the fieldwork campaign, allocation of staff responsibilities and organising the publication. He is also publishing the metal finds with Sue Bridgford. His research interests include excavation methods and practice, Aegean Prehistory, ancient warfare, metals and ancient technology.
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Barbara Hayden is our Co-Director.
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Barbara has worked as Director of the Vrokastro Survey Project and Co-Director of the Istron Geoarchaeological Project. She is a researcher in the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
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Jo Day is our Assistant Director and
Field School coordinator.
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Jo is a
Visiting Scholar at the Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her
responsibilities include the management of our Field School,
coordination of project staff logistics and publication of
our Early Minoan pottery
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Vera Klontza-Jaklova is
our Assistant Director.
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Vera is Team Leader for Trench II and her
responsibilities include out-of-season project management
and publication of Post-Roman pottery.
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Ellinor Larsson is our
Excavation Manager.
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Elli is an independent researcher and she has worked extensively
in contract archaeology in Ireland. She is responsible for
implementation of our fieldwork strategy and day-to-day
organisation of field staff.
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Heather Graybehl is
our Post-excavation Manager.
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Heather manages the post-excavation operation for the project including processing finds, organising our database, coordinating volunteers and much more. She is conducting her PhD research on Hellenistic pottery in the Department of Archaeology in the Univeristy of Sheffield.
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Marlene Estabrooks is our post-excavation assistant
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Marlene is a High School teacher and archaeological enthusiast. She has been with the team since 2006.
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Ioanna Moutafi is our physical anthropologist
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Ioanna returned to Sheffield University to do her PhD, having received a Masters degree in human osteology from there in 2004. She has worked on prehistoric and historic period human remains from Greece.
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Brice Erickson is our Classical pottery specialist
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Brice is Professor of Classics and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 2000. After that he taught at Dartmouth and DePauw before arriving at Santa Barbara in 2003. He specialises in Archaic and Classical Greek ceramic sequences (ca. 600-400 B.C.). Other interests include Greek sculpture, architecture, history, and topography. He has published works on post-Minoan Cretan archaeology and history and is currently working on material from Priniatikos Pyrgos and the Geometric-Hellenistic finds from Lerna in the Argolid.
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Valasia Isaakidou is our faunal specialist
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Valasia is a research Fellow in the Univeristy of Sheffield. She works on many projects in Greece, and specialises in prehistoric faunal remains.
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Heinrich Hall is our Neolithic pottery specialist and press officer
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Heinrich is a man of many talents, having completed a masters thesis in University Collge Dublin and continuing on a PhD there also. He also works as a tour guide in Greece and Turkey and publishes regular feature articles on archaeology in the Athens News newspaper.
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Sue Bridgford is assistant Team Leader in Trench II and
our metals specialist
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Sue completed her PhD on bronze swords in the University of Sheffield in 2000 and has worked as a freelance archaeometallurgical consultant since then.
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David Govantes-Edwards is our Team Leader for Trench III
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David is currently completing a PhD on economics in the Classical World at the University of Saville. He owns and operates an archaeological consultancy service in Spain and specialises in fieldwork method.
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Kevin Rowan-De Groote is our Team Leader for Trench IV
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Kevin is conducting his PhD research on Classical Greek warfare in University College Dublin. He has worked in commercial archaeology for a number of firms in Ireland.
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William Megarry is our Geographic
Information Systems specialist
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Possessing a BA from Trinity College Dublin and MSc in GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology from University College London, Will is currently researching Minoan Landscape Archaeology for his PhD at University College Dublin. He has worked on commercial and research projects in Ireland, the UK and the Mediterranean including the Livatho Valley Survey Project, Keffalonia and the Cambridge Keros Project. His primary interests are landscape theory, computer applications in archaeology and the archaeology of Minoan Crete. My home page is HERE
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Chloe Duckworth is our glass specialist
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Chloe is conducting her PhD on early glass at the University of Nottingham. She has worked extensively on excavations throughout Greece as a fieldworker.
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Rebecca Mullen is our Later Bronze Age
pottery specialist
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Rebecca is undertaking her PhD at Trinity College Dublin on prehistoric Cretan pottery. She has excavated in Greece since 2007.
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Polly Westlake is our plaster and mortar specialist
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Polly has worked extensively on projects and in museums throughout Greece as a plaster specialist and conservator.
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Frank Lynam is our IT coordinator
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After a successful career in IT, Frank returned to Trinity College Dublin for an early career change and completed his Bachelors Degree there in 2010.
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Amanda Davis is our data entry coordinator
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Amanda has worked on projects in Greece and Egypt and is currently working on her PhD at Brown University.
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Mariusz Wisniewska is our project photographer
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Mariusz has worked extensively in Ireland, Poland and Britain as an excavator and specialises in archaeological photography also.
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Kasia Zeman-Wisniewska is our illustrator
and excavator
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Kasia has worked on excavation projects in Ireland, Britain, Greece and Cyprus and is currently undertaking her PhD in Trinity College Dublin on later Cretan Prehistory.
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Jenn Byrne is our assistant photographer.
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Jenn is studying Ancient History and Archaeology in Trinity College Dublin and has been a team member since 2008. She is training also to work as an archeological photographer.
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Elaine McElroy is our GIS and stratigraphy assistant.
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Elaine completed her BA at Trinity College Dublin in 2009 and has worked at Priniatikos Pyrgos since 2008. She will pursue a Masters degree in landscape archaeology in 2010.
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Kilian Mallon is our post-excavation and
Post-Roman pottery assistant.
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Kilian read Archaeology and Greek and Roman Civilisation at University College Dublin. He then completed the Masters in Classics also at UCD. His thesis was entitled "Trade in Roman Crete: Infrastructure, Production and Consumption in East Crete from the 1st Century B.C. to the 4th Century A.D." His area of interest is Roman archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Tamara Serrao-Leiva is a fieldwork
assistant
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Tamara first participated in this excavation in the summer of 2008 entering her Senior year at the University of California Santa Barbara and returned after graduating in June 2009. Now as as UC Santa Barbara Alumni she plans work on a masters in archaeology at the University of Seville in Spain.
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Bartosz Duszynski is an excavator
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Bartek works as an excavation director for private consultancy firms in Ireland. He has also worked in Poland and in Greece.
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