Professor Irene Lemos

Doctoral supervision

I am happy to supervise on wide range of topics on the Late Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean including interactions, exchange patterns, burial practices, regional and interregional analyses, material culture, societal structures and relations.

Current students

Children and Childhood in Greece during the Early Iron Age and Archaic Period.
Holly Winch | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Gender, Sexuality, and the Construction of Masculine Identities in Late Bronze Age to Archaic Crete (1400–480 BC)
Filippos Roussos | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Storage Practices in Early Greece: The Late Geometric and Archaic Pithos in the Cyclades.
Myrto Kokkalia | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos

Past students

Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Laconia: Settlements, cemeteries and sanctuaries (1200-700 BC)
Deborah Koussiounelos (2022) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Maritime Infrastructure in the Eastern Mediterranean: a context based approach to continuity and innovation in nautical technology (c.1400-700 BC)
Tzveta Manolova (2019) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
The Burial Rite of Enchytrismos in Attica, Euboea and Boeotia during the late Geometric and Archaic periods: Towards an understanding of social dimension
Alexandra Vlanti (2019) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Identity and Society within Landscapes of Memory: Iron Age Cult at Bronze Age Ruins (1000-700 BC)
Christopher Adamson (2018) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Territory and state formation in the Archaic Peloponnese: a survey-based approach to the development of the early polis
Kira Hopkins (2018) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Thessaly: From the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age (c. 1600-700 BC)
Eleni Karouzou (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
The Bronze-Iron Age Transition in Achaea, Western Greece: Continuity and Change from the 12th to the 8th Century BC
Christina Marini (2018) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
The impact of iron technology on the economy of the Aegean and Cyprus from 1200-850 BCE
Joanna Palermo (2018) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Mercenaries in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to Iron Age
Hannah Ringheim (2018) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
The North-Eastern Aegean 1050-600 BC
Ioannis Chalazonitis (2017) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
The Orientalising Phenomenon on Crete, 9th-7th centuries BC
Ann-Sofie Diener (2016) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Archaic Trade in the Northern Aegean: The case of Methone in Pieria, Greece
Alexandra Kasseri (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
The Archaeology of Greek Warriors and Warfare from the Eleventh to the Early Seventh Century B.C.E.
Matthew Lloyd (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
The co-occurrence of terracotta wheelmade figures and handmade figurines in mainland Greece, Euboea, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades and the Northern Aegean islands, 1200 - 700BC
Caroline Thurston (2014) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Greek and Related Pottery from Al Mina. A Case Study of Production, Consumption and Distribution of Greek Pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean from the 9th to the end of the 7th Century BC
Alexander Vacek (2012) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Pyla-Kokkinokremos, Maa-Palaeokastro and the settlement histories of Cyprus in the twelfth century BC
Artemis Georgiou (2011) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Extracting Social Information from Bronze Age Ceramics
David Mitchell (2010) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Irene Lemos and Gary Lock
Towards the Greek Colonization: the interaction between Greece and Italy from the end of the Bronze Age to the Iron Age
Giulia Saltini Semerari (2010) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos
Early Iron Age Exchange in the West: Phoenicians in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic
Eleftheria Pappa (2009) | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Irene Lemos

Key words: excavations, material culture, Burial practices, resilience, social structures, Classical-Greek, Late Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, Archaic Period, Early Classical, Europe, Mediterranean, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Levant