Dr Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory
Wednesday 18 March 6 pm – 7 pm (AEDT)
Vere Gordon Childe Centre Boardroom
The University Of Sydney
Founded in 1999, the Australian Paliochora–Kythera Archaeological Survey (APKAS) is one of the most extensive landscape-based archaeological projects undertaken on Kythera. Concluded in 2025 and now preparing for final publication in 2026, APKAS adopted a fully diachronic approach, documenting human activity in northern Kythera from deep prehistory to the present. This lecture presents an overview of the project’s aims, methodologies, and principal findings across all periods investigated to demonstrate how intensive survey, archival research, and oral histories integrate to reconstruct long-term patterns of settlement, land use, mobility, and ritual practice. The lecture concludes by looking ahead to future research arising from APKAS’s findings.
Dr Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory is an archaeologist specialising in landscape archaeology, archaeological survey, and the post-medieval and modern archaeology of Greece. She was co-director of the APKAS project alongside Professor Timothy Gregory (Ohio State University) and Dr Stavros Paspalas (University of Sydney). She is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney and Executive Officer of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens.
Presented in conjunction with the Greek Festival of Sydney
https://greekfestivalofsydney.com.au/program/event/dionysios-solomos-awards-2026
This event is free, but tickets are limited.
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