Australian Paliochora-Kythera Archaeological Survey (APKAS) (2001 – 2024)
Directors: Professor Timothy E. Gregory (Ohio State University), Dr Stavros Paspalas (University of Sydney), and Dr Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory (University of Sydney)
The Australian Paliochora-Kythera Archaeological Survey (APKAS) investigates the diachronic development of the cultural landscape of northern Kythera from prehistoric times to the present. The project utilises surface survey, historical/archival sources and anthropological methods to address questions relating to site location, settlement patterns, and factors influencing occupation and site abandonment.
Find Stories (2020-2023)
Directors: Dr Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory (University of Sydney); Dr Konstantinos Trimmis (University of Bristol); Dr Konstantina Kalogirou (Cardiff MET University)
An AAIA collaboration with five European research institutions through an Erasmus+ Key Action 2 research grant to study mobility in South East Europe through object biographies.
The Olympeion Bronze Foundry (2019)
Directors: Professor Mattias Leopold (University of Western Australia) and Professor Gerhard Zimmer (Katholische Universität Eichstätt)
Geophysical survey was undertaken south of the Olympieion in Athens to verify the existence and precise location of the 5th C BCE bronze casting pit first described in 1971 by J. Travlos.
Plataia Battlefield Survey (2018)
Directors: Emeritus Professor David Kennedy (University of Western Australia) and Robert Jones (University of Newcastle).
With support from the Archaeological Ephorates of West Attica and Boiotia, the Plataia Battlefield Survey applied non-invasive methodologies around the extensive landscape north of Mounth Kithaeron to identify geophysical evidence of the Battle of Plataia. This included remains of the Persian encampment; troop movements by the Greek army; and the location of the pivotal final clash.
Conglomerate Quarry at Vapheio-Palaiopyrgi (2011)
Director: Professor Louise Hitchcock (Melbourne University)
This project represents the first study of Mycenaean quarries, through a survey of the conglomerate quarry at Vapheio-Palaiopyrgi in Laconia.
Torone (1975-1993)
Director: Professor Alexander Cambitoglou (University of Sydney)
Prior to fieldwork, the Chalkidikian site of Torone was primarily known via ancient written sources as an Archaic-Classical polis, with some Hellenistic and later remains visible. These excavations extended its history back to the Final Neolithic and exposed Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods.
Zagora (1967-1974)
Director: Professor Alexander Cambitoglou (University of Sydney)
Zagora is located on the western coast of the island of Andros. These original excavations revealed a uniquely preserved Early Iron Age settlement. Evidence suggests it was occupied 900-700 BCE, although its sanctuary was visited well into the fifth century BCE.