Emilia Banou

Associate Professor, Prehistoric Archaeology

University of the Peloponnese -Department of History, Archaeology, and Cultural Resources Management, Palaio Stratopedo – Anatoliko Kentro, GR – 24100 Kalamata- Tel.: +3027210 65114, +3027210 65159 / Fax: +3027210 65112 -eban@uop.gr, eban@otenet.gr

Education

• PhD, University of Freiburg, Department of Archaeology

• Certificate of postgraduate studies in Open and Dist. Learning, Hellenic Open University.

• ΒΑ, University of Athens, Department of History and Archaeology

Academic positions

• Associate Professor, University of the Peloponnese, Department of History, Archaeology, and Cultural Resources Management (2017-)

• Assistant Professor, University of the Peloponnese (2009-2017)

• Visiting faculty, Hellenic Open University (2001-2019)

Administrative positions

•Deputy Head of the Department of History, Archaeology, and Cultural Resources Management (2021-)

• Member of the Research Committee of the University of the Peloponnese (2018-2019, 2020-)

Research projects

Excavations: Minoan peak sanctuary at Ayios Yeoryios sto Vouno, Kythera (Director) (2011-2015) - Surveys: Intensive survey at the Minoan peak sanctuary at Ayios Yeoryios sto Vouno, Kythera (Director) (2011), Intensive survey at Vapheio-Paliopyrgi, Laconia (Co-director) (2016-2017), Intensive Survey of Northern Messenia (2021-), Investigations of prehistoric quarries at Vapheio (2011) and Ayios Vasileios, Laconia (2021).

Publications (selected)

Monographs

· Τα μικροαντικείμενα μινωικών χρόνων από πηλό, λίθο και πολύτιμες ύλες [The  finds made of clay, stone and precious materials], in Y. Sakellarakis (ed.), KYTHIRA. The Minoan Peak Sanctuary at Ayios Yeoryios sto Vouno. 2A. The finds, Athens: Arch. Society of Athens, 2012, 250-507.

· Beitrag zum Studium Lakoniens in der mykenischen Zeit, Tuduv Verlag, München, 1996.

 Papers (selected)

• Banou E.– A. P. Chapin - L. Hitchcock, “The Eurotas Valley in the 2^nd Millennium B.C. The Area of Vapheio-Palaiopyrgi in Context, in C. Wiersma- M.P. Tsouli (eds), Middle Helladic and Late Laconia. Competing Principalities? Netherlands Insitute at Athens, 2022, 21-31.

 •Banou E.– M. Tsouli – G. Tsiaggouris, « Ceramic Evidence on the Transition to the Mycenaean in Southern Laconia: Prehistoric Pottery from Passavas near Gytheio”, in C. Wiersma- M.P. Tsouli (eds), Middle Helladic and Late Laconia. Competing Principalities? Netherlands Institute at Athens, 2022, 137-150.

• E. Banou – Aik. Panagopoulou, “Bronze Age Circulation in the Aegean in the 2^nd Millennium B.C.: Technological investigations of Bronze Finds from the Minoan Peak Sanctuary at Ayios Yeoryios sto Bouno, Kythera”, in Ph. Baas(ed.), Proceedings of the XΧth Int. Congress on Ancient Bronzes: resource, reconstruction, representation, role, Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2019, 107-115.

• B. Davis, E. Banou, L.A. Hitchcock and A.P. Chapin, “Curation in the Bronze Age Aegean: Objects as Material Memories, στο Mneme. Past and Memory in the Aegean Bronze Age. Proceedings of the 17^th International Aegean Conference, University of Udine, Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Humanities, 17-21 April 2018, Liège: Peeters, 2019, 435-441.

·  E. Banou – B. Davis, “The Symbolism of the Scorpion in Minoan Religion: A Cosmological Approach on the Basis of Votive Offerings from the Reak Sanctuary at Ayios Yeoryios sto Vouno, Laconia’, στο E. Alram-Stern, F. Blakolmer, S. Deger-Jalkotzy, R. Laffineur, and J. Weilhartner (eds), in METAPHYSIS, Ritual, Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age, 15^th International Aegean Conference, Vienna 22-25 April 2014, Liège: Peeters, 2016, 123-128.

·  L. A, Hitchcok - A. P. Chapin, E. Banou and J. H. Reynolds, “The Conglomerate Quarry at the Mycenaean Site of Vapheio-Palaiopyrgi, in Laconia”, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 85 (2016): 1, 65-90.

· “Egyptian Influence and Aegean Transformation at Akrotiri, Thera:  The Jug No. 8960 with a Libation Scene”, Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 7:3 (2015), 18-23.