Colloque Archaeology of the Sea

Friday March 21^st

Welcome addresses by Dr. L. Mendoni, Prof. A. Tsingarida

1^st Session: Travelling the Prehistoric Mediterranean: chair J. Driessen

Nena Galanidou, The Quaternary sea: a linking thread in early human travels in the Aegean Basin

Colin Renfrew, Cycladic seafaring from the palaeolithic to the world’s first maritime sanctuary

Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki, Minoan Thallasocracy: Myths and Finds

Diamanthis Panagiotopoulos, Maritime Entanglements. Bronze Age Crete in its Mediterranean Context

Tom Tartaron, Recovering the Maritime Coastal Communities of Mycenaean Greece

2^nd Session: Travelling in the Dark Ages: chair A. Tsingarida

Shelley Wachsmann, The Gurob Ship-Cart Model

Nikos Stambolidis, Touches on the canvas of the Homeric Wine Dark Sea

Jan Paul Crielaard, Towards an archaeology of the sea. Making sense of the Aegean seascape in the Early Iron Age

Anastasia Gadolou, Shedding further light on the sea route from the northern Peloponnese to “Magna Grecia” during the 8^th c. BC.

3^rd Session: Masters of the Mediterranean: chair A. Tsingarida

Bjorn Löven, The Athenian naval bases in the Piraeus – the backbone of the first European Democracy

David Blackman, Emblems of naval power

Vassilios Lambrinoudakis, The element of the sea in the cult and the myths of Classical Athens

Saturday March 22^nd

4^th Session : Travelling throughout the Oikoumène : chair Dr. N. Valakou

Roland Etienne, La politique portuaire de Délos sous Nicias

Sebastiano Tusa, The First Punic war revisited after the recent underwater discoveries in Sicily

Pavlos Triantafyllidis, The Radiance of Hellenistic Rhodes in the Mediterranean

Giorgos Koutsouflakis, “The Unharvested Sea”: a century of underwater exploration in the Hellenic archipelago

Cyprian Broodbank, Makings of a Middle Sea: A comparative Perspective?