Tag: Greek colonisation

Investigating the landscape history in the territories of the Ancient Greek colony of Abdera and its Thracian neighbours. MEDLANDS project completed the 2026 fieldwork campaigns.

This July and September, an international multi-disciplinary team lead by researchers from GIAP-ICAC, the Ephoria for Antiquities of Xanthi, the Universities of Athens and Crete and ISEM-Montpellier, has conducted archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research around ancient Abdera in the province of Xanthi (East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece), under MEDLANDS and DIPAX projects. The coordinated effort focused…
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New PhD researcher to explore landscapes of Greek colonisation

We are very glad to welcome Isabel Mattuzzi to the group, who will be working on her PhD thesis entitled “Landscapes of Greek colonisation: an integrated archaeological approach of the compared territorial and landscape dynamics around the Ionian colonies of Abdera and Emporion (Thrace, Gr. and Catalunya, Sp.)” under the supervision of Dr. Arnau Garcia-Molsosa and…
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