Curriculum Vitae Evi Margaritis Business Email: e.margaritis@cyi.ac.cy Business Phone: +357 22 208630 The Cyprus Institute STARC 20 Konstantinou Kavafi St. 2121 Aglantzia, Nicosia Cyprus Education: 2001-2005 PhD in Archaeobotany, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge PhD thesis title: The olive and the vine in Hellenistic Pieria. Archaeobotanical case studies from Macedonia, Greece. The work was sponsored by the Gates Cambridge 1997-1998 MSc in Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoeconomy, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield MSc thesis title: The plant remains from Bronze Age Assiros Toumba in Macedonia. The work was sponsored by the Leventis Foundation. 1990-1995 BA in Archaeology and History of Art, University of Athens Professional Experience: 01/09/2012 30/06/2013 American School of Classical Studies at Athens Post Doctoral Environmental Studies Fellow Analysis of plant remains from the site of ancient Corinth. Seminars and workshops to ASCSA regular members 30/05/2012-30/05/2013 Starc-Cyprus Institute Adjunct Assistant Professor Archaeobotanical Research in the Mediterranean 15/01/2009-15/01/2012 British School at Athens Leventis Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow The olive and the vine in the Aegean and Cyprus 1/09/2006-30/12/2008 American School of Classical Studies at Athens Post Doctoral Fellow Analysis of the plant remains from the Athenian Agora. Seminars and workshops to ASCSA regular members 1
Research Experience: As a Head of Archaeobotanical Research in field projects Greece Athenian Agora, American School of Classical Studies Heraion, Samos, German Archaeological Institute Midea Field Project, University of Stockholm Thermi, Koukonisi, Limenaria, Greek Ministry of Culture Gournia, University of Buffalo, USA Mycenae, Dickinson College, USA Keros, University of Cambridge Smari, Aphrodite Kephali, Temple University, USA Mochlos, University Of Greensboro, USA Koumasa Excavation, University of Heidelberg Eretria Excavation, University of Lausanne Cyprus Nicosia and Dhali Excavations, Department of Antiquities Mazotos Project, Alassa, University of Cyprus Kantou, University of Athens Italy Portus, Rome, Universities of Southampton and Cambridge Calavria Project, University of Leicester Croatia Carcadur, University of Zadar Albania Bonsaget Excavation, University Of Cincinnati Jordan Tell Kaffrein, University of Ioannina Teaching Experience: 2001-2004 Supervision of BA and MA students at Cambridge; 2006-2007 Contribution to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens regular programme on ancient agriculture and economy; 2007-2008 Part time Lecturer, School of Archaeology, History and Cultural Heritage, University of Peloponnese; 2006-2012 Seminars at Field Schools at the Keros excavations, University of Cambridge; Mycenae excavations, Dickinson College, USA; Mt. Lykaion excavation and survey project, University of Pennsylvania; Samos excavations, German Archaeological Institute at Athens; 2009-2012 Seminars to undergraduate students at the British School at Athens. Management and Administrative experience: American School of Classical Studies at Athens: organizing the archaeological trips in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey for the regular members of the ASCSA. Organizing International Conference Wine confessions: production, trade and social significance of wine in ancient Greece and Cyprus, held at Ikaria island in 2008 and sponsored by the Ministry of Education of Cyprus. Honours and Achievements: 2
2001-2005 Gates Foundation full PhD Scholarship, University of Cambridge 2005 Hector and Elisabeth Catling Bursary, British School at Athens 1997-1998 Leventis Foundation MSc Scholarship, University of Sheffield Other skills: Other research and outreach activities Founding member of the Aegeus society, Aegeussociety.org, a society that promotes archaeological research in the Mediterranean and has at the moment more than 240 members. Organiser of monthly series: Aegean Lectures, focusing on prehistoric period in Greece and Cyprus. Languages: Greek (native), English (fluent), Ancient Greek, Latin. Professional Service and Memberships: Reviewer for Vegetation History and Archaeobotany and Journal of Archaeological Science on archaeobotany of the Mediterranean and especially on topics referring to vine and olive. Member of the Editorial Board of the newly founded, peer reviewed, bilingual journal Aegean Studies, which focuses on current archaeological research in the eastern Mediterranean. Conference and seminar experience Organiser 1. Two day conference, Archaeobotany in action, in honour of Dr. Jane Renfrew, for her contribution of archaeobotany of southern Europe; to be held 8-9 November 2012 at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge (with Prof. M. K. Jones). 2. Wine Confessions: production, trade and social significance of wine in ancient Greece and Cyprus, three day international conference held at the island of Ikaria in Greece in 2008. The papers of the volume have been submitted and accepted by Hesperia for publication as a Hesperia Supplement. 3. Member of the Scientific and Organising Committee of the 17 th International Work Group of Palaethnobotany Conference to be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, May 2013. Conferences, invited: January 2012 Rethinking ancient agriculture, Department of Archaeology and History, Aarhus University; December 2011 Wine and vine in Eastern Mediterranean, Department of Anatolian Civilisations, Koç University; November 2011 Wine and olive oil production in Eastern Mediterranean, Department of Archaeology, Izmir University (with Artemis Karnava); July 2011 Producing for the market: estate economy in Hellenistic North Greece, Beyond self-sufficiency and market economy, Department of Classics and History, University of Durham; June 2010 Olive and Vine in Cyprus and the Aegean 16th International Work Group of Palaethnobotany, Germany; April 2010 Eating by the lake: dietary choices and use of space in the Neolithic lakeside settlement of Dispilio, Greece, International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East, Cyprus; 3
March 2010 Living off the fruits of the sea: new evidence for dining at the Minoan site of Papadiokambos, Crete, Subsistence, Economy and Society in the Greek World, Netherlands Institute of Athens; May 2008 The study of archaeobotanical remains and their significance for the interpretation of archaeological sites, Ancient technologies in the archaeological environment: Excavations, Research and Heritage Management Conference, University of Athens; June 2007 The archaeobotanical remains of the earliest lake settlement in Europe, 15th International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany, Krakow; May 2004 Olive oil in Hellenistic Macedonia, Archaeobotanical, ethnographical and experimental data, 14th International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany, Girona, Spain; November 2003 Hellenistic Agricultural Economy: An Archaeobotanical Case Study Cultivating Archaeology: Innovations in Archaeology Conference, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge; Invited Seminars July 2012 The agriculture of Prehistoric Cyprus, Cyprus Institute (CyI), Nicosia; March 2012 Data versus speculation: the olive and the vine in the Aegean, British school at Athens; March 2009 Early Bronze Age agriculture in the Aegean, University of Liverpool; October 2008 Farmhouses and cities: Agriculture, economy and trade during the Hellenistic period in Greece, Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam; September 2008 The economy of wine in the Classical period in Eastern Mediterranean Wine Confessions: production, trade and social significance of wine in Greece and Cyprus, Ikaria, Greece; May 2008 Agriculture and economic relationships of ancient Corinth, University of Nottingham; April 2008 Production and use of space in rural sites in Classical Greece, Swedish Institute at Athens; March 2007 Drinking passions: an archaeobotanical perspective on wine production and consumption in Classical Greece, Fitch-Wiener Laboratory Seminars, British School at Athens; March 2006 Hellenistic Farmhouses and Cities: Economy and Exchange, American School of Classical studies at Athens; October 2003 Knowledge from the roots: recent archaeobotanical research in Greece, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge. Publications Articles in journals Published 1. Renfrew, C. and Margaritis, E. 2011. Oiling the wheels of Civilization: olive oil production in Minoan Crete, Current World Archaeology 48, 46-50. 2. Margaritis, E. & Jones, M.K. 2008a. Crop-processing and Olea europaea L. Ethnographic and experimental approaches for the interpretation of charred olive remains, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 17, 381-392. 3. Margaritis, E. & Jones, M.K. 2008b. Olive oil production in Hellenistic Greece: The interpretation of charred olive remains from the site of Platania, Macedonia, Greece, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 17, 393-401. 4
4. Renfrew, C., Philaniotou, O., Brodie, N., Gavalas, G., Margaritis, E., French, C. and Sotirakopoulou, P. 2007. Keros: Dhaskalio and Kavos, Early Cycladic stronghold and ritual centre. Preliminary report of the 2006 and 2007 excavation seasons, Annual of the British School of Athens 102, 103-136. 5. Margaritis, E. 2007. Archaeobotanical investigations at the Geometric site of Krania, southern Pieria in Macedonia, Greece, Talanta 38/39, 123-132. 6. Margaritis, E. & Jones, M.K. 2006. Beyond cereals: crop-processing and Vitis vinifera L. Ethnography, experiment and charred grape remains from Hellenistic Greece, Journal of Archaeological Science 33, 6, 784-805. 7. Margaritis, E. 2006. Archaeobotanical remains from the Agora s Byzantine Contexts. Akoue 56, 22-24, American School of Classical Studies at Athens. In press, accepted for publication and submitted 8. Margaritis, E. in press. The taverna at Hellenistic Krania: cooking, eating, drinking and the identification of the use of space, in Hesperia (end of 2012). 9. Margaritis, E. in press. Wine economies and Hellenistic Farmhouses, in eds. Margaritis, E. Renfrew, J. and Jones, M., Ancient Wine Confessions: production, trade and social significance of wine in Greece and Cyprus, Hesperia Supplement (2013). 10. Margaritis, E. in press. The plant remains of Tell Kaffrein, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan (2012). 11. Margaritis, E. accepted. Domestication and cultivation or vice versa: the olive in the third millennium Aegean, Antiquity (2012). 12. Margaritis, E. submitted, under review. Macedonian estates under the microscope: agriculture, production and domestic activities in rural Hellenistic Greece, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology (2013). Book Chapters In reviewed volumes, published 13. Margaritis, E. 2010. Prehistoric farming in Northern Aegean, in ed. O. Philaniotou, The prehistory of the northern Aegean, Ministry of Culture Publications, 26-32. 14. Margaritis, E. 2010. The olives from Hellenistic Mochlos, in ed. Vogeikoff-Brogan, N., Mochlos IIΙ, The Late Hellenistic Beam Press Complex, INSTAP Academic Press, 65-71. 15. Margaritis, E. and Jones, M.K. 2008c. Greek and Roman agriculture, in ed. Oleson, G., Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World, Oxford University Press, 567-578. In peer-reviewed volumes, in press and accepted 16. Margaritis, E. in press. Landscape, vegetation and plant use at the Bonjaket Sanctuary: the macrobotanical remains from the excavation, in eds. J. Davis and Stocker S., A Sanctuary in the Hora of Illyrian Apollonia: Excavations at the Bonjaket Site (2004-2006), Hesperia Supplement (2013). 17. Μargaritis, E. in press. Foodstuffs, fruit tree cultivation and occupation patterns at Dhaskalio, in eds. Colin Renfrew et al., The Sanctuary at Keros and the Origins of Aegean Cult Practice: Excavations at Dhaskalio and Dhaskalio Kavos, Keros 2006 2008, Vol. I. McDonald Institute Series, Cambridge (end of 2012). 18. Margaritis, E. in press. Arboriculture in the dawn of Bronze Age in Crete in ed. P. Betancourt, Aphrodite's Kephali: An Early Minoan I Defensive Site in Eastern Crete, INSTAP Academic Press (2013). 19. Margaritis, E., Brogan, T., Morrison, J. and Mylona, D. in press. Living off the fruits of the sea: new evidence for dining at Papadiokampos, Crete, in eds. S. Voutsaki et al., Subsistence, Economy and Society in the Greek World, University of Groningen (end of 2012). 20. Margaritis, E. accepted. Producing for the market: wine production in Hellenistic country side, in eds. Harris, E.M., Lewis, D. M. & M. Woolmer, Beyond Self-Sufficiency: Markets, Households and City- States in the Ancient Greek World, Cambridge University Press (2013). 21. Margaritis, E. accepted. Reconstructing the economy of the Neolithic Site of Kantou- Koufovounos in Cyprus, in ed. Manztourani, E., Excavations at the site of Kantou-Koufovounos, Vol II, Reports of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus (2012). 22. Margaritis, E. accepted. Food for people or for the gods? in Verdan, S. (ed.), Le Santuaire d Apollon Daphnephoros a l époque Geometrique, Eretria XXII, Swiss School of Archaeology (2013). 5
Contributions to other volumes-published 23. Margaritis, E. 2010. Storage, Lathyrism and gathering in Neolithic Dispilio, in ed. Chourmouziadis, G., The site of the Lake site of Dispilio, Thessaloniki University Press, 76-88. 24. Margaritis, E. 2010. Olive oil production in Hellenistic Greece, in ed. Anagnostakis, I., Olive in the Mediterranean, National Research Foundation, 73-81. 25. Margaritis, E. 2004. Plant Husbandry under the stereomicroscope. The study of the archaeobotanical remains from the Neolithic Site of Stavroupoli. The 1999-2003 Seasons, in eds. Grammenos, D & Kotsos, S., Rescue Excavations at Stavroupoli Thessalonikis II, Ministry of Culture, 605-613. 26. Margaritis, E. 2003. Ancient economy and trade, in eds. Adam-Veleni, P., Poulaki, E. & Tzanavari, K., Ancient Country houses on Modern Roads, Ministry of Culture Publications, 72-81. 27. Margaritis, E. 2002. Archaeobotanical remains from the Neolithic Site of Stavroupoli Thessalonikis I: a preliminary report, in eds. Grammenos, D & Kotsos, S., Rescue excavations from the Neolithic site of Stavroupoli, Thessaloniki, Archaeological Institute of Northern Greece, 805-827. Books In press and accepted for publication 1. Margaritis, E. in press. Olive and vine farming in Hellenistic Pieria: an archaeobotanical case study of settlements from Macedonia, Greece, British Archaeological Reports, International Series (October 2012). 2. Margaritis, E., Jones, M. and Renfrew, J. eds. Accepted. Wine Confessions: production, trade and social significance of wine in ancient Greece and Cyprus, Hesperia Supplement (2013). 6