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From the Palaeolithic to the present — archaeology, history, anthropology and the neighbouring disciplines, published in the Annual since 1894.
Since 2010
BSA Research
Burgundy marks are recent and current projects. The smaller points are every site the School has ever sponsored. Click a mark. Wheel-zoom after you click the map.
Catalogue
Current and recent projects
01.
2025–2029
Knossos Roman Archaeology Project, Crete
Rebecca Sweetman (BSA, St Andrews), Dan Stewart (Leicester)
Known for the Minoan palace, Knossos is also the site of an important Roman city and colony. The project examines urban life in the valley after the palace periods.
02.
2022, 2024
Kato Choria, Naxos
Demetris Athanasoulis (Cyclades), Mark Jackson (Newcastle), Jim Crow (Edinburgh)
A Byzantine settlement under Kastro Apalirou — houses, churches and burials of the 8th–9th centuries.
03.
2021–2024
West of Samos Archaeological Project
Michael Loy (Durham), Anastasia Christophilopoulou (Boston MFA), Naoíse Mac Sweeney (Vienna)
Four seasons of survey in western Samos — whether the west of the island was really a settlement ‘blackspot’.
04.
2021–
Unpublished archives of British Philhellenism, 1821
Dr Michalis Sotiropoulos (BSA 1821 Fellow in Modern Greek Studies)
A collaboration with the National Library of Greece, opening unpublished British archives of the 1821 Revolution to new historical work.
05.
2017–2018
Reclaiming the Land: belonging and environment in western Thessaly
Huw Halstead (St Andrews / BSA)
Memory of land reclamation on the Karditsa plain — modernisation, and a sense of what was lost.
06.
AG Leventis Fellowship
Changing spaces of refuge
Eirini Avramopoulou (Panteion)
Displacement and the idea of refuge on Leros, from the ghosts of exile to the present crisis.