Professor Christine Morris
Professor in, Classics
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Aphrodite's Sisters in, editor(s)G.S. Bonaci & N. Petroni , Mediterranean Goddesses., Malta, APS Mdina Art Biennale, 2023, pp53 - 73, [T. Stylianou-Lambert, C.E. Morris, A. Heraclidou, G. Papantoniou,]
In touch with the Minoans: gestural performance and experience in Bronze Age Crete in, editor(s)Amy Gardner, Carl Walsh , Tracing Gestures: The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Communication, London, Left Coast Press, Routledge, 2022, pp13-30 , [Christine Morris, Lucy Goodison]
Christine Morris, Giorgos Papantoniou, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Antigone Heraclidou, 'Aphrodite's Sisters', Creating Diasporic Worlds, London, Cyprus House, London, 2022, -
Bodies in ecstasy: shamanic elements in Minoan religion in, editor(s)Diana Stein, Sarah Kielt Costello, Karen Polinger Foster , The Routledge Companion to Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient World, London, Routledge, 2021, pp264 - 283, [Christine Morris, Alan Peatfield]
Laerke Recht, Christine Morris, Chariot kraters and horse-human relations in Late Bronze Age Greece and Cyprus, Annual of the British School at Athens, 116, 2021, p95 - 132
Christine Morris, Alan Peatfield, Peak Sanctuary figurines: materializing issues of ritual personhood within community/House identity, Aegis, Oikos: Archaeological approaches to House Societies in the ancient Aegean, Louvain-la-Neuve, 6-7 December 2018, edited by Jan Driessen, Maria Relaki , 19, Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2020, pp173-183
Images from a usable past: the Classical themes of Irish Coinage, 1928-2002 in, editor(s)Donncha O'Rourke & Isabelle Torrance , Classics and Irish Politics 1916-2016 , Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp393-406 , [Christine Morris]
Giorgos Papantoniou, Apostolos Sarris, Christine E. Morris, Athanasios K. Vionis, Digital Humanities and Ritual Space: A Reappraisal, Open Archaeology, 5, 2020, p598 - 614
The usable past: Minoans reimagined in, editor(s)Brent Davis & Robert Laffineur , Neoteros: Studies in Bronze Age Aegean Art and Archaeology in Honor of Professor John G. Younger on the Occasion of his Retirement. Aegaeum 44., Leuven/Liège, Peeters, 2020, [Christine Morris]
Material forms and ritual performance on Minoan peak sanctuaries in, editor(s)G.F. Chiai & R. Häussler , Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity: Creation, Manipulation, Transformation, Oxford, Oxbow, 2020, pp111 - 119, [Christine E. Morris & Alan A.D. Peatfield]
Giorgos Papantoniou, Christine Morris, Athanasios Vionis, Unlocking Sacred Landscapes: Spatial Analysis of Ritual and Cult. (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology SIMA), Nicosia, Åströms Förlag, 2019
Thinking through our hands: making and understanding Minoan female anthropomorphic figurines from the peak sanctuary of Prinias, Crete in, editor(s)Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood & Aidan O'Sullivan , Experimental Archaeology: Making, Understanding, Story-telling, Oxford, Archaeopress, 2019, pp53-62 , [Christine Morris, Brendan O'Neill, Alan Peatfield]
Giorgos Papantoniou, Apostolos Sarris, Christine Morris, Athanasios Vionis, Unlocking Sacred Landscapes: Digital Humanities and Ritual Space. Open Archaeology [Open Access journal (thematic issue)]., Berlin, De Gruyter, 2019
Spatial analysis of ritual and cult in the Mediterranean: an introduction in, editor(s)Giorgos Papantoniou, Christine Morris & Athanasios Vionis , Unlocking Sacred Landscapes: Spatial analysis of ritual and cult in the Mediterranean, Nicosia, Astroms Editions, 2019, ppix-xviii , [Giorgos Papantoniou, Christine Morris & Athanasios Vionis]
Space, Place and Performance on the Minoan Peak Sanctuary of Atsipadhes Korakies, Crete in, editor(s)Giorgos Papantoniou, Christine Morris, Athanasios Vionis , Unlocking Sacred Landscapes: Spatial Analysis of Ritual and Cult., Nicosia, Åströms Förlag, 2019, pp189-200 , [Alan A. D. Peatfield, Christine E. Morris]
Christine Morris, Giorgos Papantoniou, Kyprogenes Aphrodite: Between Political Power and Cultural Identity, Gods of peace and war in the myths of the Mediterranean peoples/Theoi tis eirinis kai tou polemic stous muthous ton laon tis Mesogiou, Ikaria, Greece, September 2016, edited by Konstantinos I. Soueref & Ariadne Gartziou , University of Ioannina, 2019, pp147-173
Christine Morris, Brendan O'Neill, Alan Peatfield, 'Figures in 3D': digital perspectives on Cretan Bronze Age figurines,, Open Archaeology, 2018, p50 - 61
Minoan and Mycenaean Figurines in, editor(s)T. Insoll , The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp659"80 , [Christine Morris]
Christine Morris, Alan Peatfield, Brendan O'Neill, Figures in 3D': digital perspectives on Cretan Bronze Age figurines,, Seeing Through Time: Exploring the use of 3D models of objects in archaeological research, University College Dublin, October 15-16, 2016, 2016
Christine Morris, Lord of the Dance: Ted Shawn's Gnossienne and its Minoan context, Cretomania. Modern Desires for the Minoan Past, Athens, 2013, edited by N. Momigliano and A. Farnoux , Routledge, 2016, pp111 - 123
Crouwel J., Morris C., The minoan amphoroid krater: From production to consumption, Annual of the British School at Athens, 110, 2015, p147-201
Goddesses, Patricia Whelehan and Anne Bolin, The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, 1st edition, London, Wiley, 2015, pp427-500 , [Christine Morris]
Christine E Morris, Giorgos Papantoniou, Spatial Analysis of Ritual and Cult in the Mediterranean, May 15-17, 2015, 2015, Trinity College Dublin
Christine Morris, Alan Peatfield, From Production to Consumption: Life Histories of Figurines from Cretan Bronze Age Peak Sanctuaries (abstract), Les Carnets de l'ACoSt (Association of Coroplastic Studies), Terracottas in the Mediterranean through Time, University of Haifa, 2015, 13, 2015
C.E. Morris, A.A.D. Peatfield, 'Health and healing on Cretan Bronze Age peak sanctuaries, Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Nicosia, Cyprus, edited by D. Michaelides , Oxbow, 2014, pp54-63
Cypriot-born Aphrodite: The social biography of a modern cultural icon in, editor(s)Luca Bombardieri, Tommaso Braccini e Silvia Romani , Il trono variopinto. Figure e forme della Dea dell'Amore, Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2014, pp183-202 , [Christine E Morris, Giorgos Papantoniou]
Christine Morris, 'Bodies in Fragments: Anatomical Healing Votives ', Doctors, Diseases and Divinities: Health and healing in the ancient world (one day conference), Trinity College Dublin, 2014, -
Christine Morris, Alan Peatfield, Cretan peak sanctuary figurines: 3D scanning project, Newsletter for the Association of Coroplastic Studies, 10, 2013, p5
Island cultures at the opposite ends of Europe: Cypriot studies in Ireland in, editor(s)G. Georgis and G. Kazamias , Ireland-Cyprus: Parallel Journeys, Common Aspirations, Nicosia, En Tipis Publications, 2013, pp282 - 311, [Christine E Morris, Giorgos Papantoniou]
Dynamic Spirituality on Minoan peak sanctuaries in, editor(s)Kathryn Rountree, Christine Morris, Alan Peatfield , The Archaeology of Spiritualities , New York, Springer (One World Archaeology), 2012, pp227-245 , [Christine Morris, Alan Peatfield]
The Rise of the Aegean and Mediterranean States, Neil A. Silberman, Oxford Companion to Archaeology, 2nd, New York, Oxford University Press, 2012, [C.E. Morris]
Goddesses in prehistory in, editor(s)Diane Bolger , Companion to Gender Prehistory , Blackwell Wiley, 2012, pp265-288 , [Christine Morris, Lucy Goodison]
Christine Morris, Alan Peatfield, Kathryn Rountree , The Archaeology of Spiritualities, New York, Springer, 2012, 277pp
Apo tis ideologies tis mitrotitas sti 'syllogi Miteron-Theon' (in Greek) in, editor(s)Y. Hamilakis and N. Momigliano eds. , Archaiologia kai Europaiki Neoterikotita. Paragontas kai katanalonontas tous "minoites', Athens, 2010, pp89 - 103, [C.E. Morris]
Thoroughly Modern Minoans: Women and Goddesses between Europe and the Orient; in, editor(s)Liv Helga Dommasnes, Tove Hjørungdal, Sandra Montón-Subías, Margarita Sánchez Romero and Nancy L. Wicker (eds) , Situating Gender in European Archaeologies, Budapest, Archaeolingua, 2010, pp83 - 92, [Christine Morris]
C.E. Morris, A.A.D. Peatfield in Bailey, Douglass, Andrew Cochrane, Jean Zambelli, 2010 Unearthed. A comparative study of Jomon dogu and Neolithic figurines, Minoan Figurines, 2010, - 102-3
C.E Morris, Minoan women in control?, Omnibus, 57, 2009, p15 - 17
Configuring the Individual: Bodies of Figurines in Minoan Crete in, editor(s)Anna Lucia D'Agata, Aleydis Van De Moortel , Archaeologies of Cult: Essays on Ritual and Cult in Crete in Honor of Geraldine C. Gesell, Princeton, American School of Classical Studies, Hesperia Supplement 42, 2009, pp180-7 - [Christine Morris]
C E Morris, The Iconography of the bared breast in Aegean Bronze Age art, Aegaeum , FYLO. Engendering Prehistoric 'Stratigraphies' in the Aegean and the Mediterranean., Rethymno, Crete, 2005, edited by K. Kopaka , 30, 2009, pp243-9
An Ardent Lover of Cretan Freedom: J. D. Bourchier, 1850-1920 in, editor(s)J.V. Luce, Christine Morris, and Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood , The Lure of Greece. Irish Involvement in Greek Culture, Literature, History and Politics. Papers presented at a Conference organised by the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens, and held in the National university of Ireland, Galway 19th-21st September 2003, Dublin, Hinds , 2007, pp111 - 122, [C. E. Morris]
C.Renfrew, co-edited by Neil Brodie, Christine Morris, Chris Scarre, Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos 1974-77, London, British School at Athens, 2007, 521pp
C.E. Morris, Design Element Analysis of Mycenaean Chariot kraters, Pictorial Pursuits: Figurative painting on Mycenaean and Geometric Pottery, Athens, Greece, Dec. 1999, E. Rystedt and B. Wells , Paul Astroms Forlag, Stockholm, 2007, pp97 - 106
Animals into Art in the Ancient World in, editor(s)Linda Kalof , Cultural History of Animals, Vol I In Antiquity, Oxford, Berg, 2007, pp175 - 198, [Christine Morris]
J.V. Luce, Christine Morris, Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood, eds, The Lure of Greece. Irish Involvement in Greek Culture, Literature, History and Politics. Papers presented at a Conference organised by the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens, and held in the National university of Ireland, Galway 19th-21st September 2003, Dublin, Hinds , 2007, 171pp
C.E. Morris and A.A.D. Peatfield, Experiencing Ritual: shamanic elements in Minoan religion, Celebrations. Sanctuaries and the Vestiges of Cult Activity. Selected Papers and Discussions from the Tenth Anniversary Symposion of the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 12-16 May 1999 (Papers from the Norwegian Institute at Athens 6), 1999, edited by Michael Wedde (ed.) , Paul Åströms Förlag., 2006, pp35 - 59
C.E. Morris, From ideologies of motherhood to "collecting mother goddesses", Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the 'Minoans', Venice, November 2005, edited by Y. Hamilakis and N. Momigliano , Padova: Bottega d'Erasmo, Aldo Ausilio Editore, 2006, pp69 - 78
The Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens in, editor(s)E. Korka et al. , Foreign Archaeological Schools in Greece - 160 Years, Athens, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, 2005, pp102 - 107, [J. Dillon, C. Morris, C. Souyoudzoglou-Haywood]
"Art makes visible": an archaeology of the senses in Minoan elite art in, editor(s)Neil Brodie and Catherine Hills , Material Engagements: Studies in honour of Colin Renfrew., Cambridge, McDonald Institute Monographs, 2004, pp31-43 , [C.E. Morris]
Mycenaean art, The Oxford Companion to Western Art , Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001, [C.E. Morris]
C.E. Morris, The language of gesture in Minoan religion, Aegaeum , Potnia: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age. Proceedings of the 8th International Aegean Conference / 8e Rencontre egeenne internationale, Goteborg, Goteborg University, 12-15 April 2000, edited by R, Laffineur and R. Hagg , University of Liege, 2001, 245-51
Cypriot art, The Oxford Companion to Western Art , Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001, [C.E. Morris]
C.E. Morris and A.A.D. Peatfield, Feeling through the body: gesture in Cretan Bronze Age Religion, Thinking through the Body: Archaeologies of Corporeality, Lampeter, edited by Y. Hamilakis, M. Pluciennik, S. Tarlow , New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2001, pp105-20
Minoan art, The Oxford Companion to Western Art , Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001, [C.E. Morris]
V. Karageorghis and C.E. Morris,eds, Defensive Settlements of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean after c. 1200 BC (Proceedings of the International Conference, Trinity College Dublin May 1999)., Nicosia, Leventis Foundation and Committee for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, Trinity College Dublin, 2001
V. Batten and C.E. Morris, The Final Neolithic pottery from the Atsipadhes Korakias peak sanctuary, Proceedings of the 8th International Cretological Congress, 1996 (Iraklio 2000) , 2000, 373-82
L. Goodison and C.E. Morris, eds., Ancient Goddesses: the Myths and Evidence , London, British Museum Press, Wisconsin Studies in Classics: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998
Exploring Female Divinity: from modern myths to ancient evidence in, editor(s)L. Goodison and C. Morris , Ancient Goddesses: the Myths and Evidence , London/Madison, British Museum Press/Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1998, pp6-21 , [L. Goodison and C.E. Morris]
Beyond the Mother Goddess: the sacred world of the Minoans in, editor(s)L. Goodison and C.E. Morris , Ancient Goddesses: the Myths and Evidence , London/Madison, British Museum Press/Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1998, pp113-33 , [L. Goodison and C.E. Morris]
C.E. Morris ad R.E. Jones, The Late Bronze Age town of Ayia Irini, Kea and its Aegean relations, Kea-Kythnos: History and Archaeology. Proceedings of an International Symposium, Kea-Kythnos, June 1994, Kea, edited by L Mendoni and A. Mazarakis-Ainian , Athens : Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 1998, pp189-200
State formation in the Mediterranean, Brian Fagan, The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997, [C.E. Morris]
C.E. Morris and A.A.D. Peatfield, The pottery of the peak sanctuary of Atsipadhes Korakias, Proceedings of the 7th International Cretological Congress, Iraklion 1991 , Rethymnon, 1996, pp642-7
J.H. Crouwel and C.E. Morris, The beginnings of Mycenaean pictorial vase painting. , Archäologischer Anzeiger, 1996, p197-219
J.H. Crouwel and C.E. Morris, Pictorial pottery of Late Minoan II-IIIA2 from Knossos, Annual of the British School at Athens , 90, 1995, p157-82
C.E. Morris, ed. , Klados. Essays in honour of J.N. Coldstream, London, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplement 63., 1995
Fishy tales from Knossos: a Minoan larnax and vase painter in, editor(s)C.E. Morris , Klados. Essays in Honour of J.N. Coldstream, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplement 63 , London, Institute of Classical Studies, 1995, pp185-94 , [C.E. Morris]
C.E. Morris, Hands up for the individual: The role of attribution studies in Aegean prehistory , Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 3, 1993, p41-66
J.H. Crouwel and C.E. Morris, Mycenaean pictorial pottery from early British excavations at Enkomi - in Brussels, Dublin, Oxford and Reading, Report of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus , 1991, p141-56
C.E. Morris, In pursuit of the white-tusked boar: Aspects of hunting in Mycenaean society, Celebrations of Death and Divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid. Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium of the Swedish Institute in Athens, 1988 , Athens, edited by R. Hägg and G. Nordquist , Stockholm,, 1990, pp149-56
C.E. Morris and A.A.D. Peatfield, Minoan Sheep Bells: Form and Function, Proceedings of the 6th International Cretological Congress, 1996 (Iraklio 2000) , 1990, 29-37
J.H. Crouwel and C.E. Morris, An early Mycenaean fish krater from Maroni, Cyprus, Annual of the British School at Athens , 82, 1987, p37-46
C.E. Morris and A.A.D. Peatfield, Pottery from the Cyprus Underwater Survey, 1983, Report of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus , 1987, p199-212
J.H. Crouwel and C.E. Morris, Mycenaean pictorial pottery from Atchana-Alalakh, Annual of the British School at Athens , 80, 1985, p85-98
C.E. Morris, Combs on Cypriot Iron Age pottery, Report of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus , 1983, p219-24
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Christine Morris, 'Make your own votive': improving learning and enhancing wellbeing through making, European Association of Archaeologists 2023, Belfast, 12-2-2023, 2023
Christine Morris, Rejecting the Embrace of the Goddess? Minoan Archaeology and the Divine Feminine, Shaking the Tree, Breaking the Bough: James' Frazer's Golden Bough at 100, Melbourne, Australia (online conference), 12-2-2023, 2023
Christine Morris, Dazzling the Senses: Fabulous Faience from Minoan Crete, Glass in the Ancient World, Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens, Trinity College Dublin, May 14, 2022, 2022
C.E. Morris , Minoans Reimagined: from ancient images to modern 'lives', Public Lecture Series, Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus, University of Cyprus, November 16, 2020, University of Cyprus, ARU
Christine Morris, From Classical beasts to Heaney's 'lost ark': the power of animals on coinage, Animals and Us: Human-Animal relationships in the ancient world, Trinity College Dublin, February 23, 2019, 2019
Christine Morris, Bodies in ecstasy: shamanic elements in Minoan religion, LCANE Seminar , SOAS, University of London, November 11, 2019, British Association of Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA)
Christine Morris, Snake-choker, dung heaver': from Heaney's Herakles to heroic representation in Greek art', Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again exhibition, Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre, February 22, 2019, Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again
Christine Morris, "Cretomania": The Representation and Use of the Minoans in Modern Culture, Maynooth Classics Seminar , University of Maynooth, November 30, 2018, Department of Classics, Univ of Maynooth
C.E. Morris , H Aphroditi tis Kyprou (Aphrodite of Cyprus), Chroniko 26. Nicosia: Politis, 2018
Christine Morris, in Paul Corcoran (ed), Line of Enquiry: Favourite Lines from Classical Literature, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin Press, Kavafy, Ithaki, 2017, -
Christine Morris, Life Histories of Figurines from Minoan Peak Sanctuaries, The Chris Mee Lecture, University of Liverpool, June 5, 2017, School of Histories, Languages and Cultures
C.E. Morris , People on the move: migration and identity in ancient Cyprus., Migrations in the Ancient World, University College Dublin , 4 November 2017, 2017
Christine Morris, 'Conversing the Classics: Meet the Minoans', https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkeqU4sc_Lc, 2016, -
Christine Morris, Images from a usable past: classical influences on Irish coins, Classics and Irish Politics 1916-2016 , Royal Irish Academy, June 20-23, 2016, 2016
Christine Morris, Alan Peatfield, Brendan O'Neill, Letting The Cat Out Of The Bag: Using 3D Laser Scanning and Experimental Archaeology to Understand Cretan Bronze Age Figurines, Experimental Archaeology Conference, University College Dublin, January 2015, 2015
Christine Morris, Alan Peatfield, Space, Place and Performance on the Minoan Peak Sanctuary of Atsipadhes, Spatial Analysis of Ritual and Cult in the Mediterranean, Unlocking Sacred Landscapes Network, Trinity College Dublin, May 15-17, 2015, 2015
Christine Morris, Trade and travel in the Bronze Age Mediterranean: the social biography of a Mycenaean chariot krater, Travel in the Ancient World, University College Dublin, February 21, 2015, 2015
Christine Morris, Healing on the Mountain: Anatomical Votives from Bronze Age Crete, Gender, Medicine and the Body, Trinity College Dublin, 2015, 2015
Christine Morris, Frank Lynam, Hiberno-Cretan simulacra: Irish virtual cultural heritage projects on the island of Crete,, Virtual Cultural Heritage Ireland workshop, Trinity College Dublin, February 2014, 2014
C E Morris, Miniaturised Minoans: finding the people in terracotta figurines , Minoan Crete: The People Behind the Palaces, Oxford, 18 January, 2014, Oxford University Department for Continuing Education
Christine Morris, Lucy Goodison, In touch with the Minoans: gestural performance and experience in Bronze Age Crete, Tracing Gestures: The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Communication, University College London, edited by November 4-5, 2014 , 2014
Christine Morris, East Cretan Peak Sanctuary Project (Day of Archaeology 2013), 2013, -
C. E. Morris, Theseus, from Bull-leaper to Hero in the Cretan Labyrinth, Heroes and Mortals in Ancient Greece, Trinity College Dublin Press, 20 November , 2010, Irish Institute for Hellenic Studies at Athens Day School
C.E. Morris, Denizens of the deep: the sea in Greek myth and religion , Sailing the Wine-dark Sea, Trinity College Dublin Press, May 9, 2009, Irish Institute for Hellenic Studies at Athens Day School
C.E. Morris, Creating a 'European' Goddess: Arthur Evans and the Minoan Divine Feminine, Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens lecture series, Athens, Greece, March 19, 2008, Irish Institute for Hellenic Studies at Athens Day School
Christine Morris, Review of H OKTOSXHMH ASPIDA STO AIGAIO THS P X. XILIETIAS (in Greek), Academy of Athens. Research Center for Antiquity, Monograph Series 5) 3. Academy of Athens, Athens 1998 , by Despina Danielidou , American Journal of Archaeology, 104, (4), 2000, p799-800
Christine Morris, Review of The Coroplastic Art of Ancient Cyprus: VA. The Cypro-Archaic Period Small Female Figurines: Handmade/Wheelmade Figurines. Nicosia: A. G. Leventis Foundation, 1998; and The Coroplastic Art of Ancient Cyprus: VI. The Cypro-Archaic Period: Monsters, Animals and Miscellanea ,Nicosia: A. G. Leventis Foundation, 1998., by V. Karageorghis , The Classical Review, 49, (2), 1999, p520-22
Christine Morris, Yeats and Irish Coinage, The Greek connection, 1999, -
Christine Morris, Review of The Coroplastic Art of Ancient Cyprus: IV. The Cypro-Archaic Period: Small Male Figurines Nicosia: The A. G. Leventis Foundation/University of Cyprus, 1995, by V. Karageorghis , The Classical Review, 47, (2), 1997, p387-8
C E Morris, G. Papantoniou, Cypriot Aphrodite and British colonial discourse: a re-appraisal, Empire and excavation: critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, November 6-7, 2020
Research Expertise
Projects
- Title
- Two book length publications of peak sanctuary material from the Cretan Bronze Age
- Summary
- The project comprises the preparation and publication of two closely linked books on the archaeology of Cretan Bronze Age peak sanctuaries. These are a co-edited volume of papers on peak sanctuaries under contract to Cambridge University Press, and a co-authored volume on the clay figurines from the Prinias peak sanctuary. Both publications will make primary, unpublished material available to the scholarly community, and will introduce and innovative digitally-based methods of representing and interpreting this material.
- Funding Agency
- Irish Research Council
- Date From
- October 2012
- Date To
- September 2013
- Title
- An intra-site GIS analysis of the archaeological ritual assemblage from the Atsipadhes peak sanctuary in Crete
- Summary
- The aim of this project is to create an interactive system between the archaeological ritual assemblage from the Minoan peak sanctuary (c.1900-1700 BC) of Atsipadhes Korakias in western Crete and a G(eographical) I(nformation) S(ystem). This will create an effective research tool for intra-site analysis, that is the study of spatial organisation and patterns of ritual activity in relation to the topography and excavated features of the site, as well as producing high-quality data presentation for publication. The primary archaeological data comprises topographic plans of the site, trench plans and a database of over 5,000 figurine fragments, all plotted during excavation. The project will also provide an innovative model which can be used and developed further for other archaeological sites since the use of GIS for intra-site analysis (as opposed its more familiar use for regional studies) is still relatively rare. Despite the fact that these Bronze Age mountain shrines, with their disposed offerings of figurines and pottery, are recognised as a primary location of cult in the Minoan ritual landscape, and are also intimately connected to the emerging power of early state elites in the second millennium BC, the only other peak sanctuary published in any detail is Petsophas in Eastern Crete in 1903. Unsurprisingly, the nature of ritual activity on these sites is poorly understood and scholarly interpretations (and assumptions) depend on old and limited primary data. Atsipadhes is the only peak sanctuary to have been fully excavated (in 1989) to modern standards with all its finds plotted in situ; it therefore provides a unique opportunity to make a major contribution to our understanding of Cretan Bronze Age ritual. As well as being of central importance within Mediterranean archaeology, the project will also contribute significantly to archaeological methodology (methods of spatial analysis), the cross-cultural study of figurines, and comparative religious/ritual studies.
- Funding Agency
- IRCHSS small thematic grant
- Date From
- 2008
- Date To
- 2010
- Title
- 3D digital scanning of clay figurines from Cretan Bronze Age peak sanctuaries.
- Summary
- Description of project Collaborators: Christine Morris; Alan Peatfield (UCD); Will Megarry (UCD) This project will take place in two museums in Crete: Rethymnon Museum where the Atsipadhes material is stored; and Iraklion Museum where material from other peak sanctuaries, in particular, Petsophas, is curated). Permission to do the work during the summer of 2011 has been given by the Directors of both museums. Aims and objectives. The aim of the project is to bring a portable 3D scanner to the museums to scan selected figurines. Preliminary work in establishing the optimum scanning methods (using a very small set of comparable material) has already been completed in Dublin during 2010 in collaboration with colleagues in the School of Archaeology, UCD (which also provided the seed funding to purchase the scanning equipment). Traditionally, artefacts such as figurines are studied and then represented in publications (or in oral presentations) through photographs and/or technical drawings. This project seeks to explore how 3D scanning can complement and enhance these methods with the technology currently available. The overall aim will be to produce high quality scanned images which can be used effectively in an interactive online environment (VRE) where the images can be rotated by the viewer. The images will also enhance the traditional publication and be useful for oral presentations. Research question. Put simply, the project will investigate the strengths and weaknesses of 3D imaging for the recording, analysis and publication of portable clay figurines, as well as producing the 3D images of this type of material for the first time. Methodology (investigative and analytic methods, theoretical frameworks) The investigative/analytic method is 3D scanning, to take place in two Cretan museums on collections of clay figurines from two different sites in western and eastern Crete. As the styles, fabrics and condition/fragmentation of the figurines from the two sites are different, scanning samples of both sets of material is highly desirable. On the practical side, performance (in Greek museum conditions, i.e.heat and dust to contend with), speed and accuracy will be evaluated in order to establish best and most effective practice for such work, given that the material is often fragmentary and may have damaged/abraded surfaces. The project will also make an interesting case study for exploring wider methodological issues concerning digital representation in archaeology. It proposes to contribute to this by considering traditional modes of representation in relation to the opportunities offered by newer technologies. Beyond the purely practical issues of time, skill and accuracy, there are deeper questions of how the different methods of representation impact on how the material is studied (so the interaction between archaeologist and artefact) and on how it is represented and disseminated in publications for both a specialist and more general audience. For this aspect of the work there will be input and discussion between the two archaeologists involved in the figurine study, the archaeological illustator who has drawn much of the Atsipadhes material, and an archaeologist who has expertise with the scanning equipment.
- Funding Agency
- Arts and Social Sciences Benefaction Fund; Seed funding from UCD for equipment
- Date From
- 2010
- Date To
- 2012
- Title
- 'Unlocking' Sacred Landscapes: Spatial Analysis of Ritual and Cult in the Mediterranean
- Summary
- The primary aim of this project was the establishment of an international network ('Unlocking Sacred Landscapes) through the organisation of an archaeological workshop on 'Spatial Analysis of Ritual and Cult in the Mediterranean', organised by Christine Morris and Giorgos Papantoniou. We included papers with a strong methodological focus on spatial analysis and using case studies from across the Mediterranean, ranging from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period. These papers investigated the interaction between political and religious structures, as expressed in sacred landscapes and space. In addition, moving beyond elite and political structures, focus was also given to human experience of the numinous in the creation of personal spiritual identities. The workshop is currently under publication in the form of an edited collective volume.
- Funding Agency
- Irish Research Council
- Date From
- 2015
- Date To
- 2016
Recognition
Representations
Chair, Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens
Royal Irish Academy, Standing Committee for Archaeology
TCD representative, Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens
Treasurer, Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens
Irish representative, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae
Member, Organising Committee of the World Archaeology Congress 2008 (Dublin)
Royal Irish Academy, member National Committee for Greek and Latin Studies
Awards and Honours
Provost's PhD Project Award
Elected, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Elected to Fellowship, Trinity College Dublin
Provost's Teaching Award
Berkeley Fellowship, TCD
Wace Medal, University of Cambridge
Isle of Man Government state studentship
Greek Government scholarship
Memberships
Archaeology and Gender in Europe (AGE), working group within the European Association of Archeologists
Coroplastic Studies Interest Group (affiliated to the Archaeological Institute of America)
Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens (member)
British School at Athens (Member)