Antonis Kotsonas

About

Antonis Kotsonas is an Associate Professor of Mediterranean History and Archaeology at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. from the University of Crete. His research focuses on the material culture and socio-economic history of Greece and the Mediterranean during the Early Iron Age, Archaic, and Classical periods, with broader interests extending from the Late Bronze Age to the Roman period. Kotsonas has conducted fieldwork and finds research across Crete, the Cyclades, Euboea, Macedonia, and Latium, and engages in comparative studies across the Aegean, Italy, and Cyprus. He co-directs the excavation of the ancient Greek and Roman city Lyktos in Crete. His work engages with issues related to pottery and sculpture production and consumption, state formation, trade, identity, memory, and the materiality of writing, as well as the history of Greek and Mediterranean archaeology. Kotsonas has authored and edited several publications on these topics and has held academic positions at various institutions prior to his current role at NYU.

Research topics

• Archaeology
• History
• Literature
• Ancient history
• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Art
• Visual arts
• Psychology
• Aesthetics

Selected publications

• Early Greek Alphabetic Writing: Text, Context, Material Properties, and Socialization

  American Journal of Archaeology · 2022 · 17 citations

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  Early Greek alphabetic writing has received extensive attention in the literature. Yet such writing is often treated as immaterial, both literally and metaphorically. My study addresses this problem by offering a systematic investigation of the material properties of nearly 300 inscribed objects, mostly ceramic, that date from ca. 750–600 BCE and originate from seven sites across the Greek world. Inspired by work on classical art and text, and on the materiality of writing, I use a quantitative…

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• 6 Crete: Early Iron Age to Classical

  Archaeological Reports · 2022 · 5 citations

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  This review covers recent archaeological work on Early Iron Age to Classical Crete, focusing on research conducted and published in the 2010s. Proceeding from the west to the east part of the island, and encompassing material ranging from the 12th to the mid-fourth century BC, this study finds that, overall, the field is flourishing, despite the challenges created by the international financial crisis and the constraints posed by the global pandemic. In the last decade, the major archaeological…

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• Exploring Mediterranean Connections and Iron Age Entanglements

  Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology · 2024-01-16 · 2 citations

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  Despite the conventional association with sophisticated metallurgical technologies, the Iron Age has long fallen between the two academic poles of prehistoric and classical archaeology. The more recent invention of a self-consciously ambivalent terminology of ‘proto-historic’ and ‘proto-urban’ features represents an attempt by mostly European archaeologists to give the Iron Age socioeconomic substance in its own right, while at the same time also underscoring the ambiguity of the period. Moreove…

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• The Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme Viannou VII, Vol. 2

  New York University Press eBooks · 2024-02-08 · 2 citations

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  New insights from the archaeology and pottery of the sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme Viannou, Crete The Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme Viannou VII: The Greek and Roman Pottery presents in two volumes the Greek and Roman pottery recovered from the excavation of the sanctuary of Syme Viannou, one of the most long-lived and important cult sites of ancient Crete and the Aegean. The site, which is known as the Cretan Delphi, was dedicated to Hermes and Aphrodite for much of its h…

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• 5. Synthesis: The Greek and Roman Pottery from Syme Viannou in Context

  New York University Press eBooks · 2024-02-15 · 1 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Manthos Bessios

  5 shared

• Evangelia Kiriatzi

  British School at Athens

  2 shared

• Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos

  Université Grenoble Alpes

  2 shared

• Noémi S. Müller

  British School at Athens

  2 shared

• Xénia Charalambidou

  Archéologies et Sciences de l’Antiquité

  2 shared

• Maria Roumpou

  University of Crete

  2 shared

• Jaime Vives‐Ferrándiz Sánchez

  Museu de Prehistòria de València

  2 shared

• Matthaios Bessios

  1 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Classics

  University of California, Berkeley

  2003

• M.A., Classics

  University of California, Berkeley

  1999

• B.A., Classics

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1997

Awards & honors

• Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship (2017-2018)
• Rising Star Award from the College of Arts and Sciences of t…
• Visiting Professor of the Australian Archaeological Institut…

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