In the last 15 years, SELAP included over 60 members, staff and students, coming from ten countries and around 25 research institutions. During this time span, attention was devoted to landscape analysis, human-environmental interactions, and funerary practices. Despite the methodological and theoretical challenges associated with legacy data, SELAP’s work has provided an unprecedented amount of new information on Koan occupational, cultural, social, and political trajectories from the Final Neolithic 1 up until the end of the Late Protogeometric period. During the 2024 season, a small group of specialists and students from Pisa completed the study of the materials comprised in SELAP’s assemblage, refining Koan prehistoric sequences and preparing the project’s dataset for final publication. One of the most significant results of this work was a revised understanding of the beginning of the cultural relationships between Kos and Crete in the Middle Bronze Age or Middle Minoan period. This important outcome of the 2024 season is presented for the first time in the following sections of this brief contribution.
The 2024 Season of the ‘Serraglio’, Eleona, and Langada Archaeological Project (SELAP)
Vitale, Salvatore
2026-01-01
Abstract
In the last 15 years, SELAP included over 60 members, staff and students, coming from ten countries and around 25 research institutions. During this time span, attention was devoted to landscape analysis, human-environmental interactions, and funerary practices. Despite the methodological and theoretical challenges associated with legacy data, SELAP’s work has provided an unprecedented amount of new information on Koan occupational, cultural, social, and political trajectories from the Final Neolithic 1 up until the end of the Late Protogeometric period. During the 2024 season, a small group of specialists and students from Pisa completed the study of the materials comprised in SELAP’s assemblage, refining Koan prehistoric sequences and preparing the project’s dataset for final publication. One of the most significant results of this work was a revised understanding of the beginning of the cultural relationships between Kos and Crete in the Middle Bronze Age or Middle Minoan period. This important outcome of the 2024 season is presented for the first time in the following sections of this brief contribution.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
