Professional Summary
Marialena is a first year PhD student in Bronze Age Archaeology. She holds a B.A. from the University of Ioannina in Greece. She has extended field experience, serving as a trench supervisor at excavations and partaking in research projects in Akrotiri, Gla, Vathi and Pylos. She also worked for Heritage Malta, at various excavation projects throughout the country and with an internship at the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta.
Her primary interests center on the Bronze Age Cyclades and Crete, focusing on intra and extra- insular connections, production and distribution of material culture and manipulation of distinct island identities. She is interested in issues of commensality and its dynamic relationship with locality and geographical isolation, in the emergence of social complexity, in issues of social organization and in funerary archaeology. She also aspires to approach Aegean Bronze Age iconography through the lens of compositional style and visual perception.