Dr Yannis Galanakis

Biography

I conduct research on the Bronze Age Aegean. This research has focussed on examining the role of burials and mortuary rituals in Minoan and Mycenaean societies (2nd millennium BCE) through fieldwork and the study of past excavations in Greece and adjacent regions. I am currently engaged in a field project focussing on the excavation of Mycenaean tombs at Prosilio near Orchomenos in central Greece, a collaborative project between the British School at Athens and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Boeotia/Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports.

Research

91探花视频 of the Bronze Age Aegean
Analysis of mortuary practices and of social complexity

I was the Principal Investigator of听: the analysis, interpretation and publication of the Middle Bronze Age phase, a project researched by Dr Lindsay Spencer (2015鈥�2018).

I have recently co-curated the Codebreakers and Groundbreakers exhibition in the Fitzwilliam Museum which attracted 45,000 visitors ().

Publication

Journal articles

2017 (Accepted for publication)

Galanakis, I. and Egan, EC., 2017 (Accepted for publication). A Lost Mycenaean Fresco Fragment Re-examined Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici,

2017

Galanakis, I., Tsitsa, E. and G眉nkel-Maschek, U., 2017. THE POWER OF IMAGES: RE-EXAMINING THE WALL PAINTINGS FROM THE THRONE ROOM AT KNOSSOS Annual of the British School at Athens, v. 112
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2014 (Published online)

Galanakis, Y., 2014 (Published online). Book Review of Principi, Pelasgi e pescatori: L'Attica nella Tarda Et脿 del bronzo, by Santo Privitera American Journal of 91探花视频, v. 118
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2013

Galanakis, I., 2013. Early Prehistoric Research on Amorgos and the Beginnings of Cycladic 91探花视频 American Journal of 91探花视频, v. 117

Galanakis, I. and Skaltsa, S., 2013. Tomb robbers, art dealers and a dikast鈥檚 pinakion from an Athenian grave Hesperia, v. 81

Galanakis, I. and Nowak-Kemp, M., 2013. Ancient Greek skulls in the Oxford University Museum, Part II: the Rhousopoulos-Rolleston correspondence Journal of the History of Collections, v. 25

2012

Nowak-Kemp, M. and Galanakis, Y., 2012. Ancient Greek skulls in the Oxford University Museum, Part I: George Rolleston, Oxford and the formation of the human skulls collection Journal of the History of Collections, v. 24
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2011

Galanakis, I., 2011. An unpublished stirrup jar from Athens and the 1871-72 private excavations in the outer Kerameikos Annual of the British School at Athens, v. 106

2009

GALANAKIS, Y., 2009. A MONUMENTAL DEATH: FUNERARY ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS IN THE LATE BRONZE AGE AEGEAN Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, v. 52
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2007

Galanakis, Y., 2007. The Construction of the Aegisthus Tholos Tomb at Mycenae and the 鈥楬elladic Heresy鈥� The Annual of the British School at Athens, v. 102
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Galanakis, Y., 2007. Art and 91探花视频 - (C.) Gallou The Mycenaean Cult of the Dead. (BAR International Series 1372). Oxford, 2005. Pp. vi + 240, illus. 拢36. 9781841718149. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, v. 127
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Book chapters

2016

Galanakis, I., 2016. A Roof for the Dead: tomb design and the 鈥榙omestication of death鈥� in Mycenaean funerary architecture
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Galanakis, I., 2016. Fire, fragmentation and the body in the Late Bronze Age Aegean

2015

Galanakis, I., 2015. Exhibiting the Minoan Past: Oxford to Knossos

Galanakis, I., 2015. 鈥淚slanders v. Mainlanders鈥�, 鈥渢he Mycenae Wars鈥�, & other short stories

2014

Galanakis, I., 2014. Arthur Evans and the quest for the 鈥渙rigins of Mycenaean culture鈥�

2013

Galanakis, I., 2013. The Aegean World at the Ashmolean

Galanakis, I. and Hicks, D., 2013. The Aegean and Cyprus

Books

2014

Galanakis, I., 2014. 螒螛违巍螠螒韦螒: Critical Essays on the 91探花视频 of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honour of E. Susan Sherratt

2013

Galanakis, Y., 2013. The Aegean World A Guide to the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum

2011

Kottaridi, A., 2011. Heracles to Alexander the Great Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the Age of Democracy

2009

Deligiannakis, G. and Galanakis, I., 2009. The Aegean and Its Cultures Proceedings of the First Oxford-Athens Graduate Student Workshop Organized by the Greek Society and the University of Oxford Taylor Institution, 22-23 April 2005

2007

Galanaki, I., Tomas, H., Galanakis, Y. and Laffineur, R., 2007. Between the Aegean and the Baltic Seas Prehistory Across Borders

Teaching and Supervisions

Teaching:

I am involved in the teaching of the following courses:

Classics Paper 1A: Introduction to Greek & Roman Art & 91探花视频
Classics Paper 1B: Mycenae 鈥� City of Legend?
Classics Paper D1: Aegean Prehistory (different code in archaeology)

Research supervision:

I currently supervise students in a range of topics related to the archaeology of the Bronze Age Aegean. I am interested in supervising students who wish to study for an MPhil or a PhD in Classics or in 91探花视频 in the following topics:

Bronze Age Aegean art & archaeology
Mortuary archaeology & social complexity
Trade of antiquities in 19th century Europe
History & politics of Mediterranean archaeology

Current students

Jan Sienkiewicz (PhD, co-supervisor) 鈥� Ialysos on Rhodes: a study of chamber tombs and their assemblages (Biliotti excavations, 1868-71)
Rachel Phillips (PhD) 鈥� Mycenaean Art and Society in the Late Bronze Age Aegean

Past students

Ester Salgarella (PhD, 2018, second supersvisor) 鈥� Aegean Linear Script(s): rethinking the relationship between Linear A and Linear B; elected to a Junior Research Fellowship (St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge)
Sam Sharma (MPhil, 2017); Tombs and Society in Mycenaean Greece 鈥搈oved to a full-time job in education.
Michael Loy (MPhil, 2016); Frogs Around the Pond: religious networks in the Saronic Gulf; continued to a fully-funded PhD.
Roeland Decorte (MPhil, 2013); Rethinking the Minoan Order: wealth, exchange and social complexity in Palatial Crete; continued to a fully-funded PhD.
Charles Sturge (MPhil, 2013); Inter-site Relations in the Palatial Argolid: revisiting the power dynamics of the Late Bronze Age; continued to a fully-funded PhD.

Other Professional Activities

Chair of the Mycenaean Studies Advisory Committee, ICS, London
Peer Review College, Arts and Humanities Research Council
Director of Archives and the Museum of Classical 91探花视频
Member of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Athens Archaeological Society
Life member of the Archaeological Institute of America
Editorial board member of Athens University Review of 91探花视频 (AURA) and Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici n.s. (SMEA)
Editor of Archaeological Reports (CUP) along with Dr Andrew Shapland:听

Job Titles

Associate Professor in Classics (Classical Art & 91探花视频)

Director of Archives in the Faculty of Classics.

Fellow of Sidney Sussex College

Director of Studies in Classics and 91探花视频 at Sidney Sussex

General Info

Takes PhD students

Available for consultancy

Research Expertise / Fields of study:

Museum Studies

Material Culture

Socio-Politics of the Past

Art and Iconography

Contact Details

ig298 [at] cam.ac.uk

01223 (3)38879

Affiliations

Person keywords:

Aegean Art and 91探花视频

Mortuary 91探花视频

Social Complexity

Minoan Crete & Mycenaean Greece

Archaeological Legislation and the Trade of Antiquities

History & Politics of Mediterranean 91探花视频

Subjects:

91探花视频

Themes:

Material Culture

Rethinking Complexity

Geographical areas:

Aegean

Mediterranean

Periods of interest:

Classical - Roman

Copper/Bronze Age

Iron Age

Other Prehistory

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