Maria Michael
PhD Candidate
Email: M.M.Michael@soton.ac.uk

I became actively involved with archaeology in 2005, when I entered the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Cyprus. During my undergraduate studies, through active participation in a number of BA courses in Maritime Archaeology and underwater projects, I developed a special interest in maritime archaeology. This was the reason that I decided to continue my studies with a Masters degree in Maritime Archaeology at the University of Southampton in 2009. My MA thesis was entitled “Ship Graffiti: Context as Indicators of Social, Ritual, Practical and Economic Activities in the past”.

I have participated in many terrestrial and underwater projects and I have presented my work in some conferences (e.g. POCA, IKUWA, HFF conference). Furthermore, I am a member of the crew of the Kerynia shipwreck replica and we organise many experimental trips and educational seminars for researchers and students (for more information: https://www.facebook.com/kerynialibertyship/). In 2017 I was awarded an HFF Small Grant to repair and maintain the replica ship Kerynia – Liberty.

In January 2018, having secured an HFF doctoral scholarship, I started the PhD programme at the University of Southampton. The PhD thesis is entitled “The tradition of fishery and fishing gear on the island of Cyprus”. My doctoral research aims to create a diachronic corpus of the tradition of fishery in Cyprus. Its primary aim is to collate all the published data (ex. fish remains, iconographical evidence, architectural installations and fishing gear: harpoons or spears, hooks, traps, stone, clay and lead weights for net or line, weirs), and then to record additional evidence recovered in recent excavations. Essentially, it aims to combine the terrestrial archaeological data with underwater in an attempt to acquire a better general understanding of the formative phases of fishery on the island through time. It also aims to determine the development of the fishing technologies diachronically and to discover if and when fishing activities had an influence on the economy and the daily life of the communities of the island.

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Crystal Safadi


PhD student funded by the Honor Frost Foundation. So far I completed two Masters degrees at the University of Southampton: an MSc in Archaeological Computing Spatial Technologies (2012-2013), thesis entitled ' The Beqa'a Valley during the Early Bronze Age: a GIS Approach to Settlement Patterns',  and an MA in Maritime Archaeology (2013-2014), 'Bronze Age and Iron Age Levantine Harbours: an Evaluation of their Afforded Maritime Accessibility and Protection'. During my Masters degrees I developed a set of skills and a passion for GIS, computational approaches, and marine geophysics. In my PhD research I will draw on several methods to investigate the maritime world of the Levantine Early Bronze Age through space and time. I worked on several archaeological digs and surveys, terrestrial and underwater ( Nissia Shipwreck Project 2014, Deltebre I shipwreck excavation 2014, Underwater survey in Anfeh Lebanon 2013, Excavation at Baalbek Lebanon 2012, excavation at Tell Fadous-Kfarabida Lebanon 2011, Tell el-Burak excavation 2011, etc.). Thanks to the support of the Honor Frost Foundation, The Said foundation, the British Lebanese Association, the University of Southampton Archaeology team, and my supervisors Dr Lucy blue and Dr Fraser Sturt, I was and still able to pursue my postgraduate studies.  


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