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.
