Evyenia Yiannouli is an Associate Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, focusing on the Aegean Bronze Age. She studied Archaeology in Greece and the UK. She holds an M.Phil. (1984) and a Ph.D. (1992) on the architecture of the Aegean Bronze Age from the University of Cambridge, Christ’s College, supported by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation. She taught prehistoric archaeology as a contract lecturer in the University of Thessaly (2001-2005) and, from 2007 onwards, as member of staff in the University of the Peloponnese, Department of History, Archaeology and Cultural Resources Management. She is the director of the Archaeological Shoreline Research Project, investigating the geoarchaeology of Southeastern Kephallenian Shores in the Ionian Sea. Following the relevant clause of the Uop Founding Chart (2003), she launches the Maritime Archaeology Laboratory in the Department of History, Archaeology and CRM in Kalamata, UoP (2016), including scientific collections for teaching and research purposes. The Archaeology of Shores, prehistoric building and, in particular, incipient settlement foundation in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean figure prominently amongst her most recent research interests.
Establishing interdisciplinary infrastructure for teaching and research purposes in the Department of History, Archaeology and Cultural Resources Management, through the Maritime Archaeology Laboratory.
Domestic and palatial architecture in the Aegean Bronze Age.
The semantics of space (architecture, representational art, spatial organization, spatial distribution).
Incipient settlement (architectural typology, building structure, site distribution, cultural semantics).
Symbolism and Religion.
Language and primary semantics (iconicity).
Theory in Archaeology, Philosophy, Epistemology