Dimitris Karaiskos lives in Ancient Nemea and has worked for the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology in many capacities over the past decade. Currently, he serves as foreman of the local excavation team and groundskeeper at the Archaeological Museum of Ancient Nemea.
Dr. Elizabeth Keyser's research interests lie in the study of religious space and interregional connections at Greek sanctuaries, especially in the Bronze Age. She is interested in questions concerning the ways in which topography and landscape, including factors of land-use and resource availability, affect the location of sanctuaries and the identity of worshippers.
Jacqueline is an environmental archaeologist and educator based at the University of North Florida. Her research examines how humans adapted in the face of growing populations and resource stress in the Mediterranean region. She employs a novel combination of approaches from social zooarchaeology, contextual taphonomy, and behavioral ecology to elucidate changing strategies of subsistence, ritual practice, and refuse management across the Middle Paleolithic–Iron Age. Understanding human adaptation over time in the Mediterranean...
Dr. Sophie Cushman focuses on Mycenaean period mortuary archaeology, society, and material culture. She is an active field archaeologist with excavation experience in Crete and the Peloponnese. Her recent dissertation "Death and Taxes: Mortuary Perspectives on Non-Palatial Communities in the Mycenaean Argolid (ca. 1600-1070 BCE)" examines the distribution and use of chamber tombs in the Late Bronze Age northeastern Peloponnese from the perspective of small local communities as they responded to the increasing authority of palatial centers in the region over the course of the...
