SELAP (Serraglio, Eleona, and Langada Archaeological Project)
SELAP (Serraglio, Eleona, and Langada Archaeological Project). 2009 – present
Directed by Salvatore Vitale and Calla McNamee and held under the scientific auspices of the Italian Archaeological School of Athens, the project involves the study and publication of sites and materials discovered by L. Morricone in Coo in the “Serraglio” and surrounding areas (Late Neolithic; Early Bronze Age; Late Bronze Age, especially Minoan and Mycenaean phases; Protogeometric Age). The main research themes are: the settlement sequence of the northeastern area of Coo; the cultural processes of Minoanization and Mycenaeanization on the island; the socio-political trajectories of Coo in the Late Bronze Age, with particular reference to the Ahhiyawa question; the study of the landscape, focusing on the dynamic relationship between natural resources and human impact; and the funerary archaeology of Coo from the Early Bronze Age to the end of the Late Bronze Age.
The project uses a multidisciplinary approach that combines traditional and innovative methodologies to achieve an updated and comprehensive understanding of the cultural and socio-political trajectories of Coo in prehistoric and protohistoric times. Between 2009 and 2022, SELAP has included approximately 60 members from over ten countries and around 25 universities or research institutes.
KASP (Surface Survey on the island of Kos – KASP (Kos Archaeological Survey Project). 2018 – present
Directed by Maria Michailidou in collaboration with Toula Marketou, Salvatore Vitale, and Calla McNamee and carried out under the auspices of the Directorate of Antiquities of the Dodecanese, the project consists of the archaeological survey of the island of Kos, especially the northeastern part. Within KASP, Salvatore Vitale is co-director of the external team of archaeologists who collaborate with the Directorate of Antiquities of the Dodecanese in carrying out the project. KASP is the first systematic survey conducted with advanced and multidisciplinary scientific methods on Kos, an island that has always been at the center of intense cultural and economic exchanges between the eastern and central Mediterranean. The research aims to reconstruct the complex relationships between human strategies and natural resources in the context of the main cultural transitions that have affected Kos from prehistory to the present, including processes of Minoanization, Mycenaeanization, Hellenization, Romanization, and Christianization.
Between 2018 and 2022, the external team of collaborators co-directed by Salvatore Vitale has included approximately 40 members from eight different countries and 15 universities or research institutes.
Contact: Salvatore Vitale
Research Outputs:
Monographs
Vitale, S. 2018. The ceramic classes of the “mixed tradition” in Kos in the Late Bronze IA, (Archaeopress Publishing Ltd), Oxford. ISBN: 978 1 78491 886 6.
Articles
Vitale, S., Nani, F., e McNamee, C. (c.d.s). “Building Identities: Breaks and Continuity in Construction Practices at the Late Bronze Age Settlement of the ‘Serraglio’ On Kos,” Studi Classici e Orientali. ANVUR, Classe A per 10/A1. (Rivista peer-reviewed). ISSN: 0081-6124.
Vitale, S. 2021. “‘Turn and Face the Strain’: Continuity and Change on Kos During the Mycenaean Late Palatial and Early Post-Palatial Periods,” in R. Jung (a cura di), Punta di Zambrone I. 1200 BCE – A Time of Breakdown, a Time of Progress in Southern Italy and Greece, (OREA 17), Vienna, pp. 527-560. (Volume peer-reviewed). ISBN: 978-3-7001-8615-1.
McNamee, C. e Vitale, S. 2020. “Langada Revisited: Construction Practices, Space, and Sociocultural Identity in the Koan Burial Arena During the Mycenaean Palatial and Postpalatial Periods,” in J.M.A. Murphy (a cura di), Death in Late Bronze Age Greece: Variations on a Theme, (Oxford University Press), New York, pp. 214-247. (Volume Peer-reviewed). ISBN: 9780190926069.
Vitale, S., Marketou, T., McNamee, C. e Michailidou, M. 2022. “The Kos Archaeological Survey Project and the Site of Ayios Panteleimon in the Northeast Koan Region,” in ASAtene 99, pp. 108-142. ANVUR, Classe A per 10/A1. (Rivista peer-reviewed). ISSN: 0067-0081.
McNamee, C., Sullivan III, A.P., Marketou, T., Vitale, S. e Michailidou M. 2021. “Managing Environmental Challenges with Anthropogenic Bedrock Modification: Archaeological Survey Evidence from the Upper Basin (USA) and the Island of Kos (Greece),” in Quaternary International 597, pp. 76-86. ANVUR, Classe A per 10/A1. (Rivista peer-reviewed). ISSN: 1040-6182.