This new 5-year project is directed by Dr. Sofia Voutsaki, University of Groningen. The project has received a Grant for Innovative Research by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and is also financed by the University of Groningen and the Institute of Aegean Prehistory, Philadelphia.

The aim of the project is to interpret the important changes that took place in the southern Greek mainland during the Middle Helladic period. The task is undertaken by means of an integrated analysis of settlement, funerary, skeletal and iconographic data from the Argolid. The central question of the project, the redefinition of personal identities within wider processes of socio-cultural change, has a wider relevance beyond the Aegean and occupies a central position in current theoretical debates in archaeology.

For more information, please see http://www.MHArgolid.nl