**About the Editors**

#### **Giorgos Papantoniou**

Giorgos Papantoniou is an Assistant Professor in Ancient Visual and Material Culture in the Department of Classics, Trinity College Dublin. He studied History and Archaeology at the University of Cyprus (B.A., 2003) and Classics at Trinity College Dublin (Ph.D., 2008). He has worked as an archaeologist at the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus and as a researcher and visiting lecturer at the University of Cyprus, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Bonn, the University of Sassari, and the Open University of Cyprus. His research agenda is based on interdisciplinary and diachronic approaches: bringing together landscape, archaeological, textual, iconographic and anthropological evidence, he works on the interaction of social power and the archaeology of religion (considering both elite and popular cultures) from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. He is currently developing interests in cultural heritage, reception and ethnographic analysis. He codirects the archaeological surface survey project 'Settled and Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus' (SeSaLaC) in the Xeros River Valley in Cyprus, and he coordinates the international research network 'Unlocking Sacred Landscapes' (UnSaLa) based on a formal agreement of collaboration between Trinity College Dublin and the University of Cyprus.

#### **Athanasios K. Vionis**

Athanasios K. Vionis is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Cyprus. He studied history and archaeology at the University of Durham (UK), carried out his doctoral research at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands), and undertook postdoctoral research at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). He is the founder and director of the Artefact and Landscape Studies Laboratory—ArtLandS Lab (http://www.ucy.ac.cy/artlands/en/). He is also the coordinator of several research projects, e.g., Unlocking the Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus—UnSaLa-CY (EXCELLENCE/1216/0362, funded by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation); The Spatiality and Materiality of Pilgrimage—SpaMaP Cy (POST-DOC/0916/0251, funded by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation); Stirring Pots on Fire—CCP (funded by the A.G. Leventis Foundation); and Simplifying Complexity—SIMPLEX (funded by the University of Cyprus). He has been co-director of the archaeological field project and summer school Settled and Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus (SeSaLaC) since 2014, and a member of the consortium of the Unlocking Sacred Landscapes (UnSaLa) research network (http://www.ucy.ac.cy/unsala/). His research interests include landscape and settlement archaeology, surface survey, the production, distribution and use of ceramic vessels, and the study of foodways in the Byzantine, Medieval and Early Modern eras in the Eastern Mediterranean.

#### **Christine E. Morris**

Christine E. Morris is the Andrew A. David Professor in Greek Archaeology and History in the Department of Classics, Trinity College Dublin, and is currently the Head of the School of Histories and Humanities. She studied Classics at the University of Cambridge, and she received her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from University College London. Before joining Trinity College Dublin in 1994, she was archaeological research assistant to Colin Renfrew at the University of Cambridge (1990–1993) and worked as museum cataloguer at Knossos for the British School at Athens (1984–1990). She is the Trinity College Dublin representative on the managing committee of the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens. She is a founding member of the international research network, Unlocking Sacred Landscapes (UnSaLa). Her current research includes collaboration on the Atsipadhes Archaeological Project and the East Cretan Peak Sanctuary Project (ECPSP), and the 'Many Lives of a Snake Goddess' (MLSG) project. More broadly, her research focuses on the archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age, including pottery and figurine studies, ancient art, and religion (goddesses, experiential/embodied aspects, and healing/medicine); gender in archaeology; historiography and modern receptions and re-imagining of Minoan Crete and ancient Cyprus; and cultural heritage and digital technologies.
