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Chlorakas Palloures Excavation Archaeological Excavation Project - Researching the Middle and Late Chalcolithic of Cyprus

While excavation work is done for the year, archaeology is a full time job, and the Palloures team have a lot of excitin...
19/10/2026

While excavation work is done for the year, archaeology is a full time job, and the Palloures team have a lot of exciting projects on the go!
Here we have Max live and on-location in Cyprus, studying the figurative material of the Chalcolithic.
Curious about his results? Well be sure to check out his presentation at PoCA 2026 (online or in-person—head to Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology Conference (PoCA) 2026 for details). And plenty of other Chalcolithic- and Palloures-related presentations will be given during PoCA (stay tuned for more teases)!

Paper (highlight) alert 💡💡🎊Maria delves into some of the ways we make the community a part of the work we do at Palloure...
01/10/2026

Paper (highlight) alert 💡💡🎊
Maria delves into some of the ways we make the community a part of the work we do at Palloures; outreach activities, school involvement, and volunteer opportunities (among many other things) create fundamental reciprocal relationships between our project and the public.
Read more at the link in our bio! ⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥

And thank you to Association_CyArchaeologists for publishing this engaging piece!

09/09/2026

Check out the new publication by Maria on public outreach at Palloures!

28/07/2026

The concept of stratigraphy is all about what came first in the sequence of events in the past - and it can be difficult to figure out sometimes! Here’s a great example from two of our trenches…

Join us next week Thursday, 30th of July, for our Open Day in Chlorakas! We are looking forward to sharing how this exca...
21/07/2026

Join us next week Thursday, 30th of July, for our Open Day in Chlorakas! We are looking forward to sharing how this excavation season is going 😊

Ελάτε στην Χλώρακα την Πέμπτη 30 Ιουλίου, για την παρουσίαση της φετινής ανασκαφικής μας σεζόν! Ανυπομονούμε😊

16/07/2026

On Fridays, the whole team gathers after a busy week and one member from each trench presents their findings.

It gives us an opportunity to come together, sharing insights, finds, questions, some answers, and many laughs!

I wonder what will be shared in the Trench Talks tomorrow 🤔

15/07/2026

Victor, and some of the students, share their theories on why we have burnt buildings in the Chalcolithic 🔥🛖

02/07/2026

At Palloures we are uncovering a bunch of awesome flint tools! Our specialists reconstruct how these tools were made by studying the flake scars and their negatives. Where the flint is struck, a bulb of percussion forms, and from that point waves of percussion radiate outward. These waves show us the direction in which the flake was struck off. Flakes can be large or tiny, and by studying both the flakes and their negatives, we can reconstruct how the original tools were shaped.

And what better way to learn about this than trying some flint knapping yourself.

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