Anastasia C. Solomou
PhD Student, UCLouvain (CEMA-INCAL) – Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (UMR 5140 ASM)
Osteoarchaeology - Archaeothanatology
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PhD Project
PhD Project
Children’s status in Minoan society. An interdisciplinary and diachronic approach to the study of children in Bronze Age Crete through an osteological and archaeothanatological analysis.
Supervisors : Dr. Prof. Charlotte Langohr (F.R.S.-FNRS - UCLouvain, AegIS) & Dr. Aurore Schmitt (C.N.R.S. - Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3).
Education
Education
Since 2024 : PhD Candidate in Archaeology (joint PhD supervision with UCLouvain) at the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (UPV – Montpellier, France).
Since 2024 : PhD Candidate in History, History of Art and Archaeology (joint PhD supervision with UPV 3 Montpellier) at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain – Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).
2022 : Master of Sciences (the highest distinction), Bioarchaeological and Forensic Anthropology at University College London (UCL – London, United Kingdom).
2019 : Bachelor of Arts, History of Art and Archaeology – specialized in Aegean Prehistory at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA – Athens, Greece).
Research topics
Research topics
Mortuary practices of perinate individuals and children based on the study of the subadult skeletal remains and the taphonomic processes taking place within the tombs
Macroscopic palaeopathological study of subudalt skeletal remains
Integration of an interdisciplinary approach which compares the available iconographic and textual data with the funerary data produced by the study of the human remains, with a view to obtaining a comprehensive view of the life and death of the children
Contextual analysis of funerary data from the site of Sissi along with contemporaneous Minoan cemeteries
Field projects
Field projects
Since 2022 : Osteoarchaeologist studying the subadult human remains at the Sissi Archaeological Project (Crete) – UCLouvain and EbA (dir - Prof. Jan Driessen).
2022 : Supervising Archaeologist at the restauration of the Sissia Monastery (Cephalonia) – Ephorate of Antiquities of Cephalonia, ESPA (Partnership Agreement for the Development Framework) 2014-2020.
2021 : Field Archaeologist at the HS2 Rescue Excavation of St Mary's Church Cemetery (Stoke Mandeville, UK) - L-P Archaeology.
2017-2019 : Field intern and field anthropologist at the Rescue Excavation of the Protocycladic Cemetery of Mnimouria-Krassades (Antiparos) – Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades (dirs - Dr. Papadopoulou and Dr. Nikolakopoulou).
2015-2019 : Field intern at numerous projects in the Peloponnese, Cyclades, Attica and Crete.
Choice of publications/conference papers
Choice of publications/conference papers
Solomou, A.C., 2025, « Pit FE116 from the Cemetery of Sissi: Baby Steps in the Archaeothanatological Analysis of the Human Skeletal Remains », Aegis Day VII, 2025, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Solomou, A.C., 2024, « Fragmentary data and scattered lands: a recording protocol for a comparative archaeothanatological analysis based on archaeological illustrations », Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris (BMSAP), 36(2). DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/12kyz.
Solomou, A.C., 2024, « Thinking through and about anthropomorphic figurines. A cognitive and neuroarchaeological approach to the study of peak sanctuary practices », Les Carnets de l'ACoSt, 24. DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/11ruy.
Solomou, A.C., 2023, « Thinking through peak sanctuary rituals: approaching the minds embodied and embedded in anthropomorphic figurines from Cretan peak sanctuaries », European Association of Archaeologists(EAA) Annual Meeting 'Weaving Narratives', 2023, Rome, Italy.
Solomou, A.C., 2022, « Are grave goods any good? A combined post-processual and post-humanist approach to the limitations of using grave goods to infer biological sex and gender », Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) 43 ‘Revolutions’, 2022, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Watch here.
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