Christos Georgiou Doumas (; born 1933), is a

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archaeology professor at the

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. From 1960 up until 1980, he had a career in the Greek Archaeological Service as curator of antiquities in

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(on the Athenian

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), in the

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, in the

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, and in the northern Aegean islands. He conducted excavations and organized many museum exhibitions in different regions of

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. Doumas also served as curator of the prehistoric collections of the

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. Moreover, he became the director of antiquities and the director of conservation at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Since 1975, Doumas has been the director of excavations at Akrotiri on the Island of Thera (Santorini), as a successor to

Spyridon Marinatos Spyridon Marinatos (; – 1 October 1974) was a Greek archaeologist who specialised in the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations of the Aegean Bronze Age. He is best known for the excavation of the Minoan site of Akrotiri on Thera, which he ...

. He published several books and scholarly articles on Aegean archaeology and particularly about the cultures of the Aegean Islands.

Published works (selection)

* * * *Doumas, C. (1988), "The Prehistoric Aegean Cradle of Democratic Institutions", Patreas, pp. 24–29 (article in greek) *Doumas, C. (1997), "The Aegean Islands and their Role in the Development of Civilisation" in The Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age: Proceedings of the International Symposium, Urla-Izmir, October 13–19, 1997, edited by H. Erkanal, H. Hauptmann, V. Şahoğlu, and R. Tuncel, Ankara University Press (2008), pp. 131–140 *Doumas, C. (1996), "The emergence of central authority in the Aegean" in Paul Sinclair (ed.) The Development of Urbanism from a Global Perspective, Uppsala University, available at https://www.arkeologi.uu.se/digitalAssets/483/c_483244-l_3-k_doumas.pdf

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Greek Studies at the University of Missouri
1933 births Living people People from Patras Archaeologists of the Bronze Age Aegean Academic staff of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens {{archaeologist-stub