Irene S. Lemos is a British classical archaeologist and academic, specialising in the

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and

Early Iron Age The Iron Age () is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. It has also been considered as the final age of the three-age division starting with prehistory (before recorded history) and progr ...

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. She is

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of Classical Archaeology at the

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, and a

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Merton College, Oxford Merton College (in full: The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford) is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 126 ...

Career

Lemos obtained her BA from the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; , ''Ethnikó kai Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the University of Athens (UoA), is a public university in Athens, Greece, with various campuses alo ...

and her doctorate from

Somerville College, Oxford Somerville College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. It began admitting men in 1994. The colle ...

. Her doctoral thesis was titled "Regional characteristics in the Protogeometric Period" and was completed in 1988. After her doctorate, she got a fellowship at Somerville and

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. From 1995 to 2004, she was a

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and then reader at the

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. In 2004, she joined the

as a Reader in Classical Archaeology and a

. She was appointed Professor in Classical Archaeology in 2007. She is a corresponding member of the

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, a fellow of the

Society of Antiquaries of London The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society of historians and archaeologists in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1707, received its royal charter in 1751 and is a Charitable organization, registered charity. It is based ...

. She was the

Archaeological Institute of America The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is North America, North America's oldest learned society and largest organization devoted to the world of archaeology. AIA professionals have carried out archaeological fieldwork around the world and ...

Kress Lecturer and the

Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens (AAIA) () is one of the seventeen foreign archaeological institutes in Greece. Founded in 1980, it aims to promote Greek studies in Australia, as well as to enable Australian scholars to engage in ...

Professorial Research Fellow in 2014. Lemos has directed excavations at

Lefkandi Lefkandi () is a coastal village on the island of Euboea, Greece. Archaeological finds attest to a settlement on the promontory locally known as Xeropolis, while several associated cemeteries have been identified nearby. The settlement site is loc ...

since 2003.

Selected publications

* I. S. Lemos, 2015. "The Missing Dead: Late Geometric Burials at Lefkandi" in Mediterranean Archaeology pp. 159–172. * I. S. Lemos, 2014'Communities in transformation: an archaeological survey from the 12th to the 9th century BC', Pharos 20. 1, 2014, pp. 163–194. * I. S. Lemos, 2003. The Protogeometric Aegean: The Archaeology of the Late Eleventh and Tenth Centuries BC. Oxford: OUP. * Popham, M. R. and I. S. Lemos 1996. Lefkandi III, 1, The Toumba Cemetery, The excavations of 1981, 1984, 1986 and 1994. Supplement of the British School at Athens, Oxford * Tsingarida, A. and I. S. Lemos 2017. Constructing social identities in early Iron Age and archaic Greece. Brussels : CReA-Patrimoine.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lemos, Irene Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford Fellows of St Peter's College, Oxford Fellows of Merton College, Oxford Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Living people British women archaeologists British classical archaeologists British women historians Year of birth missing (living people)