Dimitris Papageorgiou

Postdoctoral Researcher, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

ORCID 0000-0003-2868-139X

Dimitris Papageorgiou holds a PhD at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece. He has been a member of numerous archaeological projects in Mainland Greece, and from 2022 onwards, he is field supervisor at the NKUA’s excavation project at Paleapaphos Marchello in Cyprus. He has published papers in conference proceedings and journals, focusing on ethnic identity and socio-political organization during Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean, investigated through foodways, burial practices, and landscape analysis. He recently initiated a postdoctoral research project (2026-2028) at the NKUA, focusing on revisiting the shaft graves phenomenon in 12th-11th century BCE Cyprus through the analysis of the funerary landscape of Palaepaphos area.

BOOKS BY THIS CONTRIBUTOR

The Taste of Belonging: Food Practices and Ethnic Identity in the Northern Levant during Iron Age I

Dimitris Papageorgiou

This study cosiders the formation and expression of ethnic identity in the northern Levant during Iron Age I. Moving away from traditional "pots-to-people" equation and the use of archaeology to merely verify historical ethnonyms, this work employs Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice to argue that ethnic identity is a dynamic social process. READ MORE

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