Maria Hadjigavriel
Postdoc
- Name
- Dr. M. Hadjigavriel
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- m.hadjigavriel@arch.leidenuniv.nl
Maria Hadjigavriel is a Postdoc Researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology.
Office days
Monday to Thursday.
Research
Maria is a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC Advanded Grant project ‘Inequal Cyprus - Negotiating Social Inequalities in Late Prehistoric Cyprus', under the supervision of Professor Bleda S. Düring. Her project focuses on reconstructing exchange networks between Cyprus and the broader eastern Mediterranean, with an emphasis on the movement of not only finished objects and materials but also of social and cultural behaviours and technologies.
Teaching Activities
Maria has worked as a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Archaeology for several years, assisting in all BA1 modules, and has taught seminars on the prehistory of Anatolia and Cyprus, and the Late Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean.
Curriculum Vitae
Maria studied History and Archaeology at the University of Cyprus, and then obtained an RMA in the Archaeology of the Mediterranean and the Near East from Leiden University. She completed her PhD at Leiden University in 2025, for which she investigated pottery technologies across Cyprus and in Tarsus in the early third millennium BC and how these can help us reconstruct interactions between crafting communities, within and outside the island.
She is also the co-director of the Chlorakas-Palloures excavation, along with Bleda Düring and Victor Klinkenberg.
Postdoc
- Faculty of Archaeology
- World Archaeology
- Archaeology of the Near East