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
- Hadjigavriel M. (22 May 2025), Connecting crafting communities: reconstructing interactions between communities in and out of Cyprus in the early third millenium BC (Dissertatie, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University). Supervisor(s): Düring B.S. & Akkermans P.M.M.G.
- Hadjigavriel M & Dikomitou-Eliadou M. (2025), Tracing traditions: An analytical study of Late Chalcolithic ceramics from Cyprus, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 65(105143): .
- Hadjigavriel M. (2021), A tale of red and black: reconstructing transfer of knowledge in Late Chalcolithic Cyprus, Archaeological Review from Cambridge 35(2): 80-97.
- Hadjigavriel M. (2021), Review of: Solomidou-Ieronimidou M. (2017), Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 2011-2012. Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities no. 49. Nicosia: Department of Antiquities. Bibliotheca Orientalis 78(3-4): 510-514.
- Hadjigavriel M. (2019), Connectivity through Pottery Horizons: Tracing Interactions in Late Chalcolithic Cyprus. Dusane 2019, Leiden. 24 April 2019 - 24 April 2019. [conference poster].
- Hadjigavriel M. (2019), Pottery and Interactions Between Communities in Late Chalcolithic Cyprus [Κεραμική και Επαφές μεταξύ Κοινοτήτων στην Ύστερη Χαλκολιθική Κύπρο] (translation: Hadjigavriel M.), Chroniko 71(1): .
- Hadjigavriel Μ. (2019), The Cypro-Archaic Figurines from the Ayia Irini Sanctuary: Technology and Archaeological Signifcance [Κοροπλαστικά Έργα την Εποχή των Κυπριακών Πόλεων-Βασιλείων: Τεχνολογία και Χρήση] (translation: Hadjigavriel M.), Chroniko 77(1): .
- Hadjigavriel M. (2019), The necropolis of Ayia-Paraskevi in Cyprus: Evidence for Extra-Insular Interactions in the Bronze Age [Η Νεκρόπολη της Αγίας Παρασκευής: Μαρτυρίες για τις Επαφές της Κύπρου κατά την Εποχή του Χαλκού] (translation: Hadjigavriel M.), Chroniko (93): .