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Irene S. Lemos FSA is a British classical archaeologist and academic, specialising in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age of Greece. She is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. [1]
Lemos obtained her BA from the University of Athens and her doctorate from Somerville College, Oxford. Her doctoral thesis was titled "Regional characteristics in the Protogeometric Period" and was completed in 1988. [2] After her doctorate, she got a fellowship at Somerville and St Peter's College, Oxford.
From 1995 to 2004, she was a lecturer and then reader at the University of Edinburgh. In 2004, she joined the University of Oxford as a Reader in Classical Archaeology and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. She was appointed Professor in Classical Archaeology in 2007. [3]
She is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. She was the Archaeological Institute of America Kress Lecturer and the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Professorial Research Fellow in 2014.
Lemos has directed excavations at Lefkandi since 2003.
Books and Edited volumes 2020: Lemos, I. S., & Kotsonas, A. (eds.), A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean: Wiley Blackwell
2020: Α. Μαζαράκης Αινιάν, Ε. Λαιμού & Β. Βλάχου, Ανασκαφές Ωρωπού. Πρωτογεωμετρική-Υποπρωτογεωμετρική Περίοδος (10ος - 9ος αι. π.Χ.), Volos.
2019: Lemos, I. S., & Tsingarida, A. (2019). Beyond the Polis. Rituals, Rites, and Cults in Early and Archaic Greece (12th-6th centuries BC). Brussels: CReA‑Patrimoine (Vol. 15).
2017: Lemos I. S. and Tsingarida, A. (eds.) Constructing Social Identities in Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece Brussels: CReA‑Patrimoine (Vol 12).
2014: M. Kerschner and I. S. Lemos (eds.), Archaeometric Analyses of Euboean and Euboean Related Pottery: New Results and their Interpretations. Proceedings of the Round Table Conference held at the Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens, Athens 15 and 16 April 2011, Vienna.
2006: Irene. S. Lemos & S. Deger-Jalkotzy (eds.), Ancient Greece. From the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer, Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh.
2002: Irene S. Lemos, The Protogeometric Aegean. The archaeology of the late 11th and 10th centuries BC, Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology, OUP: Oxford.
1996: D. Evely, I. S. Lemos, and S. Sherratt (eds.), Minotaur and Centaur: Studies in the Archaeology of Crete and Euboea presented to Mervyn Popham, Tempus Reparatum, British Archaeological Reports, International Series 638: Oxford.
1996: M. Popham with Irene S. Lemos, Lefkandi III, 1, The Toumba Cemetery, The excavations of 1981, 1984, 1986 and 1992-4, Plates, Supplements of British School at Athens: Oxford
1990: I. S. Lemos & R.W.V. Catling, Lefkandi II, The Protogeometric Building at Toumba, Part 1, The Pottery, pp. 1-174, Supplement of the British School at Athens: Oxford.
