Cavescapes, an initiative of the Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology , aims to map and publish its large collection of legacy data from caves across northwest Greece. Catherine Morgan’s talk draws on her ongoing work on the role of caves and beach-side shrines in facilitating the long distance and local mobility fundamental to island life in Archaic-Hellenistic times.

Catherine Morgan is Professor of Classics and Archaeology in the University of Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College. Previously Director of the British School at Athens (2007-2015) and concurrently Professor of Classical Archaeology at King’s College London, she has conducted and collaborated in fieldwork on Ithaca, Kephallonia, Leukas, Meganisi and the Akarnanian coast. She has also conducted extensive archival research on the history of British research in this area, focused on the careers of Sylvia Benton and Walter Heurtley. She is the author of a study on Northwestern Greece and the Central Ionian Archipelago in the Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World, to be published later this year, and is currently working on a book entitled Histories in the Central Ionian Islands.

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