Dr. Stella Demesticha

Stella Demesticha is Associate Professor of Maritime Archaeology at the University of Cyprus. She studied Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and received her PhD from the University of Cyprus. Since 2008 she teaches at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus. In 2011 she created the Maritime Archaeological Research Laboratory (MARELab) at the Archaeological Research Unit of the same University.

Her expertise lies in the maritime archaeology Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean, with a particular focus on shipwrecks, seaborne trade networks, and transport amphorae. She directs the underwater excavations at the Mazotos and Nissia shipwrecks, has carried out numerous field surveys, and has participated in international research projects on the documentation and promotion of underwater cultural heritage.

She has published extensively in her field, with major contributions including Mediterranean Connections (co-authored with A.B. Knapp), and the edited volumes Per Terram, Per Mare, Maritime Transport Containers in the Bronze–Iron Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, and Under the Mediterranean I.

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• MARELab
• Mare Cyprium
• Member of ICOMOS/ICUCH
• Vice President of Nautical Archaeological Society