Pragmata Publications - A Society for the Human Sciences

	[July 2023] Aellopos, Studies in Honour of Iris Tzachili. A collection of 35 studies dedicated to Iris Tzachili, Professor Emerita of Prehistoric Archaeology of the University of Crete. The authors are mainly her students together with many of her colleagues, archaeologists and historians, from Crete, Thera and the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete. The thematically and chronologically multifaceted studies deal with archaeological and historical issues, as well as highlighting the historicity of heritage and contemporary reception.

	[May 2022] Βayindir 1922, A Tale of Loss from Asia Minor. The texts in this book concern the small town of Bayindir in the valley of the Kaystros, near Smyrna, and its inhabitants. They attempt to strike a balance between historical essay, timeless reminiscences, embellished scholarly narratives and personal feelings.

	[2021] Therasia III. Archaeological research and landscape history of an island community. Therasia is a suitable field for the observation of small island communities, having preserved significant traces of a cultural landscape connected with the diachronic ekistic history of the island, the uses of land, and the perception and experience of the space by human communities on the past.

	[Noe 2020] Good Works: Studies in Honour of Professor Clairy Palyvou. Announcing the publication of the volume Good Works, Studies in Honour of Clairy Palyvou, edited by Iris Tzachili and Maria Arakadaki, by Ta Pragmata Publications. The papers largely lie in Professor Palyvou's own areas of interest, covering technical and theoretical architectural issues, mainly of the Bronze Age but also in the modern period.

	[July 2019] Therasia II. Historicizing Prehistory: The historical and epistemological context of the archaeological discovery on Therasia in 1866. A series of studies on the historical and epistemological context of the archaeological discovery on Therasia in 1866, the first in the Aegean, at the time of the volcanic eruption. The unprecedented phenomena, both archaeological and geological, inspired geologists and archaeologists to collaborate on the development of new, mainly evolutionary theories on the pre-hellenic past.

	Members: Tzachili Iris Daskalakis Nikos
	Collaborators: Douskos Dimitra Ioakeimidou Lito Papazikou Vagia Pavlaki Katerina Vakirtzi Sophia

Pragmata is a not-for-profit company whose objective is to promote the human sciences, mainly through high-quality publications. Its aim is to publish printed and electronic versions of a series of books or volumes of periodicals, keeping high standards of editing and printing.

• History • Archaeology • Anthropology • Philology
• Ancient and Modern Literature

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