Director

Dr P. J. P. McGeorge

Tina McGeorge

Dr P. J. P. McGeorge

Profile

Tina McGeorge has worked as a researcher and consultant on the excavation, rescue, and museum presentation of human remains from archaeological sites in Europe, mainly in Greece, but also in the Near East (at Tell Abu Hureyra in Syria, Nahal Oren in Israel, Jericho exhibit at the British Museum) and North Africa (Zincechra, Saniat Ben Huwedy & other sites in the Fezzan).

From 2004–2006 Tina McGeorge taught anthropology and gender archaeology to under-graduates at the University of Crete, Rethymnon campus, and acted as a supervisor and examiner for postgraduates from 2001–2010.

Education

  • 1987 — Leverhulme Research Fellowship
  • 1984–86 — Royal Society of Great Britain Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
  • 1980–82 — IKY, Greek Government Scholarship
  • 1983 — PhD, Institute of Archaeology, University of London
  • 1973 — MA, Institute of Archaeology, University of London
  • 1971 — BA, Institute of Archaeology, University of London

Research interests

  • Palaeopathology
  • Trauma
  • Medical practice in prehistoric times
  • Cosmological beliefs
  • Infant burials
  • Human sacrifice
  • aDNA
  • Facial reconstruction

Research Projects

  • Xombourgo (Vardalakos) Cemetery, Tenos — University of Athens
  • Hagios Charalambos Human Bone Project, Lasithi — at INSTAP
  • Human remains from the Late Minoan cemeteries of Chania — Ephoreia
  • Infant Burials at Knossos — British School at Athens
  • Infant Burials at Akrotiri — University of Athens
  • The Levantine cemetery at Buca, Smyrna

Publications

Books

  • McGeorge, P. J. P. Human Sacrifice: The Archaeological Context of Greek Mythology — ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΘΥΣΙΑ: Το αρχαιολογικό πλαίσιο της ελληνικής μυθολογίας. Athens: Mediterranean Anthropological Society / Kedros, 2024.
  • Paschalidis, Constantinos, and P. J. P. McGeorge. The LMIII Cemetery at Tourloti, Siteia. BAR International Series 1917. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009.
  • Hallager, Birgitta P., and P. J. P. McGeorge. Late Minoan III Burials at Khania. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology XCIII. Göteborg: Paul Åströms Förlag, 1992.

Selected Publications

  • McGeorge, P. J. P. “A Burial of the Early Christian Period in the Sanctuary at Symi.” Eulimene 23 (2023): 97–107. https://doi.org/10.12681/eul.36311.
  • Skourtanioti, Eirini, Harald Ringbauer, Guido A. Gnecchi-Ruscone, et al. (incl. P. J. P. McGeorge). “Ancient DNA Reveals Admixture History and Endogamy in the Prehistoric Aegean.” Nature Ecology & Evolution 7 (2023): 290–303. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01952-3.
  • Neumann, Gunnar U., Eirini Skourtanioti, … P. J. P. McGeorge, … and Philipp W. Stockhammer. “Ancient Yersinia pestis and Salmonella enterica Genomes from Bronze Age Crete.” Current Biology 32, no. 16 (2022).
  • McGeorge, P. J. P. “Ανάδειξη αρχαιολογικού χώρου Καβειρίου Λήμνου [The Enhancement of the Archaeological Site of Kaveirio, Lemnos].” Edited by P. Triantafyllidis. Mytilene: Archaeological Ephorate of Lesbos, forthcoming.
  • ———. “Anthropological Remains from Mycenaean Tombs at Kompotadhes in the Spercheios Valley: First Impressions.” In Η Περιφέρεια του Μυκηναϊκού Κόσμου (3rd International Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Lamia, 18 May 2018), 2021.
  • McGeorge, P. J. P., et al. “A Palaeopathological Investigation of Geopoiesis of a 5th-Century BC Brain from Tenos.” In Palaeo-Oncology: The Antiquity of Cancer (Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium, Athens 2020), 69–79.
  • McGeorge, P. J. P. “Palaeo-Oncological Findings from Prehistoric Crete.” In Palaeo-Oncology: The Antiquity of Cancer (Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium, Athens 2020), 81–91.
  • ———. “Post-Mycenaean Burials from Lindos.” In Ημερίδα στη Μνήμη του Καθηγητή Σπύρου Ιακωβίδη, 243–249. Athens: University of Athens, 2019.
  • Paschalidis, Constantinos, P. J. P. McGeorge, and Wiesław Więckowski. The Mycenaean Cemetery at Achaia Clauss near Patras. Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2019.
  • McGeorge, P. J. P. “Human Skeletons from a Late Minoan IIIA2–B Chamber Tomb at Galia in the Messara.” Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 142, no. 1 (2015 [2018]): 49–70. https://doi.org/10.4000/bch.286.
  • ———. “Platyvola Cave: Archaeological Context and Carbon-14 Dates.” Addendum in N. Stampolidis and P. Sotirakopoulou, Cycladica in Crete, 446. Rethymnon: University of Crete / Museum of Cycladic Art, 2017.
  • ———. “The Early Cycladic Infant Burials at Akrotiri.” In 40th Anniversary of the Akrotiri Excavations, edited by C. Doumas. Athens: Archaeological Society at Athens, forthcoming.
  • ———. “The Pit L Baby Burial — Hermeneutics: Implications for Immigration into Kydonia in MM III/LM I.” Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens 8 (2017): 293–304.
  • Lazaridis, Iosif, Alissa Mittnik, Nick Patterson, et al. (incl. P. J. P. McGeorge). “Genetic Origins of the Minoans and Mycenaeans.” Nature 548 (2017): 214–218. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature23310.
  • McGeorge, P. J. P. “Due Sepolture a Enchytrismos del TM IIIB all’Interno di una Casa a Festos.” Pasiphae X (2016): 145–176.
  • ———. “Pithos Burials at Pre-Eruption Thera.” In 10th ICAANE (2016). Vienna: OREA, Austrian Academy of Sciences, forthcoming.
  • McGeorge, P. J. P., and L. Vance Watrous. “Minoan Burials under the Phylakeion at Gournia, East Crete.” In 10th ICAANE (2016). Vienna: OREA, forthcoming.
  • McGeorge, P. J. P. “The Earliest Evidence for a Mycenaean Greek Ritual Form of Human Sacrifice.” Pasiphae IX (2015): 43–51.
  • ———. “Intramural Infant Burials in the Aegean Bronze Age: Reflections on Symbolism and Eschatology.” In Le Mort dans la Ville, edited by Olivier Henry. Istanbul: IFÉA Georges Dumézil – CNRS USR 3131, 2013.
  • ———. Review of The Greek-Swedish Excavations at the Agia Aikaterini Square, Kastelli, Khania … Vol. IV. The Classical Review 63, no. 1 (2013): 228–230. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X12003150.
  • ———. “An Intramural Burial at the Early Christian Basilica of Kato Symi: A Death in Childbirth?” Forthcoming.
  • Karantzali, Efi, and P. J. P. McGeorge. “Η διαχρονική χρήση του νεκροταφείου στον Προφήτη Ηλία στις Κομποτάδες Φθιώτιδας [Human Bones from an LH IIIC Tomb at Kompotades, Lamia].” In Φθιωτική Ιστορία (Proceedings of the 5th Conference), 51–94. 2013.
  • McGeorge, P. J. P. “Trauma, Surgery and Prehistoric Events.” In Πεπραγμένα Ι΄ Διεθνούς Κρητολογικού Συνεδρίου (10th Cretological Congress, 2006), vol. A1, 299–313. Chania: Φιλολογικός Σύλλογος «Ο Χρυσόστομος», 2011.
  • ———. “The Intramural Jar Burial at Petras: Context, Symbolism & Eschatology.” In Petras, Siteia — 25 Years of Excavations and Studies, 291 ff. Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 16. Athens, 2011.
  • Paschalidis, Constantinos, and P. J. P. McGeorge. “Life and Death in the Periphery of the Mycenaean World … The Case of the Achaea Klauss Cemetery.” In From the Aegean to the Adriatic, edited by E. Borgna (Udine, 1–2 December 2006), 2010.
  • Paschalidis, Constantinos, and P. J. P. McGeorge. “The Cremation Burial from Plakalona, Tourloti.” In The LMIII Cemetery at Tourloti, Siteia. BAR International Series 1917. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009.
  • McGeorge, P. J. P. “Gender Meta-analysis of LBA Skeletal Remains: The Case of Tomb 2 in the Pylona Cemetery on Rhodes.” In Fylo: Engendering Prehistoric ‘Stratigraphies’ in the Aegean and the Mediterranean, edited by K. Kopaka. Aegaeum 30 (2009): 103–114.[Editorial confusion omitted the first table column and altered her first name to “Penelope.”]
  • Betancourt, Philip P., and P. J. P. McGeorge. “The Human Remains.” In “Excavations in the Hagios Charalambos Cave: A Preliminary Report.” Hesperia 77 (2008): 578–596. https://doi.org/10.2972/hesp.77.4.539.
  • McGeorge, P. J. P. “Morbidity & Medical Practice in Minoan Crete.” Chap. 15 in From the Land of the Labyrinth: Minoan Crete, 3000–1100 B.C. New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, 2008.
  • ———. “Intramural Infant Burials in the Aegean.” In The Greek-Swedish Excavations at the Agia Aikaterini Square, Kastelli, Khania 1970–1987 & 2001, edited by E. and B. P. Hallager, vol. III:1, 301–303. 2003.
  • Karantzali, Efi, and P. J. P. McGeorge. The Mycenaean Cemetery at Rhodes. BAR IS Vol. 9881. Oxford, 2001.
  • Karantzali, Efi, and P. J. P. McGeorge. “Siamese Twins in Rhodes / Σιαμαία δίδυμα στη Ρόδο.” In Η Πόλη της Ρόδου (Proceedings), vol. A, 153–162. 1995.
  • McGeorge, P. J. P. “Οι άνθρωποι της Πυλώνας / The People of Pylona.” In Η Περιφέρεια του Μυκηναϊκού Κόσμου Α΄, edited by F. Dacoronia, 301–302. Lamia, 1994.
  • ———. Article and video film of the Pyre Burial and Human Sacrifice from Eleutherna (subsequently used by the excavator). See N. Ch. Stampolidis, Eleutherna (Rethymnon, 1994) and Antipoina (Rethymnon, 1996).
  • ———. “Ανθρωπολογία – Μέθοδοι και Τεχνικές / Anthropology – Methods and Techniques.” Κρητική Εστία (1991): 11–24.
  • ———. “Mean Life Expectation of the Minoans.” In Proceedings of the 6th Cretological Congress, 419–428. 1990.
  • ———. “Μυθικοί Πυγμαίοι και Γίγαντες / Mythical Pygmies and Giants: New Data on the Stature of the Minoans.” Κρητική Εστία 2 (1988): 9–18.
  • ———. “Health and Diet in Minoan Times.” In New Aspects of Archaeological Science in Greece, edited by R. Jones and H. Catling, 47–54. BSA Occasional Paper 3. Athens: Fitch Laboratory, 1988.
  • ———. “Νέα Στοιχεία για το Μέσο όρο Ζωής στη Μινωική Κρήτη / New Data for Mean Age at Death in Minoan Crete.” Κρητική Εστία 1 (1987): 9–15.
  • ———. “Biosocial Evolution in Bronze Age Crete.” In Ειλαπίνη / Eilapini: Volume in Honour of Professor Nicholas Platon, 408–416. Heraklion, 1987.
  • Andreadaki-Vlazaki, Maria, and P. J. P. McGeorge. “An Early Greek Child Burial at Gavalomouri.” Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici XXVI (1987). Rome.
  • McGeorge, P. J. P., and E. Mavroudis. “The Incidence of Osteoporosis in Bronze Age Crete.” Journal of Paleopathology 1 (1987): 37.
  • McGeorge, P. J. P. “A Comparative Study of the Mean Life Expectation of the Minoans.” In Πεπραγμένα του ΣΤ΄ Κρητολογικού Συνεδρίου A1 (1986). Chania, 1990.
  • ———. “Έγκλημα στην Υστερομινωική Περίοδο [Crime in the Late Minoan Period].” Αρχαιολογία 11 (1984): 12–16.[Re-published in French as “Enquête sur un meurtre” (Archéologie, May 1986) under the name Photini Thomai — plagiarized word for word.]
  • ———. “Preliminary Report: Human Skeletons from the Armenoi Excavation 1976.” Αρχαιολογικά Ανάλεκτα εξ Αθηνών XIII, no. 2 (1981).
  • Olivier, Jean-Pierre, and P. J. P. McGeorge. “Mallia: I. Fouille de Sauvetage en B7/c2; II. Fouille d’Urgence de l’Entrée du «Charnier No. 4» en C4/5-6.” Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (1977): 701–703.

Conference Papers (unpublished)

  • 2009 — Invited speaker opening the Conference of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Heraklion, Crete.
  • 1988 — Anthropological Society Conference, Athens: papers presented “On Osteoporosis” and “On Stature in the Late Bronze Age.”
  • 1987 — Histoire de Médecine Conference, Antibes, France: paper on Minoan orthopaedics.
  • 1986 — Centenary Conference of the British School at Athens, Cambridge, England: paper “Investigating Patriarchy and Matriarchy and the Form of Marriage in Late Bronze Age Crete through Non-metrical Variation and Consideration of the Possibilities Offered by DNA Analysis of Human Remains.”

Press

Media coverage

The Lady of Ippeios — Part I · ERT Aigaiou
The Lady of Ippeios — Part II · ERT Aigaiou

Broadcast segments are in Greek.

Newspapers

  • “The Lady of Ippeios: The archaeological discovery of a human tragedy 28 centuries old / Αρχόντισσα του Ιππείου.” Ελεύθερος Τύπος, Πολιτισμός, 4 May 2019.
  • “A human sacrifice on Kastelli Hill during the 13th century B.C. / Η ανθρωποθυσία στο Λόφο Καστέλι.” Efsyn.gr, 13 November 2019.
  • “Homeric Line in Human Sacrifice Found.” The Independent, 15 December 1990.
    The Independent, 15 December 1990 — “Homeric Line in Human Sacrifice Found”

    The Independent, 15 December 1990

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