Dr Don Evely

DR DON EVELY holds a most historic archaeological position. He is the Curator for Knossos at the British School at Athens, following in the footsteps of the eminent Sir Arthur Evans. Offering unrivalled opportunities for excavation and research Knossos, in Crete, is believed to have been the heart of Minoan civilization. Don's many years of evaluating the excavations and evidence there have given him a supreme knowledge of not only the Minoan period, but also across the nine millennia of the site. Famous for its wonderful frescoes, and a fine collection of ceramics and metalwork, it is no surprise that Knossos is one of the greatest treasures and provides remarkable insights into the life and technology of Bronze Age Greece. To imbibe in Don's knowledge and enthusiasm as he brings to life the story of the site, through even the tiniest of ceramic fragments, is a rare privilege.

Dr Don Evely holds an MA from the University of Edinburgh and a Doctorate of Philosophy from Oxford University. 

Current Tours

Islands in Time: Cyprus, Crete & Santorini (18 April - 4 May 2012) Guest Lecturer

Islands in Time: Cyprus, Crete & Santorini (16 April - 2 May 2013) Guest lecturer

Past Tours

Islands in Time: Cyprus, Crete & Santorini (8 - 24 April 2011) Guest lecturer 

Publications Include 

'The Stone, Bone, Ivory, Bronze and Clay Finds', in Knossos: The South House (Mountjoy – Oxford, 2003) 

'An Interpretation of the Metal Finds, using Lead Isotope and Chemical Analytical Procedures', with Gale and Stos-Gale in Excavations at Chania (Hallager; 2000) 

'Aspects of Late Minoan metallurgy at Knossos', in Knossos: Pale, City, State (Cadogan et al. – London 2004) 

Lefkandi IV. The Bronze Age: The Late Helladic IIIC Settlement at Xeropolis (ed; London 2006) 

The Metallurgical site at Chrysokamino, East Crete: the stone tools .. Hesperia and INSTAP publication 

Poster at AIA meetings completed on behalf of Popham, two kindred articles on 'An East Cretan LM IA Vase at Knossos': one published in Oxford Journal of Archaeology 20.3, 2001; and one in the proceedings of the 2000 Knossos: Palace, City, State Conference. 

With Andy Bevan: Stone Vessels of the Bronze-Age Aegean  

Several connected with my Curatorship at Knossos: registering the collections we hold.  

The majority of my publications of the past 5 years has been for other people and awaits production by them: thus, Lefkandi IV; Palaikastro 1 and Area M; Chrysokamino: The Farmstead and so on.