Chara Theotokatou

Chara Theotokatou studied History and Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has obtained an MA degree in Prehistoric Archaeology from the same home institution. Her MA dissertation is devoted to the study of the economic and social implications of hoarding as a practice in Prehistoric Cyprus, from the Early Aceramic Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age. She is currently a PhD student at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her PhD thesis is about “House and Household in a Changing World: Delineating Household Structures and Social Complexity in Late Bronze Age Cyprus.” Her research interests include architecture, the phenomenon of early urbanization, social complexity, agency, and identity in Prehistory, with a focus on Cyprus and the wider East Mediterranean. She has participated in various excavations and field survey projects in Greece and Cyprus. She has presented her work at international conferences and has already published a paper in an international collective volume.