The Cyprus Institute

Angelos Hadjikoumis

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Dr Hadjikoumis, is a zooarchaeologist with studies, work and research experience in several countries such as the UK, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Greece, Cyprus and Iraq. After receiving his BA in History and Archaeology from the University of Athens, he pursued postgraduate studies (MSc in Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoeconomy) followed by a PhD in zooarchaeology at the University of Sheffield. Since the completion of his PhD, he has been involved in several post-doctoral research projects in several countries and in the commercial archaeology sector in the UK.

Geographically, his research interests mainly involve the zooarchaeology of circum-Mediterranean and SW Asian regions, as well as central/northern Iberia and the British Isles. Thematically, his interests include the origins of animal domestication, animal husbandry practices and their development through time, stable isotope analysis for animal seasonality, dental microwear to examine animal diet and ethnozooarchaeology to improve archaeology’s interpretational framework. Currently, through project RECEN800, he aspires to establish a detailed record of human-animal interactions over the last 800 years in Cyprus, and integrate it with climatic and historical records over the same period. Its purpose is to reconstruct environmentally sustainable resilient management
strategies that can tackle current and future environmental problems. This is achievable through a novel interdisciplinary methodology, spearheaded by zooarchaeology and complemented by stable isotopes, dental microwear, data from historical sources and ethnography.