The SoMA podcast

Episode 3 of the SoMA Podcast varies from our usual interview format. This episode is instead a live recording of the lecture delivered by this year's visiting Professor to the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens on the 23 August 2017. Held at the University of Sydney, this lecture was a highlight of the academic year for Sydney based Mediterranean Archaeologists. Professor Wright is an excellent and well regarded archaeologist and scholar and shared with us some of his latest research and methodologies for excavating Bronze Age archaeology in the Peloponnese. We thank the AAIA for letting us record and post this lecture as part of the SoMA podcast series.

In this episode of the SoMA podcast Candace is joined by Helen Nicholson, a well known figure in Sydney heritage, whose very first Mediterranean dig was spent in the pot sheds of Torone with Olwen Tudor Jones. In this interview Helen shares some of her personal memories of Olwen and her lasting legacy of student engagement, women as role models in archaeology as well as Helen's work with National Archaeology Wee

In this episode of the SoMA podcast Candace is joined by Dr Craig Barker, Director of the Paphos Theatre Archaeological Project, SoMA president 2000-2017 and Manager of education and public programs at Sydney University Museums. They delve into the history of SoMA and the Olwen Tudor Jones scholarship, explore the allure of the Mediterranean, and dive into the history of digging and current research being undertaken by his team in Nea Paphos, Cyprus.

Welcome to the SoMA podcast. In this introduction we discuss who is SoMA, the aims of our podcast exploring current archaeological research of the Mediterranean region and those who dig (literally) the past and what you can expect from us in coming episodes.