Io Cruz Vera
- Trajectoires - UMR 8215
- Archéologie et Philologie d'Orient et d'Occident (AOROC)
- Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie : École doctorale d'Archéologie
- Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UFR Histoire de l'art et archéologie (UP1 UFR03)
Présentation
Biography
I am a PhD student in archaeology at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, under the supervision of Sophie Krausz and Julien Zurbach. My dissertation, titled From the Atlantic to the Black Sea: Princely Complexes of the Iron Age (9th-4th c. BCE). A Network Economy, explores the emergence of elite networks across Europe during the Iron Age. My research focuses on economic interactions among continental aristocratic societies and their role within the exchange systems linking the Mediterranean and continental Europe.
Academic Background
I began my studies in 2018 at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In 2021, I earned a double bachelor's degree in Art History & Archaeology and History. I then pursued a master's degree in archaeology, during which I wrote my first-year thesis on Tartessos: The Cohesion of a Princely Phenomenon in the Early Iron Age, under the supervision of Sophie Krausz and Leonardo Berrocal-Rangel. In 2023, I completed my second-year thesis, The Gulf of Lion: A Case Study for Characterizing "Princely Phenomena" (9th-6th/5th c. BCE), supervised by Sophie Krausz and Éric Gailledrat.
Research and Fellowships
As part of my PhD research, I was awarded a one-month research grant to conduct fieldwork in Athens at the École française d'Athènes. This mission allowed me to deepen my analysis of princely complexes in Macedonia and Thrace during the Archaic and Classical periods.
Additionally, I actively participate in archaeological fieldwork and international collaborations, contributing to the study of elite structures and long-distance trade networks in the Iron Age.