Konstantinos Trimmis

Evoke 2026 began, for me, at an early hour standing at a busy gate at Athens airport. A girl approached me and tentatively asked, “Are you one of the archaeologists with Evoke?”. The hiking boots, backpack and 2L water bottle gave me away. After a third team member found us, I boarded our flight full of nervous energy but an incredible excitement. Watching the breathtakingly beautiful island of Kythera materialize beneath me only managed to increase these emotions. At Kythera’s tiny airport...

The EVOKE project is about to begin its first excavation season at Vythoulas, Kythera. On Monday 22 June, the team will open the first trenches of our archaeological investigation into one of the island’s most significant cultural landscapes. Before the first trowel touches the soil, however, the work has already begun. On Saturday 20 June, members of the team visited the site to mark out the excavation trenches, and to begin cleaning the areas where we will be working this season. These...

The first case study project of DIORAMAS, EVOKE: Exploring Vythoulas Origins in Kythera Environs, focuses on one of the most remarkable and least understood archaeological landscapes of northern Kythera: Vythoulas. Located northeast of the modern market village of Potamos and above the Agia Pelagia harbour, the hills of Vythoulas overlook the straits between Kythera and the Peloponnese. It is a landscape where geology, movement, farming, settlement, and memory meet. Its name, meaning “sunken...