Two investigations have previously been carried out in the Kalaureian sanctuary: excavations by Sam Wide and Lennart Kjellberg in 1894 to uncover the walls of the buildings and a renewed documentation of most of the building remains by Gabriel Welter in the 1930s. Through excavations of at least two of the buildings (designated C and D by Wide) the new project aims at a reconstruction of daily life in the sanctuary, the general environment within the sanctuary, its physical setting on the island and its role in a regional perspective as an asylum and as the seat of a religious federation. To fulfill the objectives, traditional studies of ceramics and metals will be complemented with modern scientific analyses using technical methods like water flotation, GIS and geophysical survey. Palaeobotany, palaeozoology and residue analysis will be employed to study the physical environment and the sacrificial rituals. Charcoal will be analyzed for dating purposes (C14) but also for determining what tree species were used for building purposes and for the sacrifices. Metals and slags will reveal possible provenances of the ores employed and production techniques of objects. A network of scientists and institutions for laboratory work in Greece is already in place. Information on the progress of the project will be given in the sanctuary through signboards and be posted on the project's website. The results will be published in the publication series of the Swedish Institute at Athens.