ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF THESSALONIKI

EKATO

A CENTURY OF RESEARCH
IN PREHISTORIC
MACEDONIA

1912 - 2012

22-24 2012

INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
22-24 November 2012

EDITORS
Evangelia Stefani
Nikos Merousis
Anastasia Dimoula

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Coordination
Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, Director AMTh
Scientific Committee
Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, Director AMTh
Stelios Andreou, Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology AUTh
Nikos Efstratiou, Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology AUTh
Kostas Kotsakis, Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology AUTh
Aikaterini Papaefthymiou-Papanthimou, Professor Emeritus of
Prehistoric Archaeology AUTh
Evangelia Stefani, Archaeologist AMTh
Organising Committee
Evangelia Stefani, Archaeologist AMTh
Anastasia Dimoula, Archaeologist
Ourania Palli, Archaeologist AMTh
Agni Apostolidou, Archeologist-Museologist AMTh
Avraam Panagiotidis, IT Services
Editors
Evangelia Stefani, Nikos Merousis, Anastasia Dimoula

 | Contents

| Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
| Editors' note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
| Conference snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
| Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21


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Archaeological research in Northern Greece
and the historical content of Prehistory
Giorgos Ch. Chourmouziadis

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The history of prehistoric research in Macedonia: historical and critical approaches

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The beginnings of prehistoric research in Macedonia
Katerina Romiopoulou

37
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the prehistoric studies
Aikaterini Papaefthymiou-Papanthimou

The contribution of the British School at Athens and its members

to a century of prehistoric research in Macedonia
Ken Wardle

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Ken Wardle

A century of research in Dikili Tash

Ren Treuil

57

Ren Treuil

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 : 1922-2012

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Research on the Prehistory of Thasos: 1922-2012
Stratis Papadopoulos Nerantzis Nerantzis

Eustratios Pelekidis and the British Salonika Force Museum

Aikaterini Kanatselou Andrew Shapland

91

Andrew Shapland

W.A. eurtley

101
The work of W.A. Heurtley in Macedonia through the archives
of the Greek Archaeological Service and the British School at Athens
Maria Pappa

Lithics in the Prehistory of Macedonia: historical and methodological approaches

Georgia Kourtessi-Philippakis

113
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Reviews
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Palaeolithic research in Macedonia: in search of its dynamics
Nikos Efstratiou

133
A hundred years of neolithic research in Macedonia: trends and directions
Kostas Kotsakis

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One hundred years of research in the Bronze Age of Macedonia. What changed?
Stelios Andreou

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The archaeological research in Early Iron Age Macedonia. Review and perspectives
Chaido Koukouli-Chryssanthaki

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Chronology | Sites and Eras

181
Neanderthals in Macedonia
Nena Galanidou Nikos Efstratiou

195
In search of the identity of Petralona cave and its importance
for the Greek and European Prehistory
Andreas I. Darlas

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Radiocarbon dating of the major cultural changes in prehistoric Macedonia:
recent developments
Yannis Maniatis

Intensity of the Earths magnetic field in prehistoric Macedonia:

a multidisciplinary approach for material selection
Despoina Kondopoulou Christina Rathossi Elina Aidona
Gregory Fanjat Evdokia Tema Konstantinos Efthimiadis

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Gregory Fanjat

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About prehistoric sites in western Macedonia: prefectures of Kozani and Grevena
Georgia Karamitrou-Mentessidi

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-Topolnia
- Henrieta Todorova
Ivan Vajsov

251
Geophysical investigation and archaeological reality
in the neolithic settlement Promachon-Topolnia
Chaido Koukouli-Chryssanthaki Henrieta Todorova
Ioannis Aslanis Ivan Vajsov Magda Valla

261
Early Bronze Age in Macedonia.
A synthetic re-approach of the archaeological evidence
Ioanna Mavroeidi

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Archondiko Giannitson, an Early Bronze Age settlement in Macedonia
Aikaterini Papaefthymiou-Papanthimou Evi Papadopoulou

281
The stratigraphic sequence of the south sector
of the prehistoric settlement of Archontiko Giannitson
Domna Isaakidou

291
Middle Bronze Age in Macedonia
Ioannis Aslanis

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Barbara Horejs Reinhard Jung

299
Prehistoric Olynthus. Bronze Age mound
between the Carpathians and the Aegean
Barbara Horejs Reinhard Jung

Does time stand still in the Aegean? Early Iron Age chronology at Kastanas revisited
Stefanos Gimatzidis

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Space and its meanings
Settlement and housing during the 6th millennium BC
in western Thessaloniki and the adjacent Langadas province
Stavros Kotsos

315
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323
The settlement of Kleitos Kozanis in its wider natural
and anthropogenic environment during the Late and Final Neolithic periods
Christina Ziota

337
Architectural forms of Prehistory in the valley along the middle reaches
of the Aliakmon river
Areti Hondrogianni-Metoki

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Integrating the past, determining the present, establishing the future:
identification and interpretation of structured deposition
at the neolithic settlement of Avgi in Kastoria, Northern Greece
Georgia Stratouli Nikos Katsikaridis Tasos Bekiaris Vasiliki Tzevelekidi

359
In search of social identities: the contribution of thermal structures
in the organisation of space in neolithic Macedonia
Evita Kalogiropoulou

373
Enclosed world: a discussion about enclosures in prehistoric Macedonia
based on Dispilio, Kastoria
Stamatis Chatzitoulousis Tasos Sianos Giannis Stavridopoulos Kosmas Touloumis

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Communal works and monumentality in the settlements of Macedonia
during the Late Bronze Age
Evangelia Stefani

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Paleoenvironment - Archaeobotany - Zooarchaeology | Physical Anthropology
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Vegetation dynamics in Macedonia during the Middle Holocene:
human impact versus climate change?
Katerina Kouli

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Natural vegetation and prehistoric communities in Macedonia, Greece.
A synthesis of the results of wood charcoal analysis from prehistoric sites
Maria Ntinou

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Plants and people in prehistoric Northern Greece: the archaeobotanical evidence
Soultana-Maria Valamoti

Invitation to dinner. Practices of animal consumption and bone deposition

at Makriyalos I (Pieria) and Toumba Kremastis Koiladas (Kozani)
Vasiliki Tzevelekidi Paul Halstead Valasia Isaakidou

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Paul Halstead

The vertebrate fauna from a Late Neolithic settlement in eastern Macedonia.

he case of Promachon sector - preliminary results
George Kazantzis

437

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Fishing activities in the Prehistory of Northern Greece:
a panorama of the archaeological evidence
Tatiana Theodoropoulou

465
Aspects of Neolithic and Bronze Age diet and material culture
in central Macedonia: the evidence from shell analyses
Rena Veropoulidou

DNA: , ,

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Ancient DNA: applications, perspectives, limitations
Christina Papageorgopoulou

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From objects to ideas: Technologies - Artefacts - Communication
Lete I. The pottery of a neolithic site in central Macedonia 100 years after
Anastasia Dimoula Areti Pentedeka Konstantinos Filis

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I. 100

Pottery and stylistic boundaries.

Early and middle neolithic pottery in Macedonia
Dushka Urem-Kotsou Anna Papaioannou
Trisevgeni Papadakou Niki Saridaki Zoe Intze

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Clay recipes and ceramic production
of the neolithic settlements in eastern Macedonia
Paraskevi Yiouni

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527
Human identities and decorated clay pots
during Late Neolithic in Northern Greece:
examples from the "black-on-red" pottery tradition
Dimitra alamidou

537
Continuity and discontinuity in the pottery of the early phases
of neolithic Dispilio
Marina Sofronidou Sarantis Dimitriadis

549
Images and narratives from the decorated sherds of neolithic Dispilio
Evangelia Voulgari

561
The pottery tradition during the later phases
of the Early Bronze Age in Macedonia
Giorgos Deliopoulos Ioannis Papadias Aikaterini Papaefthymiou-Papanthimou

575
Pottery consumption and intra-site organisation
in the end of the Late Bronze Age in Macedonia:
observations on the hand-made pottery from Toumba Thessaloniki
Evangelia Vliora Evangelia Kiriatzi Stelios Andreou

The Late Bronze Age pottery of Macedonia:

comparisons with the plain of Kor
Tobias Krapf

585
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Tobias Krapf

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In search of social networks during the Neolithic Period

in Macedonia (orthern Greece): the case of chipped stone industries
Odysseas Kakavakis

599

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Quartz as raw material in the chipped stone industries of prehistoric Macedonia
Ourania Palli

615
The lithic industries from Iliotopos, a prehistoric site in eastern Langadas
Sofia Lychna Maria Chadou

625
"And were alone surrounded by dead images".
Problems of neolithic marble human figurines according to examples from Emathia
Nikos Merousis

639
The representation of humans in neolithic Macedonia
Stratos Nanoglou

Spondylus.

645
The journeys of neolithic Spondylus: a chronicle of research in the prehistoric Aegean
Marianna Nikolaidou Fotis Ifantidis

661
Music in prehistoric communities.
The example of the neolithic settlement at Dispilio of Kastoria
Chrysa Tsangouli

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Museology | Social Archaeology

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Theoretical archaeology and new museology
Dimitrios Grammenos

677
Thank God, our wreaths bear thornes
Anastasia Chourmouziadi

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The archaeologists and the archaeo-logoi.
The identities of the scholars, the discourses and their re-contextualization
in the prehistoric archaeology of Macedonia
Kosmas Touloumis

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Marija Gimbutas

695
From the Goddess of Old Europe to gender archaeology:
the legacy of Marija Gimbutas
Dimitra Kokkinidou Marianna Nikolaidou

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Epilogue: where we stand now, where we will be tomorrow
Kostas Kotsakis

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List of contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716

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British Archaeological Reports, Oxford
The Annual of the British School at Athens, London
Bulletin de Correspodance Helnique, Paris
Journal of Archaeological Science, Amsterdam
Proceedings of Prehistoric Society, Cambridge

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Neanderthals in Macedonia
ABSTRACT

Nena Galanidou Nikos Efstratiou

In the early 1960s, two important early finds, an Acheulean handaxe from Paleokastro near
Siatista and a Homo heidelbergensis cranium from Petralona in Chalkidiki, placed Macedonia
and thereby Greece itself on the world Palaeolithic map. This promising beginning, however,
was not followed by systematic research focused on the period. By the end of the 20th century,
the Palaeolithic record of Macedonia was still scanty and discontinuous, with more questions
than answers regarding the presence of hominins in the area, their spatiotemporal dispersal,
and their cultural and technological world and networks. However, over the last ten years
this picture has been changing rapidly. In this study we give the research agendas and results
of work in progress conducted in two different landscapes and environments of western Macedonia, the highland Pindus in Grevena and the Orestias lake basin in Kastoria, carried out by
the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Crete respectively. We address
and evaluate the emerging evidence on Middle Palaeolithic settlement patterns and habitat
preferences in Northern Greece. Although comparing a biological factor to archaeological
remains is fraught with uncertainties, in Mainland Greece, the Middle Palaeolithic remains
appear to be mainly associated with Homo neanderthalensis. After a brief overview of the
available evidence on Neanderthal anatomy, mode of life and material culture, we conclude
by examining the ways in which the Neanderthal findings from Macedonia are grafted on to
the trunk of data on Palaeolithic Greece.

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