The EXPLO team attends the 29th EAA Annual Meeting in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Various aspects of the work carried out by the EXPLO Project in the Neolithic lake-side site of Dispilio were presented during the 29th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists held in Belfast, Northern Ireland from 30 August – 2 September 2023.
The talks touched upon a variety of themes (e.g. dating, archaeobotany, architecture, material culture and technology) and were presented within various sessions:
Session 237: POTTERY BEYOND TYPOLOGY. PREHISTORIC VESSEL BIOGRAPHIES IN THE DOMESTIC SPHERE
FLOWS, TRANSFORMATIONS, AND TEMPORALITIES IN POTS’ LIFE HISTORY: THE CASE OF NEOLITHIC DISPILIO, NORTH GREECE
Voulgari, Evangelia (School of History and Archaeology Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) – Sofronidou, Marina (Ephorate of Antiquitiesof Drama) – Kotsakis, Kostas (Prehistoric Archaeology, School of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Session 339: SETTLING WATERSCAPES IN EUROPE II: PREHISTORIC SUBMERGED SITES IN LAKES, BOGS AND RIVERS – PART 2
(RE)CONTEXTUALIZING LEGACIES: NEW RESULTS FROM THE STUDY OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE NEOLITHIC DISPILIO LAKE SETTLEMENT
Giagkoulis, Tryfon – Kotsakis, Kostas (Department of Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) – Maczkowski, Andrej – Francuz, John (Institute of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bern) – Bolliger, Matthias – Hafner, Albert (Institute of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bern)
Session 458: INTERTWINED TECHNOLOGIES IN PREHISTORIC EUROPE
TECHNOLOGIES BY THE LAKE: RECONSTRUCTING THE MANUFACTURE SEQUENCES OF GROUND STONE CELTS FROM LATE NEOLITHIC DISPILIO, NW GREECE
Bekiaris, Tasos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) – Stratouli, Georgia (Ephorate of Antiquities of Kilkis) – Kotsakis, Konstantinos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
CAPTURING THE MOMENT: PRACTICES AND CHIPPED STONE TOOLS AT THE NEOLITHIC SITE OF DISPILIO
Kita, Angeliki (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) – Milić, Bogdana (Archaeology of Social Dynamics Research group. Milà i Fontanals Institution. Spanish National Research Council) – Gibaja, Juan (Milà I Fontanals Institution. Spanish National Research Council, InDi Group) – Kotsakis, Kostas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Session 575: RADIOCARBON DATING AND ARCHAEOLOGY
FIRST ABSOLUTE DATING OF A NEOLITHIC SITE IN THE BALKANS: ANNUAL RADIOCARBON AND THE TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES FROM DISPILIO (GREECE)
Maczkowski, Andrej (Institute of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bern; Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern) – Francuz, John (Institute of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bern) – Giagkoulis, Tryfon – Kotsakis, Kostas (History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) – Ballmer, Ariane (-) – Bolliger, Matthias – Reich, Johannes (Institute of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bern; Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern; Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern) – Hostettler, Marco (Institute of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bern; Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern) – Szidat, Sönke (Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern; Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern) – Hafner, Albert (Institute of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bern; Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern)
Session 685: RE-INTEGRATING THE ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF EUROPE’S ‘WET’ AND ‘DRY’ NEOLITHIC LANDSCAPES
COMPARING THE ‘WET’ AND ‘DRY’ NEOLITHIC IN WESTERN MACEDONIA, GREECE: THE ARCHAEOBOTANY OF DISPILIO AND AVGI
Ergun, Muge (School of Archaeology, Oxford University) – Gkatzogia, Eugenia – Kotsachristou, Dimitra (Department of Archaeology, Aristotle University) – Margaritis, Evi (Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center, The Cyprus Institute) – Bogaard, Amy (School of Archaeology, Oxford University)