The team

Project's Team

Principal Investigator:

Vangelis Tourloukis, Assoc. Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Ioannina

Lithic artifact studies:

Dr. Eugenia Adam, Archaeologist, Independent Researcher

Osseous artifact studies:

Dr. Rozalia Christidou, Zooarchaeologist, Laboratoire Archéorient, Lyon

Webpage content, lithic data analysis & database:

Dr. Charalampos Garefalakis, Archaeologist, Greek Ministry of Culture

Lithic artifact digital drawing:

Evangelos Giannoulis, Graphic designer

Photography:

Chronis Pegkas, photographer

Kastritsa Cave organic artifact provenance & contextual data assessment:

Dr. Eleni Kotjabopoulou, Zooarchaeologist, Independent Researcher

AMS Radiocarbon dating:

Tom Higham, Prof. of Scientific Archaeology, Department of Evolutionary Archaeology, University of Vienna

Radiocarbon dating, Zooarchaeology of Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS):

Katerina Douka, Ass. Prof. in Archaeological Science, Department of Evolutionary Archaeology, University of Vienna

Raw material geochemical analyses (XRF, pXRF, MA-XRF, RAMAN spectroscopy, FTIR):

Dimitris Anagnostopoulos, Professor, Ceramics and Composites Laboratory, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Ioannina

Raw material mineralogic & petrographic analyses (ICP-MS, LA-ICP-MS):

Dr. Christos Stergiou, Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Webpage design and development:

Tasos Bekiaris, Archaeologist, post-doctoral researcher, University of Thessaloniki

Nikos Katsikaridis, Phd Archaeologist

Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory, American School of Classical Archaeology at Athens