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Major research
projects, to which I participated, include:
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2012-2016
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Paleoanthropology at the Gates
of Europe: Human Evolution in the Southern Balkans (PaGE)
This project conducts intensive long term field exploration
of selected localities in the Southern Balkans in order to test our
hypotheses about dispersals, refugia and systematics of European
hominins. >>>see project
webpage
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2009, 2014
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New excavations at
Sésklo
The Villafranchian (MNQ17) locality of Sésklo (Thessaly, Greece) has yielded a diverse
fossil mammal fauna during the last thirty years. The available material
suffers, however, from the lack of precise stratigraphic documentation. A
newly discovered assemblage near the top of the Sésklo basin
sequence was excavated during two expeditions in 2009. The recovered
specimens are expected to contribute to the knowledge of the
Villafranchian mammal anatomy and evolution and to give a better picture
of basin biostratigraphy.
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2008-2013
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New excavations at the
classical Pikermi locality
The project included a survey along the Megálo
Réma stream, where the classical fossiliferous layers of Pikermi
outcrop. A new site (dubbed PV1) was discovered and is being excavated
starting from June 2009. The newly excavated material (currently under
preparation) mainly includes two species of hipparions, a rhino,
antelopes, giraffids, a hyaenid and a felid.
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2004-2006
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The Haliakmon Palaeolithic
Survey
A three-year survey along the Haliakmon River
valley, Northern Greece, in search of palaeolithic
and palaeanthropological finds. The Haliakmon Valley is considered as a
possible palaeolithic human dispersal route, as Northern Greece lies in
one of the possible routes used of palaeolithic Homo to colonise
Europe. >>>see project
webpage
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1995-2006
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The Miocene mammals of
Kerassiá
The late Miocene (Tourolian) fauna of Kerassiá (Northern Euboea, central Greece) is very diverse,
comprising carnivores (Felidae, Hyaenidae), perissodactyls
(Chalicotheriidae, Rhinocerotidae, Equidae), artiodactyls (Tragulidae,
Suidae, Giraffidae, Bovidae), proboscideans (Deinotherium,
gomphotheres), Orycteropus and birds. Seven sites, grouped in two
stratigraphic levels, have been excavated until today. Particularly
interesting are the rhinos (represented by three species) and the
giraffes (four species).
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1991-1999
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Excavations on Tilos Island
Tilos is a small island of SE Greece.
One of its caves, named Charkadió, has yielded rich fossil
material of endemic dwarf elephants and dwarf deer. The dwarf elephants
(close relatives of the middle-late Pleistocene continental species Elephas
antiquus) were less than 1,8 m high and survived into Holocene.
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1989-1994
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Excavations in Vraona Cave
The Vraona
Cave, Attica, Greece, yielded a vertebrate
fossil fauna aged close to the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary. The fauna
is dominated by felids (mainly Panthera pardus), but canids,
mustelids, ursids, equids, bovids, cervids, micromammals, reptiles and
birds are present as well.
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