Nena Galanidou
Biographic Data
| ID | 3644583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nena Galanidou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nena |
| FAMILY NAME | Galanidou |
| SIGNATURE | GALANIDOU N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Crete |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8868-8043 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
An Archaeological Survey of Polyaigos
This article presents an archaeological survey of the island of Polyaigos, undertaken in 2022 by the Small Cycladic Islands Project (SCIP). Since 2019, SCIP has surveyed 87 uninhabited islands in the southern Aegean, most of which are well under 1 km2 in size. The larger island of Polyaigos (18 km2) was included in the project in order to investigate the importance of island size (among other things) in long-term population and land-use dynamics.…
Lithic Raw Material Provisioning in the Acheulean Rodafnidia, Lesvos, Greece
This study investigates Acheulean industrial variability through the lens of lithic raw material provisioning. It harnesses macroscopic and microscopic analysis, X-ray diffraction, and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry to identify and characterize the raw materials used to knap artefacts excavated from Rodafnidia, a Lower Palaeolithic site on central-south Lesvos Island, Greece, and surface artefacts collected from Rodafnidia and two a…
What Is the Acheulean
The Acheulean represents the longest cultural period known to human history, lasting globally for more than 1.75 million years. It may have emerged as early as 1.95 Ma in Africa, spreading throughout much of the continent and then into Eurasia and lasting up to 350–200 ka in western Europe and South Asia, and even later in eastern Asia. Originally defined in the 1870s, the term Acheulean is one of the earliest and most contested classifications i…
Lithic Raw Materials Used in the Middle Paleolithic Kalamakia Cave, Greece
This study characterizes the lithic raw materials used for knapping Middle Paleolithic artifacts at Kalamakia Cave on the Mani Peninsula, southern Greece, to identify potential procurement areas and to determine their sources. To this end, macroscopic, petrographic, and geochemical analyses were conducted. Exploited lithic raw materials included chert (black/gray, dark reddish brown, reddish), andesite (aphyric green, porphyritic purple, porphyri…
Trans-Aegean Dispersal and Occupation Potential as Reflected in Predictive Modeling for the Early and Middle Pleistocene
Recent paleogeographic reconstructions for the Pleistocene indicate the prevalence of terrestrial environments with attractive natural resources in the largest part of the area now covered by the Aegean Sea. What would the occurrence of the extended terrestrial Aegean landscapes mean regarding connections between western Anatolia and Europe via the Greek mainland during the Early and Middle Pleistocene? This article explores the Aegean perspectiv…
Exploring aspects of Neanderthal mobility in the Mani Peninsula
Klithi Site
Inner Ionian Sea Archipelago
The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes
This open access volume provides for the first time a comprehensive description and scientific evaluation of underwater archaeological finds referring to human occupation of the continental shelf around the coastlines of Europe and the Mediterranean when sea levels were lower than present. These are the largest body of underwater finds worldwide, amounting to over 2500 find spots, ranging from individual stone tools to underwater villages with un…
Lower Palaeolithic archaeology and submerged landscapes in Greece
Parting the waters. Middle Palaeolithic archaeology in the central Ionian Sea
This paper sets out a conceptual framework based on the idea of connectivity, and the research design that informs a series of surveys and excavations in the central Ionian Sea targeting the Palaeolithic record. It highlights the importance of mapping the now submerged topography to get a better understanding of the relevant palaeogeography, and its wider implications for hominin settlement, landscape preferences and pathways of dispersal and exp…
Aegean Pleistocene Landscapes Above and Below Sea-Level
The Acheulian Site at Rodafnidia, Lisvori, on Lesbos, Greece
Thesprotia Expedition III Landscapes of Nomadism and Sedentism
In 2024, the publisher of PMFIA series (Foundation for the Finnish Institute of Athens) decided to re-publish all previous volumes of the series, earlier available in printed form only, in an open-access format. Simultaneously, the contributions have been re-licensed with Creative commons license standard CC BY-NC, now commonly used in scientific publishing. The volumes, and the individual articles contained within them, have also been addigned D…
The Palaeolithic settlement of Lefkas. Archaeological evidence in a palaeogeographic context
The chain of islands emerging from the Ionian Sea constitutes the western part of the active Hellenic Arc and is separated from the European landmass by the shaping forces of eustasy and tectonism. As part of the Ionian Margin, the islands share the same geological and climate regimes with their counterpart, the coastal zone of the west Greek mainland extending from Epirus to the Peloponnese. The Ionian setting consists of limestone geology and k…
Discussion and Debate
Within a 48-hour period during January 2014, the JMA co editors received two papers—those of Curtis Runnels and Thomas P. Leppard printed above—that, quite fortuitously, each addressed the topic of Mediterranean island colonization by archaic hominins, albeit from radically different perspectives. Neither author was aware of the other’s paper, nor has either article subsequently been revised to take account of the other. Realizing the widespread …
Archaic Hominins on Crete
Mesolithic Cave Use in Greece and the Mosaic of Human Communities
This paper discusses the Greek Mesolithic record in the light of refinements to the international calibration curve and recent archaeological research. Central to the discussion are the time frame used for this period of Greek prehistory, and the diagnostic potential, or visibility, of Mesolithic stone tools. Rather than offering a comprehensive account of Mesolithic sites across Greece, this study focuses on a few known cave sites in the northwe…
Mesolithic Cave Use in Greece and the Mosaic of Human Communities
This paper discusses the Greek Mesolithic record in the light of refinements to the international calibration curve and recent archaeological research. Central to the discussion are the time frame used for this period of Greek prehistory, and the diagnostic potential, or visibility, of Mesolithic stone tools. Rather than offering a comprehensive account of Mesolithic sites across Greece, this study focuses on a few known cave sites in the northwe…
Identifying the geochemical taphonomy of the osteological material from Katsambas rockshelter
Caves, palimpsests and dwelling spaces
Deposits in caves and rock-shelters typically occur in the form of low-resolution palimpsests or time-averaged deposits, resulting from the superimposition of repeated and variable episodes of occupation, low rates of sedimentation and mixing by natural and anthropogenic processes. Despite the development of an impressive array of analytical techniques to disentangle these palimpsests into their constituent episodes of occupation, high resolution…
Telling Children About the Past
The Acheulean Large Cutting Tool Assemblage from Rodafnidia, Lesvos
The Acheulean, a key Lower Palaeolithic technocomplex characterised by iconic large cutting tools (LCTs), is one of the most extensively studied phenomena in prehistoric archaeology. Yet its vast chrono-spatial distribution, together with the persistent tension between technological homogeneity and variability, has hindered the construction of robust cultural phylogenetic scenarios for its evolution and dispersal. One way to address this challeng…
Analytical and Ethical Issues Concerning Organic Residues on Paleolithic Chipped Stone Tools from NW Greece
The Upper Paleolithic strata of Kastritsa, a rockshelter on the bank of Lalle Pamvotis, near Ioannina (NW Greece), yielded two chipped stone artifacts with surface residues originally assumed to be of Organic composition. The history of analyses of these specimens reveals that there is a need to discuss problems in the identification of Organic residues, and that the ethical aspect of destructive analysis of ancient remains should be considered. …
The many faces of hunter-gatherer research
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Caves, palimpsests and dwelling spaces
Deposits in caves and rock-shelters typically occur in the form of low-resolution palimpsests or time-averaged deposits, resulting from the superimposition of repeated and variable episodes of occupation, low rates of sedimentation and mixing by natural and anthropogenic processes. Despite the development of an impressive array of analytical techniques to disentangle these palimpsests into their constituent episodes of occupation, high resolution…
A revised chronological and palaeoenvironmental framework for the Kastritsa rockshelter, northwest Greece
Archaeological, palynological and palaeolimnological evidence is combined with new AMS radiocarbon dates to shed new light on a long-known, yet only partially understood, Upper Palaeolithic occupation in southeast Europe
Archaic Hominins on Crete
New AMS dates from Upper Palaeolithic Kastritsa
Thirty-four years ago there appeared in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society the third and final paper in a series reporting the research of Eric Higgs and his colleagues into the climate, environment, and Stone Age record of north-west Greece (Higgs et al. 1967). This paper discussed two limestone rockshelters, Kastritsa and Asprochaliko, comparatively in what is now a classic example of site catchment analysis. Kastritsa, in the Pamvotis …
Pioneers in the Hills
In this paper, we examine the strategies used by early Mesolithic people as they moved into the karstic uplands of north-eastern Istria, Croatia. These strategies are inferred from detailed analyses of the lithic and faunal assemblages from Šebrn, a small upland rock-shelter occupied for a relatively short period of time in the early Holocene. We conclude that Šebrn's lithic assemblages are in technology and typology relatively homogeneous and ca…
Lower Palaeolithic archaeology and submerged landscapes in Greece
Identifying the geochemical taphonomy of the osteological material from Katsambas rockshelter
The Palaeolithic settlement of Lefkas. Archaeological evidence in a palaeogeographic context
The chain of islands emerging from the Ionian Sea constitutes the western part of the active Hellenic Arc and is separated from the European landmass by the shaping forces of eustasy and tectonism. As part of the Ionian Margin, the islands share the same geological and climate regimes with their counterpart, the coastal zone of the west Greek mainland extending from Epirus to the Peloponnese. The Ionian setting consists of limestone geology and k…
Exploring aspects of Neanderthal mobility in the Mani Peninsula
Parting the waters. Middle Palaeolithic archaeology in the central Ionian Sea
This paper sets out a conceptual framework based on the idea of connectivity, and the research design that informs a series of surveys and excavations in the central Ionian Sea targeting the Palaeolithic record. It highlights the importance of mapping the now submerged topography to get a better understanding of the relevant palaeogeography, and its wider implications for hominin settlement, landscape preferences and pathways of dispersal and exp…
Discussion and Debate
Within a 48-hour period during January 2014, the JMA co editors received two papers—those of Curtis Runnels and Thomas P. Leppard printed above—that, quite fortuitously, each addressed the topic of Mediterranean island colonization by archaic hominins, albeit from radically different perspectives. Neither author was aware of the other’s paper, nor has either article subsequently been revised to take account of the other. Realizing the widespread …
Mesolithic Cave Use in Greece and the Mosaic of Human Communities
This paper discusses the Greek Mesolithic record in the light of refinements to the international calibration curve and recent archaeological research. Central to the discussion are the time frame used for this period of Greek prehistory, and the diagnostic potential, or visibility, of Mesolithic stone tools. Rather than offering a comprehensive account of Mesolithic sites across Greece, this study focuses on a few known cave sites in the northwe…
Analytical and Ethical Issues Concerning Organic Residues on Paleolithic Chipped Stone Tools from NW Greece
The Upper Paleolithic strata of Kastritsa, a rockshelter on the bank of Lalle Pamvotis, near Ioannina (NW Greece), yielded two chipped stone artifacts with surface residues originally assumed to be of Organic composition. The history of analyses of these specimens reveals that there is a need to discuss problems in the identification of Organic residues, and that the ethical aspect of destructive analysis of ancient remains should be considered. …
Biographies of the lithic artefacts from Upper Palaeolithic Kastritsa
Technological and typological studies of the chipped-stone industries of Palaeolithic Greece have hitherto been founded upon thorough descriptions of the morphological attributes of artefacts. This article departs from this tradition to examine, by means of refitting, the technology that created a group of 1691 lithic artefacts at Upper Palaeolithic Kastritsa. Refitting seeks to reconstruct individual reduction sequences by making connections bet…
'Home is Where the Hearth is'
Prehistory in Antiquity. Of Myth and Philosophy
Ideas about Prehistory and Ethnology: The Classical Heritage - Nikitas N. Lianeris, Prehistory in Antiquity. Of Myth and Philosophy (Athens: Trohalia, 1997, 126 pp., pbk, ISBN 960-7022-92-0). - Volume 1 Issue 2
Patterns in Caves
Biographies of the lithic artefacts from Upper Palaeolithic Kastritsa
Technological and typological studies of the chipped-stone industries of Palaeolithic Greece have hitherto been founded upon thorough descriptions of the morphological attributes of artefacts. This article departs from this tradition to examine, by means of refitting, the technology that created a group of 1691 lithic artefacts at Upper Palaeolithic Kastritsa. Refitting seeks to reconstruct individual reduction sequences by making connections bet…
Pioneers in the Hills
In this paper, we examine the strategies used by early Mesolithic people as they moved into the karstic uplands of north-eastern Istria, Croatia. These strategies are inferred from detailed analyses of the lithic and faunal assemblages from Šebrn, a small upland rock-shelter occupied for a relatively short period of time in the early Holocene. We conclude that Šebrn's lithic assemblages are in technology and typology relatively homogeneous and ca…
A revised chronological and palaeoenvironmental framework for the Kastritsa rockshelter, northwest Greece
Archaeological, palynological and palaeolimnological evidence is combined with new AMS radiocarbon dates to shed new light on a long-known, yet only partially understood, Upper Palaeolithic occupation in southeast Europe
New AMS dates from Upper Palaeolithic Kastritsa
Thirty-four years ago there appeared in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society the third and final paper in a series reporting the research of Eric Higgs and his colleagues into the climate, environment, and Stone Age record of north-west Greece (Higgs et al. 1967). This paper discussed two limestone rockshelters, Kastritsa and Asprochaliko, comparatively in what is now a classic example of site catchment analysis. Kastritsa, in the Pamvotis …
The many faces of hunter-gatherer research
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Analytical and Ethical Issues Concerning Organic Residues on Paleolithic Chipped Stone Tools from NW Greece
The Upper Paleolithic strata of Kastritsa, a rockshelter on the bank of Lalle Pamvotis, near Ioannina (NW Greece), yielded two chipped stone artifacts with surface residues originally assumed to be of Organic composition. The history of analyses of these specimens reveals that there is a need to discuss problems in the identification of Organic residues, and that the ethical aspect of destructive analysis of ancient remains should be considered. …
Telling Children About the Past
The Acheulean Large Cutting Tool Assemblage from Rodafnidia, Lesvos
The Acheulean, a key Lower Palaeolithic technocomplex characterised by iconic large cutting tools (LCTs), is one of the most extensively studied phenomena in prehistoric archaeology. Yet its vast chrono-spatial distribution, together with the persistent tension between technological homogeneity and variability, has hindered the construction of robust cultural phylogenetic scenarios for its evolution and dispersal. One way to address this challeng…
Identifying the geochemical taphonomy of the osteological material from Katsambas rockshelter
Caves, palimpsests and dwelling spaces
Deposits in caves and rock-shelters typically occur in the form of low-resolution palimpsests or time-averaged deposits, resulting from the superimposition of repeated and variable episodes of occupation, low rates of sedimentation and mixing by natural and anthropogenic processes. Despite the development of an impressive array of analytical techniques to disentangle these palimpsests into their constituent episodes of occupation, high resolution…
Mesolithic Cave Use in Greece and the Mosaic of Human Communities
This paper discusses the Greek Mesolithic record in the light of refinements to the international calibration curve and recent archaeological research. Central to the discussion are the time frame used for this period of Greek prehistory, and the diagnostic potential, or visibility, of Mesolithic stone tools. Rather than offering a comprehensive account of Mesolithic sites across Greece, this study focuses on a few known cave sites in the northwe…
Mesolithic Cave Use in Greece and the Mosaic of Human Communities
This paper discusses the Greek Mesolithic record in the light of refinements to the international calibration curve and recent archaeological research. Central to the discussion are the time frame used for this period of Greek prehistory, and the diagnostic potential, or visibility, of Mesolithic stone tools. Rather than offering a comprehensive account of Mesolithic sites across Greece, this study focuses on a few known cave sites in the northwe…
Discussion and Debate
Within a 48-hour period during January 2014, the JMA co editors received two papers—those of Curtis Runnels and Thomas P. Leppard printed above—that, quite fortuitously, each addressed the topic of Mediterranean island colonization by archaic hominins, albeit from radically different perspectives. Neither author was aware of the other’s paper, nor has either article subsequently been revised to take account of the other. Realizing the widespread …
Archaic Hominins on Crete
The Acheulian Site at Rodafnidia, Lisvori, on Lesbos, Greece
Thesprotia Expedition III Landscapes of Nomadism and Sedentism
In 2024, the publisher of PMFIA series (Foundation for the Finnish Institute of Athens) decided to re-publish all previous volumes of the series, earlier available in printed form only, in an open-access format. Simultaneously, the contributions have been re-licensed with Creative commons license standard CC BY-NC, now commonly used in scientific publishing. The volumes, and the individual articles contained within them, have also been addigned D…
The Palaeolithic settlement of Lefkas. Archaeological evidence in a palaeogeographic context
The chain of islands emerging from the Ionian Sea constitutes the western part of the active Hellenic Arc and is separated from the European landmass by the shaping forces of eustasy and tectonism. As part of the Ionian Margin, the islands share the same geological and climate regimes with their counterpart, the coastal zone of the west Greek mainland extending from Epirus to the Peloponnese. The Ionian setting consists of limestone geology and k…
Aegean Pleistocene Landscapes Above and Below Sea-Level
Parting the waters. Middle Palaeolithic archaeology in the central Ionian Sea
This paper sets out a conceptual framework based on the idea of connectivity, and the research design that informs a series of surveys and excavations in the central Ionian Sea targeting the Palaeolithic record. It highlights the importance of mapping the now submerged topography to get a better understanding of the relevant palaeogeography, and its wider implications for hominin settlement, landscape preferences and pathways of dispersal and exp…
Klithi Site
Inner Ionian Sea Archipelago
The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes
This open access volume provides for the first time a comprehensive description and scientific evaluation of underwater archaeological finds referring to human occupation of the continental shelf around the coastlines of Europe and the Mediterranean when sea levels were lower than present. These are the largest body of underwater finds worldwide, amounting to over 2500 find spots, ranging from individual stone tools to underwater villages with un…
Archaeology (27 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (25 works) · Geography (25 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (21 works) · Geology (11 works) · Prehistory (11 works) · History (9 works) · Paleontology (9 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (8 works) · Geology (8 works)