Kostas Kotsakis

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ID140187
NOMEKostas Kotsakis
PRENOMESKostas
SOBRENOMEKotsakis
ASSINATURAKOTSAKIS K
AFILIAÇÕESAristotle University of Thessaloniki
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS33
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES177
TOTAL COMO AUTOR33
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1988
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H6

  • Changes in climate drove vegetation and land use dynamics at the onset of farming in Europe

    Open AccessLieveke Van Vugt, Erika Gobet et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2025

    Here we present the first high-resolution continuous palaeoecological study from Greece covering the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition at Limni Zazari, a small lake in western Macedonia. We study how interactions between vegetation and climate might have affected the introduction of agriculture to Europe ca. 8500 years ago. We found that mixed deciduous oak woodlands established around the lake once moisture availability began to increase at ~10,30…

  • A forest on the edge

    Open AccessLieveke Van Vugt, Erika Gobet et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Environments and Humans2025

    We present a high-resolution continuous palaeoecological study covering the transition from foraging to farming at Limni Vegoritis, a large lake in western Macedonia, Greece. We show how the pristine mixed deciduous oak woodlands from the Early Holocene were severely affected by a climate anomaly in the Eastern Mediterranean between 8600 and 7800 cal yr BP (6650–5850 cal BCE). A strong reduction in moisture availability pushed the deciduous oak w…

  • Holocene climate–vegetation–land use interactions in the mesomediterranean coastlands of northern Greece

    Open AccessKathrin Ganz, Lieveke Van Vugt et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2025Referências: 118

    Mesomediterranean vegetation with abundant evergreen broadleaved trees and shrubs is dominant along the coast of northern Greece. Well-dated palynological records are available from the inland submediterranean zone, where evergreen broadleaved trees and shrubs are absent or rare, but less is known about the vegetation history of the coastal area. For instance, it is unclear when and why evergreen broadleaved vegetation expanded during the Holocen…

  • The lacustrine settlement of Dispilio (Lake Kastoria, Northern Greece)

    Open AccessJuan F Gibaja Bao, Bogdana Milić et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2025Referências: 1

  • Flows, transformations, and temporalities in pots life history

    Open AccessEvangelia Voulgari, Marina Sofronidou et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2025Referências: 5

  • Micro-residues on quartz tools

    Open AccessOurania Palli, Ioannis Νazlis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2024Referências: 30

  • Use-wear evidence for the use of threshing sledges in Neolithic Greece

    Open AccessNiccolò Mazzucco, Juan José Ibáñez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2024Referências: 18

    Threshing sledge or tribulum represents an important innovation in agricultural techniques. It allows processing huge amounts of cereals and it has often associated to an increased agricultural production. Their use is attested during the Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age both in south-western Asia and Europe. In the Mediterranean area, their use lasted until few decades ago. Recently, as part of project focused on the analysis of …

  • Socializing the Materiality of Earthen Structures

    Open AccessEvita Kalogiropoulou, Dimitris Kloukinas et al.ARTICLECambridge Archaeological Journal2023Citada por: 3Referências: 36

    This paper describes thechaîne opératoireof earthen architecture relating to buildings and thermal structures at the Neolithic site of Kleitos 2 in Kozani. It provides a material-based approach to the variable processes involved in construction as a practice of community involvement. Thechaîne opératoire, adapted based on a refined concept of technology, is employed here as a key analytical tool. This paper tackles questions relating to the socia…

  • Reconfiguring the 3D excavation archive. Technological shift and data remix in the archaeological project of Paliambela Kolindros, Greece

    Open AccessMarkos Katsianis, Kostas Kotsakis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2021Citada por: 2Referências: 23

    Recent advances in recording equipment, software solutions and intra-site applications have supported the widespread integration of 3D spatial technologies within archaeological fieldwork. However, the heavy dependence on digital technology to organize excavation research does not come without costs, especially in the case of long-term excavation projects that have employed 3D documentation procedures and need to use, maintain and preserve their …

  • First absolute chronologies of neolithic and bronze age settlements at Lake Ohrid based on dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating

    Open AccessA Hafner, Johannes Reich et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2021Citada por: 3Referências: 12

    Specialized and systematic underwater fieldwork at the prehistoric site of Ploča Mičov Grad at Gradište (North Macedonia) on the eastern shore of Lake Ohrid was undertaken in 2018 and 2019. It has substantiated the archeological site’s outstanding preservation condition, and furthermore proven the numerous construction timbers’ suitability for dendrochronological analysis. Dendrochronological analysis on archaeological timbers was applied, combin…

  • Distribution of Organic-Tempered Pottery in Southeast Europe and the Near East

    Open AccessTrisevgeni Papadakou, Kostas Kotsakis et al.ARTICLEOpen Archaeology2021Referências: 13

    Organic-tempered pottery is considered characteristic for the early pottery assemblages in most parts of Southwest Asia and Southeast Europe. The aim of the present paper is to explore: (a) the chronological consistency of this practice, i.e. is it always related to the early assemblages and how intensively was it employed by the various communities? and (b) is its use related to vessel type, surface treatment etc. and how does this change in tim…

  • Forum

    Open AccessD Hofmann, Emily Hanscam et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Archaeology2021Citada por: 6Referências: 30

    The kind of liberal and open-minded society on which most academics rely to freely conduct their research is increasingly under threat, even within democratic societies of long standing. The issues related to populist approaches/uses of archaeology are highlighted, in different European countries. The Italian cases debated by A. Vanzetti is analyzed by proposing a general model of (archaeological) communication and discussing some particular situ…

  • Grinding in a hollow? Phytolith evidence for pounding cereals in bedrock mortars at Paliambela Kolindros, an Early Neolithic site in Macedonia, North Greece

    Open AccessGeorgia Tsartsidou, Kostas KotsakisARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2020Citada por: 3Referências: 45

  • Strong bias towards carcass product processing at Neolithic settlements in northern Greece revealed through absorbed lipid residues of archaeological pottery

    Open AccessHelen L Whelton, Kostas Kotsakis et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2018

  • Strontium isotope evidence for human mobility in the Neolithic of northern Greece

    Open AccessHelen L Whelton, Jamie Lewis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2018Citada por: 1Referências: 18

    Strontium isotope ratios are widely used in archaeology to differentiate between local and non-local populations. Herein, strontium isotope ratios of 36 human tooth enamels from seven archaeological sites spanning the Early to Late Neolithic of northern Greece (7th–5th millennia B.C.E.) were analysed with the aim of providing new information relating to the movement of humans across the region. Local bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr signals were establishe…

  • Inside out

    Open AccessJannis Kozatsas, Kostas Kotsakis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2018Citada por: 23Referências: 20

  • Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans

    Open AccessZuzana Hofmanová, Susanne Kreutzer et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2016

    Significance One of the most enduring and widely debated questions in prehistoric archaeology concerns the origins of Europe’s earliest farmers: Were they the descendants of local hunter-gatherers, or did they migrate from southwestern Asia, where farming began? We recover genome-wide DNA sequences from early farmers on both the European and Asian sides of the Aegean to reveal an unbroken chain of ancestry leading from central and southwestern Eu…

  • Household Scales

    Open AccessMarianna Lymperaki, Dusanka Urem-Kotsou et al.ARTICLEOpen Archaeology2016Citada por: 2Referências: 2

    Remains of the houses in the Late Neolithic of Northern Greece are as a rule less well preserved than in some other regions of Greece such as Thessaly. The site of Stavroupoli-Thessaloniki is a settlement with a dense habitation pattern, but poorly preserved architecture. Several habitation phases have been distinguished, dating to the Middle and Late Neolithic. Radiocarbon dates place the earlier phase to 5890 B.C. or slightly later. As the dome…

  • Widespread exploitation of the honeybee by early Neolithic farmers

    Open AccessM Roffet-Salque, Martine Regert et al.ARTICLENature2015

  • The Mycenaean Seminar 2010–11

    Open AccessULRICH THALER, Maria Emanuela Alberti et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the Institute of…2012

    THE MYCENAEAN SEMINAR 2010–11 Get access ULRICH THALER, ULRICH THALER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MARIA EMANUELA ALBERTI, MARIA EMANUELA ALBERTI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar THOMAS M. BROGAN, THOMAS M. BROGAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OURANIA KOUKA, OURANIA KOUKA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…

  • Virtual museums, a survey and some issues for consideration

    Open AccessSylaiou Styliani, Liarokapis Fotis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cultural Heritage2009Citada por: 16Referências: 9

  • Earliest date for milk use in the Near East and southeastern Europe linked to cattle herding

    Open AccessR P Evershed, Sebastian Payne et al.ARTICLENature2008

  • Communautés en transition

    Kostas KotsakisARTICLEÉtudes Balkaniques-Cahiers Pierre…2008

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  • A 3D digital workflow for archaeological intra-site research using GIS

    Open AccessMarkos Katsianis, Spyros Tsipidis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2007Citada por: 38Referências: 3

  • Defining function in Neolithic ceramics

    Open AccessDusanka Urem-Kotsou, Kostas Kotsakis et al.ARTICLEDocumenta Praehistorica2002Citada por: 2Referências: 12

    Recent development in chemical analyses of organic remains in archaeological ceramics gives new possibilities to the study of pottery use. They could be of crucial importance in assessing vessel’s use, especially when combined with contextual, technomorphological and use-alteration analysis data. Using the example of the late Neolithic pottery from Makriyalos, Northern Greece, we discuss some of the problems in determining the use of the vessels …