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Human Evolution at the Crossroads

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Proboscidea-Homo interactions in open-air localities during the Early and Middle Pleistocene of western Eurasia: a palaeontological and archaeolocigal perspective

Author(s): Konidaris, George E.; Tourloukis, Vangelis
Published in: Human-Elephant Interactions past and present, Issue 1, 2021
Publisher: Tübingen University Press
DOI: 10.15496/publikation-55599

Investigating the spatio-temporal dimension of past human-elephant interactions: a spatial taphonomic approach

Author(s): Giusti, Domenico
Published in: Human-Elephant Interactions past and present, Issue 1, 2021
Publisher: University of Tübingen Press
DOI: 10.15496/publikation-55592

Direct U-series dating of the Apidima C human remains

Author(s): Harvati, Katerina; Grün, Rainer; Duval, Mathieu; Zhao, Jian-xin; Karakostis, Alexandros; Tourloukis, Vangelis; Gorgoulis, Vassilis; Kouloukoussa, Mirsini
Published in: Ancient Connections in Eurasia, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 37-55
Publisher: Kerns Verlag
DOI: 10.51315/9783935751377.002

Crown outline analysis of the hominin upper third molar from the Megalopolis Basin, Peloponnese, Greece

Author(s): Carolin Röding; Julia Zastrow; Heike Scherf; Constantin Doukas; Katerina Harvati
Published in: Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: DFG Center for Advanced Studies : Ancient Connections in Eurasia, 2021, Page(s) 13-36
Publisher: Kerns Verlag
DOI: 10.51315/9783935751377.001

The Hominin Fossil Record from Greece

Author(s): Harvati, Katerina
Published in: Fossil Vertebrates of Greece Vol. 1 ISBN: 9783030683979, Issue 4, 2022
Publisher: Springer-Nature
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68398-6_19

Paleoanthropology at the Gates of Europe: Recent research in Greece in the frame of the PaGE ERC Starting Grant project

Author(s): Katerina Harvati; George E. Konidaris; Vangelis Tourloukis
Published in: Quaternary International, Issue 1, 2018, ISSN 1040-6182
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.11.024

In search of Pleistocene remains at the Gates of Europe: Directed surface survey of the Megalopolis Basin (Greece)

Author(s): Nicholas Thompson; Vangelis Tourloukis; Eleni Panagopoulou; Katerina Harvati
Published in: Special Issue Human Evolution at the Gates of Europe. Quaternary International, Issue 1, 2018, ISSN 1040-6182
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3569171

Prevalence of cranial trauma in Eurasian Upper Paleolithic humans.

Author(s): Judith Beier; Nils Anthes; Joachim Wahl; Katerina Harvati
Published in: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Issue 8, 2020, ISSN 1096-8644
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24163

Archaeometric evidence for the earliest exploitation of lignite from the bronze age Eastern Mediterranean

Author(s): Stephen Buckley; Robert C. Power; Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki; Murat Akar; Julia Becher; Matthias Belser; Sara Cafisso; Stefanie Eisenmann; Joann Fletcher; Michael Francken; Birgitta Hallager; Katerina Harvati; Tara Ingman; Efthymia Kataki; Joseph Maran; Mario A. S. Martin; Photini J. P. McGeorge; Ianir Milevski; Alkestis Papadimitriou; Eftychia Protopapadaki; Domingo C. Salazar-García; Tyede Schmid
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-03544-w

Lake-Level Changes and Their Paleo-Climatic Implications at the MIS12 Lower Paleolithic (Middle Pleistocene) Site Marathousa 1, Greece

Author(s): Bludau, Ines J. E.; Papadopoulou, Penelope; Iliopoulos, George; Weiss, Max; Schnabel, Ellen; Thompson, Nicholas; Tourloukis, Vangelis; Zachow, Charlotte; Kyrikou, Styliani; Konidaris, George E.; Karkanas, Panagiotis; Panagopoulou, Eleni; Harvati, Katerina; Junginger, Annett
Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2296-6463
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2021.668445

The Genomic History Of Southeastern Europe

Author(s): Iain Mathieson; Songül Alpaslan Roodenberg; Cosimo Posth; Anna Szécsényi-Nagy; Nadin Rohland; Swapan Mallick; Iñigo Olalde; Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht; Francesca Candilio; Olivia Cheronet; Daniel Fernandes; Matthew Ferry; Beatriz Gamarra; Gloria González Fortes; Wolfgang Haak; Eadaoin Harney; Eppie Jones; Denise Keating; Ben Krause-Kyora; Isil Kucukkalipci; Megan Michel; Alissa Mittnik; Kathr
Published in: Nature, Issue 11, 2018, ISSN 1476-4687
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1101/135616

Reconsidering the Equids from the Early Pleistocene Fauna of Apollonia 1 (Mygdonia Basin, Greece)

Author(s): Anastasia G. Gkeme; George D. Koufos; Dimitris S. Kostopoulos
Published in: Quaternary, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2571-550X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/quat4020012

Dating of the Lower Pleistocene Vertebrate Site of Tsiotra Vryssi (Mygdonia Basin, Greece): Biochronology, Magnetostratigraphy, and Cosmogenic Radionuclides

Author(s): George E. Konidaris; Dimitris S. Kostopoulos; Matteo Maron; Mirjam Schaller; Todd A. Ehlers; Elina Aidona; Mattia Marini; Vangelis Tourloukis; Giovanni Muttoni; George D. Koufos; Katerina Harvati
Published in: Quaternary, Issue 11, 2021, ISSN 2571-550X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/quat4010001

Accurate and semi-automated reassociation of intermixed human skeletal remains recovered from bioarchaeological and forensic contexts.

Author(s): Ioanna Anastopoulou; Fotios Alexandros Karakostis; Katerina Harvati; Konstantinos Moraitis
Published in: Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021), Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99962-x

ESR Dating Ungulate Teeth and Molluscs from the Paleolithic Site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis Basin, Greece

Author(s): Bonnie A.B. Blackwell, Neeraj Sakhrani, Impreet K. Singh, Kalyani K. Gopalkrishna, Vangelis Tourloukis, Eleni Panagopoulou, Panagiotis Karkanas, Joel I.B. Blickstein, Anne R. Skinner, Jonathan A. Florentin, Katerina Harvati
Published in: Quaternary, Issue 1/3, 2018, Page(s) 22, ISSN 2571-550X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/quat1030022

Revisiting Ursus etruscus (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Early Pleistocene of Greece with description of new material

Author(s): George D. Koufos, George E. Konidaris, Katerina Harvati
Published in: Quaternary International, 2017, ISSN 1040-6182
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.09.043

The Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: Overview of the evidence

Author(s): Eleni Panagopoulou, Vangelis Tourloukis, Nicholas Thompson, George Konidaris, Athanassios Athanassiou, Domenico Giusti, Georgia Tsartsidou, Panagiotis Karkanas, Katerina Harvati
Published in: Quaternary International, 2018, ISSN 1040-6182
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.06.031

A palaeoenvironmental reconstruction (based on palaeobotanical data and diatoms) of the Middle Pleistocene elephant ( Palaeoloxodon antiquus ) butchery site at Marathousa, Megalopolis, Greece

Author(s): M.H. Field, M. Ntinou, G. Tsartsidou, D. van Berge Henegouwen, J. Risberg, V. Tourloukis, N. Thompson, P. Karkanas, E. Panagopoulou, K. Harvati
Published in: Quaternary International, 2018, ISSN 1040-6182
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.06.014

Evidence for precision grasping in Neandertal daily activities

Author(s): Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, Gerhard Hotz, Vangelis Tourloukis, Katerina Harvati
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 4/9, 2018, Page(s) eaat2369, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat2369

Lithic artifacts and bone tools from the Lower Palaeolithic site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: Preliminary results

Author(s): Vangelis Tourloukis, Nicholas Thompson, Eleni Panagopoulou, Domenico Giusti, George E. Konidaris, Panagiotis Karkanas, Katerina Harvati
Published in: Quaternary International, 2018, ISSN 1040-6182
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.05.043

Magnetostratigraphic and chronostratigraphic constraints on the Marathousa 1 Lower Palaeolithic site and the Middle Pleistocene deposits of the Megalopolis basin, Greece

Author(s): Vangelis Tourloukis, Giovanni Muttoni, Panagiotis Karkanas, Edoardo Monesi, Giancarlo Scardia, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati
Published in: Quaternary International, 2018, ISSN 1040-6182
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.03.043

The skeleton of a straight-tusked elephant ( Palaeoloxodon antiquus ) and other large mammals from the Middle Pleistocene butchering locality Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis Basin, Greece): preliminary results

Author(s): George E. Konidaris, Athanassios Athanassiou, Vangelis Tourloukis, Nicholas Thompson, Domenico Giusti, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati
Published in: Quaternary International, 2017, ISSN 1040-6182
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.12.001

Sedimentology and micromorphology of the Lower Palaeolithic lakeshore site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis basin, Greece

Author(s): Panagiotis Karkanas, Vangelis Tourloukis, Nicholas Thompson, Domenico Giusti, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati
Published in: Quaternary International, 2018, ISSN 1040-6182
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.02.037

The ornithological remains from Marathousa 1 (Middle Pleistocene; Megalopolis Basin, Greece)

Author(s): Dimitrios Michailidis, George E. Konidaris, Athanassios Athanassiou, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati
Published in: Quaternary International, 2018, ISSN 1040-6182
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.06.045

Optical dating of K-feldspar grains from Middle Pleistocene lacustrine sediment at Marathousa 1 (Greece)

Author(s): Zenobia Jacobs, Bo Li, Panagiotis Karkanas, Vangelis Tourloukis, Nick Thompson, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati
Published in: Quaternary International, 2018, ISSN 1040-6182
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.06.029

Beyond maps: Patterns of formation processes at the Middle Pleistocene open-air site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis basin, Greece

Author(s): Domenico Giusti, Vangelis Tourloukis, GeorgeE. Konidaris, Nicholas Thompson, Panagiotis Karkanas, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati
Published in: Quaternary International, 2018, ISSN 1040-6182
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.01.041

The small mammal fauna from the palaeolithic site Marathousa 1 (Greece)

Author(s): Constantin Doukas, Thijs van Kolfschoten, Katerina Papayianni, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati
Published in: Quaternary International, 2018, ISSN 1040-6182
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.09.036

Similar cranial trauma prevalence among Neanderthals and Upper Palaeolithic modern humans

Author(s): Judith Beier, Nils Anthes, Joachim Wahl, Katerina Harvati
Published in: Nature, 2018, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0696-8

Recursive anisotropy: a spatial taphonomic study of the Early Pleistocene vertebrate assemblage of Tsiotra Vryssi, Mygdonia Basin, Greece

Author(s): Domenico Giusti, George E. Konidaris, Vangelis Tourloukis, Mattia Marini, Matteo Maron, Andrea Zerboni, Nicholas Thompson, George D. Koufos, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, Katerina Harvati
Published in: Boreas, Issue 48/3, 2019, Page(s) 713-730, ISSN 0300-9483
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1111/bor.12368

The evolutionary history of the human face

Author(s): Rodrigo S. Lacruz, Chris B. Stringer, William H. Kimbel, Bernard Wood, Katerina Harvati, Paul O’Higgins, Timothy G. Bromage, Juan-Luis Arsuaga
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 3/5, 2019, Page(s) 726-736, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Nature Research publishing
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0865-7

State of the art forensic techniques reveal evidence of interpersonal violence ca. 30,000 years ago

Author(s): Elena F. Kranioti, Dan Grigorescu, Katerina Harvati
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 14/7, 2019, Page(s) e0216718, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216718

Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia

Author(s): Katerina Harvati, Carolin Röding, Abel M. Bosman, Fotios A. Karakostis, Rainer Grün, Chris Stringer, Panagiotis Karkanas, Nicholas C. Thompson, Vassilis Koutoulidis, Lia A. Moulopoulos, Vassilis G. Gorgoulis, Mirsini Kouloukoussa
Published in: Nature, Issue 571/7766, 2019, Page(s) 500-504, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1376-z

Late Miocene proboscideans from Samos Island (Greece) revisited: new specimens from old collections

Author(s): George E. Konidaris, George D. Koufos
Published in: PalZ, Issue 93/1, 2019, Page(s) 115-134, ISSN 0031-0220
Publisher: E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagsbuchhandlung
DOI: 10.1007/s12542-018-0432-6

The first record of Anancus (Mammalia, Proboscidea) in the late Miocene of Greece and reappraisal of the primitive anancines from Europe

Author(s): George E. Konidaris, Socrates J. Roussiakis
Published in: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Issue 38/6, 2018, Page(s) e1534118, ISSN 0272-4634
Publisher: Society Of Vertebrate Paleontology
DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2018.1534118

Early bison remains from Mygdonia Basin (Northern Greece)

Author(s): Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, Ioannis Maniakas, Evangelia Tsoukala
Published in: Geodiversitas, Issue 40/3, 2018, Page(s) 283, ISSN 1280-9659
Publisher: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2018v40a13

Experimental proof that multivariate patterns among muscle attachments (entheses) can reflect repetitive muscle use

Author(s): Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, Nathan Jeffery, Katerina Harvati
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 9/1, 2019, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-53021-8

Experimental evidence that physical activity affects the multivariate associations among muscle attachments (entheses)

Author(s): Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, Ian J. Wallace, Nicolai Konow, Katerina Harvati
Published in: The Journal of Experimental Biology, Issue 222/23, 2019, Page(s) jeb213058, ISSN 0022-0949
Publisher: The Company of Biologists Ltd.
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.213058

Proboscideans from the upper Miocene localities of Thermopigi, Neokaisareia and Platania (Northern Greece)

Author(s): George E. Konidaris; Evangelia Tsoukala
Published in: Annales de Paleontologie, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 0753-3969
Publisher: Elsevier Masson
DOI: 10.1016/j.annpal.2019.102380

Late Miocene proboscideans from Samos Island (Greece) revisited: new specimens from old collections

Author(s): Konidaris, George; Koufos, George
Published in: Paläontologische Zeitschrift, Issue 1, 2019, ISSN 1867-6812
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3569486

First Record of Macaca (Cercopithecidae, Primates) in the Middle Pleistocene of Greece

Author(s): George Konidaris, Athanassios Athanassiou, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati
Published in: Journal of Human Evolution, 2022, ISSN 0047-2484
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103104

Biomechanics of the human thumb and the evolution of dexterity

Author(s): Fotios Alexandros Karakostis; Daniel F. B. Haeufle; Daniel F. B. Haeufle; Ioanna Anastopoulou; Konstantinos Moraitis; Gerhard Hotz; Vangelis Tourloukis; Katerina Harvati
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 1-9, ISSN 1879-0445
Publisher: Cell Press (Elsevier Inc)
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.12.041

"New horizons in reconstructing past human behavior: Introducing the ""Tübingen University Validated Entheses-based Reconstruction of Activity"" method."

Author(s): Fotios Alexandros Karakostis; Katerina Harvati
Published in: Evolutionary Anthropology, Issue 5, 2021, ISSN 1520-6505
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/evan.21892

Marathousa 1; expanding the scene Reconstructing the regional environment of the Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis, Greece) butchering-site during the Middle Pleistocene using palynological data

Author(s): Lars den Boef
Published in: MSc Thesis, 2019
Publisher: University of Leiden

THE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT ON EARLY HOMININS AT THE MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE SITE OF ‘MARATHOUSA 1’: A BOTANICAL INVESTIGATION CONTRIBUTING TO A MULTIPROXY APPROACH

Author(s): Sarah Barbier
Published in: MSc Thesis, 2019
Publisher: University of Leiden

STUDY OF RHINOCERATIDAE FROM THE FOSSIL SITES TSIOTRA VRYSSI AND PLATANOCHORI OF MYGDONIA BASIN

Author(s): Krystalia N. Chitoglou
Published in: BA Thesis, 2019
Publisher: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Marathousa 2: A new Middle Pleistocene locality in Megalopolis Basin (Greece) with evidence of human modifications on faunal remains

Author(s): George E. Konidaris, Vangelis Tourloukis, Athanassios Athanassiou, Domenico Giusti, Nicholas Thompson, Eleni Panagopoulou, Panagiotis Karkanas, Katerina Harvati
Published in: Proceedings of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, Issue 8, 2019, 2019, Page(s) 82, ISSN 2195-0784
Publisher: European Society for the Study of Human Evolutioon

Neanderthals habitually performed precise manual activities

Author(s): Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, Gerhard Hotz, Vangelis Tourloukis, Katerina Harvati
Published in: Proceedings of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, Issue 7, 2018, 2018, Page(s) 98, ISSN 2195-0784
Publisher: European Society for the Study of Human Evolution

Interdisciplinary evidence of the effects of physical activity in the patterns of human hand entheses

Author(s): Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, Katerina Harvati
Published in: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Issue Volume 160, Issue S68, 2019, 2019, Page(s) 119-120
Publisher: Wiley

Cranial trauma prevalence in Neanderthals and early Upper Paleolithic modern humans

Author(s): Judith Beier, Nils Anthes, Joachim Wahl, Katerina Harvati
Published in: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Issue Volume 168, Issue S68, 2019, 2019, Page(s) 15-16
Publisher: Wiley

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