Partner 6: School of History and Archaeology Department of Archaeology Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Professor Kostas Kotsakis, PhD. (kotsakis@hist.auth.gr)

 

Key relevant qualifications

  1. Vast knowledge of the archaeology and landscapes of northern Greece, which was a key transfer area between the Mediterranean and more northerly parts of Europe throughout the Bronze Age, and it has, especially in recent years, produced a huge body of archaeological data material suitable for further archaeological and scientific processing.

  2. Extensive field experience directing excavations and field projects in northern Greece, among which directing the major Bronze Age site of Toumba Thessalonikis during the years 1985-2000. A fine meshed network of colleagues in the entire region has been obtained.

  3. Contributions to relevant issues focusing on human mobility, innovation and tradition, relations between cultures and practices of daily life as well as issues of methodology and theory.

  4. Vast experience as project coordinator and participant in national and international (EU) cooperative projects.

  5. Experience in dissemination and outreach of archaeological results through the TEMPER project (Euromed Heritage) and active involvement in museological theory and practice.

Department profile

The Department of Archaeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is the largest department of archaeology in Greece. It has a reputation for being also the most theoretically oriented, since it introduced archaeological theory and multidisciplinary archaeological practice in the early 1980’s. It covers all periods of archaeology, from the Palaeolithic to the late Byzantine and Ottoman periods. More than fourteen excavations and field projects in northern Greece combine research and training for students and covering all periods. It publishes the scientific journal Egnatia, and co-edits with the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki the yearly Archaeological Works in Macedonia and Thrace, which is now in its 20th volume. Among the courses offered by the Department, the interdisciplinary postgraduate course on “Landscape Archaeology” discusses the relevant issues of landscape interpretation, geomorphology, bioarchaeology, prehistoric technologies, archaeometallurgy, and biochemistry.

 

Selected publications relevant to proposal

1. K. Kotsakis & S. Andreou 1999. “Mycenaean presence? Mycenaean periphery?; Toumba Thessalonikis, Bronze Age site in Macedonia” The periphery of the Mycenaean World (in Greek). Lamia.

2. K. Kotsakis 2003. “Organic residues in storage vessels from the Toumba Thessalonikis”. In Prehistoric Pottery. People, pattern and purpose. Alex Gibson, ed. BAR International Series 1156.

3. K. Kotsakis, M. Katsianis & S. Tsipidis 2006. “Digital Recording of Archaeological Data Using GIS in Paliambela, Kolindros” Archaeological Works 19, Thessaloniki, Greece.




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