List of works by Panagiotis Karkanas

6.23 Micromorphology of Cave Sediments

A genetic probe into the ancient and medieval history of Southern Europe and West Asia

scholarly article

A geoarchaeological study of the construction of the Laona tumulus at Palaepaphos, Cyprus

scientific article

A high resolution and continuous isotopic speleothem record of paleoclimate and paleoenvironment from 90 to 53 ka from Pinnacle Point on the south coast of South Africa

scholarly article

A landscape of tells: Geophysics and microstratigraphy at two Neolithic tell sites on the Great Hungarian Plain

All about wood ash: Long term fire experiments reveal unknown aspects of the formation and preservation of ash with critical implications on the emergence and use of fire in the past

scientific article published in November 2021

An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa

scientific article

Ancient DNA from Mesopotamia suggests distinct Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic migrations into Anatolia

scientific article published in 2022

Ancient DNA reveals admixture history and endogamy in the prehistoric Aegean

scientific article published in 2023

Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

Ash Bones and Guano: a Study of the Minerals and Phytoliths in the Sediments of Grotte XVI, Dordogne, France

article

Bat guano and preservation of archaeological remains in cave sites

scholarly article by Ruth Shahack-Gross published in September 2004

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

scientific article

Dating Palaeolithic sites in southwestern Crete, Greece

scientific article (publication date: 26 April 2011)

Depositional and sea-level history from MIS 6 (Termination II) to MIS 3 on the southern continental shelf of South Africa

scholarly article

Destruction, Abandonment, Reoccupation

Development of the SAR TT-OSL procedure for dating Middle Pleistocene dune and shallow marine deposits along the southern Cape coast of South Africa

article

Diagenesis in Prehistoric Caves: the Use of Minerals that Form In Situ to Assess the Completeness of the Archaeological Record

scholarly article by Panagiotis Karkanas published in October 2000

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

Earliest occupation of the Central Aegean (Naxos), Greece: Implications for hominin and Homo sapiens' behavior and dispersals

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene

scientific article published on 18 October 2007

Evidence for habitual use of fire at the end of the Lower Paleolithic: site-formation processes at Qesem Cave, Israel

scientific article

Evidence for the repeated use of a central hearth at Middle Pleistocene (300 ky ago) Qesem Cave, Israel

article

First Neanderthal remains from Greece: the evidence from Lakonis

scientific article published in December 2003

Floor sequences in Neolithic Makri, Greece: micromorphology reveals cycles of renovation

scholarly article by Panagiotis Karkanas published in December 2009

Gravitational deformations and fillings of aging caves: The example of Qesem karst system, Israel

scholarly article by Amos Frumkin et al published May 2009 in Geomorphology

Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago.

scientific article published on 12 March 2018

Identification of lime plaster in prehistory using petrographic methods: A review and reconsideration of the data on the basis of experimental and case studies

article

Integrated analytical techniques for the study of ancient Greek polychromy

scientific article published on July 2004

Interpreting human behavior from depositional rates and combustion features through the study of sedimentary microfacies at site Pinnacle Point 5-6, South Africa

scientific article published on 27 May 2015

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

Late Middle Pleistocene climate in southwestern China: inferences from the stratigraphic record of Panxian Dadong Cave, Guizhou

article

Late Neolithic household activities in marginal areas: the micromorphological evidence from the Kouveleiki caves, Peloponnese, Greece

article

Late Pleistocene Archaeological and Fossil Human Evidence from Lakonis Cave, Southern Greece

scientific article published in 2002

Late Pleistocene records of speleothem stable isotopic compositions from Pinnacle Point on the South African south coast

article

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

scholarly article

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

scholarly article

Melting ice sheets 400,000 yr ago raised sea level by 13m: Past analogue for future trends

scholarly article by David L. Roberts et al published December 2012 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Microfaunal remains at Middle Pleistocene Qesem Cave, Israel: Preliminary results on small vertebrates, environment and biostratigraphy.

scientific article

Micromorphological analysis of sediments at the Bronze Age site of Mitrou, central Greece: patterns of floor construction and maintenance

article by Panagiotis Karkanas & Aleydis Van de Moortel published March 2014 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Micromorphological studies of Greek prehistoric sites: New insights in the interpretation of the archaeological record

scholarly article by Panagiotis Karkanas published in March 2002

Micromorphology of sediments: Deciphering archaeological context

scholarly article by Panagiotis Karkanas published in December 2007

Microstratigraphic and mineralogical study of a Late Bronze Age updraft pottery kiln, Kolonna site, Aegina Island, Greece ⬇️

scientific article published on 5 August 2019

Middle paleolithic lithic assemblages of the Klissoura cave, peloponnesus, Greece: A comparative analysis

Mineral Assemblages in Theopetra, Greece: A Framework for Understanding Diagenesis in a Prehistoric Cave

Multivariate analysis and classification of the Apidima 2 cranium from Mani, Southern Greece

scientific article published on 30 November 2010

Nemea Valley Archaeological Project, Excavations at Barnavos: Final Report

scholarly article by James C Wright published in December 2008

Neolithic Lime Plastered Floors in Drakaina Cave, Kephalonia Island, Western Greece: Evidence of the Significance of the Site

article

New Middle Palaeolithic sites from the Mani Peninsula, Southern Greece

Of cattle and feasts: Multi-isotope investigation of animal husbandry and communal feasting at Neolithic Makriyalos, northern Greece.

scientific article published on 7 June 2018

On the chronology of the Uluzzian.

scientific article published on 7 February 2014

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

scholarly article

Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and flora exploitation at the Palaeolithic cave of Theopetra, central Greece: the evidence from phytolith analysis

article

Palaeoenvironments and site formation processes at the Neolithic lakeside settlement of Dispilio, Kastoria, Northern Greece

Paleoanthropologically significant South African sea caves dated to 1.1–1.0 million years using a combination of U–Pb, TT-OSL and palaeomagnetism

scholarly article by Robyn Pickering et al published April 2013 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Paleoenvironmental Evolution of the Coastal Plain of Marathon, Greece, during the Late Holocene: Depositional Environment, Climate, and Sea Level Changes

Paleoenvironmental evolution and prehistoric human environment, in the embayment of Palamari (Skyros Island, Greece) during Middle-Late Holocene

scholarly article

Palynological investigation of Holocene palaeoenvironmental changes in the coastal plain of Marathon (Attica, Greece)

scientific article published in 2009

Phosphatic Features

Phosphatic Features

Phytoliths as an indicator of early modern humans plant gathering strategies, fire fuel and site occupation intensity during the Middle Stone Age at Pinnacle Point 5-6 (south coast, South Africa).

scientific article

Prehistoric exploitation of Grevena highland zones: hunters and herders along the Pindus chain of western Macedonia (Greece)

scholarly article by Nikos Efstratiou published in September 2006

Preservation of anthropogenic materials under different geochemical processes: A mineralogical approach

scholarly article

Quantitative sourcing of slackwater deposits at Boila rockshelter: A record of lateglacial flooding and Paleolithic settlement in the Pindus Mountains, Northwest Greece

Response to Nowell and Horstwood (2009)

Revisiting Kokkinopilos: Middle Pleistocene radiometric dates for stratified archaeological remains in Greece

scholarly article by Vangelis Tourloukis published in May 2015

Sedimentary processes involved in mud brick degradation in temperate environments: a micromorphological approach in an ethnoarchaeological context in northern Greece

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

scholarly article by Panagiotis Karkanas et al published March 2018 in Quaternary International

Site Use and Maintenance in the Middle Palaeolithic at Lakonis I (Peloponnese, Greece) ⬇️

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

Site formation processes at Pinnacle Point Cave 13B (Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa): resolving stratigraphic and depositional complexities with micromorphology

scientific article published in September 2010

Strontium isotope evidence of Neanderthal mobility at the site of Lakonis, Greece using laser-ablation PIMMS

article

Technical considerations and methodology for creating high-resolution, color-corrected, and georectified photomosaics of stratigraphic sections at archaeological sites

scholarly article by Erich C. Fisher published in May 2015

Tephra correlations and climatic events between the MIS6/5 transition and the beginning of MIS3 in Theopetra Cave, central Greece

scholarly article

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

scholarly article

The Middle Pleistocene archaeological record of Greece and the role of the Aegean in hominin dispersals: new data and interpretations

scholarly article by Vangelis Tourloukis published in June 2012

The Neolithic tell as a multi-species monument: Human, animal, and plant relationships through a micro-contextual study of animal dung remains at Koutroulou Magoula, central Greece

article

The chronology of the late Lower Paleolithic in the Levant based on U–Th ages of speleothems from Qesem Cave, Israel

scholarly article by A. Gopher et al published December 2010 in Quaternary Geochronology

The earliest evidence for clay hearths: Aurignacian features in Klisoura Cave 1, southern Greece

The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe

scholarly article

The geoarchaeology of Mycenaean chamber tombs

The physical environment in Northern Greece at the advent of the Neolithic

scholarly article

The stratigraphy of the Middle Stone Age sediments at Pinnacle Point Cave 13B (Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa).

scientific article published in September 2010

Volcanic ash layers illuminate the resilience of Neanderthals and early modern humans to natural hazards

scientific article (publication date: 21 August 2012)

Where are the roofs? A geo-ethnoarchaeological study of mud brick structures and their collapse processes, focusing on the identification of roofs

scientific article published on 10 June 2013

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