Niki Saridaki

The article provides a brief yet comprehensive description of the multi-faceted study of the ceramic assemblage of the Early Neolithic site of Ritini in Pieria [in Greek].

While red ochre had been exploited in the Aegean since the Upper Paleolithic, its use became more substantial and diverse during the Neolithic. The evidence comes in the form of: decoration of artifacts such as pottery; red-stained tools and containers; painted plaster; ochre pigment contained in vessels; an ochre mine; deliberately shaped ochre ar...

The Workshop will examine dynamic outdoor settlement spaces, human practices, and daily living in various cultural and social frameworks at both local and regional scales in Neolithic South-eastern Europe. It will explore quotidian and/or exceptional social practices at open-air spaces, through multi-disciplinary scientific methods, aiming to produ...

This paper examines, in parallel, two key archaeological material groups: the kilns and the ceramics from the exceptional tell site of Imvrou Pigadi, the first known and systematically excavated MiddleNeolithic pottery workshop in Thessaly. The study forms an all-encompassing, material-based, and scientifically integrated framework based on macrosc...

This paper presents a new reading of the Neolithic archaeological record of western Thessaly. Eastern and coastal Thessaly exhibit exceptional density of Neolithic settlements, whereas the striking scarcity of Neolithic presence in the western plain, has been usually attributed to unspecified “unwelcoming physiographic characteristics”. This pictur...

This paper presents a new reading of the Neolithic archaeological record of western Thessaly. Eastern and coastal Thessaly exhibit exceptional density of Neolithic settlements, whereas the striking scarcity of Neolithic presence in the western plain, has been usually attributed to unspecified ‘unwelcoming physiographic characteristics’. This pictur...

The present study is a multi-analytical approach for the characterization of several potsherd samples, dated from Late Classical to the Hellenistic period at three different archaeological sites of Northern Greece: Pella, Thasos and Samothrace. Ceramic petrography, Scanning Electron Microscopy coupled with Energy Dispersive Spectrometry (SEM-EDS) a...

The ongoing interdisciplinary landscape project 'Land reclamation and the cultural record of the Kambos, western Thessaly, Greece' (LTNS: 2014-), carried out by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Karditsa and a large international team, is revolutionising our understanding of the archaeology of western Thessaly. The traditional image of an unpromising...

Thessaly has been traditionally perceived as the ‘cradle’ of the Greek Neolithic (7th to 4th millennium BC) and a key area to understand and contextualise the route(s), timing, ways and tempo of the Neolithic beginnings in Europe. From the beginning of the 20th century onwards, archaeological research in Thessaly embodied all major theoretical and...

Based on the pottery analysis of sites from central and western Macedonia, it can be argued that there is a close connection between these regions and Thessaly during the Early and Middle Neolithic. However, this wide network of communication may have been remodeled, as manifested in the pottery. For instance, sites like Revenia, Ritini, and Vareme...

Disparity in recorded Neolithic activity between the eastern and western Thessaly plain in central Greece is being redressed by the ‘Long Time No See’ landscape project. A recently discovered pottery kiln complex at Magoula Rizava tell site offers exciting new evidence for intra-regional pottery production and circulation during the Middle Neolithi...