Dr. Vangelis Tourloukis
Function: Senior Researcher
Universität Tübingen
Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Abt. Paläoanthropologie
Rümelinstr. 23
D-72070 Tübingen
Room 508, Hauptgebäude, 2. OG
+49-(0)7071-2974071
+49-(0)7071-295717
vangelis.tourloukis@ifu.uni-tuebingen.de
Consulting hours:
by arrangement
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Vangelis Tourloukis (PhD, Leiden University) works as Senior Researcher. He has a broad training in Prehistoric Archaeology and his research focuses on the Palaeolithic period, lithic technology and geoarchaeology. Vangelis has extensive experience as co-director of field research and lithic analyst in several survey projects and excavations in Greece and Turkey. Since 2012, he is directing the excavations and surveys that take place in the framework of the ERC projects PaGE (2012-2016) and CROSSROADS (2017-2022), where he is responsible for designing the research methodology, coordinating the field and laboratory analyses of the cultural material, and contextualizing the chronological and paleoenvironmental data. In the study of prehistoric cultural remains, Tourloukis investigates the evolutionary dynamics between early human technology, subsistence strategies and environmental settings. His research interests include the evolution of the human niche, the role of technology in early human behavior, and the socio-economic and ecological contexts of hominin behavioral diversity.
Education
| 2010 | PhD in Palaeolithic Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 2004 | MA in Palaeolithic Archaeology (cum laude), Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden, the Netherlands |
| 2000 | Major in Archaeology and History of Art, Faculty of History and Archaeology, School of Philosophy, University of Athens, Greece |
| 1998 | Faculty of History, University of Bielefeld, Germany |
Graants and Scolarships
Volkswagen Foundation Grant for Symposia, 2019
Funding (40,000 €) of the interdisciplinary Symposium "Human-Elephant interactions: from past to present", co-organized with Prof. K. Harvati, Prof. R. Barkai, Dr. G. Konidaris.
Wenner-Gren Foundation, Post-doc Research Grant, 2016-17
Funding (19,900 $) of archaeological research project in Epirus: "Palaeolithic settlement and land use in a Quaternary refugium: new evidence from Epirus, NW Greece".
State Scholarships Foundation (Greece), 2005-2008
Monthly scholarship (~750 €) awarded after written examinations, for the completion of PhD studies (University of Leiden). Supervisor on behalf of the Foundation: Prof. K. Kotsakis.
Scholarship in the framework of the Erasmus Program, 1998
Seminars in History and Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld, Germany.
Publications
Monographs
| In review | Tourloukis, V. [in review] Early hominin dispersals and adaptations in the Southern Balkans: site formation processes, geochronology and palaeoenvironments. Schriftliche Habilitationsleistung, Paläoanthropologie, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. |
| 2010 | Tourloukis, V. 2010. The Early and Middle Pleistocene archaeological record of Greece: current status and future prospects. Archaeological Studies Leiden University 23, Leiden: Leiden University Press. |
Edited volumes (peer-reviewed)
| 2021 | Konidaris, G., Barkai, R., Tourloukis, V., Harvati, K. (Eds.) 2021. Human-elephant interactions: from past to present. Tübingen: Tübingen University Press. |
| 2018 | Harvati, K., Konidaris, G., Tourloukis, V., (Eds.) 2018. The Gates of Europe. Quaternary International Special Issue, Volume 497 Part A, pp. 1-240. |
Chapters in edited volumes (peer-reviewed)
| In press | Harvati K., Grün R., Duval M., Zhao J., Karakostis A., Tourloukis V., Gorgoulis V., Kouloukoussa M. [in press]. Direct U-series dating of the Apidima C human remains. In: Reyes-Centeno H, Harvati K (eds) Ancient Connections in Eurasia. Kerns Verlag, Tübingen |
| 2021 | Konidaris, G., Barkai, R., Tourloukis, V., Harvati, K. 2021. Human-elephant interactions from past to present: an introduction. In: Konidaris, G., Barkai, R., Tourloukis, V., Harvati, K. (Eds), Human-elephant interactions: from past to present, pp.13-21. Tübingen, Tübingen University Press. |
| Konidaris, G., Tourloukis, V. 2021. Proboscidea-Homo interactions in open-air localities during the Early and Middle Pleistocene of Western Eurasia: a palaeontological and archaeological perspective. In: Konidaris, G., Barkai, R., Tourloukis, V., Harvati, K. (Eds), Human-elephant interactions: from past to present, pp. 67-104. Tübingen, Tübingen University Press. | |
| 2016 | Tourloukis, V. 2016. On the spatio-temporal distribution of Mediterranean Lower Palaeolithic sites: a geoarchaeological perspective. In: Harvati, K., Roksandic, M. (Eds.), Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia: Human evolution and its context, pp. 303-323. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series, Dordrecht: Springer Verlag. |
| 2009 | Tourloukis, E., Palli, O. 2009. The first Mesolithic site of Thesprotia. In: B. Forsén (Eds.), Thesprotia Expedition I: Towards a regional history, pp. 25-38. Helsinki: Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens XV. |
Scientific Journals (peer-reviewed)
| In review | Guibert-Cardin, J., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., Nicoud, E., Beyries, S. [in review]. The function of small tools during the Middle Pleistocene in Europe: the case of Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis, Greece). Journal of Lithic Studies. |
| Bludau, I.E., Weiss, M., Papadopoulou, P., Iliopoulos, G., Schnabel, E., Thompson, N., Tourloukis, V., Zachow, C., Kyrikou, S., Konidaris, G., Karkanas, P., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati1, K., Junginger, A. [in review]. Lake level changes and their paleo-climatic implications at the MIS12 Lower Paleolithic (Middle Pleistocene) site Marathousa 1, Greece. Frontiers in Earth Science. | |
| 2021 | Karakostis, F.A., Haeufle, D., Anastopoulou, I., Moraitis, K., Hotz, G., Tourloukis, V., Harvati, K., 2021. Biomechanics of the human thumb and the evolution of dexterity. Current Biology 31, 1-9. |
| Starkovich, B., Cuthbertson, P., Kitakawa, K., Thompson, N., Konidaris, G., Rots, V., Μünzel, S., Giusti, D., Schmid, V., Blanco-Lapaz, A., Lepers, Ch., Tourloukis, V. 2021. Minimum tools, maximum meat: explorative experimental butchery of an Elephant foot using Lower Paleolithic stone tool technology. Ethnoarchaeology (31 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1080/19442890.2020.1864877 | |
| Konidaris, G., Kostopoulos, D., Maron, M., Schaller, M., Ehlers, T., Aidona, E., Marini, M., Tourloukis, V., Muttoni, G., Koufos, G., Harvati, K. 2021. Dating of the Lower Pleistocene vertebrate site of Tsiotra Vryssi (Mygdonia Basin, Greece): biochronology, magnetostratigraphy and cosmogenic radionuclides. Quaternary 4 (1), 1-18. | |
| 2019 | Sahle, Y., Giusti, D., Tourloukis, V. 2019. Newly discovered Middle Pleistocene hominid-bearing deposits from the Lower Awash basin, Ethiopia. Anthropological Science 127 (3), 141-147. |
| Giusti, D., Konidaris, G.E., Tourloukis, V., Marini, M., Maron, M., Zerboni, A., Thompson, N., Koufos, G.D., Kostopoulos, D.S., Harvati, K., 2019. Recursive anisotropy: a spatial taphonomic study of the Early Pleistocene vertebrate assemblage of Tsiotra Vryssi, Mygdonia Basin, Greece. Boreas 48 (3), 713-730. | |
| 2018 | Karakostis, F.A., Hotz G., Tourloukis, V., Harvati K., 2018. Evidence for precision grasping in Neandertal daily activities. Science Advances 4, eaat2369. |
| Tourloukis, V., Harvati, K. 2018. The Palaeolithic record of Greece: a synthesis of the evidence and a research agenda for the future. Quaternary International 466, 48-65. | |
| Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Panagopoulou, E., Giusti, D., Konidaris, G., Harvati, K. 2018. Lithic artifacts and bone tools from the Lower Palaeolithic site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: preliminary results. Quaternary International 497, 47-64. | |
| Tourloukis, V., Muttoni, G., Karkanas, P., Monesi, E., Scardia, G., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., 2018. Magnetostratigraphic and chronostratigraphic constraints on the Marathousa 1 Lower Palaeolithic site and the Middle Pleistocene deposits of the Megalopolis basin, Greece. Quaternary International 497, 154-169. | |
| Panagopoulou, E., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Konidaris, G., Athanassiou, A., Giusti, D., Tsartsidou, G., Karkanas, P., Harvati, K. 2018. The Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: overview of the evidence. Quaternary International 497, 33-46. | |
| Karkanas, P., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Giusti, D., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., 2018. Sedimentology and micromorphology of the Lower Palaeolithic lakeshore site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece. Quaternary International 497, 123-136. | |
| Giusti, D., Tourloukis, V., Konidaris, G.E., Thompson, N., Karkanas, P., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., 2018. Beyond maps: patterns of formation processes at the Middle Pleistocene open-air site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece. Quaternary International 497, 137-153. | |
| Thompson, N., Tourloukis, V., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., 2018. In search of Pleistocene remains at the Gates of Europe: directed surface survey of the Megalopolis Basin (Greece). Quaternary International 497, 22-32. | |
| Konidaris, G.E., Athanassiou, A., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Giusti, D., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. 2018. 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. Quaternary International 497, 65-84. | |
| Jacobs, Z., Li, B., Karkanas, P., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., 2018. Optical dating of K-feldspar grains from Middle Pleistocene lacustrine sediment at Marathousa 1 (Greece). Quaternary International 497, 170-177. | |
| Athanassiou, A., Michailidis, D., Vlachos, E., Tourloukis. V., Thompson, N., Harvati, K., 2018. Pleistocene vertebrates from the Kyparissia lignite mine, Megalopolis Basin, S. Greece: Testudines, Aves, Suiformes. Quaternary International 497, 178-197. | |
| Blackwell, A.B.B., Sakhrani, N., Singh, I.K., Gopalkrishna, K.K., Tourloukis, V., Panagopoulou, E., Karkanas, P., Blickstein, J.I.B., Skinner, A.R., Florentin, J.A., Harvati, K., 2018. ESR dating ungulate teeth and molluscs from the Paleolithic site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis Basin, Greece. Quaternary 1 (3), 22. | |
| Field, M.H., Ntinou, M., Tsartsidou, G., van Berge Henegouwen, D., Risberg, J., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Karkanas, P., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., 2018. A palaeoenvironmental reconstruction (based on palaeobotanical data and diatoms) of the Middle Pleistocene elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) butchery site at Marathousa, Megalopolis, Greece. Quaternary International 497, 108-122. | |
| Harvati, K., Konidaris, G., Tourloukis, V., 2018. Paleoanthropology at the Gates of Europe: Recent research in Greece in the frame of the PaGE ERC Starting Grant project. Quaternary International 497, 1-3. | |
| 2016 | Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Garefalakis, Ch., Karkanas, P., Konidaris, G., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. 2016. New Middle Palaeolithic sites from the Mani peninsula, southern Greece. Journal of Field Archaeology 41 (1), 68-83. |
| 2015 | Tourloukis, V., Karkanas, P., Wallinga, J. 2015. Revisiting Kokkinopilos: Middle Pleistocene radiometric dates for stratified archaeological remains in Greece. Journal of Archaeological Science 57, 355-369. |
| Konidaris, G.E., Tourloukis, V., Kostopoulos, D.S., Thompson, N., Giusti, D., Michailidis, D., Koufos, G.D., Harvati, K. 2015. Two new vertebrate localities from the Early Pleistocene of Mygdonia Basin (Macedonia, Greece): preliminary results. Comtes Rendus Palevol. 14, 353-362. | |
| Panagopoulou, E., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Athanassiou, A., Tsartsidou, G., Konidaris, G., Giusti, D., Karkanas, P., Harvati, K. 2015. Marathousa 1: a new Middle Pleistocene archaeological site from Greece. Antiquity 343, Project Gallery. | |
| 2013 | Harvati, K., Tourloukis, V 2013. Human Evolution in the Southern Balkans. Evolutionary Anthropology 22, 43-45. |
| 2012 | Tourloukis, V., Karkanas, P. 2012. The Middle Pleistocene archaeological record of Greece and the role of the Aegean in hominin dispersals: new data and interpretations. Quaternary Science Reviews 43, 1-15. |
| Tourloukis, V., Karkanas, P. 2012. Geoarchaeology in Greece: a review. In: Skourtsos, E., Lister, G.S. (Eds), The Geology of Greece. Journal of Virtual Explorer, Electronic Edition, vol. 42, paper 5. | |
| 2009 | Tourloukis, V. 2009. New bifaces from the Palaeolithic site of Kokkinopilos, Greece and their stratigraphic significance. Antiquity 83 (issue 320), Project Gallery. |
| 2005 | Runnels, C., Panagopoulou, E., Murray, P., Tsartsidou, G., Allen, S., Mullen, K., Tourloukis, Ε. 2005. A Mesolithic landscape in Greece: testing a site-location model in the Argolid at Kandia. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 18 (2), 259-85. |
Scientific Journals (non-refereed)
| In prep | Tourloukis, V. [in prep., invited from Editor]. Palaeolithic research in Greece in recent years. Archaeological Reports, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and Cambridge University Press. |
| In press | Panagopoulou, E., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Athanassiou, A., Konidaris, G., Tsartsidou, G., Giusti, D., Harvati, K., [in press] Excavations at the Marathousa 1 site, Megalopolis, Arcadia: research campaign 2017. Archaeologiko Deltio, Chronika 2017 (in Greek). |
| Panagopoulou, E., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Athanassiou, A., Konidaris, G., Tsartsidou, G., Giusti, D., Harvati, K., [in press] Excavations at the Marathousa 1 site, Megalopolis, Arcadia: research campaign 2016. Archaeologiko Deltio, Chronika 2016 (in Greek). | |
| Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Athanassiou, A., Karkanas, P., Tsartsidou, G., Konidaris, G. [in press] Excavations at the Marathousa 1 site, Megalopolis, Arcadia: research campaign 2015. Archaeologiko Deltio, Chronika 2015 (in Greek). | |
| 2020 | Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Athanassiou, A., Karkanas, P., Tsartsidou, G., Konidaris, G., Giusti, D. 2020. Systematic excavation at Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Arcadia: 2014 research campaign. Archaeologiko Deltio 69, 2361-2366, Chronika 2014 (in Greek). |
| 2019 | Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Athanassiou, A., Karkanas, P., Tsartsidou, G., Konidaris, G., 2019. Systematic excavation at Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Arcadia: 2015 research campaign. Archaeologiko Deltio 70, 1303-1308, Chronika 2015 (in Greek). |
| Kourtessi-Philippakis, G., Tourloukis, V., Sakkas, D., Michos-Rammos, F. 2019. The survey research of the University Athens in the Middle Kalamas River Basin. Archaeologiko Deltio 70, 833-838, Chronika 2015. | |
| 2017 | Panagopoulou, E., Athanassiou, A., Karkanas, P., Harvati, K., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N. 2017. Research in the Megalopolis Basin. Archaeologiko Deltio 68, 875-879, Chronika 2013 (in Greek). |
| Panagopoulou, E., Karkanas, P., Harvati, K., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Garefalakis, Ch. 2017. Rescue excavations at the cave Mavri Spilia, Messinia Prefecture. Archaeologiko Deltio 68, 866-871, Chronika 2013 (in Greek). | |
| 2016 | Panagopoulou, E., Karkanas, P., Harvati, K., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Garefalakis, Ch. 2016. Survey research in Western Mani. Archaeologiko Deltio 67, 809-814, Chronika 2012 (in Greek). |
| Panagopoulou, E., Athanassiou, A., Karkanas, P., Harvati, K., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N. 2016. Survey research in the Megalopolis basin. Archaeologiko Deltio 67, 806-809, Chronika 2012 (in Greek). | |
| 2008 | van Wijngaarden, G.J., Sotiriou, A., Horn Lopes, J., Gkouma, M., Koster, K., Stoker A., Susan, D., Tourloukis, E. 2008. The Zakynthos Archaeology Project: preliminary report on the 2008 season. Pharos XVI, 61-83. |
| 2006 | van Wijngaarden, G.J., Sotiriou, A., Pieters, N., Tourloukis, E. 2006. The Zakynthos Archaeology Project 2006: preliminary report of the first season. Pharos XIV, 29-46. |
| 2005 | van Wijngaarden, G.J., Arapogianni, X., Rink, R., Tourloukis, E. 2005. The Zakynthos Survey 2005: preliminary report of a pilot survey. Pharos XIII, 59-76. |
| Panagopoulou, E., Runnels, C., Tsartsidou, G., Murray, P., Allen, S., Mullen, K., Tourloukis, V., 2002-2005. The Mesolithic survey in the Kandia region (Argolid). Athens Annals of Archaeology, 35-38, pp. 23-36 (in Greek with English abstract). |
Book reviews
Tourloukis, V. 2012. Peninj: a research project on human origins (1995-2005). Book review. Antiquity 86 (332), 570-571.
Published conference abstracts
| 2020 | 7.1. Konidaris, G., Tourloukis, V. 2020. Early and Middle Pleistocene large carnivore guilds of Europe and their role in the evolution of hominin subsistence strategies: an ecomorphological and behavioral approach. European Society for the study of Human Evolution, Abstracts p. 6. |
| 7.2. Kranis, H., Skourtsos, E., Davis, G., Karkanas, P., Tourloukis, V., Panagopoulou, E. and Harvati, K., 2020. Switch-on, switch-off: Plio-Quaternary evolution of the Megalopolis Basin (Southern Greece), through structural overprinting, interaction and fault migration. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 2020, p. 19950, doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-19950. | |
| Bludau, I., Weiss, M., Schnabel, E., Thompson, N., Tourloukis, V., Karkanas, P., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., Junginger, A., 2020. Lake level changes and their paleo-climatic implications at the Middle Pleistocene excavation of MAR-1, southern Greece. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 2020, p. 21437, doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-21437. | |
| 2019 | Konidaris, G.E., Tourloukis, V., Athanassiou, A., Giusti, D., Thompson, N., Panagopoulou, E., Karkanas, P., Harvati, K., 2019. Marathousa 2: A new Middle Pleistocene locality in Megalopolis Basin (Greece) with evidence of human modifications on faunal remains. Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution Vol. 8, 82. |
| 2017 | Tourloukis V., Thompson N., Panagopoulou E., Konidaris G., Giusti D., Athanassiou, A., Tsartsidou, G., Karkanas P., Harvati K. 2017. The lithic assemblage and bone tools from the Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: first results. Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution Vol. 6, 202. |
| Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Panagopoulou, E., Giusti, D., Karkanas, P., Konidaris, G., Harvati, K., 2017. The cultural material from the Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: preliminary results. PaleoAnthropology, A36. | |
| Harvati, K., Panagopoulou, E., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Karkanas, P., Konidaris, G., Athanassiou, A., Tsartsidou, G., Giusti, D., 2017. Marathousa 1: new Lower Paleolithic elephant butchering site from the Megalopolis basin, Greece. Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution Vol. 6, 84. | |
| Konidaris, G., Athanassiou, A., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Giusti, D., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., 2017. The Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus skeleton and other large mammals from the Lower Palaeolithic locality Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis Basin, Greece): preliminary results. Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution Vol. 6, 104. | |
| Giusti, D., Tourloukis, V., Konidaris, G., Thompson, N., Karkanas, P., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. 2017. Beyond maps: patterns of formation processes at the Middle Pleistocene open-air site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece. Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution Vol. 6, 74. | |
| 2016 | Harvati, K., Panagopoulou, E., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Karkanas, P., Athanassiou, A., Konidaris, G., Tsartsidou, G., Giusti, D., 2016. New Middle Pleistocene elephant butchering site from Greece. PaleoAnthropology, A14. |
| Blackwell, B.A.B., Singh, I., GopalKrishna, K., Chen, K.K., Sakhrani, N., Tourloukis, V., Karkanas, P., Florentin, J.A., Blickstein, L.I.B., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., Skinner, A., 2016. ESR dating the fossil-bearing layers at the Marathousa 1 site, Megalopolis, Greece. PaleoAnthropology, A5. | |
| 2015 | Tourloukis, V., Karkanas, P. 2015. Earliest radiometric dates for stratified archaeological remains in Greece: the evidence from Kokkinopilos, NW Greece. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156, 306. |
| Harvati, K., Tourloukis, V., 2015. Paleoanthropology in the Balkans: state of the art and challenges for future. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156, 160. |