Paläoanthropologie

Dr. George E. Konidaris

Function: Post-doc


Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Abt. Paläoanthropologie
Rümelinstr. 23
D-72070 Tübingen

 Room 513, Hauptgebäude, 2. OG
 +49-(0)7071-29-76518
georgios.konidarisspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Consulting hours:
by arrangement

Education

2013
Ph.D. in “Vertebrate Palaeontology”

School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thesis: Palaeontological and biostratigraphical study of the Neogene Proboscidea from Greece Supervisor: Prof. G.D. Koufos

2008
M.Sc. in “Structural Geology and Stratigraphy”

School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thesis: Contribution to the study of the upper Miocene proboscideans from Pikermi and Samos

2006
Bachelor in “Geology”

School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thesis: Contribution to the study of Lagomorphs from the lower Pliocene of Xanthi basin

Publications

2022 Konidaris, G.E., Athanassiou, A., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., 2022. First record of Macaca (Cercopithecidae, Primates) in the Middle Pleistocene of Greece. Journal of Human Evolution 162, 103104.
  Konidaris, G.E., Tsoukala, E., 2022. The fossil record of the Neogene Proboscidea (Mammalia) in Greece, in: Vlachos, E. (Ed.), The Fossil Vertebrates of Greece Vol. 1. Springer – Nature Publishing Group, Cham, pp. 299–344.
2021 Konidaris, G.E., Barkai, R., Tourloukis, V., Harvati, K., 2021. Human-elephant interactions from past to present: an introduction, in: Konidaris, G.E., Barkai, R., Tourloukis, V., Harvati, K. (Eds.), Human-elephant interactions: from past to present. Tübingen University Press, Tübingen, pp. 13–21.
  Konidaris, G.E., 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.E., Barkai, R., Tourloukis, V., Harvati, K. (Eds.), Human-elephant interactions: from past to present. Tübingen University Press, Tübingen, pp. 67–104.
  Bludau, I.J.E., Papadopoulou, P., Iliopoulos, G., Weiss, Μ., Schnabel, E., Thompson, N., Tourloukis, V., Zanchow, C., Kyrikou, S., Konidaris, G.E., Karkanas, P., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., Junginger, A., 2021. Lake-level changes and their paleo-climatic implications at the MIS12 Lower Paleolithic (Middle Pleistocene) site Marathousa 1, Greece. Frontiers in Earth Science 9, 668445.
  Konidaris, G.E., Kostopoulos, D.S., Maron, M., Schaller, M., Ehlers, T.A., Aidona, E., Marini, M., Tourloukis, V., Muttoni, G., Koufos, G.D., 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.
2020 Starkovich, B.M., Cuthbertson, P., Kitagawa, K., Thompson, N., Konidaris, G.E., Rots, V., Münzel, S.C., Giusti, D., Schmid, V.C., Blanco-Lapaz, A., Lepers, C., Tourloukis, V., 2020. Minimum tools, maximum meat: Exploratory experimental butchery of an elephant foot using Lower Paleolithic stone tool technology. Ethnoarchaeology: Journal of Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Experimental Studies 12, 118–147.
  Konidaris, G.E., Tsoukala, E., 2020. Proboscideans from the upper Miocene localities of Thermopigi, Neokaisareia and Platania (Northern Greece). Annales de Paléontologie 106, 102380.
  Konidaris, G.E., Kostopoulos, D.S., Koufos, G.D., 2020. Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti, 1825) from Apollonia-1 (Mygdonia Basin, Northern Greece) and its importance within the Early Pleistocene mammoth evolution in Europe. Geodiversitas 42, 69–91.
  Jafarzadeh, R., Konidaris, G.E., 2020. Choerolophodon (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from a new late Miocene locality: Kivi-1 (Iran). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 100, 269–280.
2019 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, 713-730.
  Konidaris, G.E., Koufos, G. (2019). Late Miocene proboscideans from Samos Island (Greece) revisited: new specimens from old collections. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 93, 115-134.
2018 Konidaris, G.E., Roussiakis, S.J. (2018). The first record of Anancus (Mammalia, Proboscidea) in the late Miocene of Greece and reappraisal of the primitive anancines from Europe. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38, e1534118.
  Harvati, K., Konidaris, G., Tourloukis, V. (2018). Paleoanthropology at the Gates of Europe: Recent research Greece in the frame of the PaGE ERC Starting Grant project. Quaternary International 497, 1-3.
  Koufos, G.D., Konidaris, G.E., Harvati, K. (2018). Revisiting Ursus etruscus (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Early Pleistocene of Greece with description of new material. Quaternary International 497, 222-239.
  Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Panagopoulou, E., Giusti, D., Konidaris, G.E., Karkanas, P., Harvati, K. (2018). Lithic artifacts and bone tools from the Lower Palaeolithic site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: Preliminary results. Quaternary International 497, 47-64.
  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.
  Michailidis, D., Konidaris, G.E., Athanassiou, A., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. (2018). The ornithological remains from Marathousa 1 (Middle Pleistocene; Megalopolis Basin, Greece). Quaternary International 497, 85-94.
  Giusti, D., Tourloukis, V., Konidaris, G., 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 basin, Greece. Quaternary International 497, 137-153.
  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.
  Kostopoulos, D.S., Konidaris, G., Tesakov, A., van den Hoek Ostende, L.W., Rook, L. (2018). European Early Pleistocene biogeography and ecology based on the mammal record: Case studies and preliminary syntheses. Comptes Rendus Palevol 17, 239-245.
2017 Konidaris, G.E., Roussiakis, S.J., Athanassiou, A., Theodorou, G.E. (2017). The huge-sized deinothere Deinotherium proavum (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene localities Pikermi and Halmyropotamos (Greece). Quaternary International 430, 5-21.
2016 Koufos, G.D., Kostopoulos, D.S., Konidaris, G.E. (2016). Aves, in: Koufos, G.D., Kostopoulos, D.S. (Eds.), Palaeontology of the upper Miocene vertebrate localities of Nikiti (Chalkidiki Peninsula, Macedonia, Greece), Geobios 49, 29-36.
  Koufos, G.D., Kostopoulos, D.S., Vlachou, T.D., Konidaris, G.E. (2016). Synthesis, in: Koufos, G.D., Kostopoulos, D.S. (Eds.), Palaeontology of the upper Miocene vertebrate localities of Nikiti (Chalkidiki Peninsula, Macedonia, Greece), Geobios 49, 147-154.
  Konidaris, G.E., Koufos, G.D., Kostopoulos, D.S., Merceron, G. (2016). Taxonomy, biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of Choerolophodon (Proboscidea, Mammalia) in the Miocene of SE Europe-SW Asia: implications for phylogeny and biogeography. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14, 1-27.
  Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Garefalakis, C., Karkanas, P., Konidaris, G.E., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. (2016). New Middle Palaeolithic sites from the Mani Peninsula, Southern Greece. Journal of Field Archaeology 41, 68-83.
2015 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. Comptes Rendus Palevol 14, 353-362.
  Panagopoulou, E., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Athanassiou, A., Tsartsidou, G., Konidaris, G.E., Giusti, D., Karkanas, P., Harvati, K. (2015). Marathousa 1: a new Middle Pleistocene archaeological site from Greece. Antiquity Project Gallery 89.
2014 Konidaris, G.E., Roussiakis, S.J., Theodorou, G.E. & Koufos, G.D. (2014). The Eurasian occurrence of the shovel-tusker Konobelodon (Mammalia, Proboscidea) as illuminated by its presence in the late Miocene of Pikermi (Greece). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34, 1437-1453.
2013 Konidaris G.E. & Koufos, G.D. (2013). Late Miocene Proboscidea (Mammalia) from Macedonia and Samos Island, Greece: preliminary results. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 87, 121-140.
2012 Vasileiadou, K., Konidaris, G. & Koufos, G.D. (2012). New data on the micromammalian locality of Kessani (Thrace, Greece) at the Mio-Pliocene boundary. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 92, 211-237.
2011 Koufos G.D. & Konidaris G.E. (2011). Late Miocene Carnivores of the Greco-Iranian Province: Composition, guild structure and palaeoecology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 305, 215-226.
  Koufos G.D, Kostopoulos D.S., Vlachou, T.D. & Konidaris G.E. (2011). A synopsis of the late Miocene Mammal Fauna of Samos Island, Aegean Sea, Greece. Geobios 44, 237-251.
2009 Konidaris G.E. & Koufos G.D. (2009). The Late Miocene Mammal Faunas of Mytilinii Basin, Samos Island, Greece: new collection, 8. Proboscidea. In: Koufos G.D. & Nagel, D. (ed.), The Late Miocene Mammal Faunas of Samos. Beiträge zur Paläontologie, Wien, pp. 139-155.