Paläoanthropologie

Effrosyni Roditi

Function: Postdoctoral Researcher


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

 Room 705, Hauptgebäude DG
effrosyni.roditi@uni-tuebingen.de​​​​​​​


About

Effrosyni Roditi graduated in 2017 from the University of Athens, Greece, with a B.A. in Archaeology and History of Art. In October 2019, she completed her M.Sc. in Archaeological Sciences at the University of Tübingen, specializing in zooarchaeology. Her M.Sc. thesis examined hominin subsistence strategies at the Asprochaliko rockshelter in Epirus, Greece, during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic.

In December 2024, she was awarded her PhD in Archaeological Sciences and Human Evolution at the University of Tübingen. Her doctoral research applied stable isotope analysis to investigate environmental dynamics and megaherbivore adaptations within a Middle Pleistocene glacial microrefugium in the Megalopolis Basin (southern Greece).

She is currently a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the ERC-funded FIRSTSTEPS project at the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment. Her research integrates stable isotope analysis and zooarchaeological methods to reconstruct the palaeoenvironment and palaeoecology of mammalian communities, as well as to investigate the interaction between hominins and their environment during the Middle and Late Pleistocene in Greece.

Links

FIRSTSTEPS     ORCID      Research Gate

Education

2020 - 2024
Doctoral candidate in Archaeological Sciences and Human Evolution

University of Tübingen, Germany

2017 - 2019
M.Sc. Archaeological Sciences

University of Tübingen, Germany

2011 -2017
B.A. in History, Archaeology and History of Art

University of Athens, Greece

Academic Employment

July 2025 - present
Research Associate

Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment

April 2022- present
Research Associate

ERC project “Our first steps to Europe: Pleistocene Homo sapiens dispersals, adaptations and interactions in South-East Europe”, University of Tübingen

2020 - March 2022
Research Associate

ERC project “Human Evolution at the CrossRoads”, University of Tübingen

2020
Student research assistant

Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen

2017 - 2019
Student research assistant

SFB A05 Project: ‘The Land Flowing with Milk and Honey’. Development and Significance of Agrarian Resources in Bronze and Iron Age Palestine.

Publications

2025Roditi E., Bocherens H., Konidaris G.E., Athanassiou A., Tourloukis V., Panagopoulou E., Harvati K. (2025), First stable isotope results on the ecology of the straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) from the Middle Pleistocene Marathousa 1 (Peloponnese, Greece). In Human Evolution at the CROSSROADS: Research in Greece and beyond, Harvati, Κ., Ioannidou, Μ., Eds.; Tübingen University Press: Tübingen.
 Karkanas, P., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Giusti, D., Tsartsidou, G., Athanassiou, A., Konidaris, G., Roditi, E., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. (2025), The Megalopolis Paleoenvironmental Project (MegaPal). In Human Evolution at the CROSSROADS: Research in Greece and beyond, Harvati, Κ., Ioannidou, Μ., Eds.; Tübingen University Press: Tübingen.
2024Konidaris, G.E., Athanassiou, A., Tourloukis, V., Chitoglou, K., van Kolfschoten, T., Giusti, D., Thompson, N., Tsartsidou, G., Roditi, E., Panagopoulou, E., Karkanas, P. (2024), The Late Early–Middle Pleistocene Mammal Fauna from the Megalopolis Basin (Peloponnese, Greece) and its Importance for Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironment. Quaternary, 7(4): 41. Doi: 10.3390/quat7040041
 Roditi, E., Bocherens, H., Konidaris, G.E. et al. Life-history of Palaeoloxodon antiquus reveals Middle Pleistocene glacial refugium in the Megalopolis basin, Greece. Sci Rep 14, 1390 (2024). Doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-51592-9
2022Roditi, E. and Starkovich, B.M. (2022), Investigating Middle Palaeolithic subsistence: zooarchaeological perspectives on the potential character of hominin climate refugia in Greece. J.  Quaternary Sci, 37: 181-193. Doi: 10.1002/jqs.3371