Principal Investigator

Sevasti Triantaphyllou

Associate Professor
of Prehistoric Archaeology
School of History and Archaeology
Department of Archaeology
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Telephone: +30 2310997300
Fax: 2310997775
Email: strianta(at)hist.auth.gr
Office: 304 - New Building of the Faculty of Philosophy

Short CV:

Sevasti Triantaphyllou obtained her first degree in Archaeology (1990) and Mphil in Prehistoric Archaeology (1992) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She then completed her MSc in Osteology, Paleaopathology and Funerary Archaeology (1993) and PhD (2000) at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her doctoral thesis which consists a pioneering bioarchaeological work on prehistoric skeletal populations from Central and Western Greek Macedonia was published in 2001 by the British Archaeological Reports. She has a rich experience in excavating, documenting and studying skeletal material in the Greek mainland, Peloponnese, Crete and the Cyclades.

She has been employed as contract osteoarchaeologist for the Greek Archaeological Service and as freelance researcher in various projects in the prehistoric Aegean. Sevi Triantaphyllou held the 1994-1995 J. L. Angel fellowship at the Wiener Laboratory, ASCSA, an I.K.Y. (Greek State Foundation) postdoctoral fellowship studying the skeletal material of a 4^th c. BC mass burial in Pydna while she was also awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the Institute of Prehistoric Aegean (INSTAP) in order to examine the dental micro-wear of prehistoric skeletal populations from northern Greece, the Peloponnese and Crete.

In 2011 she was appointed as Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology and Osteoarchaeology at the School of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki promoted to Assistant Professor in 2014 and to Associate Professor in 2020. She is coordinating and/or participating in several national and international excavation and research projects carrying out fieldwork in Crete, the Greek mainland and Macedonia. Since 2013 she is participating in the coordination of the University Thessaloniki Toumba excavation and in 2020 she was appointed to the Directorship of the excavation. She is also principal collaborator in the excavation, documentation and publication of the cemeteries at Kephala Petras in eastern Crete and at Koumasa in central Crete.  She constantly updates her knowledge and methods in state-of-the art analytical tools and participates in the discussion of contemporary themes which concern social bioarchaeology and funerary archaeology in the prehistoric Aegean such as the manipulation of the deceased, palaeodiet, population mobility etc. Recent publications include various articles and chapters in peer reviewed journals and international volumes while recently she was awarded with A. Smith, M. Dabney, J. Wright and E.Pappi by the American Institute of Archaeology (AIA) the 2021 Anna Marguerite McCann Award for Fieldwork Reports for the volume Ayia Sotira: A Mycenaean Chamber Tomb Cemetery in the Nemea Valley, Greece. INSTAP Academic Press (2017).

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