The Human Face of Radiocarbon. Reassessing chronology in prehistoric Greece and Bulgaria, 5000-3000 cal BC.

This volume presents the results of a multidisciplinary research program (“Balkans 4000”) financed by the French National Research Agency (ANR) and coordinated by the editor between 2007 and 2011, when she was a member of the Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée (Laboratory of Archaeometry and Archaeology). 192 new radiocarbon dates have been produced in the laboratories of Lyon, Saclay, and Demokritos, from thirty-four archaeological sites, spanning the years from the end of the 6^th to the beginning of the 3^rd millennium BC. They shed light on the evolution of human settlement during the late stages of the Neolithic period in Greece and Bulgaria, and more specifically on the transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age during the “obscure” 4^th millennium BC.

Thirty-one scholars, archaeologists as well as radiocarbon scientists, are signing the contributions.

Trente-et-un chercheurs, archéologues et spécialistes des datations ¹⁴C, signent les contributions rassemblées dans ce volume.

• Vassiliki Adrymi-Sismani, Director Emeritus of the
  Archaeological Institute for Thessalian Studies
• Ioannis Aslanis, National Hellenic Research
  Foundation, Athens
• Maya Avramova, National Museum of
  Anthropology, Sofia
• Kamen Boyadzhiev, National Institute of
  Archaeology with Museum, Sofia
• Yavor Boyadzhiev, National Institute of
  Archaeology with Museum, Sofia
• Dimitar Chernakov, Regional Historical Museum
  of Ruse
• Stefan Chohadzhiev, Veliko Tarnovo University
• Kleio Dimitriou, Archaeologist
• Kerasia Douni, Greek Ministry of Culture,
  Ephorate of Antiquities of Eastern Attica
• Georgi Ganetsovski, Regional Historical Museum
  of Vratsa
• Olga Kakavogianni, Honorary Director of
  Antiquities, Greek Ministry of Culture
• Christos Karagiannopoulos, Greek Ministry of
  Culture, Ephorate of Antiquities of Karditsa
• Christina Katsavou, Greek Ministry of Culture,
  Ephorate of Antiquities of Eastern Attica
• Chaïdo Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, Emeritus
  Director of Antiquities, Kavala
• Krassimir Leshtakov, St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia
  University
• Dimitria Malamidou, Greek Ministry of Culture,
  Ephorate of Antiquities of Kavala-Thasos
• Yannis Maniatis, Laboratory of Archaeometry,
  N.C.S.R. Demokritos, Agia Paraskevi (Attica)
• Fanis Mavridis, Greek Ministry of Culture, Ephorate
  of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology
• Miltiadis Miteletsis, Greek Ministry of Culture,
  Ephorate of Antiquities of Pieria
• Vassil Nikolov, National Institute of Archaeology
  with Museum, Sofia
• Christine Oberlin, Radiocarbon Laboratory of
  Lyon, UMR 5138 Archaeology and Archaeometry
• Stratis Papadopoulos, Greek Ministry of Culture,
  Ephorate of Antiquities of Drama
• Vanya Petrova, St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University
• Viktoria Petrova, National Institute of Archaeology
  with Museum, Sofia
• Anastasios Siros, Greek Ministry of Culture, Ephorate
  of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology
• Žarko Tankosić, Indiana University, Dept. of
  Anthropology
• Nadezhda Todorova, St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia
  University
• Giorgos Toufexis, Greek Ministry of Culture,
  Ephorate of Antiquities of Larissa
• Elena Tselepi, Archaeologist
• Zoï Tsirtsoni, CNRS, UMR 7041 ArScAn,
  Nanterre
• Maya Valentinova, Regional Historical Museum
  of Lovech