Stefanos Gimatzidis
Mag. Dr.
Stefanos Gimatzidis
Mag. Dr.
- RG »Historical Archaeology in the Mediterranean«
- +43 1 51581-4109
- stefanos.gimatzidis(at)oeaw.ac.at
- Dominikanerbastei 16 | 1010 Vienna
Biographical sketch
Degree in Classical Archaeology from the Aristotles University Thessaloniki. 1997 graduation as Magister Artium at the Aristotles University Thessaloniki. 2007 Doctorate at the Free University Berlin. 2005-2011 employed as Epimelites at the Ministry of Culture of Greece. Since 2011, director of various FWF-projects at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since 2015, lecturer at the Institute for Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna. Since December 2017, senior researcher at the OeAI.
Research Projects
- »Death and burial between the Aegean and the Balkans«
- »The early Greek colonization in Macedonia and Italy«
- »The early Iron Age Greek pottery in the Mediterranean«
- »Sidon: Protogeometric and Geometric pottery«
- »Argilos: Prehistoric Pottery«
Research interests
- Colonization and colonialism
- The Mediterranean in the early iron age and Archaic period
- Burial customs and social organization
- Reception of antiquity
- Method and theory
Publications
- Pit Complexes and Corpses: Reshaping Mortuary Practice in the Balkans. / Gimatzidis, Stefanos.
Proceedings of the conference Thracian Archaeology, 30th Anniversary of the Department of Thracian Archaeology at NAIM-BAS . ed. / Margarit Damyanov; Milena Tonkova; Georgi Ivanov. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, NAIM, 2024. p. 105–130. - Αρχαϊκή κεραμική σε οικισμούς και νεκροταφεία της Μακεδονίας: Η οικοσκευή των ζωντανών και των νεκρών στην αρχαία θέση της Πολίχνης Θεσσαλονίκης (Lembet). / Gimatzidis, Stefanos; Lioutas, Asterios; Tiverios, M. (Editor) et al.
Η κεραμική της αρχαϊκής εποχής στο Βόρειο Αιγαίο και την περιφέρειά του (700-480 π.Χ.). Thessaloniki, 2012. p. 297-306. - Αρχαϊκή κεραμική σε οικισμούς και ιερά της Μακεδονίας: η οικοσκευή των θνητών και των αθανάτων στη Σάνη της Παλλήνης. / Gimatzidis, Stefanos; Arvanitaki, Μ. Tiverios - V. Misalidou-Despotidou - Ε. Manakidou - Α. (Editor).
Η κεραμική της αρχαϊκής εποχής στο Βόρειο Αιγαίο και την περιφέρειά του (700-480 π.Χ.). Πρακτικά της Αρχαιολογικής Συνάντησης, Θεσσαλονίκη, 19-22 Μαΐου 2011. Thessaloniki, 2012. p. 255-262. - Η Διακίνηση της Eλληνικής Κεραμικής και οι Ιδεολογικές Διαστάσεις της στη Μεσόγειο της Πρώιμης Εποχής του Σιδήρου. / Gimatzidis, Stefanos; Stampolidis, N.C. (Editor); Kanta, A. (Editor) et al.
Athanasia. The Earthy, the Celestial and the Underworld in the Mediterranean from the late Bronze and the Early Iron Age. Rhodos: University of Crete, 2012. p. 85-94. - Counting Sherds at Sindos: Pottery Consumption and Construction of Identities in the Iron Age. / Gimatzidis, Stefanos; Verdan, S. (Editor); Theurillat, T. (Editor) et al.
Early Iron Age Pottery: A Quantitative Approach. Proceedings of the International Round Table Organized by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece, Athens, November 28-30, 2008. Oxford, 2011. p. 97-100 (BAR International Series).
- Patterns of pre- and post-colonial connectivity at Argilos. / Gimatzidis, Stefanos; Perreault, J. (Editor); Bonias, Z. (Editor).
Patterns of pre- and post-colonial Argilos, 25 années de recherches. Organisation de la ville et de la campagne dans les colonies du Nord de l’Égée, VIIIe – IIIe siècles av. n.è. Argilos. Publications of the Canadian Institute in Greece, 2021. p. 95–123. - Archaeology across Past and Present Borders: Introduction. / Gimatzidis, Stefanos; Pieniazek, Magda; Gimatzidis, Stefanos (Editor) et al.
Archaeology across Frontiers and Borderlands. Fragmentation and Connectivity in the North Aegean and the Central Balkans from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2018. p. 9–25. - Claiming the Past, Conquering the Future: Archaeological Narratives in Northern Greece and the Central Balkans. / Gimatzidis, Stefanos; Gimatzidis, Stefanos (Editor); Pieniazek, Magda (Editor) et al.
Archaeology across Frontiers and Borderlands. Fragmentation and Connectivity in the North Aegean and the Central Balkans from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2018. p. 27–54. - Πρώιμοι ελληνικοί εμπορικοί αμφορείς και οικονομία στο βόρειο Αιγαίο. / Gimatzidis, Stefanos; Mulliez, Dominique (Editor).
Thasos. Métropole et colonies. Symposium International à la mémoire de Marina Sgourou, 21–22 septembre 2006, Musée Archéologique de Thasos et «Καλογερικό» de Thasos. Paris: de Boccard, 2017. p. 259–292. - Reich und arm: Weltsystemtheorie-Kontroversen in der früheisenzeitlichen Ägäis. / Gimatzidis, Stefanos; Meller, Harald (Editor); Hahn, Hans Peter (Editor) et al.
Arm und Reich – Zur Ressourcenverteilung in prähistorischen Gesellschaften / Rich and Poor – Competing for resources in prehistoric societies. Halle/Saale, 2016. p. 579–596 (Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag).
- Archaeology across Past and Present Borders: Fragmentation, Transformation and Connectivity in the North Aegean and the Balkans during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age. / Gimatzidis, Stefanos (Editor); Pieniazek, Magda (Editor); Votruba, Sila (Editor).
Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2018.
- Review of Demesticha, Stella and A. Bernard Knapp, eds. Maritime Transport Containers in the Bronze-Iron Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature PB 183). Pp. x + 242. Åströms förlag, Uppsala 2016. €60. ISBN: 978-91-7081-211-8 (cloth). / Gimatzidis, Stefanos.
In: American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 122, 28.02.2018. - Review of Roberta Cascino, Helga di Giuseppe and Helen L. Patterson, eds. Veii. The Historical Topography of the Ancient City: A Restudy of John Ward-Perkins’s Survey (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 19. London: The British School at Rome, 2012, xiii + 429pp., 141 b/w figs., 2 colour plates, 35 tables, hbk, ISBN 978-0-904152-63-0). / Gimatzidis, Stefanos.
In: European Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 19,2, No. 2016, 14.03.2016.