Trisevgeni Papadakou

Trisevgeni Papadakou is an Academic Scholar at the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Economics, International Hellenic University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Archaeology, a master’s degree in Prehistoric Archaeology and a PhD from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Trisevgeni specializes in prehistory and specifically in pottery analysis and the study of archaeobotanical remains. Her PhD, completed with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation, involves the development of an interdisciplinary methodology for the study of Early Neolithic pottery.

Trisevgeni has worked as a researcher and field archaeologist, and participates in a number of large-scale research projects, focusing on the study of material culture and the exploitation of the environment in Prehistory. Moreover, she is a translator of academic works (books, conference proceedings, journal articles) on archaeology, history, and history of art, from and into English.

Research Programmes

  • EXPLO – Exploring the dynamics and causes of prehistoric land use change in the cradle of European farming, funded by ERC, (2020-2024) https://exploproject.eu/
  • Tools, Techniques and Specialists: the keys to understand the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Mediterranean Europe (Tool & Tech) Institution: Proyectos de I+D (PID2020-112513RB-I00). Ministry of Science and Innovation (Spain). (2021-2025)
  • THALES-Exploring research programme, “Exploitation of resources in the Neolithic period in northern Greece. Material culture and environment.” This research has been co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund – ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning” of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) – Research Funding Program: Thales. (2012-2015)
  • “Digitization and Archiving of Archaeological Publications in the Daily and Periodical Press of the Period 1832–1932”, Information Society Operational Programme, Department of Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2008)

Publications (selected)

  • Plika, P., Manoledakis, M., Papadakou, T., Mentesidou, E., Basakyrou, A. “Mundane ceramics: a case of overlooked handmade pottery from Iron Age northern Greece” 31st Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, 2nd-6th September 2025, Belgrade virtual. (conference paper and forthcoming publication)
  • Papadakou, T., Saridaki, N., Intze, Z., Papaioannou, A., Urem-Kotsou, D. 2024. “The Neolithic settlement of Ritini. What we can learn from the ceramic vessels of prehistoric people.” In: Proceedings of the 1st Conference on the local history of Ritini, Pieria, 25-27 August 2023, Ritini, Ritini, pp. 66-78
  • Papadakou, T., K. Kotsakis, D. Urem-Kotsou. “Distribution of organic-tempered pottery in SE Europe and the Near East: a complex picture. The case of northern Greece”, Open Archaeology 7, 1425–1443, https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0197
  • Saridaki, N., K. Kotsakis, D. Urem-Kotsou, T. Papadakou, A. Papaioannou. 2019. Production practices during the Neolithic in Pieria, Macedonia (Northern Greece). In: Amicone, S., Quinn, P., Marić, M., Mirković-Marić, N., Radivojević, M. (Eds) Tracing pottery making recipes in the Balkans, 6th – 4th millennium BC. Archaeopress, 129-143.
  • Urem-Kotsou, D., A. Dimoula, G. Elezi, T. Papadakou, A. Papaioannou, N. Saridaki, I. Siamidou, T. Silva, E. Tzemopoulou, K. Kotsakis. 2017. Patterns in contemporaneous ceramic traditions: inter-regional relations between Thessaly and Macedonia during the Early and Middle Neolithic. In: Sarris, A., E. Kalogiropoulou, T. Kalayci & L. Karimali (eds.) Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece, (1st ed., Vol. 20, pp. 324–338). Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvw049k3.28
  • Papadakou, T., K. Kotsakis, D. Urem-Kotsou. “Early Neolithic Pottery from the site Paliambela Kolindros”, The Archaeological Work in Macedonia and Thrace 2012 [in Greek]
  • Urem-Kotsou, D., A. Papaioannou, T. Papadakou, N. Saridaki, Z. Intze. 2014. Pottery and Stylistic Boundaries. Early and Middle Neolithic Pottery in Macedonia. In: Stefani, E., N. Merousis, & A. Dimoula (eds.) A Century of Research in Prehistoric Macedonia 1912-2012, Thessaloniki: Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki Publications, pp. 505-518

Conference presentations (selected)

  • Papadakou, T. & Kotsakis, K. “Habitational patterns in Early Neolithic Greece”, 2nd International Conference on the Emergence of the Neolithic in Europe, 22-25 May 2025, Zadar
  • Manoledakis, M., Plika, P., Papadakou, T., Basakyrou, A., Malami, E. “Ανασκαφή του Διεθνούς Πανεπιστημίου της Ελλάδος στην Τράπεζα Νέου Ρυσίου–Καρδίας 2024”, Αrchaiologiko Εrgo sti Makedonia kai Thraki 37, 2025
  • Papadakou, T., Tsartsidou, G. “Phytolith analysis of organic temper in clay.” EXPLO. Exploring the dynamics and causes of prehistoric land use change in the cradle of European farming, Final meeting, Aristotle University Research Dissemination Center, January 7-8, 2025
  • Papadakou, T. “Feeding the clay: where plant management and clay technologies converge.” 29th meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, 30 Aug-2 Sep 2023, Belfast
  • Plika, P., Manoledakis, M., Mentesidou, E., Papadakou, T. “Settlements in the fluid landscape of the Iron Age in northern Greece: the case of Neo Rysio in central Macedonia.” 29th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, 30th August-2nd September 2023, Belfast
  • Papadakou, T., Tsartsidou, G. “Using phytoliths to talk about potters.” 2nd Meeting of the Archaeobotany in Greece Group, January 2023, AUTh, Thessaloniki
  • Papadakou, T., G. Tsartsidou, L. Papadopoulou, K. Kotsakis, S. Valamoti, D. Urem-Kotsou. 2016. Phytoliths in pottery: bringing together different aspects of the Neolithic. Workshop on the Analysis of Microscopic Particles in Archaeological Samples (WAMPAS), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leibzig, Germany, 6-8 December 2016
  • Papadakou, T., A. Papaioannou, G. Elezi, I. Siamidou, E. Tzemopoulou & D. Urem-Kotsou. 2015. Pottery production and consumption during the Early and Middle Neolithic. Exploitation of resources in the Neolithic Period in Northern Greece. Material culture and environment. Interim Results. Workshop, Thessaloniki, 13.03.2015
  • Urem-Kotsou, D., T. Papadakou, A. Papaioannou, T. Silva, G. Elezi, N. Saridaki, A. Dimoula, K. Kotsakis. Different Ways of Crafting a Pot: Variation in the techniques of Neolithic potters in northern Greece. 20th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Istanbul, Turkey, 10-14 September 2014
  • Dimoula, A., N. Saridaki, A. Papaioannou, T. Papadakou, D. Urem-Kotsou, K. Kotsakis. 2014. Mobile Pots. Regional Interaction during the Neolithic Period in Northern Greece. Northern Greece and Southeastern Europe during the Neolithic Period: An Interaction Zone. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 26-29 June 2014

Translations (selected works)

  • “The Human Past”, C. Scarre (ed.) 4th edition, edited in Greek by S.M. Valamoti, University Studio Press 2024
  • “The Allied Army of the Orient in Thessaloniki, 1915-1918: the city and its representations” (Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki 2020)
  • “The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe Since 1945 Beyond Boundaries (Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki 2014)
  • “ACE – Archaeology in Europe: professional practice and public outreach” (European funded research project, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2007-2012)