Exploring the dynamics and causes of prehistoric land use change in the cradle of European farming

Chipped stone industries from Western Macedonia, Greece. The case of the Neolithic lakeside settlement Anarghiri IXb

Author(s): Styliani Papadopoulou
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities of the University of Bern

The pile-field and the wooden structures of the Neolithic lakeside settlement Anarghiri IXb Western Macedonia, Greece

Author(s): Tryfon Giagkoulis
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities of the University of Bern

Population, Land Use and Human-Environment Dynamics in the Prehistoric Southeastern Balkans

Author(s): Marco Hostettler
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Sidestone Press

Prehistoric shore settlements in the southwestern Balkans. New perspectives on regional chronology through underwater archaeological research at Lake Ohrid

Author(s): Johannes Reich
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Sidestone Press

Antler artifacts from the Neolithic lakeside settlement Anarghiri IXb, Western Macedonia, Greece

Author(s): Christoforos Arampatzis
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities of the University of Bern

Neolithic and Bronze Age Pile-Dwellings at Lake Ohrid: Underwater Excavations at Ploča Mičov Grad (North Macedonia)

Author(s): Johannes Reich, Marco Hostettler, Ariane Ballmer, Albert Hafner
Published in: Natural Science in Archaeology, Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe, 2024, Page(s) 101-118
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-52780-7_6

Archaeobotanical Investigations at the Mid-5th Millennium BCE Pile-Dwelling Site of Ploča Mičov Grad, Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia

Author(s): Amy Holguin, Ferran Antolín, Mike Charles, Ana Jesus, Héctor Martínez Grau, Raül Soteras, Bigna L. Steiner, Elizabeth Stroud, Amy Bogaard
Published in: Natural Science in Archaeology, Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe, 2024, Page(s) 283-306
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-52780-7_17

Wetland Dendrochronology: An Overview of Prehistoric Chronologies from the Southwestern Balkans

Author(s): Andrej Maczkowski, Matthias Bolliger, John Francuz
Published in: Natural Science in Archaeology, Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe, 2024, Page(s) 233-249
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-52780-7_14

Neolithic Lake Settlements in Western Macedonia, Greece: New Evidence from Dispilio and Amindeon Basin

Author(s): Kostas Kotsakis, Tryfon Giagkoulis
Published in: Natural Science in Archaeology, Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe, 2024, Page(s) 137-148
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-52780-7_8

Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe: Archaeological Matter, Environmental Context, Research Potential, and Threats to Preservation

Author(s): Ariane Ballmer, Albert Hafner, Willy Tinner
Published in: Natural Science in Archaeology, Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe, 2024, Page(s) 1-17
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-52780-7_1

A Palaeoecological Perspective on the Environmental Impact of Prehistoric Societies in Europe with Emphasis on Greece and the Southern Balkans

Author(s): César Morales-Molino, Lieveke van Vugt, Ariane Ballmer, Sarah Brechbühl, Kathrin Ganz, Sylvia Gassner, Erika Gobet, Albert Hafner, André F. Lotter, Carolina Senn, Antoine Thévenaz, Willy Tinner
Published in: Natural Science in Archaeology, Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe, 2024, Page(s) 253-266
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-52780-7_15

Holocene vegetation dynamics in southern Ukraine under changing land use and climate

Author(s): Kathrin Ganz, César Morales-Molino, Erika Gobet, Dmytro Kiosak, Nadezhda Kotova, Jacqueline van Leeuwen, Sergey Makhortykh, Christoph Schwörer, Willy Tinner
Published in: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Issue 321, 2025, Page(s) 105019, ISSN 0034-6667
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2023.105019

First absolute chronologies of neolithic and bronze age settlements at Lake Ohrid based on dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating

Author(s): Albert Hafner, Johannes Reich, Ariane Ballmer, Matthias Bolliger, Ferran Antolín, Mike Charles, Lea Emmenegger, Josianne Fandré, John Francuz, Erika Gobet, Marco Hostettler, André F. Lotter, Andrej Maczkowski, César Morales-Molino, Goce Naumov, Corinne Stäheli, Sönke Szidat, Bojan Taneski, Valentina Todoroska, Amy Bogaard, Kostas Kotsakis, Willy Tinner
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 38, 2021, Page(s) 103107, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103107

Modern pollen-vegetation-plant diversity relationships across large environmental gradients in northern Greece

Author(s): Carolina Senn Willy Tinner Vivian A Felde Erika Gobet Jacqueline FN Van Leeuwen César Morales-Molino
Published in: The Holocene, Issue 32(3), 2022, Page(s) 159-173, ISSN 0959-6836
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09596836211060494

Holocene climate–vegetation–land use interactions in the mesomediterranean coastlands of northern Greece

Author(s): Kathrin Ganz, Lieveke van Vugt, Erika Gobet, César Morales-Molino, Tryfon Giagkoulis, Sarah Ogi, Luc Hächler, Emmanuel Schaad, Paul D. Zander, Ronald Lloren, Nathalie Dubois, Martin Grosjean, Hendrik Vogel, Kostas Kotsakis, Amy Bogaard, Albert Hafner, Willy Tinner
Published in: The Holocene, Issue 35, 2025, Page(s) 271-288, ISSN 0959-6836
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09596836241297665

Triticum timopheevii s.l. (‘new glume wheat’) finds in regions of southern and eastern Europe across space and time

Author(s): Dragana Filipović, Glynis Jones, Wiebke Kirleis, Amy Bogaard, Rachel Ballantyne, Michael Charles, Anne de Vareilles, Müge Ergun, Eugenia Gkatzogia, Amy Holguin, Ivanka Hristova, Angeliki Karathanou, Magda Kapcia, Dolores Knežić, Georgia Kotzamani, Pavlos Lathiras, Alexandra Livarda, Elena Marinova, Stavroula Michou, Marine Mosulishvili, Aldona Mueller-Bieniek, Djurdja Obradović, Matthew Padge
Published in: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Issue 33, 2024, Page(s) 195-208, ISSN 0939-6314
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-023-00954-w

Vegetation dynamics and land-use change at the Neolithic lakeshore settlement site of Ploča Mičov Grad, Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia

Author(s): Sarah Brechbühl; Lieveke van Vugt; Erika Gobet; César Morales-Molino; Joseph Volery; André F. Lotter; Ariane Ballmer; Sandra O. Brugger; Sönke Szidat; Albert Hafner; Willy Tinner
Published in: Brechbühl, Sarah; van Vugt, Lieveke; Gobet, Erika; Morales-Molino, César; Volery, Joseph; Lotter, André F.; Ballmer, Ariane; Brügger, Sandra Olivia; Szidat, Sönke; Hafner, Albert; Tinner, Willy (2023). Vegetation dynamics and land-use change at the Neolithic lakeshore settlement site of Ploča Mičov Grad, Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia (In Press). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany Springer 1, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 0939-6314
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-023-00931-3

Dendroarchaeology at Lake Ohrid: Pine tree-ring chronology and 5th millennium BCE palisades from the pile-dwelling settlement of Lin 3, Albania

Author(s): Maxim Yermokhin, Andrej Maczkowski, Matthias Bolliger, John Francuz, Adrian Anastasi, Krist Anastasi, Ariane Ballmer, Mirco Brunner, Ilirjan Gjipali, Tryfon Giagkoulis, Martin Hinz, Marco Hostettler, Johannes Reich, Sönke Szidat, Albert Hafner
Published in: Dendrochronologia, Issue 90, 2025, Page(s) 126295, ISSN 1125-7865
Publisher: Archeonatura
DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2025.126295

A novel Structure from Motion-based approach to underwater pile field documentation

Author(s): Johannes Reich, Philipp Steiner, Ariane Ballmer, Lea Emmenegger, Marco Hostettler, Corinne Stäheli, Goce Naumov, Bojan Taneski, Valentina Todoroska, Konrad Schindler, Albert Hafner
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 39, 2021, Page(s) 103120, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103120

Dunavec revisited: fresh perspectives on a sixth millennium BC settlement at former Lake Maliq, Albania

Author(s): Mirco Brunner, Adrian Anastasi, Krist Anastasi, Andrej Maczkowski, Matthias Bolliger, Martin Hinz, Sönke Szidat, Ilir Gjipali, Albert Hafner
Published in: Antiquity, Issue 99, 2025, Page(s) 638-654, ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2025.62

20,000 years of interactions between climate, vegetation and land use in Northern Greece

Author(s): Sylvia Gassner, Erika Gobet, Christoph Schwörer, Jacqueline van Leeuwen, Hendrik Vogel, Tryfon Giagkoulis, Stamatina Makri, Martin Grosjean, Sampson Panajiotidis, Albert Hafner, Willy Tinner
Published in: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Issue 29, 2022, Page(s) 75-90, ISSN 0939-6314
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-019-00734-5

Changes in climate drove vegetation and land use dynamics at the onset of farming in Europe

Author(s): Lieveke van Vugt, Erika Gobet, César Morales-Molino, Kathrin Ganz, Tryfon Giagkoulis, Antonietta Knetge, André F. Lotter, Hendrik Vogel, Martin Grosjean, Amy Bogaard, Kostas Kotsakis, Albert Hafner, Willy Tinner
Published in: Quaternary Research, Issue 124, 2025, Page(s) 76-93, ISSN 0033-5894
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1017/qua.2024.40

Looking at the modern landscape of submediterranean Greece through a palaeoecological lens

Author(s): César Morales-Molino, Lieveke van Vugt, Jacqueline F.N. van Leeuwen, Erika Gobet, Christoph Schwörer, Kathrin Ganz, Tryfon Giagkoulis, Sandra O. Brugger, Amy Bogaard, Albert Hafner, Kostas Kotsakis, André F. Lotter, Willy Tinner
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue 949, 2025, Page(s) 174986, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174986

Absolute dating of the European Neolithic using the 5259 BC rapid 14C excursion

Author(s): Andrej Maczkowski, Charlotte Pearson, John Francuz, Tryfon Giagkoulis, Sönke Szidat, Lukas Wacker, Matthias Bolliger, Kostas Kotsakis, Albert Hafner
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48402-1

Seeing the fields through the weeds: introducing the WeedEco R package for comparing past and present arable farming systems using functional weed ecology

Author(s): Elizabeth Stroud, Michael Charles, Glynis Jones, John G. Hodgson, Amy Bogaard
Published in: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Issue 33, 2024, Page(s) 475-487, ISSN 0939-6314
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-023-00964-8

Dendroarchaeology at Lake Ohrid: 5th and 2nd millennia BCE tree-ring chronologies from the waterlogged site of Ploča Mičov Grad, North Macedonia

Author(s): Matthias Bolliger, Andrej Maczkowski, John Francuz, Johannes Reich, Marco Hostettler, Ariane Ballmer, Goce Naumov, Bojan Taneski, Valentina Todoroska, Sönke Szidat, Albert Hafner
Published in: Dendrochronologia, 2023, ISSN 1125-7865
Publisher: Archeonatura
DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2023.126095

The Early Bronze Age dendrochronology of Sovjan (Albania): A first tree-ring sequence of the 24th – 22nd c. BC for the southwestern Balkans

Author(s): Andrej Maczkowski, Matthias Bolliger, Ariane Ballmer, Maja Gori, Petrika Lera, Cécile Oberweiler, Sönke Szidat, Gilles Touchais, Albert Hafner
Published in: Dendrochronologia, Issue 66, 2021, Page(s) 125811, ISSN 1125-7865
Publisher: Archeonatura
DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2021.125811

Living by the lake: Plant food diversity in a prehistoric lake‐dwelling community in the Republic of North Macedonia

Author(s): Amy Holguin, Michael Charles, Ferran Antolín, Rachel Ballantyne, Müge Ergun, Albert Hafner, Stefanie Jacomet, André F. Lotter, Goce Naumov, Johannes Reich, Raül Soteras, Elizabeth Stroud, Willy Tinner, Rachel Wood, Amy Bogaard
Published in: Archaeometry, 2024, ISSN 0003-813X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/arcm.13046

Newly Discovered Fourteenth Century AD Stationary Fishing Installations Near Nakolec, Lake Prespa (North Macedonia)

Author(s): Damjan Donev, Barbora Weissova, Radomir Ivanović, Andrej Maczkowski, Albert Hafner
Published in: Journal of Wetland Archaeology, Issue 23, 2024, Page(s) 46-61, ISSN 1473-2971
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/14732971.2024.2408878

Sieving the weeds from the grains: an R based package for classifying archaeobotanical samples of cereals and pulses according to crop processing stages

Author(s): Elizabeth Stroud, Glynis Jones, Michael Charles, Amy Bogaard
Published in: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Issue 34, 2025, Page(s) 101-119, ISSN 0939-6314
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-024-01006-7

A forest on the edge: Causes of synchronous Early Holocene forest declines in northern Greece and the implications for the introduction of farming to Europe

Author(s): Lieveke van Vugt, Erika Gobet, Jacqueline F.N. van Leeuwen, Kathrin Ganz, Tryfon Giagkoulis, Sönke Szidat, Hendrik Vogel, César Morales-Molino, Amy Bogaard, Kostas Kotsakis, Albert Hafner, Willy Tinner
Published in: Quaternary Environments and Humans, 2025, Page(s) 100064, ISSN 2950-2365
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.qeh.2025.100064

Research in 2019 at the site of Ploča-Mićov Grad near Gradište (Lake Ohrid)

Author(s): Naumov, Goce; Hafner, Albert; Taneski, Bojan; Ballmer, Ariane; Reich, Johannes; Hostettler, Marco; Bolliger, Matthias; Francuz, John; Maczkowski, Andrej; Boogard, Amy; Antolin, Ferran; Charles, Mike; Tinner, Willy; Morales del Molino, Cesar; Lotter, André
Published in: Patrimonium.mk. Periodical for cultural Heritage - Monuments, Restoration, Museums, 2019, Page(s) 11-46, ISSN 1857-5811
Publisher: Patrimonium.MK

Settling waterscapes in Europe. The archaeology of Neolithic and Bronze Age pile-dwellings.

Author(s): Hafner, Albert Dolbunova, Ekaterina Mazurkevich, Andrey Pranckenaite, Elena Hinz, Martin
Published in: Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology (OSPA), Issue Vol. 1, 2020, ISBN 978-3-948465-83-4
Publisher: Propylaeum, Heidelberg University Library
DOI: 10.11588/propylaeum.714

Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe

Author(s): Ballmer, Ariane; Hafner, Albert, Tinner, willy (ed.)
Published in: Natural Science in Archaeology, 2024
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-52780-7

First Multispecies Tree-Ring Chronologies from the 6th Millennium Bce in Southeastern Europe

Author(s): Maxim Yermokhin, Andrej Maczkowski, Matthias Bolliger, John Francuz, Adrian Anastasi, Krist Anastasi, Ariane Ballmer, Mirco Brunner, Ilirjan Gjipali, Martin Hinz, Marco Hostettler, Johannes Reich, Sönke Szidat, Amy Bogaard, Konstantinos Kotsakis, Willy Tinner, Albert Hafner
Published in: SSNR Ancient European & Mediterranean History eJournal, 2025
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5295817

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