George Hourmouziadis ( el, Γιώργος Χουρμουζιάδης; 26 November 1932 – 16 October 2013) was a

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archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

and Professor Emeritus of prehistoric archaeology at the

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

. He led excavations in many prehistoric settlements in Thessaly and Macedonia (such as Dimini, Arkadikos Dramas etc.) and in 1992 he started the excavation of the neolithic lakeside settlement of

Dispilio Dispilio ( el, Δισπηλιό) is a village near Lake Orestiada, in the Kastoria regional unit of Western Macedonia, Greece. Near the village is an archaeological site containing remains of a Neolithic lakeshore settlement that occupied an art ...

in Kastoria, Northwestern Greece. A myriad of items were discovered, which included ceramics, structural elements, seeds, bones, figurines, personal ornaments, three flutes (considered the oldest in Europe) and the Dispilio Tablet. He died on 16 October 2013 in Thessaloniki. The discovery of the wooden tablet was announced at a symposium in February 1994 at the University of Thessaloniki. The site's paleoenvironment, botany, fishing techniques, tools and ceramics were published informally in the June 2000 issue of Επτάκυκλος, a Greek archaeology magazine and in Hourmouziadis (2002). In 2012, he was part of a multidisciplinary team of scientists who published a result on the use of

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(C13/C12 Carbon and O18/O16 oxygen) and cathodoluminescence microscopy for tracing back the physical origin of spondylus shell artifacts to reconstruct ancient trade and exchange routes.

Published works

*1973 - G. H. Hourmouziadis. ''Neolithic Figurines''. *1979 - G. H. Hourmouziadis. ''Neolithic Dimini''. Volos: Etaireia Thessalikwn Erevnwn, 1979. **Review, ''Journal of Hellenic Studies'', 1981, vol. 101, p. 206-207 *1982 - G. H. Hourmouziadis, P. Asimakopoulou-Atzaka, and K. A. Makris. ''Magnesia: the Story of a Civilization''. Athens: Capon, Texas: Tornbooks, 1982. OCLC 59678966http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59678966&referer=brief_results *1995 - G. H. Hourmouziadis. ''Analogies''. Thessaloniki: Vanias, 1995. *1996 - G. H. Hourmouziadis. ''Dispilio, Kastoria a Prehistoric Lakeside Settlement''. Thessaloniki: Codex, 1996. (In Greek.) *1999 - G. H. Hourmouziadis. ''Earthen Words''. Skopelos: Nisides, 1999. *2002 - G. H. Hourmouziadis, ed. ''The prehistoric research in Greece and its perspectives: Theoretical and Methodological considerations'. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press. *2002 - G. H. Hourmouziadis, ed. ''Dispilio, 7500 Years After'. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press. *2006 - G. H. Hourmouziadis ''Ανασκαφής Εγκόλπιον''. Athens, 2006.

References

1932 births 2013 deaths Greek archaeologists Aristotle University of Thessaloniki faculty Neolithic Greece MPs of Thessaloniki People from Thessaloniki {{Greece-scientist-stub