Phaleron Project publications and presentations

Peer- reviewed publications

Buikstra, J. E., Cormier, A. A., Karligkioti, A., Zikidi, C., and Chryssoulaki, S. (Accepted). Introduction: The Phaleron Bioarchaeological Project. Bioarchaeology International.

Buikstra, J. E., Ingvarsson, A., Bäckström, Y., Hayes, L., Hannigan, E., and Chryssoulaki, S., 2025. Comparing in situ and Laboratory Osteological Observations. Bioarchaeology International. DOI: 10.5744/bi.2025.0009.

Cerezo-Román, J., Buikstra, J. E., Alexandropoulou, A., Fenn, T. R., Tritsaroli, P., Walsh, M., Chryssoulaki, S., Zikidi, C., 2026. Were There Double Cremations at the Phaleron Burial Ground in Greece? Bioarchaeology International. DOI: 10.5744/bi.2025.0010.

Cormier, A., Buikstra, J. E., and Chryssoulaki, S., 2026. The Phaleron Delta D-Group: Describing and Deconstructing. Bioarchaeology International. DOI: 10.5744/bi.2025.0004.

Cunningham, B. L., Stamer, J. R., Tritsaroli, P., Zikidi, C., and Buikstra, J. E., 2026. "Injury and Community in Archaic Athens: An Extended Osteobiography from the Phaleron Burial Ground, Greece. Bioarchaeology International. DOI: 10.5744/bi.2025.0011.

Hannigan, E. M., Buikstra, J. E., Bartelink, E. J., and Tritsaroli, P., 2025. The Archaic Period Diet: Preliminary Isotope Results from the Phaleron Burial Ground, Athens, Greece. Bioarchaeology International. DOI: 10.5744/bi.2025.0003.

Hayes, L., Tritsaroli, P., Hannigan, E. Schmitt, P, Karligkioti, A. Bioarchaeological Analysis of Antemortem Postcranial Trauma within the Phaleron Burial Ground. Bioarchaeology International. (submitted).

Karakostis, F. A., Buikstra, J. E., Prevedorou E-A., Hannigan E., M, Hotaling J., Hotz G., Liedl H., Moraitis K., Siek T., Waltenberger L., Widrick K., Harvati, K., 2021. New insights into the manual activities of individuals from the Phaleron cemetery (Archaic Athens, Greece). Journal of Archaeological Science 131. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2021.105415.

Prevedorou, E-A., and Buikstra, J. E., 2019. Bioarchaeological Practice and the Curation of Human Skeletal Remains in a Greek Context: The Phaleron Cemetery. Advances in Archaeological Practice 7(1), pp. 60–67. Society for American Archaeology. DOI: 10.1017/aap.2018.42.

Rothwell, J. E. and Buikstra, J. E., 2026. Communities of Care at the Phaleron Burial Ground: Understanding Early Childhood Healthcare in Archaic Athens. Bioarchaeology International. DOI: 10.5744/bi.2025.0020.

Stamer, J. R., Rothwell, J. R., Martinez, M. R., Hannigan, E., Zikidi, C., Cormier, A., Chryssoulaki, S., Knudson, K. J., and Buikstra, J. E., 2026. “From the Boy Comes the Man”: Exploring Dietary Variability in Distinct Burial Contexts at the Archaic Phaleron Cemetery. Bioarchaeology International. DOI: 10.5744/bi.2025.0016.

Stamer, J. R., Rothwell, J. R., Simonton, M., Chryssoulaki, S., Knudson, K. J., Buikstra, J. E., 2026. , 2026.Investigating the residential history of the Esplanada mass graves at Phaleron, Greece,Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Volume 74. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2026.105952.

Steadman, D. W. Deathscapes at Phaleron II. MS in preparation, to be submitted to the American Journal of Biological Anthropology.

Stojanowski, C. M., 2026. Reconstruction of Spatial Organization and Cemetery Structure of Preadult Burials at the Phaleron Burial Ground (Archaic Athens, Greece) Using Deciduous Dental Morphology. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 190:e70338. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.70338.

Stojanowski, C. M., 2025. Spatial organization and cemetery structure at Phaleron. Bioarchaeology International. DOI: 10.5744/bi.2025.0005.

Zikidi, C. and Buikstra, J. E. Beyond Osteobiographies: Constructing Osteoassemblages at the Phaleron Delta Burial Ground. MS accepted in Cambridge Archaeological Journal.

Book chapters and edited volumes

Buikstra, J. E., Alexandropoulou, A., Cerezo-Roman, J., Chryssoulaki, S., Cormier, A., Cruz, K., Frankenberg, S., Hannigan, E., Konigsberg, L., Liedl, H., Pappas, I., Rothwell, J., and Velegraki, M. Paleodemography and the Phaleron Cemetery. In: Andrikou, E., Ainian, A. M., Fachard, S., Papadimitriou, N., Papadopoulos, J., and Vlanti, D. (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference: Athens and Attica in the Early Iron Age and the Archaic Period. (Forthcoming).

Buikstra, J. E., 2023. Inferring Ancient Human Activities through Skeletal Study: An Example from Archaic Greece. In: Karakostis, F. A. and Jäger, G. (eds.). Biocultural Evolution: An Agenda for Integrative Approaches (Edited Volume), Chapter 2, pp. 25-54. Kerns Verlag, Tübingen. DOI: 10.51315/9783935751384.002.

Buikstra, J. E., 2024. Bioarchaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean: Plans and Prospects. In: Lagia, A., and Voutsaki, S., (eds.) Bioarchaeological perspectives on inequality and social differentiation from the ancient Greek world. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Buikstra, J. E., Hayes, L., Liedl, H., Cormier, A., Hannigan, E., Hotaling, J., Prevedorou, E-A., Siek, T. J., and Widrick, K. J., 2024. The Poetics of Violence at Phaleron. In: Campbell, R. A., and Osterholtz, A., (eds.), The Poetics of Violence in Afroeurasian Bioarchaeology. Springer.

Buikstra, J. E., Zikidi, C., and Rothwell, J. (In press). Bioarchaeological Findings from the Phaleron Cemetery. In: Chryssoulaki, S., and Pappas, I. (eds.) Phaleron: Archaeology of the Central Area of the Phaleron Delta Archaeological Site.

Cormier, A. and Buikstra, J. E., (eds.). Bioarchaeology of the Phaleron Burial Ground: Papers from a Symposium (in preparation).

Cormier, A., Hayes, L., Liedl, H., Velegraki, M. and Buikstra, J. E. Η Βιοαρχαιολογία των Oμαδικών Tάφων από τους Tομείς IV, 5 και IX. In: Chryssoulaki, S., and Pappas, I. (eds.) Phaleron: Archaeology of the Central Area of the Phaleron Delta Archaeological Site, Chapter 6. (Forthcoming).

Prevedorou, E-A., Buikstra, J. E., Liedl, H., Waltenberger, L., and Hoff, A., 2024. Unwritten Histories of Ancient Athens: The People of the Phaleron Cemetery. In: Lagia, A., and Voutsaki, S., (eds.) Bioarchaeological perspectives on inequality and social differentiation from the ancient Greek world. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Theses and Dissertations

Hannigan, E., 2022. Stable Isotope Analysis as a Means of Exploring the Lived Experience of Archaic Greek Individuals. M.A. thesis, California State University, Chico.

Walsh, M. C., 2024. Examining Pathological Preservation in Cremated Human Skeletal Remains from the Archaic Period Site of Phaleron, Greece. M. A. thesis, University of Oklahoma.

Liedl, H., 2024. Inequality and Structural Violence in Archaic Athens – A Bioarchaeological Investigation at Phaleron (8^th-5^th century BCE). PhD dissertation, Durham University.

Rothwell, J. E., 2024. Childhood Health and Social Identity in Archaic Athens: A Bioarchaeological Perspective from Phaleron. PhD dissertation. Arizona State University.

Schmidt, P., 2024. Using Structural Violence to Interpret Nonspecific Indicators of Stress in Archaic Greek Individuals from Phaleron. M.A. thesis, California State University, Chico.

Conference Presentations

Buikstra, J. E., Alexandropoulou, A., Cerezo-Román, J., Chryssoulaki, S., Cormier, A, Cruz, K, Frankenberg, S., Hannigan, E., Konigsberg, L., Liedl, H., Pappas, I., Rothwell, J., and Velegraki, M., 2022. Deathscapes and Lifescapes between the sea and the asty: The Phaleron Cemetery. Paper presented at a Conference: Athens and Attica in the Early Iron Age and the Archaic Period. Athens, Greece.

Buikstra, J. E. and Ingvarsson, A., 2023. A Comparison of Field in situ and Laboratory Analyses of Human Skeletal Remains from the Archaic Period Site of Phaleron, Greece. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Reno, NV.

Cerezo-Román J. I. and Buikstra, J. E., 2022. Reconstructions of Cremation at Phaleron: Preliminary Pilot Study Results. FIRE IT UP! Cremations in Athens and Attica: How and why? May 3, 2022. Co-organizers: J. E. Buikstra (Arizona State University), J. Cerezo-Román, and E. Petiti (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin), and J. Stroszeck (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Athens).

Cerezo-Román, J., Walsh, M., and Buikstra, J. E., 2023. Cremation Mortuary Practices during the Archaic Period in Ancient Athens and Attica, April 1, 2023, 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Portland, Oregon.

Cormier, A. and Buikstra, J. E., 2022. Health, Marginalization, and Violence in Archaic Greece: An Osteobiography of a Young Adult Male from the Phaleron Cemetery. Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Denver, Co.

Cormier, A., 2023. Joint Hypermobility and Dislocation in Archaic Greece: An Osteobiography of an Adult Male from the Phaleron Cemetery. Annual Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Reno, NV.

Cormier, A., 2023. The Bioarchaeology of the Distinctive Burials of the Phaleron Cemetery, Archaic Greece. Archaeological Institute of America, Central Carolinas Society.

Cormier, A., Buikstra, J. E., and Liedl, H., 2023. Structural and Physical Violence in Archaic Greece: The Bioarchaeology of the “Distinctly Different” in the Phaleron Cemetery. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Reno, NV.

Cunningham, B. L., Stamer, J. R., Tritsaroli, P., and Buikstra, J. E., 2024. A Case Study of an Enlarged Mandibular Condyle from the Phaleron Cemetery in Athens. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Los Angeles, CA.

Hannigan, E., Prevedorou, E-A., and Buikstra, J. E., 2022. How Much Do We Know About Ancient Greek Diets? Stable Isotope Studies from the Early Iron Age to the Classical Period in Attica. Society for American Archaeology Meetings.

Hannigan, E. M., Stamer, J., Zikidi, C., and Buikstra, J. E., 2026. Citational practices in queer archaeology: An alternative genealogy and case study from Archaic period Greece [Poster presentation]. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting.

Hayes, L., Cormier, A., and Buikstra, J. E., 2024. Spina bifida occulta within the Archaic Greek cemetery of Phaleron. Annual Meetings of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Los Angeles, CA.

Hayes, L., Hannigan, E., Schmitt, P., Tritsaroli, P., and Karligkioti, A., 2024. A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Antemortem Postcranial Trauma Patterns within the Archaic Greek Cemetery of Phaleron. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Hoff, A. R., Rothwell, J. E., Prevedorou, E-A., Buikstra, J. E., Steadman, D. W., Chyssoulaki, S., 2019. “Life and Death in Archaic Athens: Intersectional Personhood at Phaleron. Invited paper presented in the symposium, Death in the Polis: Social Context and Identities in Greek Mortuary Practice. Salminen at the Archaeological Institute of America and Society for Classical Studies M Annual Meeting, 3–6 January 2019. San Diego, CA.

Liedl, H., Rothwell, J. E., Gowland, R., and Buikstra, J. E., 2023. Poverty, lawbreaking, and enslavement: Living and dying as a social outcast in Archaic Athens (8th-5th century BCE). 29^th Annual Meeting of the EAA, Belfast, Ireland.

Liedl, H., Gowland, R., and Buikstra, J. E., 2022. Interpersonal Violence and Care at the Phaleron Cemetery, Athens (8^th-5^th century BCE): An Osteobiographical Approach. 23rd Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology.

Liedl, H., Cormier, A., Gowland, R., Chryssoulaki, S., and Buikstra, J. E., 2023. Breath-Taking Athens-Evidence of Pulmonary Stress from Archaic Phaleron, Athens (700-480). Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Reno, NV.

Liedl, H., 2023. Skeletal trauma at Phaleron: Exploring risk and interpersonal violence in Ancient Athens. At Conference “Words and Numbers” of the Early Iron Age Aegean ERC Research Group.

Rothwell, J., Prevedorou, E-A. and Buikstra, J. E., 2020. Infant Mortality in Archaic Athens (ca. 700-480 BCE): An investigation into the Jar Burials of Phaleron Cemetery. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, online.

Rothwell, J., Liedl, H., and Buikstra, J. E., 2023. A case of pediatric thalassemia from Phaleron Cemetery (Athens, Greece): Implications for life and death. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Reno, NV.

Rothwell, J. E., Alexandropoulou, A., Tritsaroli, P., and Buikstra, J. E., 2023. Love beyond What Is Lost: Expressions of Kinship through Mortuary Practice at Phaleron Cemetery. Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Portland, OR.

Rothwell, J. E., Stamer, J. R., Martinez, M., Knudson, K. J, and Buikstra, J. E., 2024. Consider the Teeth: Assessing the Viability of Dentinal Collagen Preservation for Isotopic Analysis at Phaleron Cemetery (700-480 BCE). 93^rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropology. Los Angeles, CA.

Shea, T., Prevedorou, E-A., and Buikstra, J. E., 2021. The Mass Graves and Cemetery at Phaleron: Cemeteries as Manifestations of Necropolitics in Archaic Athens. Invited paper at Conference: Conference in Classics and Ancient History, Coimbra, Portugal.

Skourtanioti, E., Prevedorou, E-A., Chryssoulaki, S., Tiliakou, A., Bianco, R. A., Mötsch, A., Mittnik, A., Karkanas, P., Buikstra, J. E., Krause, J., and Stockhammer, P. W., 2024. Archaeogenetics of the 1^st Millennium BCE Burial Ground of Phaleron, Greece. EMBO Symposium: Reconstructing the human past: using ancient and modern genomics. Poster. Heidelberg, Germany, Sept 17-21, 2024. Won FIRST PLACE in poster prize competition.

Steadman, D. W. and Buikstra, J. E., 2023. Assessing Peri-Mortem Trauma at the Site of Phaleron. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Reno, NV (2023).

Walsh, M., Cerezo-Román, J, and Buikstra, J. E., 2023. Examining Paleopathological Preservation in Cremated Human Skeletal Remains from Archaic Period Phaleron Athens, Greece. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Reno, NV.

Zikidi, C., and Buikstra, J. E., 2025. Osteobiographies, Embodied Memory, and the Dead: Theoretical Reflections and Bioarchaeological Reconstructions from Phaleron Delta. Necropoleis Research Network, Annual Meeting VIII, Chania, Greece, 24–26 October 2025.