Adamantios Sampson

Greek archaeologist

Adamantios Sampson (Αδαμάντιος Σάμψων) is a Greek archaeologist who served as an Inspector of Antiquities for the Greek Administration of Antiquity. Since 1999, he has been a professor in the University of the Aegean, Department of Mediterranean Studies, Rhodes

Sampson specialised in research on prehistoric Neolithic and Mesolithic sites in Southern Greece. Among the sites he has studied are the so called Cave of the Cyclops on the islet of Youra near Alonissos; the islet of Υali near Nisyros; the Maroulas site on Kythnos ; the Kerame site on Ikaria; Sarakenos Cave on Boeotia; the "Skoteini cave" in Euboea and the "Cave of the Lakes" near Kalavryta .

1981 Eυβοϊκή Κύμη Ι (Εuboean Kyme I), Archive of Euboean Studies, Athens. 1981 H Nεολιθική και η Πρωτοελλαδική Ι στην Εύβοια (The Neolithic and Early Bronze Age I in Euboea),PhD, Archive of Euboean Studies, Athens. 1985 Mάνικα Ι. Μία Πρωτοελλαδική πόλη κοντά στη Χαλκίδα (Manika I. An Early Bronze Age settlement near Chalkis), Arch. of Euboean Studies, Athens. 1987 Η Νεολιθική περίοδος στα Δωδεκάνησα (The Neolithic period in the Dodecanese),ΤAP Ministry of Culture, Athens. 1988 Mάνικα ΙΙ. Ο ΠΕ οικισμός και το νεκροταφείο (Manika II. The Early Bronze Age settlement and cemetery), Municipality of Chalkis. 1993 To σπήλαιο Σκοτεινή στα Θαρρούνια της Εύβοιας (Skoteini at Tharrounia. The cave, the settlement and the cemetery), Eph. of Spelaeology, Ministry of Culture, Athens. 1993 Καλογερόβρυση. Ένας οικισμός της Πρώιμης Εποχής του Χαλκού στα Φύλλα της Εύβοιας (Κaloyerovrysi. A settlement of the Early Bronze Age at Phylla, Euboea), Eph. of Spelaeology, Ministry of Culture, Athens
1993 Late Neolithic remains at Tharrounia, Euboea. A model for the seasonal use of settlements and caves, BSA 87, 61
1995 Σκοπέλου Λαϊκός Πολιτισμός (The Folk Culture of Skopelos), Folk Museum of Skopelos. 1996 Excavation at the Cave of Cyclope, Youra. In E. Alram Stern, ed., 'Die Agaische Frühzeit (2. serie). Forschungsbericht 1975 1993''. Wien. pp. 507–520. 1997 Η εθνοαρχαιολογία του Γυαλιού της Νισύρου: Εποχικές μετακινήσεις στα νησιά του ΝΑ Αιγαίου (The Ethnoarchaeology of Υali, Nisyros: Periodic Migrations in the islands of the Southeast Aegean), Athens: Dodecanesian Society for Literature and Arts. 1997 Το σπήλαιο των Λιμνών στα Καστριά Καλαβρύτων: Μια προϊστορική θέση στην ορεινή Πελοπόννησο (The Cave of the Lakes at Kastria Kalavryta: A Prehistoric Site in the Ηighlands of the Peloponnese), Athens, Monograph in Society of Peloponnesian Studies. 1998 The Neolithic and Mesolithic occupation of the Cave of Cyclope, Youra, Alonnessos, Greece. BSA 93, 1 21
1998 Sampson A., J. Kozlowski 1998, Εntre l' Anatolie et les Balkans: une sequence mésolithique néolithique de l' ile de Youra (Sporades du Nord), in M. Otte (ed. ), Prehistoire de l' Anatolie, Genése de deux mondes, ERAUL 1998, 125 141. 1998 Sampson A., Y. Facorellis, Y. Maniatis 1998, New evidence for the cave occupation during the late Neolithic period in Greece, Proceedings of C14 Conference Lyon, 279. 1999 Sampson A. & Ι. Liritzis 1999, Archaeological and archaeometrical research at Yali, Dodecanese, ΤUΒΑ AR 2, 101 115
1999 Αulis mycenienne et la route maritime de l' Egee du Nord, volume in honour of Μ. Wiener, in R. Laffineur (ed. ), Meletemata. Studies in Aegean Archaeology, III, 741 746. 1999 Sampson A., J. Kozlowski 1999, The cave of Cyclope in the Northern Aegean. A specialized fishing shelter of the Mesolithic and the Neolithic period, Neo lithics 3, Berlin. 2000 Nήσος Σκόπελος. Μια ιστορική και αρχαιολογική αφήγηση (Skopelos. An historical and archaeological narration), Folk Museum of Skopelos. 2001 Η αρχαιολογική έρευνα στις Βόρειες Σποράδες (The Archaeology of Northern Sporades), Municipality of Alonnessos. 2001 Liritzis I. & A. Sampson 2001 (eds),The Aegean Basin between the Balkans, Anatolia and Near East. Local experimentation and outward interactions in an island society, Proceedings of symposium, Rhodes. 2002 The Neolithic settlement at Ftelia, Mykonos, Univ. of the Aegean. 2002 Sampson A., J. Kozlowski, M Kaczanowska, V. Giannouli 2002, The Mesolithic settlement at Maroulas, Kythnos, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 2, 45. 2002 Katsarou S., A. Sampson, E. Dimou 2002, Obsidian as temper in the Neolithic pottery from Yali, Greece, Neolithic pottery, in V. Kilikoglou, A. Hein and Y. Maniatis (eds), Modern trends in scientific studies on Ancient Ceramics, ΒAR Inter. Series 1011, 111 120. 2003 Sampson A., J. Kozlowski, M. Kaczanowska 2003, The Μesolithic chipped stone industries from the Cyclops Cave, in C. Perlès and N. Galanidou (eds), The Greek Mesolithic: problems and perspectives, BSA, London. 2005 Early productive stages in the Aegean Basin from 9th to 7th mill BC, in C. Lichter (ed. ), Anatolian European relations from the second half of the 7th through the first half of the 6th mill BC, Istanbul, 131 142. 2005 Sampson Α., J. K. Kozłowski, M. Kaczanowska 2005 Prehistoric excavations in the Aegean, New Contributions to the Early Settlement of the Aegean Islands, Proceedings of Polish Academy. 2006 Η προϊστορία του Αιγαίου, Παλαιολιθική, Μεσολιθική, Νεολιθική, (The prehistory of the Aegean Basin), ed. Atrapos, Athens. 2006 Πολιτισμοί του Κόσμου. Σχεδίασμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας (Civilizations of the World) ed. Iolkos, Athens. 2006 The Sarakenos Cave and the palaeoenvironment in the Copais Basin, Boeotia, Central Greece, in P. J. Smith (ed. ), Cults, coins, history and inscriptions VII: Studies in honor of John M. Fossey III, 61 75. 2006 Kaczanowska M., Kozlowski J. K., Sampson A. 2006, Neolithic Chipped Stone Industries from the Island of Rhodes : A Case Study of the Ayios Georgios Cave near Kalythies. In A. Erkanal Öktü et al. (eds), Studies in Honor of Hayat Erkanal Cultural Reflections, İstanbul: Homer Kitabevi. 2007 Προϊστορική Αρχαιολογία της Μεσογείου (The prehistory of the Mediterranean Basin), ed. Kardamitsa, Athens. 2008 The Cyclops Cave on the island of Youra, Greece. Mesolithic and Neolithic networks in the Northern Aegean Basin, vol 1, INSTAP Monograph Series, Philadelphia. 2008 The Neolithic and Bronze Age Occupation of the Sarakenos Cave in Boeotia. Cave Settlement Patterns and Population Movements in Central and Southern Greece, University of the Aegean and Polish Academy, Athens. 2008 Sampson A., M. Kaczanowska, J. K. Kozlowski, The first Mesolithic site in the eastern part of the Aegean Basin: excavations into the site Kerame I on the island of Ikaria 2008, in Annual of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, 321 329. 2008 Poulianos N. & A. Sampson 2008, Mesolithic human remains from Kythnos island, Greece, Human Evolution, 23, 187 203. 2008 Sampson A. 2008, The architecture in the Neolithic settlement of Ftelia on Mykonos, in N. Brodie, J. Doole, G. Gavalas and C. Renfrew (eds), Horizon. A colloquium on the prehistory of the Cyclades, 29 38, Cambridge. 2008 From the Mesolithic to the Neolithic: New data on Aegean Prehistory, in H. Erkanal, H. Hauptmann, V. Sahoglu and R. Tuncel (eds), The Aegean in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age, Ankara, 503 516. 2008 Sampson A. & P. Fotiadi 2008, EC II III finds from Rivari, Melos, in N. Brodie, J. Doole, G. Gavalas and C. Renfrew (eds), Horizon. A colloquium on the prehistory of the Cyclades, 217 224, Cambridge. 2009 Sampson A., M. Kaczanowska, J. Kozlowski 2009, Sarakenos Cave in Boeotia from Palaeolithic to the Early Bronze Age, in Eurasian Prehistory 6 (1), 1 33. 2010 Sampson A., M. Kaczanowska, J. Kozlowski, The prehistory of the island of Kythnos and the Mesolithic settlement of Maroulas, Polish Academy and University of the Aegean, Kraków. 2010 Μεσολιθική Ελλάδα. Παλαιοπεριβάλλον, Οικονομία, Τεχνολογία, (Μesolithic Greece). Palaeoenvironment, Palaeoeconomy and Technology, ed. Ion, Athens. 2011 Wadi Hamarash. A new MPPNB site in Jordan, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 54, 73 84. 2011 The excavation of 2010 at the Wadi Hamarash Suweif (Ghawr as Safi), Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 54, 85 94. 2011 The Cave of the Cyclops, vol. II. INSTAP Monograph Series, Philadelphia. 2011 Drivaliari A., I. Liritzis, A. Sampson 2011, Stable Isotopic analysis of the mollusk shells, in A. Sampson (ed. ), The Cyclops Cave on the island of Youra, Greece. Mesolithic and Neolithic networks in the Northern Aegean Basin. Bone tool industries, Dietary resources and archaeometric studies, Vol. II, INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia, 385 390. 2011 Laskaris A., Sampson A., F. Mavridis & I. Liritzis 2011, Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene seafaring in the Aegean: New obsidian hydration dates employing the novel SIMS SS method, Journal of Archaeological Science, 38, 2475 2479. 2012 The 2011 excavations at Wadi Hamarash 1 and Wadi Sharara, as Safi, Jordan, ADAJ 55, 73 83. 2012 Excavations at Wadi Hamarash 1 Sharara, in D. R. Keller,B. A. Porter, C. A. Turtle (eds), Archaeology in Jordan 2010 and 2011 seasons, American Journal of Archaeology, vol 116,723 725. 2012 A. Sampson, J. Kozlowski, M. Kaczanowska, Mesolithic occupations and environments on the island of Ikaria, Aegean, Greece, monograph 80, Folia Quaternaria, Kraków. 2013 Wadi Hamarash 1. An early PPNB settlement at Wasi al Hasa, Jordan, University of the Aegean, Lab. of Environmental Archaeology Monographs, Rhodes. 2014 To σπήλαιο Σαρακηνού στο Ακραίφνιο Βοιωτίας (The Sarakenos Cave at Akraiphnion, Boeotia), Univ. of the Aegean, Munic. of Orchomenos. 2014 The Mesolithic of the Aegean Basin, in Manen C., Perrin T. & Guillaine J. (eds), The Neolithic transition in the Mediterranean, Errance, 193 212. 2014 Ikaria. Prehistory and Ethnoarchaeology, Society for Ikarian Studies, Athens. 2015 Kontopoulos I. & A. Sampson 2015, Prehistoric diet on the island of Euboea, Greece: an isotopic investigation, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, Vol. 15, 97 111. 2015 Orphanidis L. and A. Sampson 2015, The Sarakenos Cave at Akraiphion, Boeotia, Greece. Vol. III. The figurines of the Neolithic period, Athens. 2015 The Aegean Mesolithic. Environment, Economy and seafaring, in A. J. Ammerman & T. Davis (eds), Island Archaeology and the Origins of Seafaring in the Eastern Mediterranean, Proceedings of the Wenner Gren Workshop held at Reggio Calabria, 2012 Eurasian Prehistory, 11 (1–2): 63–74. 2016 Sampson A., J. Kozlowski, M. Kaczanowska 2016, Lithic industries of the Aegean Upper Mesolithic, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, Vol. 16 No 3 (2016), pp. 229–243. 2016 Kaczanowska M., J. Kozlowski, A. Sampson 2016, The Sarakenos Cave at Akraiphion, Boeotia, Greece. Vol. II. The Early Neolithic, the Mesolithic and the Upper Palaeolithic. The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kraków. 2016 Manika. An Early Helladic settlement and cemetery, vol. II, 2nd ed. Athens. 2017 Sampson A. & V. Mastroyiannopoulou 2017, Figurines from the Late Neolithic settlement of Ftelia, Mykonos, 30 38, in M. Marthari, C. Renfrew, M. J. Boyd (eds), Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context, Oxbow, 30 38.