Dr. Anna Karligkioti

I am a postdoctoral researcher exploring population movement through different lines of evidence in the lower countries for the LOCO project. I hold a Ph.D. in Archaeological Science specializing in Bioarchaeology from the Cyprus Institute. My Ph.D research examined health (in)equality and lifestyle through the study of human skeletal remains in mainland Greece during Classical Antiquity adopting a biocultural approach. My research explored living conditions diachronically, expressed through differentiations in oral health, diet, physiological and mechanical stress in assemblages from Thebes and E. Attica. Additionally, I examined biodistances using dental nonmetric and metric data in order to reconstruct past mobility and kinship patterns in Thebes.

Before joining the VUB I expanded my research in the Cyclades as a postdoctoral research fellow for the Museum of Cycladic Art, examining health patterns and living conditions of the people inhabiting Naxos and Tinos during Classical Antiquity. In the past I have participated in a number of research projects throughout Greece, Cyprus, Albania and Jordan and I have worked as a contract archaeologist for the Greek Ministry of Culture. I have co-organised, with colleagues, a number of conferences and public engagement activities. My main research interests lie within bioarchaeology and archaeological science, focusing on social inequality, palaeomobility and population dynamics.

Background

MSc Art Sciences and Archaeology, 2022
MSc Cultural Educational Sciences, 2021
BSc Cultural Educational Sciences, 2020

Key Research Interests

Palaeomobility
Physiological and mechanical stress
Biological relatedness and kinship
Diet and dental diseases
Bioarchaeology of inequality and social differentiation
Archaeological Science

Main Publications

Karligkioti, A., Aravantinos, V., Charami, A. and Nikita, E., 2025. A Biodistance Study of Mobility, Biological Kinship, and Lifestyle in Central Mainland Greece During Classical and Hellenistic Times. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2025; 0:1–11.
Karligkioti A., Aravantinos V, Charami A., Agathokleous G., Nikita E., 2025. Mechanical stress, activity reconstruction and their association to social status and well-being in the city of Thebes, Boeotia, during Classical to Hellenistic times. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 65, 105196.
Karligkioti A., Douni K., Mexi M., Michailidi G., Nikita E., 2023. Approaching diachronic life (in)equality and identity formation in Eastern Attica from the Classical to the Roman era. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 47, 103819.
Karligkioti A., Mardini M., Christofi P., Nikita E., 2022. First bioarchaeological insights to living conditions in Cyprus from Venetian to Ottoman times. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 45, 103640.
Nikita E., Karligkioti A., 2019. Basic guidelines for the excavation and study of human skeletal remains. Guide No.1. Nicosia: The Cyprus Institute.
Caruso A., Karligkioti A., Selempa G., Nikita E., 2023. STARC OSTEOARCH: An open access resource for recording and sharing human osteoarchaeological data. In International Journal of Osteoarchaeology International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 33(5), pp.973-975.
James, H., Karligkioti, A., Cornelissen, Y.J.L., Veselka, B., de Mulder, G. and Snoeck, C., 2025. Mobility patterns, dietary shifts and chronology: strontium and radiocarbon insights from calcined bones at Ursel-Rozestraat (prov. of East-Flanders, Belgium). Lunula. Archaeologia Protohistorica, 33, pp.123-130.
Nikita E., Mardini M., Mardini M., Tsimopoulou C., Karligkioti A., 2021. Bi(bli)oArch: An open-access bibliographic database for human bioarchaeological studies in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 39, pp.103-151.
Nikita E., Caruso A., Karligkioti A., Mardini M., Vergidou C., 2023. Minimizing data loss when excavating human skeletal remains. In Margariti E., Oikonomou A., Nikita E., Rehren T. (eds.) Field sampling for Laboratory Analysis in Archaeology, pp.88-99.
Nikita E., Karligkioti A., Lee H., 2019. Excavation and study of commingled human skeletal remains. Guide No.2. Nicosia: The Cyprus Institute.

anna.karligkioti@vub.be