1. Harvati, K., Tourloukis, V., Panagopoulou, E., Karkanas, P. 2024. Paleolithic dispersals, survivals and population contacts: uncovering human evolution in Greece. Half a century of archaeological science in Greece: past, present, future. Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens, 29.11-01.12, Greece.

De Caro, D., Kuhn, M., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., Tourloukis, V. 2024. Unravelling the strategic interplay between bipolar and freehand techniques in the Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis basin, Greece) through lithic analysis and experimental knapping. 4th Virtual Conference for Women Archaeologists and Paleontologists.

2. Tourloukis, V. 2023. Human occupation in a glacial refugium: ten years of Palaeolithic investigations in the Megalopolis basin, Greece. The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic in Greece & the Eastern Mediterranean: data and debates. University of Manchester, UK, 1-2 June 2023.

3. De Caro, Kuhn, M., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., Tourloukis, V. 2023. The technological behavior in the Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis basin, Greece). 13th Annual Meeting, European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 21-23.09.2023, Aarhus.

4. Butiseaca, G.-A., Vasiliev, I., van der Meer, M.T.J., Tourloukis, V., Junginger, A., Mulch, A., Karkanas, P., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. 2022. How cold was it at the Marathousa 1 Lower Palaeolithic site (Megalopolis basin, Greece) during the hominin presence? 12th Annual Meeting, European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 22-24.09.2022, Tübingen.

5. De Caro, D., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Panagopouloou, E., Harvati, K. 2022. Lithic assemblages from Palaeolithic survey research in the Megalopolis Basin, Greece. 12th Annual Meeting, European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 22-24.09.2022, Tübingen.

6. Roditi, E., Bocherens, H., Konidaris, G.E., Athanassiou, A., Tourloukis, V., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. 2022. The paleoecology of the straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) from the Middle Pleistocene locality Marathousa 1 (Greece) inferred from carbon and oxygen stable isotope analysis. 12th Annual Meeting, European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 22-24.09.2022, Tübingen.

7. Guibert-Cardin, J., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., Nicoud, E., Beyries, S. 2021. Middle Pleistocene tools and site functions: preliminary traceological analysis of the lithic assemblage from Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis, Greece). 11th Annual Meeting, European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 22-24.09.2021, worldwide (online format).

8. Kranis, H., Skourtsos, E., Davis, G., Karkanas, P., Tourloukis, V., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. 2020. Switch-on, switch-off: Plio-Quaternary evolution of the Megalopolis Basin (Southern Greece), through structural overprinting, interaction and fault migration. European Geosciences Union, 4-8.5.20, Vienna.

9. Bludau, I., Weiss, M., Schnabel, E., Thompson, N., Tourloukis, V., Karkanas, P., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., Junginger, A., 2020. Lake level changes and their paleo-climatic implications at the middle Pleistocene excavation of MAR-1, southern Greece. European Geoscience Union, 4-8.5.20, Vienna.

10. Konidaris, G.E., Tourloukis, V., Harvati, K., 2019. Proboscidea-Homo interactions in open-air localities during the Early and Middle Pleistocene of western Eurasia: a palaeontological and archaeological perspective. Symposium ‘Human-elephant interactions: from past to present’, 16-18.10.19, Hannover.

11. Tourloukis, V., Konidaris, G., Giusti, D., Karkanas, P., Thompson, N., Athanassiou, A., Tsartsidou, G., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., 2018. Small tools, big bones: first results from the Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece. XVIIIe World Congress, Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP), Session XVI-8, 4-9.06.19, Paris.

12. Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Panagopoulou, E., Giusti, D., Karkanas, P., Konidaris, G., Harvati, K., 2017. The cultural material from the Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: preliminary results. Paleoanthropology Society Annual Meeting, 28-29.03.17, Vancouver.

13. Harvati, K., Panagopoulou, E., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Karkanas, P., Konidaris, G., Athanassiou, A., Tsartsidou, G., Giusti, D., 2017. Marathousa 1: new Lower Paleolithic elephant butchering site from the Megalopolis basin, Greece. 7th Annual Meeting, European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 21-23.09.17, Leiden.

14. Harvati, K., Panagopoulou, E., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Karkanas, P., Athanassiou, A., Konidaris, G., Tsartsidou, G., Giusti, D., 2016. New Middle Pleistocene elephant butchering site from Greece. Paleoanthropology Society Annual Meeting, 12-13.04.16, Atlanta.

15. Blackwell, B.A.B., Singh, I., GopalKrishna, K., Chen, K.K., Sakhrani, N., Tourloukis, V., Karkanas, P., Florentin, J.A., Blickstein, L.I.B., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., Skinner, A., 2016. ESR dating the fossil-bearing layers at the Marathousa 1 site, Megalopolis, Greece. Paleoanthropology Society Annual Meeting, 12-13.04.16, Atlanta.

16. Tourloukis, V., Karkanas, P. 2016. The geoarchaeology of Palaeolithic sites with terra rossa: research questions and prospects. 1st International Conference on the Archaeology and History of Thesprotia, Igoumenitsa, December 8-11, Igoumenitsa, Greece.

17. Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Panagopoulou, E., Giusti, D., Karkanas, P., Konidaris, G., Harvati, K. 2016. The cultural material from the Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: preliminary results. Closing Symposium ERC Project “PaGE” (Palaeoanthropology at the Gates of Europe), 1-3.12.16, Tübingen.

18. Karkanas, P., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Giusti, D., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. 2016. Sedimentology and micromorphology of the Lower Palaeolithic lakeshore site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis basin, Greece. Closing Symposium ERC Project “PaGE” (Palaeoanthropology at the Gates of Europe), 1-3.12.16, Tübingen.

19. Panagopoulou, E., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Karkanas, P., Harvati, K. 2016. Marathousa 1: overview of the excavation and preliminary results. Closing Symposium ERC Project “PaGE” (Palaeoanthropology at the Gates of Europe), 1-3.12.16, Tübingen.

20. Thompson, N., Tourloukis, V., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., 2016. In search of Pleistocene remains at the Gates of Europe, results from PaGE Project’s directed surface survey of Pleistocene sediments in the basin of Megalopolis. Closing Symposium ERC Project “PaGE” (Palaeoanthropology at the Gates of Europe), 1-3.12.16, Tübingen.

21. Muttoni, G., Tourloukis, V., Karkanas, P., Monesi, E., Scardia, E., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. 2016. Magnetostratigraphy of the Pleistocene continental sediments of the Megalopolis Basin, Greece: constraints of the age of the Marathousa-1 archaeological levels. Closing Symposium ERC Project “PaGE” (Palaeoanthropology at the Gates of Europe), 1-3.12.16, Tübingen.

22. Athanassiou, A., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Lychounas, A., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. 2016. Hippopotamus (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) and other vertebrate remains from the Kyparissia-T site, Megalopolis, S. Greece. Closing Symposium ERC Project “PaGE” (Palaeoanthropology at the Gates of Europe), 1-3.12.16, Tübingen.

23. Giusti, D., Konidaris, G., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Karkanas, P., Kostopoulos, D., Koufos, G., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. 2016. Beyond maps: patterns of site formation processes at Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis basin) and Tsiotra Vryssi (Mygdonia basin). Closing Symposium ERC Project “PaGE” (Palaeoanthropology at the Gates of Europe), 1-3.12.16, Tübingen.

24. Konidaris, G., Athanassiou, A., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Giusti, D., Tsartsidou, G., Karkanas, P., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. 2016. The Elephas antiquus skeleton and other large mammals from Marathousa 1 site (Megalopolis Basin, Greece): preliminary results on taxonomy, biochronology, palaeoecology and taphonomy. Closing Symposium ERC Project “PaGE” (Palaeoanthropology at the Gates of Europe), 1-3.12.16, Tübingen.

25. Tsartsidou, G., Risberg, J., Karkanas, P., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Athanassiou, A., Konidaris, G., Giusti, D., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. 2016. The invisible record of the Marathousa 1 sediments: phytoliths and diatoms. Closing Symposium ERC Project “PaGE” (Palaeoanthropology at the Gates of Europe), 1-3.12.16, Tübingen.

26. Blackwell, B., Sakhrani, N., Gopalkrishna, K., Singh, I., Tourloukis, V., Panagopoulou, E., Karkanas, P., Blickstein, J., Harvati, K., Skinner, A. 2016. Tripling the pleasure: ESR dating of ungulate teeth and molluscs from Marathousa 1, Greece.  Closing Symposium Project “PaGE” (Palaeoanthropology at the Gates of Europe), 1-3.12.16, Tübingen.

27. Konidaris, G., Kostopoulos, D., Koufos, G., Giusti, D., Thompson, N., Tourloukis, V., Harvati, K. 2016. A new Early Pleistocene locality with vertebrates from the Mygdonia Basin (Macedonia, Greece): Tsiotra Vryssi. Closing Symposium ERC Project “PaGE” (Palaeoanthropology at the Gates of Europe), 1-3.12.16, Tübingen.

28. Koufos, G., Konidaris, G., Kostopoulos, D., Giusti, D., Thompson, N., Tourloukis, V., Harvati, K. 2016. Revisiting Ursus etruscus from Greece with description of new material from the Early Pleistocene locality Tsiotra Vryssi (Mygdonia Basin). Closing Symposium ERC Project “PaGE” (Palaeoanthropology at the Gates of Europe), 6-8.12.16, Tübingen.

29. Konidaris, G., Kostopoulos, D., Koufos, G., Tourloukis, V., Harvati, K., 2016. Tsiotra Vryssi: a new vertebrate locality from the Early Pleistocene of Mygdonia Basin (Macedonia, Greece). XIV Annual Meeting, European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, 6-10.07.16, Haarlem.

30. Tourloukis, V., Karkanas, P. 2015. Earliest radiometric dates for archaeological remains in Greece: the evidence from Kokkinopilos, NW Greece. 84th Annual Meeting, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 25-28.03.15, St. Louis.

31. Harvati, K., Tourloukis, V. 2015. Paleoanthropology in the Balkans: state of the art and challenges for future. 84th Annual Meeting, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 25-28.03.15, St. Louis.

32. Panagopoulou, E., Tourloukis V. 2008. The Early Prehistory of Greece: theories, archaeological evidence and new approaches. 2nd Conference on Prehistoric Archaeology, 4-7.12.08, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece.

33. Tourloukis, V. and Palli, O. 2006. The first Mesolithic site of Thesprotia. Thesprotian Colloquium, Finnish Institute at Athens, June 2006, Athens.

34. Palli, O., Tourloukis, V., 2006. Palaeolithic research in Thesprotia. Thesprotian Colloquium, Finnish Institute at Athens, June 2006, Athens.

1. Guibert-Cardin, J., Lhomme, V., Tourloukis, V., Nicoud, E., Beyries, S. 2022. From the function to the structure of tools: going backwards in the lithic chaîne operatoire to investigate the diversity of lithic assemblages of the European Lower Palaeolithic. 12th Annual Meeting, European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 22-24.09.2022, Tübingen.

2. De Caro, D., Tourloukis. V., Thompson, N., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. 2022. Lithic assemblages from Palaeolithic survey research in the Megalopolis Basin, Greece. 12th Annual Meeting, European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 22-24.09.2022, Tübingen.

3. Roditi, E., Bocherens, H., Konidaris, G., Athanassiou, A., Tourloukis, V., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. 2022. The paleoecology of the straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) from the Middle Pleistocene locality Marathousa 1 (Greece) inferred from carbon and oxygen stable isotope analysis. 12th Annual Meeting, European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 22-24.09.2022, Tübingen.

4. Butiseacă, G., Vasiliev, I., van der Meer, M., Tourloukis, V., Junginer, A., Mulch, A., Karkanas, P., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. 2022. How cold was it at the Marathousa 1 Lower Palaeolithic site (Megalopolis basin, Greece) during the hominin presence? 12th Annual Meeting, European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 22-24.09.2022, Tübingen.

5. Bludau, I., Papadopoulou, P. Iliopoulos, G., Weiss, M., Schnabel, E., Thompson, N., Tourloukis, V., Zachow, C., Kyrikou, S., Konidaris, G., Karkanas, P., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., Junginger, A. 2021 [accepted]. Lake level changes at the mid-Pleistocene Marathousa excavation site in southern Greece and their paleo-climatic implications. 11th Annual Meeting, European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 22-24.09.2021, worldwide (online format).

6. Guibert-Cardin, J., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., Nicoud, E., Beyries, S. 2021. Middle Pleistocene tools and site functions: preliminary traceological analysis of the lithic assemblage from Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis, Greece) 11th Annual Meeting, European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 22-24.09.2021, worldwide (online format).

7. Kunze, J., Karakostis, F., Merker, S., Peresani, M., Hotz, G., Tourloukis, V., Harvati, K. 2021. Evidence for habitual tool use in early hominins. mid-Pleistocene Marathousa excavation site in southern Greece and their paleo-climatic implications. 11th Annual Meeting, European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 22-24.09.2021, worldwide (online format).

8. Konidaris, G.E., Tourloukis, V. 2020. Early and Middle Pleistocene large carnivore guild of Europe and its role in the evolution of hominin subsistence strategies: an ecomorphological and behavioral approach. 10th Annual Meeting, European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 18-25.09.2020, worldwide (online format).

9. Konidaris, G.E., Tourloukis, V., Athanassiou, A., Giusti, D., Thompson, N., Panagopoulou, E., Karkanas, P., Harvati, K., 2019. Marathousa 2: A new Middle Pleistocene locality in Megalopolis Basin (Greece) with evidence of human modifications on faunal remains. 9th Annual Meeting, European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 19-21.09.19, Liège.

10. Tourloukis V., Thompson N., Panagopoulou E., Konidaris G., Giusti D., Athanassiou, A., Tsartsidou, G., Karkanas P., Harvati K. 2017. The lithic assemblage and bone tools from the Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: first results. 7th Annual Meeting, European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 21-23.09.17, Leiden.

11. Giusti, D., Tourloukis, V., Konidaris, G., Thompson, N., Karkanas, P., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. 2017. Beyond maps: patterns of formation processes at the Middle Pleistocene open-air site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece. 7th Annual Meeting, European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 21-23.09.17, Leiden.

12. Konidaris, G., Athanassiou, A., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Giusti, D., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K., 2017. The Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus skeleton and other large mammals from the Lower Palaeolithic locality Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis Basin, Greece): preliminary results. 7th Annual Meeting, European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), 21-23.09.17, Leiden.

13. Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Garefalakis, Ch., Karkanas, P., Panagopoulou, E., Harvati, K. 2014. New Middle Palaeolithic sites from the Mani peninsula, southern Greece. XVII World Congress, Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP), 1-7.09.14, Burgos.

14. Panagopoulou, E., Karkanas, P., Tourloukis, V., Thompson, N., Garefalakis, Ch., Harvati, K. 2014. New data on the Middle Palaeolithic occupation of Mani, southern Greece. International Conference on coastal landscapes, mining activities and preservation of cultural heritage. 17-20.09.14, Milos.

15. Harvati, K., Panagopoulou E., Karkanas P., Frost S.R., Athanassiou, A., Elefanti P., Schrein C., Baab K., Henderson E., Tourloukis V., Garefalakis Ch. 2006. New findings of the Aliakmon Paleolithic Survey, Greece, 2004-2005.  XV World Congress, Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP), 4-9.09.06, Lisbon.

Tourloukis, V 2025. Coastal Adaptations, Neanderthals and Early Modern Humans: New Evidence from the Apidima Cave Complex (Mani, Southern Greece). Keynote lecture, 6th International Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium, 2-5.5.2025, University of Ioannina, Greece.

Tourloukis, V., Harvati, K., 2024. Neanderthals and modern humans in Mani: results from the 2023 Apidima field season. Norwegian Institute at Athens.

Harvati, K., Tourloukis, V. 2023. Apidima Caves: their significance for human evolution in Europe and new research by the NIA. Norwegian Institute at Athens.

Tourloukis, V. 2022. The role of the Greek peninsula in population movements and the early occupation of Eurasia during the Palaeolithic period: theoretical perspectives, interpretative models and new data from recent research. Archaeology @ Thessaloniki online lectures, Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 31.03.2022

Tourloukis, V. 2014. Palaeolithic research in Greece in the framework of the PaGE Project: preliminary results. Invitation: Prof. G. Kourtessi-Philippakis, Faculty of Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, 24.4.2014.

Tourloukis, V. 2014. Geoarchaeological research at the open-air Palaeolithic site of Kokkinopilos, Greece: revisiting a long-lasting controversy. Invitation: Prof. C. Miller, Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie (INA) Kolloquium, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 16.01.2014.

Tourloukis, V. 2011. The Lower Palaeolithic record of Greece and the role of the wider Aegean region in early hominin dispersal patterns: new data and interpretations. Invitation: Prof. K. Harvati, Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archaologie (INA) Kolloquium, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 20.5.2011.

Tourloukis, V., 2011. The Palaeolithic of Zakynthos: geoarchaeological investigations in the framework of the Zakynthos Archaeology Project. Invitation: Prof. G. J. Van Weijngaarden, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, 11.02.2011. 

13th Conference of Greek Archaeology Students 

Scientific Committee Member, Chair in Session “Symbiosis, representation, conflict: Man and the animal kingdom”, 25-27.10.2025, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina, Greece

Prehistoric Archaeology one-day conference, "Ice-age hunter-gatherers 20.000-30.000 years before present: investigating the Gravettian period in Greece"

Organizer, Chairing. 27.05.2025, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina, Greece

Fitch Laboratory Conference "Half a Century of Archaeological Science in Greece: past, present, future"

Chair in Session “Landscape Histories and Environment”. 29.11-01.12.2024, British School at Athens, Greece.

Closing Symposium, "Human Evolution at the Crossroads"

Chair in Session "Chronology & dating of prehistoric sites". 24-25 February 2022, University of Tübingen, Germany.

8th Conference of Greek Archaeology Students "The immaterial through materials: religion, magic, ideology and practices" 

Chair in Session "The immaterial dimension of stone-tools", 9-11 October 2020, University of Ioannina (Greece).

Interdisciplinary Symposium "Human-Elephant interactions: from past to present"

Co-organized with Prof. K. Harvati, Prof. R. Barkai, Dr. G. Konidaris., 16-18.10.19, Hannover, Germany. 

Interdisciplinary Symposium "Palaeoanthropology at the Gates of Europe"

Co-organized with Prof. K. Harvati, 1-3.12.16, Tübingen, Germany. Chair in Session "Middle Palaeolithic and the Neanderthal lineage".

Interdisciplinary Symposium "Human Evolution in the Southern Balkans"

 Co-organized with Prof. K. Harvati, 7-9.12.12, Tübingen, Germany. Discussant in Session "Palaeolithic Archaeology".