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Ν.Ι. Ξηροτύρης: Ο ερευνητής, ο δάσκαλος, ο homo univesrsalis

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-Xirotiris N. (1986). Die Ethnogenese der Griechen aus der Sicht der Anthropologie. In: W.
Bernhard und A. Kandler-Palsson [Hrsg]: Ethnogenese europaeische Voelker. Gustav Fischer
Verlag, Stuttgart, 39-53.

-Xirotiris N. (1989). Metrische und statistische Auswertung. In: B. Kaufmann: Guettingen TG,
„Grauer Stein“. Anthropologische Beitraege II, Aesch, pp.105.

-Xirotiris N. (1990). Genealogische Untersuchungen an Pomaken. I. Das Dorf Organi. I.D.S.
Serie Thrakische Studien, Nr. 1, Xanthi, pp. 272.

-Xirotiris N. (1991). Die morphologische Entwicklung des menschlichen Gehirns von Homo
habilis zu Homo sapiens sapiens.

-Xirotiris N. & Th. Schmidt.(1991). Ethnologische Untersuchungen bei Pomaken, unter beson-
derer Beruecksichtigung des Islamisierungsprozesses. I.D.S. Serie Thrakische Studien Nr. 2.,
Xanthi, pp. 106.

-Xirotiris N. & E. Vlcek (1982) - Arago et Petralona:comparisons de l’endocrane. 1er Congress
Inter. de Paleontologie Humaine, Resumes des Communications, 16-21 Oct., Nice.

-Kaufmann B., S. Eugster, Ch. Hillenbrand & N. Xirotiris (1991). Berslingen, ein Graeberfeld
aus dem Fruehen Mittelalter. Anthropologische Auswertung der menschlichen Gebeine. Zeit-
schrift f. Schweizerische Archaeologie und Kunstgeschichte, 48, Heft 3.

-Xirotiris, Ν. (1991- in Greek). Anthropological Material of the Grave B. In Ck. Coukouli-
Chrisanthaki-Title unknown- Ed. TAPA- Athens 756-757.

-Ξηροτύρης, Ν. (1994): Ανθρωπολογική Δομή τής Θράκης. Είς: Θράκη. Εκδοση Δήμου
Αθηναίων, Αθήναι, pp. 34-38

-Xirotiris, N. (1994- in Greek). Εθνολογική σύνθεση πληθυσμών Θράκης. (Proceedings of
the 16th Conference of the Hellenic Society of Biological Sciences pp 10.1-10.3).

-Xirotiris, N. - Simitopoulou, K. (1994- in Greek). Blood Group Distribution of ABO and Rhe-
sus Systems in Rodopi Area (Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the Hellenic Society of
Biological Sciences pp 10.4-10.7)

-Skintzos P. - Xirotiris N. (1994- in Greek). Genetic and demographic study of Kamilari Crete
(Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the Hellenic Society of Biological Sciences pp 10.7-
10.9).

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-Zafeiris K., Koulaki D., Xirotiris, N. (1994- in Greek). Demographical approaches of the Pit-
sidia, Crete (Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the Hellenic Society of Biological Sciences
pp 10.10-10.12).

-Xirotiris, N. & Simitopoulou, K. (1997). Background Information on current aspects of Bio-
technology and trends in ethics. Global Bioethics, vol. 10, 55-64.

-Xirotiris, N.I. & K. Simitopoulou (1999): Hatterinformacioka Biotechnologia Jelenlegi Hely-
zetevel es az Etika Aramlataival Kapcsolatban. Dialog Campus Kiado, Pecs-Budapest

-K. Simitopoulou & N.I. Xirotiris (2000): The Human Genome Project: The Dominance of
Economy on Science-Ethical and Social Implications. Global Bioethics, 13, 43-52

-Scheil HG, Scheffrahn W, Schmidt HD, Huckenbeck W, Efremovska L, Xirotiris N (2001):
Population genetic studies in the Balkans. I. Serum proteins. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 59
(3) 203-211

-Huckenbeck W, Scheil HG, Schmidt HD, Efemovska L, Xirotiris N (2001): Population genetic
studies in the Balkans. II. DNA-STR-systems. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 59 (3) 213-225

-Papageorgopoulou C, Xirotiris N. & Simitopolou K. 2001. Anthropological Research on Skel-
etal Material from a Byzantine Cemetery from Epirus, with special Attention on Dietary Pat-
terns. In: Ermidou-Pollet S, Pollet S (ed.) Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on
Trace Elements in Human: New Perspectives. Athens, 432-439.

-Κ.Ν. Ζαφείρης & Ν. Ι. Ξηροτύρης (2002) Οι Ρομά Αράτου: Δημογραφική και γενεαλογική
μελέτη. Στο Οι Ρομά στην Ελλάδα, εκδ. Ελληνική Εταιρεία Εθνολογίας pp 25-109

-K. Simitopoulou & N. I. Xirotiris. (2003). Reconsidering the Framework of Bioethics in the
Globalisation Era.Studia Bioetica Vol. 1 No. 1, pp 63-68.

-K. Simitopoulou & N. I. Xirotiris (2004): Public Understanding of Life Sciences: A Corner-
stone for the Today’s Democracies. in “Societal responsibilities in life sciences” Ed C. Susanne
, pp 15-21

-K. Simitopoulou & N. I. Xirotiris: (2004) Memes of Ethics- A Co-evolutionary Aproach: The
Case of Religion’s Memes in “Societal responsibilities in life sciences” Ed C. Susanne, pp 23-
27.

-N.I. Xirotiris & K. Simitopoulou-Kotzamani (2006) Insights into the linguistic situation of
Eastern Macedonia and Thrace in Aspects of Multilingualism in European Border Regions.
EURAC, Bolzano IT, ed. EURAC: 103-149

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-K. Simitopoulou & N. I. Xirotiris. (2006): Memes and Language(s): a Co-evolutionary Ap-
proach. in: Multilingualism across Europe, proceedings of International Conference August
24-26 2006 Bolzano, IT, ed. EURAC: 527-535

-N. I. Xirotiris, K. Simitopoulou & E. Styliara. (2006). Language Bridges: Language prestige
and representations: Draft observations from interviews collected in the Region of Eastern
Macedonia and Thrace. in Multilingualism across Europe, proceedings of International Con-
ference August 24-26 2006 Bolzano, IT, ed. EURAC: 435-444

-Bosch E; Calafell F; González-Neira A; Flaiz C; Mateu E; Scheil H-G; Huckenbeck W; Efre-
movska L; Mikerezi I; Xirotiris N; Grasa C; Schmidt H; Comas D. (2006). Paternal and mater-
nal lineages in the Balkans show a homogeneous landscape over linguistic barriers, except for
the isolated Aromuns. Annals of human genetics;70(Pt 4):459-87.

-K. Simitopoulou & N. I. Xirotiris (2006):Traditional Healing and Folk Medicine in the Frame-
work of Global Bioethics. Revista de Bioética y Derecho V 7, pp 1-4, http://www.bioeticayde-
recho.ub.es

-K. Zafeiris & N.I. Xirotiris (2007). A Short History of Mortality and Death. in Bioethics:
Global and Societal Aspects / Ed. EAGB pp357-397.

-K. Zafeiris & N.I. Xirotiris. (2007). Some Thoughts on Fertility Transition and its Aspects, in
Bioethics: Global and. Societal Aspects / Ed. EAGB pp 335-356

-K. Simitopoulou & N. I. Xirotiris. (2007). Genes of Isolates: A New Source of Exploitation?,
in Bioethics: Global and Societal Aspects / Ed. EAGB pp317-334

-K. Simitopoulou and N. I. Xirotiris. (2007). Religions in the Contemporary Bioethics Debate.
in Bioethics: Global and Societal Aspects / Ed. EAGB pp 473-487

-K. N. Zafeiris and N.I. Xirotiris, N. I. (2007). The demographic and genealogical history of
Karitsa. A contribution to the study of the Vlachs of Greece. Komotini: Laboratory of Anthro-
pology.

-K. N. Zafeiris and N. I. Xirotiris (2007). Thrace and its population from the embodiment in
Greece until today. In: Papazoglou, G. K. (ed.), The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartolomeos A’. 15
years of Patriarchate. Komotini: Democritus University of Thrace, Series: Thracian Library, nr
14. pp. 107-143.

-C. Papageorgopoulou and N. I. Xirotiris (2009): Anthropological research on a Bysantine

Population from Korytiani, West Greece, in In: Schepartz LA, Fox SC, Bourbou C (eds.) New

Directions in the Skeletal Biology of Greece. American School of Archaeology in Athens.

Princeton 2009, 193-221.

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-C. Papageorgopoulou, N. I. Xirotiris, P. X. Iten, M. R. Baumgartner,M. Schmid, F. Rühli (2009)
Indications of embalming in Roman Greece by physical, chemical and histological analysis
Journal of Archaeological Science 35 pp 36-42.

-K. N. Zafeiris, K. Hatzisavva, K. and N. I. Xirotiris (2015). Fertility in the Vlachic population
of Greece: a demo-anthropological approach of Metsovo, 1930-1999 with the application of a
genealogy based method of analysis. Genus (LXXI), 1: 61-78.

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-1979. Πρακτικά της Ελληνικής Ανθρωπολογικής Εταιρείας Τόμος 48 (έκδοση Ε.Α.Ε.). Μέ-
λος της Τριμελούς Συντακτικής Επιτροπής.1981. Journal of Mediterranean Anthropology and
Archaeology (έκδοση Δ.Δ.Ι.). Editor in Chief N.I.Xirotiris and Barbara Ottaway. Εκδόθηκε ο Α’
Τομος (341 σελίδες).

-1982. Symposia Thracica (έκδοση Δ.Δ.Ι.). Editor in Chief N.I.Xirotiris. Περιέχει τα πρακτικά
συνεδρίων. Α’ Τόμος (616 σελίδες).

-1985-1998. ΗΟΜΟ - Zeitschrift f. die vergleichende Forschung am Menschen, Muster-Schmidt
Verlag, Goettingen - Zuerich. Bearbeiter der Buchbesprechungen ueber Vergleichende Mor-
phologie N.I. Xirotiris

-1988-1991. Anthropologie. Anthropos Institut, Moravian Museum Brno/CSFR Collaborator
N.I.Xirotiris.

-1990 -1996 HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology, Gustav Fischer Verlag Editorial
Board member N.I.Xirotiris.

-1999. Global Bioethics: Population Explosion, Religious and Environmental Confrontation.
Editor N.I.Xirotiris. pp 105, ISBN 960-86888-0-9.

-1999. Ethnic Identities and Political Action in Post-Cold War Europe. Eds.: N.I.Xirotiris and
M. Marangudakis. Volume 1, pp. 208, ISBN 960-86888-1-7.

-2000. Ethnic Identities and Political Action in Post-Cold War Europe. Eds.: N.I.Xirotiris and
M. Marangudakis. Volume 2, pp. 270, ISBN 960-86888-2-5.

-2001. Ethnic Identities and Political Action in Post-Cold War Europe. Eds.: N.I.Xirotiris and
M. Marangudakis. Volume 3, pp. 482, ISBN 960-86888-3-3.

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-2007. Bioethics: Global and Societal Aspects pp511, ISBN978-960-89678-2-3.
-2013. A. Matalas, N. Xirotiris (eds). Fish and Seafood, anthropological perspectives from the
past and the present. 28th ICAF Proceedings Kamilari 2009. Mystis Editions, Heraklion Crete,
ISBN 978-618-5024-05-5.

Γνωρίζουμε ότι οι παραπάνω λίστες είναι μάλλον ελλιπείς μιας και πολλά άρθρα, ιδιαίτερα
άρθρα επιστημονικών συνεδρίων δεν έχουν μετατραπεί σε ηλεκτρονική έκδοση και
ενδεχομένως να έχουν διαφύγει της προσοχής μας. Παρομοίως ίσως να μην γνωρίζουμε
το σύνολο των επιστημονικών συνεδρίων και συναντήσεων που έχει οργανώσει πριν την
μόνιμη εγκατάσταση του στην Κομοτηνή και στο Δημοκρίτειο Πανεπιστήμιο.

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N. I. Xirotiris: the researcher, the teacher, the homo univesrsalis

N. I. Xirotiris:
the researcher, the teacher, the homo univesrsalis

In similar publications, it is expected to delineate the personality of the honoree, in a brief
biography. In this case, though, despite our good intentions and our long term collabo-
ration with Nikolaos Xirotiris, we are afraid that only fragmentarily can we render his
versatile character and the magnitude of his contribution to science.
Nikolaos Xirotiris was born on May 12th 1944 in Thessaloniki. His father Ioannis, an emi-
nent personality of education, with an enormous contribution to the Greek landscape (as a
teacher, thinker, essayist, director of the experimental school of Thessaloniki and a university
professor, has formed generations of young people) and his mother Evgenia, also a teacher,
scion of the old Cretan Sergakis family, have infused him with love for learning, a sense of res-
ponsibility and duty, selflessness, generosity, patriotism, a faith in man, values that are obvious
in all aspects of his life.
He completed his general studies in the Standard Experimental School of Aristotle Univer-
sity of Thessaloniki (AUTH) in June of 1962. In the same year, he entered the Medical School
of A.U.Th., from which he graduated with honors in February 1969, to serve subsequently his 2
year military service as a Reservist Lieutenant of Health (April 1969-May 1971).
In February 1971 he was awarded his Doctor Title from the Medical School of A.U.Th.,
completing his studies and starting his international research course as a physical anthropolo-
gist.
As a D.A.A.D. scholar, he stays for 15 months at the Institut fur Anthropologie und Human-
genetik of the Medical School of the University of Heidelberg until 1972, while from January to
May 1973 he stays at the Institut fur Anthropologie at the Biology department of the University
of Mainz, with a 5 month research fellowship. After a 2 month stay as an appointed Assistant
at the Laboratoty of Anatomy of the Medical School of the University of Athens, he quits and
later he’s hosted for 6 months as a researcher at the Institut für Humanbiologie at the Biology
Department of the University of Vienna (November 1973-April 1974). A 12 month research fel-
lowship (1974-1975) of the Alexander v. Humboldt Institute (1978-1979) extends his research
activity. Consequently, from 1980 until 1986 he stays in Germany as a Lecturer (C1-Hochschu-
lassistent) at the Institut fur Anthropologie of the University of Frankfurt.

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He has already gone through a significant research course and has acquired an organizing
experience abroad as a member (among others) of the three-membered Directorate of Main-
zer Datebank fur Praehistorische Anthropologie (1978-1990), of the Strategie Kommision der
Deutsche Anthropologie (1979-1980), of the committee “Anatomische Varianten” of the Deut-
sche Gesellschaft fur Anthropologie und Humangenetik (1981-1986), of the committee “Studi-
en und Prüfung” of the Biology School of the University of Frankfurt (1983-1986).

In 1986 he returns to Greece, as he has been unanimously elected Associate Professor of
Physical Anthropology at the Department of Biology of the University of Crete. There, he ser-
ves from various posts the educational, research and organizational work he is assigned, con-
veying his experience and expertise, as also his personal equipment in computers and thousands
of books. He is appointed Director of the Natural History Museum of the University of Crete
(1987-1991), in charge of the Inter-university Network ERASMUS of Biology and a liaison of
the institution with foreign universities. He organizes his laboratory and sets the bases for the
development of the Natural History Museum. He has been three times elected a Field Director.

He introduces the Department of Biology in the newly established ERASMUS program and
organizes a series of scientific meetings of the Biology Department (in which are represented
–more or less- 50 European universities in the fields of Biology and Anthropology), which take
place in Heraklion and promotes significantly the development of the international collabo-
rations of the University . For the action of this Network (its Director was Professor Charles
Susanne) he is awarded from the 22nd DG of the EU Commission.

In parallel, he organizes 1) excavations conducted by the University in collaboration with the
local Ephorate of Antiquities, 2) collection of genealogical and anthropological data from local
communities, 3) he introduces field research as a prerequisite in the study of Anthropology,
contributing to the practical training of the students.

He proposes and actualizes the inauguration of Professor Robert Sokal (Stony Brook, New
York) and Professor Ilse Schwidetzky (University Mainz) as Honorary Doctors of the Univer-
sity of Crete.

His academic presence at the University of Crete is completed in 1991, when he is unani-
mously elected professor of Physical Anthropology in the Department of History and Ethnolo-
gy of D.U.Th. Since 1991, a new circle of his scientific life begins, based in Komotini.

He settles to Komotini as a full resident, transferring even his polling rights. He resides even
during summer, inspiring and tutoring his students, who prepare bachelor’s and doctoral theses.

The Laboratory of Anthropology of Demokritus University of Thrace was established in
1993, based on the Presidential Decree 480 (ΦΕΚ 214/29.12.93) and aims to service educatio-
nal and research requirements in the known objects of anthropological and ethnological scien-
ces and specifically the processes related to ethnogenesis in South-Eastern Europe and Eastern
Mediterranean Basin.

As a director he completely devoted himself to the workflow of the Laboratory. The geogra-
phical position and the multicultural character of Thrace, in combination to the rapid develop-
ments in the areas of Biology, Genetics and Anthropology, of which he is constantly informed,
are a challenge for the creation of a standard and multidimensional research organization in this

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area. His target is to develop a modern research Unit of inter-European range, deploying all the
available means and human resources, in order to serve in a holistic way the human sciences,
with the contribution of many individual thematic areas.

He pursued this objective with passion until his retirement in 2011, with a soul deposit not
only in research and teaching – as he ought to, as a member of the academic community- but
also in the improvement of every area which has hosted him, via his research, teaching, admi-
nistrative and broader social work.

His research activity is expanded in each individual field of anthropological research. In
the areas of Paleoanthropology and Prehistoric Anthropology, he studies the morphology of
the people of the Later Neolithic Period, the processes related to ethnogeneses at the broader
Balkan and especially Greek region. Being aware of the valuable information that the skele-
tal material carries for the development of interpretative approaches for the evolution of past
and modern populations, he participates in excavations in various areas of Greece, e.g. Matala
(1989-91), Theopetra (1993), Ierissos at Chalkidiki (1994), Nea Philadelpheia at Thessaloniki
(1998), Sagiada at Thesprotia (1998), Hegoumenitsa at Thesprotia (1999). At the study of the
osteological material, he emphasizes in the bone anatomy and pathology, creates and enriches
data bases and contributes to the development of statistical analysis models of morphometric
parameters using multivariate methods. During this period, he maintains the related research
activities abroad, studying also with his co-workers osteological material from other regions of
Europe.

On his days, the belief that anthropological research is interwoven with Archaeology is esta-
blished, as the study of osteological findings demands special techniques of recovery, cleaning
and preservation of bones, so that not only to collect the available information but to preserve
the bone samples to be appropriate for future re-examination through the new technologies as
ancient DNA, which dynamically intrudes in the study of past populations.

A highlight in his research course is the approach of the issue of the Petralona cranium, from
different aspects, morphological,s physicochemical and especially paleoneurologicaly. He pu-
blishes about this in Nature (Henning G., W. Herr, E. Weber & N. Xirotiris 1981. ESR-dating
of the Fossil Hominid Cranium of Petralona Cave, Greece. Nature, 292, 533-536). He also
participates in the excavations of the royal tombs at Vergina and is in charge of the study of the
osteological material, about which he publishes (Xirotiris N. & F. Langenscheidt, 1981. The
Cremations from the Royal Macedonian Tombs of Vergina. Arheologiki Ephemeris 142-160).

He also engages in the Anthropology of modern populations, following a multilevel ap-
proach (study of Vlachs, Pomaks, Cretan populations). He organizes field research projects
by collecting dermatoglyphics from Cretan populations (Kamilari, Pitsida), from Pomaks, and
from Vlachs, and studies the typology and the geographic distribution of finger print and palm
print phenotypes. At the same time, genealogies of these groups are being studied too (studies
of family trees/pedigrees in certain populations from Crete, Thrace, and Epirus - with the ana-
lysis of all demographic parameters - and study of the inheritance of various anthropological
characters per family).

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tics, due to the widespread application of new technologies (PCR, DNA sequencing etc), he
succeeds, despite all difficulties, to equip the Lab with sophisticated analytical instruments.
Thus, the Laboratory follows the developments in the field of molecular Anthropology, and N.I.
Xirotiris turns his attention to the analysis of molecular genetic markers (RFLPs, STRs, mtD-
NA etc). In addition, he directs his students’ research towards this scientific area. In this way,
he is at pace with the international innovations of the time. In this context, he utilizes research
funds by both national and international sources.

As global developments in genetics move forward, the rapid development of a new scientific
field, namely Bioethics, the Laboratory of Anthropology, under his direction, becomes updated,
investigates and participates at the dialogue for numerous bioethical problems, even before the
time that the National Bioethics Commission was created in our country. He keeps a leading
role, in open co-operation with research Institutes of abroad, to the creation of the European
Αssociation of Global Bioethics, and organizes scientific meetings for the growth of public
awareness. He also introduces associated courses, creates the online Journal Studia Bioetica,
participates in international conferences, and publishes articles on the field of Bioethics.

The accumulated experience from his research activity and academic knowledge becomes
transformed into a valuable treasure of teaching material: Human evolution, population gene-
tics, osteology palaeopathology, dermatoglyphics, and also demography, linguistic anthropolo-
gy, as well as the study of isolated population groups, ethnogenetic processes, and bioethics, are
only some of the disciplines that were thoroughly taught under his supervision, some of them
for the first time in Greece.

In order to support teaching he constantly supplies the Laboratory library with the latest aca-
demic literature, making full use of the available public resources, and also contributing even at
his own expense to the purchase of the necessary books for the students’ study.

The 1990s are characterized by the widespread introduction of the computers in the admi-
nistration and education. Due to his persistent efforts, the Laboratory of Anthropology is being
at the frontline of new technologies, providing constant access to the internet to all students
who wish to seek sources for their work, or write their essays. The fertile educational / research
ground yields and Diploma Theses and Doctoral dissertations which provide novel valuable
information (genetic, demographic, cultural, etc.) regarding different population groups of the
Greek territory. At the same time, under his supervision, Data Banks are created and enriched
systematically in the fields of Physical Anthropology and Ethnology.

When in 1996, at the new phase of the Program SOCRATES-ERASMUS, N.I. Xirotiris is
willing to take over as general coordinator of the Democritus University of Thrace for the Pro-
gram, not only he maintains and extends the ERASMUS-TEMPUS networks of biological mo-
dules for the Democritus University of Thrace, but also motivates all University Departments
to make collaboration agreements with other European Universities. The result of this action
was that the first of D.U.Th.’s Institutional contract with the European Commission (1996) to
be evaluated as one of the first of Greek Universities, based on its clear developmental strategy
and the number of international partnerships, thus basing the University’s subsequent success-
ful course in the European educational scene.

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Within the extroverted strategy of the Laboratory of Anthropology, N.I. Xirotiris utilizes
his participation in the European networks ΕUROBIO, EUROPEAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL
ASSOCIATION, EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF GLOBAL BIOETHICS, of which he is
a founding member, and introduces important novelties to the University, such as the Inter-
European postgraduate program ‘European Master of Anthropology and Human Biology’ (11
Universities), the ‘European Module on Bioethics: Biomedical and Societal Aspects’ (9 Univer-
sities), the Module ‘Islamic Brotherhoods in SE Europe’, as well as a series of intensive Pro-
grams, such as ‘Mathematics in Biological sciences-applications in Anthropology’ (1996), an
international postgraduate program with the participation of leading scientists of the field, such
as Professor Mashatoshi Nei. Furthermore, he founded the intensive summer program ‘Greek
language for foreign students’ in order to set the foundation for the attraction of international
students to Thrace, and also to prepare the Democritus University of Thrace for the implemen-
tation of its EU strategy.

While under his direction, the Laboratory of Anthropology strengthens its cooperati-
on with University institutes and research centers, and its students benefit from the continued
presence of foreign academics around them: Prof. Roger C. Nance (Dept. of Anthropology,
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA), Dr. Hermann Kandler (Oriental Studies, Geogra-
pher. DE), Prof. Paolo Francalacci (univ. of Sassari, IT), Prof. Vladimir Ferak (univ. Comenius
Bratislava, SK), Prof. Vladimir Novotny (univ. Brno, CZ), Prof. Nikolas Stavrou, (Howard
univ. Washington DC, USA), Prof. H. Schmidt (univ Ulm, DE), Prof. Soren Noerby (univ.
Kopenhagen DK), Prof. N. Takahata (centre of Advanced studies in Biology, Japan), Prof. Yuri
Chistov (Director of Peter the Great Museum of St Petersburg, RU), Prof. M. Nei (Pennsta-
te univ. USA), Prof. David Caramelli (univ. Florence, IT) Prof. Winfried Henke, Dr. Dieter
Schmidt (Institut für Anthropologie, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz), Prof. Wolfgang
Scheffrahn (Anthropologisches Institut, Zürich), Prof. Charles Sussane Laboratory Anthropo-
genetics, University of Brussels, Prof. Daniela Sivakova (Institute of Anthropology, Comenius
University, Bratislava), Prof.V. Vancata, Prof. V. Privraztky (Charles University, Prague), Dr.
Bruno Kauffman (Anthropologisches Forschungsinstitute, Basel), Prof. Brunnetto Chiarrelli (
Instituto di Antropologia, Firenze), are some of the names of collaborators who participated in
the educational / research activities of the Laboratory, being in Komotini at regular intervals.

Already since the years of Germany, he shows his intention to expand his activity bey-
ond a typical academic career, into a series of innovative activities for the benefit of his country.
From 1981 to 1985 he establishes the periodic organization of international scientific meetings
in Xanthi. These meetings, which are in the form of international conferences, symposia, collo-
quia or workshops, which mainly take place in Thrace and Crete, are regularly continued until
his retirement in 2011. Even after that, until recently, the dynamics of his networks allows him
to continue such activities. The objectives of this effort are manifold: at a scientific level, he
sought to cultivate an interdisciplinary dialogue between all fields of modern Anthropology. As
a teacher, he has been able to expand the horizons of his students, teaching «scientific cosmo-
politanism», while emphasizing on the international scientific standards and encouraging them
to become competitive in international environments.

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Furthermore, as a result of these academic events, Thrace, which was quite neglected
and largely unknown to academic circles until his days - became internationally projected as a
hub of scientific meetings, where views were exchanged, covering the whole range of interests
of Anthropology, but also as a welcoming place, which has been multicultural through time, in
the borders of Europe.

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List of Conferences

-1981. ΙΧ International Symposium on the Neolithic and Bronze Age. (October 4th-10th )
Xanthi.

-1983. 2nd Conference of Palaeodemography. (in collaboration with Prof. J. Nemeskeri,
Budapest) (September 4th-8th) Xanthi.

-1983. Morphogenetic and Evolution A‘ (September 9th-14th) Xanthi.
-1983. The Formation of Ethnos, Culture and Population (September 15-21st) Xanthi.
-1984. Population Biology. Methodical Problems and Research Results (September 20th-
30th) Xanthi.
-1984. Migration and Diffusion. Causes, Problems, Models. (in collaboration with Prof. W.
Maier-Arendt, Frankfurt). (September 30th- October 7th) Xanthi.
-1985. International Consensus on Dermatoglyphic Classification and Nomenclature. (in
collaboration with Prof. C. Plato) (August 18-25th) Xanthi.
-1985. Morphogenetic and Evolution B‘. (in collaboration with Prof. E. Vlcek, Prague).(Au-
gust 25th – September 1st) Xanthi.
-1985. Social Stratification in the Middle Ages. (in collaboration with Prof. H.Mayer and
B.Kaufmann, Basel). (September 1st-9th) Xanthi.
-1985. Typology in Animal Taxonomy and Anthropology (September 8th-15th) Xanthi.
-1988. 12th I.C.A.E.S. Section: The Neolithization of Europe. (in collaboration with Prof.
Korfmann, Tuebingen (July 24th-31st) Zagreb.
-1993. 1st Symposium of Anthropology (November 5th-7th), Komotini.
-1994. Ethnogenetic Processes at the Balkans (September 23rd-25th), Komotini.
-1994. ERASMUS - TEMPUS Biology meeting. (September), Komotini.
-1995. Ε.Μ. Winkler memorial symposium: Perspectives in Anthropology of past and pre-
sent populations. (September 29th - October 3rd), Xanthi.
-1996. SOCRATES-ERASMUS Workshop. (May 24th-26th), Maroneia, Rodopi.
-1996. SOCRATES-ERASMUS Workshop (June 18th-19th), Maroneia, Rodopi.
-1996. Intensive Programme: Mathematics in Biological Sciences. Applications in Anthro-
pology (August 1st-15th), Komotini.
-1996. ERASMUS-TEMPUS Biology meeting. (November 8th-9th) Komotini.
-1997. 2nd Symposium of Anthropology (April 4th-6th), Komotini.
-1997. Balkan Anthropology Day (April 5th-6th), Komotini.

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-1998. Contemporary Issues in Bioethics. (May 16-17), Komotini.
-1999. 1st Conference of Anthropology Students. (April 25th). Athens.
-1999. Population Explosion; Religious and Environmental Confrontations (March 22nd-
24th) Xanthi.
-1999. „Patterns of history and the Balkans“. Colloquium with speaker Howard Professor
Nikolaos Stavrou (May, Xanthi).
-1999. 1st International Symposium on „Ethnic Identities & Political Action in Post-Cold
War Europe“ (September 1st-3rd), Xanthi.
-2000. 2nd International Symposium on „Ethnic Identities (September 1st-3rd), Xanthi.
-2000. International Conference on „Protagoras and his Time“(July 8th -10th), Xanthi.
-2001. 3rd International Symposium on „Ethnic Identities & Political Action in Post-Cold
War Europe“ (September 1st-3rd), Xanthi.
-2001. 1ο Symposium on «Science and Religion» (November 21st-24th), Xanthi.
-2002. 4th International Symposium on „Ethnic Identities & Political Action in Post-Cold
War Europe“ (July 6th-9th), Xanthi.
-2002. Symposium on „Latinophony in Greece: Biohistorical Approaches“ (November 7th-
10th) Kavala.
-2002. 2nd Symposium on „Science and Religion“ (November 21st-24th), Xanthi.
-2003. W.E.C.A.R.E. Interbalkan workshop “Promoting International Networks in the Aca-
demic field” (June 3rd-5th) Alexandroupolis.
-2003. W.E.C.A.R.E Summer Intensive Course “Promoting International Networks in the
Academic field” (July 18th-24th), Alexandroupolis.
-2003. I.U.A.E.S. International Meeting on “Anthropology and Ethnic Identities” (July 8th-
12th), Florence.
-2003. 5th International Symposium on „Ethnic Identities & Political Action in Post-Cold
War Europe“ July 2003, Xanthi.
-2004. European Anthropological Association 14th International Congress (September 2nd-
5th), Komotini.
-2005. Workshop “Language Bridges” (INTERREG IIIC/RFO Change on Borders) (July
24th-26th) Thasos.
-2006, August. EURAC Closing Conference “Language Bridges”, (Bolzano)
-2009, May 9-10. Contemporary debates on Bioethical Issues (International Conference on
BIOETHICS) European Association of Global Bioethics (EAGB).
-2009, June 1-6. Fish and Sea food; Anthropological & Nutritional Perspectives (28th Inter-
national Conference of ICAF) International Commission on the Anthropology of Food (ICAF).
-2010, July 11-16. Migration and Diversity in the Greater Mediterranean:  Social and Other
Implications (International Conference) EU and USA Universities.
-2012, May 18-21, Thessaloniki, Science under the influence of Religion / Freedom for Sci-
entific Research & Freedom of Thinking.
-2013, June 2-6. Food and Art (36th 28th International Conference of ICAF) Internatio-

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nal Commission on the Anthropology of Food (ICAF).
-2014, June 1-5. From Ancient to Modern Medicine/ a Multidisciplinary approach

Messara Associations Network. Cultural Association of kamilari.

The development of a European dimension of the Laboratory is not an one-way road. Profes-
sor Xirotiris, apart from the organization of events of scientific interest, he undertakes various
actions which address to the local community. For example he conducted a 3-month intensive
training seminar for teachers of the secondary education, by the title ‘Bioethics’ which was
coordinated by the RTC of Alexandroupolis (Komotini, January-March 1999). In addition, the
participation in the three-year program «Language Bridges» (EURAC (INTERREG IIIC Pro-
gramme) concerning multilingualism in border areas, within the „Multicultural Education on
Borders (MEB)“ program, in co-operation with the Regional Council of North Karelia (Fin-
land) and the participation in the „TOMES» (EQUAL) program, cooperated by the local ad-
ministration, which was orientated on the promotion of employment structures for populations
of Southern Evros. Finally he plays an essential role in the revitalization of the International
Democritus Institution in Xanthi, which also accommodates most of the above activities.

He also contributes to the university´sadministration and organization network. He contribu-
tes to the logistic and management system of student halls residence. His team works hard on
the creation of a software that will deal with the disposal of the available rooms, based on a set
of objective parameters, such as the financial and family status of students. Furthermore, being
the coordinator of EPEAEK libraries, he seeks to the renewal of books and scientific journals’
distribution through the direct purchase from the foreign publishers, without the intervention of
intermediaries. As a result, university benefits since it becomes able to purchase with the same
amount of money, a greater quantity of books.

He never accepted, beyond his salary, an extra reward for his extra-curricular duties, while at
the same time he had covered on his own costs, often, the expenses of the numerous researchers
that were invited. However, the single time that he was credited with additional fees, he donated
the above money to the University.

To continue, it is worthy to mention two difficult but hopeful goals, which unfortunately
were not accomplished. The first aim was generated throughout the meetings of the ERAS-
MUS-TEMPUS in Komotini and it was orientated towards the establishment of an Anglophone
Trans-European department of Biology, which would accept all European students and it would
be supported in terms of teaching and of research by all of the network members (primary
bound subscribes have been made). The above was a pilot and pioneer teaching scheme within
the framework of Socrates-Erasmus program and the idea of the department establishment was
at first supported by the General EU Directorate.

Furthermore, his second goal was the establishment of an independent Anthropology De-
partment at the Democritus University of Thrace that would present a unique for the Greek
standards syllabus. The above syllabus was intended to be interdisciplinary, modern and flexi-
ble, and also to attract students from all over the Balkan region.

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which he served with trust and perseverance, contributing at the same time with his knowledge
and his skills to its enrichment. Concerning Greece, it could be argued that Xirotiris managed to
introduce modern Anthropology as a holistic science, a bridge between humanities and natural
sciences, aiming to eliminate the traditional boundaries between the various scientific fields.

Finally, it is of his honor that in spite of the difficulties, not only he succeeded to secure his
succession, but he also managed to ensure the continuation of use of the Laboratory of Anthro-
pology. With his secede, he bequeathed to future generations not only the Laboratory’s infra-
structures, a valuable medium for the growth of their own activities, but mainly his eagerness,
principles and vision.

Τιμή σ’ εκείνους όπου στην ζωή των
ώρισαν και φυλάγουν Θερμοπύλες.
Ποτέ από το χρέος μη κινούντες·
δίκαιοι κ’ ίσιοι σ’ όλες των τες πράξεις,
αλλά με λύπη κιόλας κ’ ευσπλαχνία·
γενναίοι οσάκις είναι πλούσιοι, κι όταν
είναι πτωχοί, πάλ’ εις μικρόν γενναίοι,
πάλι συντρέχοντες όσο μπορούνε·
πάντοτε την αλήθεια ομιλούντες,
πλην χωρίς μίσος για τους ψευδομένους.

Και περισσότερη τιμή τούς πρέπει
όταν προβλέπουν (και πολλοί προβλέπουν)

πως ο Εφιάλτης θα φανεί στο τέλος,
κ’ οι Μήδοι επί τέλους θα διαβούνε. 

Καβάφης, Θερμοπύλες

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PUBLICATIONS

-Xirotiris N. (1967-in Greek). The Negros of Western Thrace. Proceedings of the Hellenic
Anthropological Society 44, 24-25).

-Xirotiris N. (1967- in Greek) The Blood Groups of the North Greece female population.
Proceedings of the Hellenic Anthropological Society, 44, 25-26).

-Panagiotopoulos S., G. Tsapas, N. Papazoglou, N. Xirotiris, P. Mylonas & E. Panagioto-
poulos (1970). Determination immunologique des phenotypes des Haptoglobines et leur fre-
quences sur les habitants Pomaks de la Thrace. Folia Biochemica Biologica Graeca, 99-101.

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-Xirotiris N. (1970-in Greek). Observations on the distribution of the Pomacs blood groups
- (PhD Thesis- Thessaloniki).

-Paidousis M. & N. Xirotiris (1973) Geographical Distribution of Haptoglobins in Greece.
In: I. Schwidetzky, B. Chiarelli, O. Necrasov (Eds): Physical Anthropology of European Popu-
lations. World Anthropology, Mouton Publishers, The Hague, 1980, 235-237.

-Xirotiris N. (1973). Serological Studies of the. Pomacs. In: I. Schwidetzky, B. Chiarelli, O.
Necrasov (Eds): Physical Anthropology of European Populations. World Anthropology, Mou-
ton Publishers, The Hague, 239-241).

-Flatz G. & N. Xirotiris (1975). Glucose-6-Phosphat-dehydrogenase. In: P.E.Becker (Hrsg.):
Humangenetik, G. Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, Bd. 1/3, 494-535.

-Xirotiris N. & A. Erfurth (1975). Ueber das palmare und digitale Hautleistensystem der
Achrianen (Pomaken)/Griechenland. 1.Echinos. Homo, 26, 240-252.

-Xirotiris N. (1975).Anthropologische Untersuchungen an Achrianen. Balkan Studies, 16,
126-132.

-Schneider P., R. Ananthakrishnan, H. Walter, N. Xirotiris & R. Abele (1975). Enzyme Poly-
morphisms and Haemoglobin Variants in Greeks. Humangenetik, 27, 217-222.

-Xirotiris N. (1976 - in Greek). Pomacs and Achrianes; Thracians or Slavs? Proceedings of
the 2nd Ethnology Conference of Northen Greece 333-358

-Xirotiris N. (1975 - in Greek) The Anthropologist. Review of Chios, 43-45
-Xirotiris N. (1976 - in Greek). Has Helladopithecus semierectus been found indeed? (pp6
Thessaloniki).
-Xirotiris, N. (1976 - in Greek). The Helladopithecus does not exist. (pp6 Thessaloniki).
-Xirotiris N. & A. Erfurth. (1977). Remarks on the Palmar Flexion Creases of the Achrians
(Greece). Balkan Studies, 18, 175-177.
-Xirotiris N. (1978). Palaeolithikum und Mesolithikum in Griechenland. Godisnjak, 15,
5-14.
-Xirotiris N. (1979). Rassengeschichte Griechenlands. In: I. Schwidetzky (Hrsg.): Rassen-
geschichte der Menschheit. VI Lieferung, R. Oldenburg Verlag, Muenchen, 157-177.
-Xirotiris Ν. & A. Kandler-Palsson. (1979). Anthropologische Untersuchungen auf Kreta.
I.Die Verteilung der Vierfingerfurche auf Mittelkreta. Proceedings of the Greek Anthropologi-
cal Society 48, 208-215.
-Xirotiris N. (1979). Anthropologische und Archaeologische Probleme der griechischen
Bronzezeit.Archives Suisses d‘Anthropologie Generale, 43, 69-78.
-Xirotiris N. (1979. Beitrag zur historischen Anthropologie Sued-Ost-Europas. Pulpudeva,
4, 46-51.
-Xirotiris N., W. Henke & N. Symeonidis. (1979). Der M3 von Megalopolis - ein Beitrag
zu seiner morphologischen Kennzeichnung. Zeitschrift f. Morphologie und Anthropologie, 70,
117-122.
-Xirotiris N. (1979). Einige Bemerkungen zur Anthropologie Thrakiens. Proceedings of the
Greek Anthropological Society 48, 216-222.
-Xirotiris N. (1980). The Indo-Europeans in Greece. An Anthropological Approach to the

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Population of Bronze Age Greece. Journal of Indo-European Studies, 8, 201-210.
-Gannt D., N. Xirotiris, B. Kurten & J. Melentis (1980). The Petralona Dentition - Hominid

or Cave Bear? Journal of Human Evolution, 9, 483-487.
-Xirotiris Ν. & F. Langenscheidt. (1981). The Cremations from the Royal Macedonian Tombs

of Vergina. Αρχαιολογική Εφημερίς 142-160.
-Xirotiris N. & Kondopoulos A (1981- in Greek). Cranial Deformation in Greece .Anthro-

pological Issues, 1, 95-99
-Xirotiris N. (1981). Anthropologie des Aeneolithikums und der Fruehbronzezeit in Mittel-

und Sued-Ost-Europa. Slovenska Archeologia, 21, 235-24
-Xirotiris N. (1981). Die Neolithisierung Sued-Ost-Europas. Ein Anthropologischer Annae-

herungsversuch. Godisnjak, 19, 5-13
-Xirotiris N. & W. Henke .(1981). Enamel Prism Patterns of European Hominoids and their

Phylogenetical Aspects. In: B. Chiarelli and R. Corrucini (Eds): Primate Evolutionary Biology.
Springer Verlag, Berlin, 109-116.

-Xirotiris N. & W. Henke. (1981). Petralona. Wandel in der Interpretation eines Stammesge-
schichtlichen Schluesselfundes. Archaeologisches Korrespondenzblatt, 11, 171-177.

-Henning G., W. Herr, E. Weber & N. Xirotiris. (1981). ESR-dating of the Fossil Hominid
Cranium of Petralona Cave, Greece. Nature, 292, 533-536.

-Schultz M. & N. Xirotiris. (1981). Histologische Unresuchungen an dem Hominiden-Scha-
edel und Tierknochen aus der Petralona Hoehle. Journal of Mediterranean Anthropology and
Archaeology, 1, 308-332.

-Xirotiris N. (1982). Der Schadel von Petralona - Wirklichkeit und Fantasie. Deltion
(S.S.H.), XVIII (1,2). Athens.

-Xirotiris N., W. Henke & G. Henning (1982). Die Phylogenetische Stellung des Petralona-
Schaedels aufgrund computertomographische Analysen und der absoluten Datierung mit der
ESR-Methode. Humanbiologia Budapestensis, 9, 89-94.

-Xirotiris N. & J. Melentis. (1982). New Studies on the Petralona Skull. IInd Anthropologi-
cal Congress of Ales Hrdlicka Universitas Carolina Pragensis, 437-440.

-Xirotiris N.& W. Henke. (1982). Remarks upon the Phylogenetic Interpretation of the Pe-
tralona Cranium. In: Man and his Origins, Anthropos [Brno], 21, 217-222.

-Henke W. & N. Xirotiris. (1982). New Human Upper Palaeolithic Fossils of Middle Eu-
rope. In: Man and his Origins, Anthropos [Brno], 21, 263-280.

-Xirotiris Ν. (1982- in Greek). Results of the Anthropological Study of the burned bones
found in Soufli-Magoula and Platia-Magoula Zarkos. In C.Gallis: Compustion of bones in the
Neolithic Period. Ed. TAPA-Athens,188-215.

-Henning G., W. Herr, E. Weber & N. Xirotiris. (1982). Petralona Cave dating controversy.
Nature, 299, 281-282.

-Xirotiris N. (1985). Bemerkungen ueber die Phylogenetische Stellung des Petralona-Scae-
dels. In: J. Herrmann und H. Ullrich (Hrsg.): Menschwerdung - biotischer und gesellschaftli-
cher Entwicklungsprozess. Schriften zur Ur- und Fruehgeschichte, Akademie Verlag, Berlin,
41, 106-110.

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-Czarnetzki A., B. Kaufmann, M. Schoch & N. Xirotiris. (1985). Definition der anatomi-
schen Varianten - Unterlagen zur Diskussion. Basel

-Xirotiris N. (1986). Die Ethnogenese der Griechen aus der Sicht der Anthropologie. In: W.
Bernhard und A. Kandler-Palsson [Hrsg]: Ethnogenese europaeische Voelker. Gustav Fischer
Verlag, Stuttgart, 39-53.

-Xirotiris N. (1989). Metrische und statistische Auswertung. In: B. Kaufmann: Guettingen
TG, „Grauer Stein“. Anthropologische Beitraege II, Aesch, pp.105.

-Xirotiris N. (1990). Genealogische Untersuchungen an Pomaken. I. Das Dorf Organi.
I.D.S. Serie Thrakische Studien, Nr. 1, Xanthi, pp. 272.

-Xirotiris N. (1991). Die morphologische Entwicklung des menschlichen Gehirns von Homo
habilis zu Homo sapiens sapiens.

-Xirotiris N. & Th. Schmidt.(1991). Ethnologische Untersuchungen bei Pomaken, unter be-
sonderer Beruecksichtigung des Islamisierungsprozesses. I.D.S. Serie Thrakische Studien Nr.
2., Xanthi, pp. 106.

-Xirotiris N. & E. Vlcek (1982) - Arago et Petralona:comparisons de l‘endocrane. 1er Con-
gress Inter. de Paleontologie Humaine, Resumes des Communications, 16-21 Oct., Nice.

-Kaufmann B., S. Eugster, Ch. Hillenbrand & N. Xirotiris (1991). Berslingen, ein Graeber-
feld aus dem Fruehen Mittelalter. Anthropologische Auswertung der menschlichen Gebeine.
Zeitschrift f. Schweizerische Archaeologie und Kunstgeschichte, 48, Heft 3.

-Xirotiris, Ν. (1991- in Greek). Anthropological Material of the Grave B. In Ck. Coukouli-
Chrisanthaki-Title unknown- Ed. TAPA- Athens 756-757.

-Ξηροτύρης, Ν. (1994): Ανθρωπολογική Δομή τής Θράκης. Είς: Θράκη. Εκδοση Δήμου
Αθηναίων, Αθήναι, pp. 34-38.

-Xirotiris, N. (1994- in Greek). Εθνολογική σύνθεση πληθυσμών Θράκης. (Proceedings
of the 16th Conference of the Hellenic Society of Biological Sciences pp 10.1-10.3).

-Xirotiris, N. - Simitopoulou, K. (1994- in Greek). Blood Group Distribution of ABO and
Rhesus Systems in Rodopi Area (Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the Hellenic Society of
Biological Sciences pp 10.4-10.7)

-Skintzos P. - Xirotiris N. (1994- in Greek). Genetic and demographic study of Kamilari
Crete (Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the Hellenic Society of Biological Sciences pp
10.7-10.9).

-Zafeiris K., Koulaki D., Xirotiris, N. (1994- in Greek). Demographical approaches of the
Pitsidia, Crete (Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the Hellenic Society of Biological Sci-
ences pp 10.10-10.12).

-Xirotiris, N. & Simitopoulou, K. (1997). Background Information on current aspects of
Biotechnology and trends in ethics. Global Bioethics, vol. 10, 55-64.

-Xirotiris, N.I. & K. Simitopoulou (1999): Hatterinformacioka Biotechnologia Jelenlegi He-
lyzetevel es az Etika Aramlataival Kapcsolatban. Dialog Campus Kiado, Pecs-Budapest.

-K. Simitopoulou & N.I. Xirotiris (2000): The Human Genome Project: The Dominance of
Economy on Science-Ethical and Social Implications. Global Bioethics, 13, 43-52

-Scheil HG, Scheffrahn W, Schmidt HD, Huckenbeck W, Efremovska L, Xirotiris N (2001):

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Population genetic studies in the Balkans. I. Serum proteins. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 59
(3) 203-211

-Huckenbeck W, Scheil HG, Schmidt HD, Efemovska L, Xirotiris N (2001): Population ge-
netic studies in the Balkans. II. DNA-STR-systems. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 59 (3) 213-225

-Papageorgopoulou C, Xirotiris N. & Simitopolou K. 2001. Anthropological Research on
Skeletal Material from a Byzantine Cemetery from Epirus, with special Attention on Dietary
Patterns. In: Ermidou-Pollet S, Pollet S (ed.) Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium
on Trace Elements in Human: New Perspectives. Athens, 432-439.

-Κ.Ν. Ζαφείρης & Ν. Ι. Ξηροτύρης (2002) Οι Ρομά Αράτου: Δημογραφική και γενεαλογική
μελέτη. Στο Οι Ρομά στην Ελλάδα, εκδ. Ελληνική Εταιρεία Εθνολογίας pp 25-109.

-K. Simitopoulou & N. I. Xirotiris. (2003). Reconsidering the Framework of Bioethics in the
Globalisation Era.Studia Bioetica Vol. 1 No. 1, pp 63-68.

-K. Simitopoulou & N. I. Xirotiris (2004): Public Understanding of Life Sciences: A Corner-
stone for the Today’s Democracies. in “Societal responcibilites in life sciences” Ed C. Susanne
, pp 15-21

-K. Simitopoulou & N. I. Xirotiris: (2004) Memes of Ethics- A Coevolutionary Aproach: The
Case of Religion’s Memes in “Societal responcibilites in life sciences” Ed C. Susanne, pp 23-27.

-N.I. Xirotiris & K. Simitopoulou-Kotzamani (2006) Insights into the linguistic situation of
Eastern Macedonia and Thrace in Aspects of Multilingualism in European Border Regions.
EURAC, Bolzano IT, ed. EURAC: 103-149.

-K. Simitopoulou & N. I. Xirotiris. (2006): Memes and Language(s): a Co-evolutionary
Approach. in: Multilingualism across Europe, proceedings of International Conference August
24-26 2006 Bolzano, IT, ed. EURAC: 527-535

-N. I. Xirotiris, K. Simitopoulou & E. Styliara. (2006). Language Bridges: Language pres-
tige and representations: Draft observations from interviews collected in the Region of Eastern
Macedonia and Thrace. in Multilingualism across Europe, proceedings of International Con-
ference August 24-26 2006 Bolzano, IT, ed. EURAC: 435-444

-Bosch E; Calafell F; González-Neira A; Flaiz C; Mateu E; Scheil H-G; Huckenbeck W;
Efremovska L; Mikerezi I; Xirotiris N; Grasa C; Schmidt H; Comas D. (2006). Paternal and
maternal lineages in the Balkans show a homogeneous landscape over linguistic barriers, ex-
cept for the isolated Aromuns. Annals of human genetics,70:459-87.

-K. Simitopoulou & N. I. Xirotiris (2006): Traditional Healing and Folk Medicine in the
Framework of Global Bioethics. Revista de Bioética y Derecho V 7, pp 1-4, http://www.bioeti-
cayderecho.ub.es

-K. Zafeiris & N.I. Xirotiris (2007). A Short History of Mortality and Death. in Bioethics:
Global and Societal Aspects / Ed. EAGB pp357-397.

-K. Zafeiris & N.I. Xirotiris. (2007). Some Thoughts on Fertility Transition and its Aspects,
in Bioethics: Global and. Societal Aspects / Ed. EAGB pp 335-356

-K. Simitopoulou & N. I. Xirotiris. (2007). Genes of Isolates: A New Source of Exploita-
tion?, in Bioethics: Global and Societal Aspects / Ed. EAGB pp317-334

-K. Simitopoulou and N. I. Xirotiris. (2007). Religions in the Contemporary Bioethics De-

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bate. in Bioethics: Global and Societal Aspects / Ed. EAGB pp 473-487.
-K. N. Zafeiris and N.I. Xirotiris, N. I. (2007). The demographic and genealogical history of

Karitsa. A contribution to the study of the Vlachs of Greece. Komotini: Laboratory of Anthro-
pology.

-K. N. Zafeiris and N. I. Xirotiris (2007). Thrace and its population from the embodiment in
Greece until today. In: Papazoglou, G. K. (ed.), The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartolomeos A’. 15
years of Patriarchate. Komotini: Democritus University of Thrace, Series: Thracian Library, nr
14. pp. 107-143.

-C. Papageorgopoulou and N. I. Xirotiris (2009): Anthropological research on a Bysan-
tine Population from Korytiani, West Greece, in In: Schepartz LA, Fox SC, Bourbou C (eds.)
New Directions in the Skeletal Biology of Greece. American School of Archaeology in Athens.
Princeton 2009, 193-221.

-C. Papageorgopoulou, N. I. Xirotiris, P. X. Iten, M. R. Baumgartner,M. Schmid, F. Rühli
(2009) Indications of embalming in Roman Greece by physical, chemical and histological anal-
ysis Journal of Archaeological Science 35 pp 36-42.

-K. N. Zafeiris, K. Hatzisavva, K. and N. I. Xirotiris (2015). Fertility in the Vlachic popula-
tion of Greece: a demo-anthropological approach of Metsovo, 1930-1999 with the application
of a genealogy based method of analysis. Genus (LXXI), 1: 61-78.

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EDITING

-1979. Πρακτικά της Ελληνικής Ανθρωπολογικής Εταιρείας Τόμος 48 (έκδοση Ε.Α.Ε.). Μέ-
λος της Τριμελούς Συντακτικής Επιτροπής.

-1981. Journal of Mediterranean Anthropology and Archaeology (έκδοση Δ.Δ.Ι.). Editor in
Chief N.I.Xirotiris and Barbara Ottaway. Εκδόθηκε ο Α’ Τομος (341 σελίδες).

-1982. Symposia Thracica (έκδοση Δ.Δ.Ι.). Editor in Chief N.I.Xirotiris. Περιέχει τα πρακτι-
κά συνεδρίων. Α’ Τόμος (616 σελίδες).

-1985-1998. ΗΟΜΟ - Zeitschrift f. die vergleichende Forschung am Menschen, Muster-
Schmidt Verlag, Goettingen - Zuerich. Bearbeiter der Buchbesprechungen ueber Vergleichende
Morphologie N.I. Xirotiris

-1988-1991. Anthropologie. Anthropos Institut, Moravian Museum Brno/CSFR
Collaborator N.I.Xirotiris.

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N. I. Xirotiris: the researcher, the teacher, the homo univesrsalis

-1990-1996. HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology, Gustav Fischer Verlag Edi-
torial Board member N.I.Xirotiris.

-1999. Global Bioethics: Population Explosion, Religious and Environmental Confrontati-
on. Editor N.I.Xirotiris. pp 105, ISBN 960-86888-0-9.

-1999. Ethnic Identities and Political Action in Post-Cold War Europe. Eds.: N.I.Xirotiris
and M. Marangudakis. Volume 1, pp. 208, ISBN 960-86888-1-7.

-2000. Ethnic Identities and Political Action in Post-Cold War Europe. Eds.: N.I.Xirotiris
and M. Marangudakis. Volume 2, pp. 270, ISBN 960-86888-2-5.

-2001. Ethnic Identities and Political Action in Post-Cold War Europe. Eds.: N.I.Xirotiris
and M. Marangudakis. Volume 3, pp. 482, ISBN 960-86888-3-3.2007. Bioethics: Global and
Societal Aspects pp511, ISBN978-960-89678-2-3.2013. A. Matalas, N. Xirotiris (eds). Fish and
Seafood, anthropological perspectives from the past and the present. 28th ICAF Proceedings
Kamilari 2009. Mystis Editions, Heraklion Crete, ISBN 978-618-5024-05-5.

We are aware that some of the above lists may be incomplete since some scientific articles
were published only hard copy and were not digitalized and therefore may have escaped
our attention. The same applies for some scientific meetings that he may have organized
before Komotini.

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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Amelie Alterauge, PhD Associate Prof. Katerina Gardikas
(In collaboration with Jan Bodenstein, Corinna Streitz, Department of History, National and Kapodistrian
Matthias Friske, Wilfried Rosendahl) University of Athens,
Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Abteilung Anthropologie, e-mail: kgardika@arch.uoa.gr
Universität Bern, Sulgenauweg 40, 3007 Bern, Swit-
zerland, Tel. +41(0)316318492, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Winfried Henke
e-mail: amelie.alterauge@googlemail.com Department of Biology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universi-
ty Mainz, Lion-Feuchtwanger-Str. 57
Christina Arns, LiD D-55129 Mainz, Germany
Gymnasium am Römerkastell, Jean-Braun-Straße 19, e-mail: henkew@uni-mainz.de
D-55232 Alzey, e-mail: arns.christina@gmail.com
Charles Cambridge, PhD Aline Jelenkovic, PhD
Anthropologist, e-mail: charlescambridge@yahoo.com Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and
Animal Physiology,  
Prof. Brunetto Chiarelli University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Leioa,
Int. Inst. Humankind Studies, c/o Lab. of Anthro- Spain
pology and Ethnology, University of Florence, IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science,
Via del Proconsolo 12 - 50123 Firenze (Italy), e-mail: Bilbao, Spain.
iihs.press@gmail.com Department of Public Health, Hjelt Institute,
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Prof. Silvana Condemi e-mail: aline.jelenkovic@ehu.es
Univ. Aix Marseille, CNRS, EFS, ADES UMR 7268,
13916, Marseille, France; Pof. Evelina Kelbecheva
e-mail silvana.condemi@univ-amu.fr American University in Bulgaria
e-mail: Evelina@aubg.edu
Prof. Costas B. Crimbas
Emeritus Professor, University of Athens, Member of Prof. Konstantinos Konstantopoulos
Athens’Academy School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian Uni-
e-mail: ckrimbas@otenet.gr versity of Athens, tel.210-7456239 fax: 210-7788830
e-mail: kkonstan@med.uoa.gr, kkonstanmed@gmail.
Prof. Constantine P. Danopoulos com
Department of Political Science, San Jose State Uni-
versity One Washington Square. San Jose, California Prof. Anastasia Kouvatsi
95192-0119, Tel (408) 924-5555, Fax (408) 924-5556, Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular
e-mail: danopoulos2@gmail.com Biology, School of Biology Aristotle University of
Anna Degioanni, PhD Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Ministère de la Tel. 2310998361, 998309,
culture et de la communication, LAMPEA UMR 7269, e-mail: akouvats@bio.auth.gr
13094, Aix-en-Provence, France; anna.degioanni@
univ-amu.fr Νina Kyparissi-Apostolika, PhD
Archaeologist, f. Director of Ephory of Palaeoanthro-
Prof. Vassilis K. Fouskas pology,
Business School, University of East London, Stratford e-mail: nkyparissi@hotmail.com
Campus, Water Lane, London E15 4LZ 25 Birchwood
Road, West Byfleet, Surrey KT14 6DW Konstantinos Lilakos Biologist, ANTISEL SA
England. Telephone:+44 (0) 20 8223324, e-mail: e-mail: kostas.lilakos@antisel.gr, klilakos@gmail.
v.fouskas@uel.ac.uk com

Prof. Paolo Francalacci Ioannis Macheras, PhD
(In collaboration with Daria Sanna and Antonella Useli) Primatologist, e-mail: bioannis2009@gmail.com
Dipartimento di Scienze della Natura e del Territorio,
Università di Sassari, Via Muroni 25, 07100 - Sassari Prof. Antonia-Leda Matalas
Italy, Tel. +39-079228631, Fax. +39-079228665, Harokopio University, Athens
e-mail: pfrancalacci@uniss.it e-mail: amatala@hua.gr

Ass. Prof. Papageorgopoulou Christina Prof. Costas Triantaphyllidis
Laboratory of Anthropology, Department of History Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular
and Ethnology, Demokritus University of Thrace Biology, School of Biology Aristotle University of
Tel. 2531039996 Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
e-mail: cpapage@he.duth.gr Tel. 2310998361, 998309,
E-mail: triant@bio.auth.gr
Prof. Theofano Papazissi
Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloni- Marianna Tziotou1, PhD
ki, Greece (In collaboration with Vassiliki Kalotychou1, Anna
Ntokou2, Revekka Tzanetea1, Iakovos Armenis1, Mari-
Alexander Pashos, PhD anna Varsou1, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos1, Nicolas
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Tsavaris2, Yannis Rombos1,3)
Advokatenweg 36, D 06114 Halle/S. Germany First Department of Internal Medicine, University of
Phone : +49 (0)345 2927 227 Athens, School of Medicine, “Laikon” Hospital, 17
e-mail: pashos@eth.mpg.de Agiou Thoma str, 11527, Athens
e-mail: mtziotou@otenet.gr
Prof. Esther Rebato
Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology Prof. Dr. Ursula Wittwer-Backofen
and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Science and Anthropology, Medical Faculty
Technology University of the Basque Country UPV/ Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
EHU, Bilbao, Spain. Box. 644-48080 Bilbao, Spain. Hebelstr. 29
Telephone: +34 946012601 D- 79104 Freiburg
Fax: +34 946013145 Phone: +49 (0) 761 203 6896
e-mail: esther.rebato@ehu.es e-mail: ursula.wittwer-backofen@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Scheffrahn Angeliki Zachou, PhD
formerly University of Zürich, Switzerland Department of Psychology, University of Milan-
e-mail: ws.lassan@gmail.com Bicocca
email: angeliki.zachou@gmail.com
Kally Simitopoulou-Kotzamani, PhD
Harilaou Trikoupi 54, GR 69100, Komotini, Greece Konstantinos N. Zafeiris, PhD
e-mail: kally2@otenet.gr Laboratory of Anthropology. Department of History
and Ethnology, Democritus University of Thrace.
Prof. Daniela Siváková, Greece.
In collaboration with Lenka Luptáková1, Marta Tel. 2531039997
Cvíčelová1, Zuzana Danková1, Pavel Blažíček2 e-mail: kon.zafeiris.tie@gmail.com
1Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Natural
Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, Ass. Prof. Konstantinos Zorbas
2Department of Clinical Laboratories, Alpha Medical, Shandong University, School of philosophy and social
Bratislava, Slovakia sciences, Department of anthropology, Shanda nanlu
e-mail: sivakova@fns.uniba.sk 27
e-mail: samagaltai@gmail.com, KonstantinosZorbas@
Prof. Charles Susanne outlook.com
Université libre de Bruxelles, Laboratoire
d’anthropologie. 50 av. Franklin Roosevelt, 1050
Bruxelles, Belgium,
e-mail: scharles@ulb.ac.be

Prof. Magdolna Szente
University of Szeged, Department of Physiology,
Anatomy and Neuroscience
e-mail: szente@bio.u-szeged.hu

Theodoros Theodorou, PhD, Ambassador
Greek Embassy in Kuwait / Head of Mission, 
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic
e-mail: theodorou.theodoros@mfa.gr