My research is mainly focused on the Middle Bronze Age of the Greek mainland and I am particularly interested in exploring patterns of pottery production, consumption and exchange in regional and inter-regional level. I have participated in various excavation and surface survey programs especially in southern Peloponnese (Ayios Vasileios-Xerocambi cemetery, Southern Laconia Survey, Melitzia cave) and I have also worked on Middle and Late Helladic ceramics from different sites at the Argolid (Argos, Midea), Attica (Plasi, Vranas, Ancient Agora, Kerameikos) and Elis (Kato Samikon-Kleidhi tumuli cemetery). My current research at the Fitch Laboratory involves the petrographic examination of Middle and Late Helladic clay artifacts (pottery, textile tools) from a number of sites across the Argosaronikos gulf and the NE Peloponnese, as well as from sites in Attica.
I received an MA in Prehistoric Archaeology and a PhD from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher of the F.R.S.- FNRS at UCLouvain, Aegis Research Group.
Selected Publications
Balitsari A., 2019, “The House of Pithoi: An early Middle Helladic (MH) household in the South Quarter of Argos (Argolid, Peloponnese)“, BCH 143, 455-543
Balitsari A., and J.K. Papadopoulos, 2019. “A Middle Helladic Tomb in the Athenian Kerameikos and Some Thoughts on the Early Connections of Attica”, BSA 114, 119-143
Balitsari A., and J.K. Papadopoulos, 2018. “A Cist Tomb on the South Bank of the Eridanos in the Athenian Agora and the Middle Bronze Age in Athens”, Hesperia 87, 215-277
Philippa-Touchais A., and A. Balitsari, 2018. “Μελέτη Προϊστορικών Τύμβων Βρανά-Μαραθώνος: Χώρος μεταξύ των Τύμβων Ι και ΙΙ. Μεσοελλαδική Κεραμεική”, Prakt 2016, 30-38
Polychronakou-Sgouritsa N., Y. Papadatos, A. Balitsari, and E. Prevedorou, 2016. “Marathon in the Middle and Late Bronze Age: New Evidence from an Old Excavation. Preliminary results from the Excavation of the University of Athens at Plasi”, in: J. Driessen, ed., RA-PI-NE-U. Studies on the Mycenaean World offered to Robert Laffineur for his 70th Birthday [Aegis 10], Louvain, 311-321
Philippa-Touchais A., and A. Balitsari, 2016. “Μελέτη Προϊστορικών Τύμβων Βρανά Μαραθώνος: Μελέτη των ΜΕ οστράκων εκ των επιχώσεων του Τύμβου Ι”, Prakt 2015, 25-34
Philippa-Touchais A., and A. Balitsari, 2016. “Μελέτη Προϊστορικών Τύμβων Βρανά Μαραθώνος: Προκαταρκτική μελέτη κεραμικής Τύμβου ΙΙ-Μεσοελλαδική Κεραμική”, Prakt 2014, 47-59
Balitsari A., 2016, “L’Aspis: Le matériel Mésohelladique-la céramique: Céramique de la ville basse”, BCH 139-140 (2015-2016), 804
Philippa-Touchais A., and A. Balitsari, 2014. “L’ Aspis: La céramique”, BCH 138.2, 738-744
Balitsari A., and A. Philippa-Touchais, 2012-2013. “La céramique mésohelladique des fouilles de Vollgraff: Musée d’Argos”, BCH 136-137, 805-807