Aris N. Poulianos
Aris N. Poulianos was born in Evdilos on July 24, 1924. He studied Biology in the U.S. and Anthropology in the former S. Union. In 1961 he was awarded with the title of Doctor (Ph.D.) from the University of Moscow for his thesis "The Origin of the Greeks." He worked in the Soviet Academy, in the Anthropology Section and served as head of mission in Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, Armenia-Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, etc., while teaching at the same time at the University of Moscow.
He repatriated in 1965 and continued with later anthropological studies (Ainu-Japan, Spain, etc.) which shed light on the origin not only of the Balkan peoples, but also of other Europeans.
In the same year he joined the Board of the University of Patras and became vice president of the Greek Speleological Society.
He also deals systematically with the palaeo-anthropological excavations in Petralona and the open-position trill in Chalkidiki, as well as the prehistoric elephant in Perdiccas Ptolemais.
In 1969 he was elected Vice President of the 8th World Congress of Anthropology in Tokyo.
In 1979 he was appointed President of the 3rd European Congress of Anthropology in Prague, which had conducted its work in Petralona, Chalkidiki 1982.
He is founder of the Anthropological Association of Greece (1971) and the Department of Paleoanthropology – Speleology of the Ministry of Culture (1977).
He is a member of the Permanent International Council of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences of UNESCO since 1987 and an active member of the Academy of Sciences in New York.
He has published 5 books and over 100 scientific papers.
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