On October 25, 2025, TALOS Research Assistant Antonia Lourentzaki presented her work at the 13th National Student Conference on Archaeology. Her talk examined the depiction of violence in the reliefs of Göbekli Tepe (Turkey) and its implications for one of TALOS’s core modeling dimensions: the symbolic meaning of iconographic elements.

Focusing on the dense animal imagery and its often explicitly violent representation, she outlined how ontology and ontoterminology can structure interpretation within AI-driven knowledge graphs. The session generated constructive comments that will inform model refinement and received positive feedback on the new perspective it brings to the study of this landmark site.

This participation highlights TALOS’s commitment to hybrid, explainable AI for cultural heritage and to advancing methodological rigor in archaeological data modeling.

🔗 Programme (PDF; GR): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IQXhtDoZa3gckX1d3Gd5sHDrOyO3Ar1j/view
🔗 Event page / Newsletter (PDF; GR):https://www.eduguide.gr/events/13o-panellhnio-synedrio-foithtwn-arxaiologias,2239