Email: mindaugas.grikpedis@gmail.com
Tel. +37063150503
Web: www.archeologas.lt
EDUCATION & EMPLOYMENT
- Since 2015: PhD student at the University of Vilnius, preliminary thesis title: Appearance of cultural plants in Lithuania
- Since 2015: Freelance archaeologist
- 2013-2015: Field archaeologist at rescue archaeology company UAB “Kultūros vertybių paieška”, Lithuania
- 2013-2014: Junior researcher at the University of Vilnius, Lithuania
- 2011-2013: Master’s degree in Archaeology at the University of Vilnius, Lithuania
- 2007-2011: Bachelor’s degree in Archaeology at the University of Vilnius, Lithuania
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Archaeobotany, paleo diet, the beginnings of agriculture in Eastern Baltic and Northern Europe, prehistory of Northern Europe, archaeology of Eastern Baltic, cartography, public archaeology
ISI WoS publications:
- Grikpėdis M., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G. 2017. A review of the earliest evidence of agriculture in Lithuania and the earliest direct AMS date of cereal. European Journal of Archaeology, online first
- Grikpėdis, M., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, G. 2016. The beginnings of rye (Secale cereale) cultivation in the East Baltics. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 25: 601-610
Other papers:
- Grikpėdis M, Endo E, Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G, Kryvaltsevich M, Tkachova M. 2018. Plants in pots: SEM research of ceramic silicon casts from river Prypiat basin (in russian with english summary). Lozovskaya OV, Vybornov AA, Dolbunova EV (eds.) Subsitence strategies in the stone age, direct and indirect evidence of fishing and gathering. Materials of the international conference dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Vladimir Mikhailovich Lozovski 15-18 May 2018, Saint-Petersburg. St. Petersburg, IIMK RAN, pp. 210-213.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
- Grikpėdis M. Archaebotanical investigations in Belarus. International seminar: Ukraine as the crossroad for agricultural dispersal in Eurasia. Kiev, Ukraine. August 31, 2018.
- Grikpėdis M. (presenter), Endo E., Kryvaltsevich M., Tkachova M., Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė G. Plants in pots: SEM research of ceramic silicon casts from river Prypiat basin. Subsistence strategies in the Stone age, direct and indirect evidence of fishing and gathering. Dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Vladimir Mikhailovich Lozovski (1968–2015). St. Petersburg, Russia. May 15-18, 2018.
- Grikpėdis M., Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė G. From grasses to buckwheat: the beginnings of plant cultivation in the eastern Baltic. Nordic Archaeobotany Group meeting. Helsinki, Finland. September 6-7, 2017.
- Grikpėdis M. (presenter), Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė G. Agricultural delay in the east Baltic. What are the reasons for it? 23rd European Association of Archaeologist Meeting in Maastricht, Netherlands. August 31 – September 2, 2017.
- Grikpėdis M. (presenter), Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė G. The earliest appearance of agriculture in Lithuania. Myths and reality. 22nd European Association of Archaeologist Meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania. August 31 – September 4, 2016.
- Grikpėdis M. (presenter), Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė G. A review of the earliest evidence of agriculture in Lithuania and the earliest direct AMS date of cereal. Antiquities of III–I mill. B.C. of Belarus and adjacent territories: new views and interpretations (dedicated to 80th anniversary of the research of Kryvina peatbog setlements), Minsk, Belarus. December 1-2, 2016.
- Grikpėdis M. Archeologiniai atradimai Vilniuje (Archaeological discoveries in J. Basanavičius street, Vilnius), J. Basanavičiaus g. 9a. Naujausi archeologiniai tyrinėjimai, Anykščiai, November 27th, 2015
- Grikpėdis M. Mirusiųjų deginimo papročio plitimas Vakarų Lietuvoje (The spread of cremation tradition in Western Lithuania). Lietuvos studentų archeologų mokslinė konferencija, November 28, 2013.