Researchers:
Dr. Giedrė Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė
giedre.motuzaite@gmail.com
Research themes: food history, preparation technology, cultural identity expresses through cooking practises, domestication of plants and animals, beginning of food globalisation. Origins of food production, East-West interaction via Eurasian steppe, Neolithic-Bronze Age in Ukraine – central Asia, palaeoenvironmetal reconstruction, Holocene landscape development, human-landscape interactions, human diet, exchange, environmental adaptation, farming strategies.
Postdoctoral researchers:
PostDoc researcher Margaux Depaermentier
margaux.depaermentier@gmail.com
- Research interests: early medieval studies, late antiquity, stable isotopes, bioarchaeology, strontium isotopes
- Research methods: stable isotopes, bioarchaeology, strontium isotopes
PhD students:
rutile73@gmail.com
- Research interests: archaeobotany, Baltics.
- Research methods: archaeobotany.
PhD student Meiirzhan Abdrakhmanov
meiirzhan.abdrakhmanov@if.stud.vu.lt
- Research interests: bioarchaeology, miliacin biomarker, late Holocene, paleoclimate, stable isotope analysis, Northern and Central Europe.
- Research methods: GS-MS, IRMS, stable isotope analysis.
PhD student Kyriaki Karanikola
kiki.1997@hotmail.gr
- Research interests: archaeobotany, Balkans, environmental aspects of millet use.
- Research methods: archaeobotany, historical sources.
Alumni:
PhD, Elina Ananyevskaya
elina_ananyevskaya@hotmail.com
Research interests: zooarchaeology, bioarchaeology, prehistoric archaeology, archaeology of
Kazakhstan, scientific methods in archaeology, stable isotope analysis, ethnography, ancient history. Research methods: zooarchaeological identification analysis and interpretation, stable isotope analysis, archaeological excavation, landscape research.
PhD, Mindaugas Grikpėdis
mindaugas.grikpedis@gmail.com
Research interests: archaeobotany, palaeodiet, introduction of agriculture in Eastern Baltic and Northern Europe, prehistory of Northern Europe, Eastern Baltic archaeology, cartography, IT application in archaeology, public archaeology.
PhD, Auksė Rusteikytė
aukse.rusteikyte@gmail.com
Research themes: food history, palaeodiet, food preparation technology, ancient recipes, food residue analysis, analysis of amourphous charred food remains, experimental archaeology, public archaeology.
Methods: archaeobotany, ancient starch and phytolith analysis, SEM analysis, biomolecular analysis methods in archaeology, ethnography.