Prehistoric Ukraine

"This volume covers the Prehistory of Ukraine from the Lower Palaeolithic through to the end of the Neolithic periods. This is the first comprehensive synthesis of Ukrainian Prehistory from earliest times through until the Neolithic Period undertaken by researchers who are currently investigating the Prehistory of Ukraine. At present there are no other English language books on this subject that provide a current synthesis for these periods. The chapters in this volume provide up-to-date overviews of all aspects of prehistoric culture development in Ukraine and present details of the key sites and finds for the periods studied. The book includes the most recent research from all areas of prehistory up to the Neolithic period, and, in addition, areas such as recent radiocarbon dating and its implications for culture chronology are considered; as is a consideration of aDNA and the new insights into culture history this area of research affords; alongside recent macrofossil studies of plant use, and anthropological and stable isotope studies of diet, which all combine to allow greater insights into the nature of human subsistence and cultural developments across the Palaeolithic to Neolithic periods in Ukraine. It is anticipated that this book will be an invaluable resource for students of prehistory throughout Europe in providing an English-language text that is written by researchers who are active in their respective fields and who possess an intimate knowledge of Ukrainian prehistory."
About the Author: Malcolm C. Lillie is Professor of Archaeology at Umeå University, Sweden. Previously he was Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology and Wetland Science at the University of Hull, England. Malcolm undertook MSc. and PhD research at Sheffield University, the latter under the supervision of the late Professor Marek Zvelebil. He was awarded his PhD in 1998. His main research interests are the Prehistory of Ukraine, in situ preservation in wetlands, prehistoric and wetlands archaeology in general, and the analysis of prehistoric human remains.
About the Author: Inna Potekhina is a Head of the Bioarchaeology Department in the Institute of Archeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, and an Associate Professor at the University of “Kyiv–Mogila Academy”, where she teaches a course of anthropology and bioarchaeology of ancient cultures. Inna is an author of more than 150 articles and 4 monographs. Scientific interests include anthropology of the prehistoric populations of Southeastern Europe; the genomic history of Mesolithic-Eneolithic Ukraine; palaeodemography and palaeodiet reconstructions.
About the Author: Dr Chelsea Budd is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Archaeology at the University of Umeå, Sweden. She completed her PhD at the University of Oxford in 2016. Her main research interests are Early European Prehistory, isotope geochemistry, and the application of statistical modelling techniques to archaeological research.