Outputs (46)

To Gender or not To Gender? Exploring Gender Variations through Time and Space (2023)
Journal Article
Gaydarska, B., Rebay-Salisbury, K., Ramírez Valiente, P., Fries, J. E., Hofmann, D., Augereau, A., Chapman, J., Mina, M., Pape, E., Ialongo, N., Nordholz, D., Bickle, P., Haughton, M., Robb, J., & Harris, O. (2023). To Gender or not To Gender? Exploring Gender Variations through Time and Space. European Journal of Archaeology, 26(3), 271-298. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.51

This article is based on an EAA session in Kiel in 2021, in which thirteen contributors provide their response to Robb and Harris's (2018) overview of studies of gender in the European Neolithic and Bronze Age, with a reply by Robb and Harris. The ce... Read More about To Gender or not To Gender? Exploring Gender Variations through Time and Space.

Trypillia Megasites in Context: Independent Urban Development in Chalcolithic Eastern Europe (2019)
Journal Article
Gaydarska, B., Nebbia, M., & Chapman, J. (2020). Trypillia Megasites in Context: Independent Urban Development in Chalcolithic Eastern Europe. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 30(1), 97-121. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774319000301

The Trypillia megasites of the Ukrainian forest steppe formed the largest fourth-millennium bc sites in Eurasia and possibly the world. Discovered in the 1960s, the megasites have so far resisted all attempts at an understanding of their social struc... Read More about Trypillia Megasites in Context: Independent Urban Development in Chalcolithic Eastern Europe.

The Making of Chalcolithic Assembly Places: Trypillia Megasites as Materialised Consensus Among Equal Strangers? (2018)
Journal Article
Nebbia, M., Gaydarska, B., Millard, A., & Chapman, J. (2018). The Making of Chalcolithic Assembly Places: Trypillia Megasites as Materialised Consensus Among Equal Strangers?. World Archaeology, 50(1), 41-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2018.1474133

In the last decade, we have witnessed a second methodological revolution in research into the Trypillia megasites of Ukraine – the largest sites in fourth-millennium BC Europe and possibly the world. However, these methodological advances have not be... Read More about The Making of Chalcolithic Assembly Places: Trypillia Megasites as Materialised Consensus Among Equal Strangers?.

AMS Dating of the Late Copper Age Varna Cemetery, Bulgaria (2018)
Journal Article
Higham, T., Slavchev, V., Gaydarska, B., & Chapman, J. (2018). AMS Dating of the Late Copper Age Varna Cemetery, Bulgaria. Radiocarbon, 60(02), 493-516. https://doi.org/10.1017/rdc.2018.9

The Varna I cemetery, on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, is one of the most remarkable sites in European prehistory, with the world’s earliest large-scale assemblage of gold artifacts. Modeling of the first series of 14 accelerator mass spectrometry (... Read More about AMS Dating of the Late Copper Age Varna Cemetery, Bulgaria.

Introduction: European Prehistory and Urban Studies (2017)
Journal Article
Gaydarska, B. (2017). Introduction: European Prehistory and Urban Studies. Journal of World Prehistory, 30(3), 177-188. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-017-9104-9

The idea for this special issue arose out of a session on ‘Pre-Roman Urbanism in Eurasia’ at the conference of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) in Istanbul in 2014. This was preceded by an international symposium in Vienna in 2012 on... Read More about Introduction: European Prehistory and Urban Studies.

The city is dead! Long live the city! (2016)
Journal Article
Gaydarska, B. (2016). The city is dead! Long live the city!. Norwegian Archaeological Review, 49(1), 40-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2016.1164749

The urban way of life is considered to be a major milestone in human development. It has attracted unparalleled research interest, breaking boundaries between time and space and between modern academic disciplines. The 150-year-long history of this r... Read More about The city is dead! Long live the city!.

Multi-faith landscapes - forbidden or forgotten times? (2014)
Book Chapter
Gaydarska, B. (2014). Multi-faith landscapes - forbidden or forgotten times?. In B. Schulz Paulsson, & B. Gaydarska (Eds.), Neolithic and Copper Age Monuments. Emergence, function and the social construction of the landscape (139-150). Archeopress

Architectural differentiation on a Trypillia mega-site: preliminary report on the excavation of a mega-structure at Nebelivka, Ukraine (2014)
Journal Article
Chapman, J., Videiko, M., Gaydarska, B., Burdo, N., & Hale, D. (2014). Architectural differentiation on a Trypillia mega-site: preliminary report on the excavation of a mega-structure at Nebelivka, Ukraine. Journal of neolithic archaelogy, 16, 135-157. https://doi.org/10.12766/jna.2014.4

For over a century, excavations on Trypillia sites in Ukraine and Moldova, as well as on Cucuteni sites in Romania, have revealed few obvious signs of architectural differentiation among the huge numbers of domestic houses. Now, for the first time, a... Read More about Architectural differentiation on a Trypillia mega-site: preliminary report on the excavation of a mega-structure at Nebelivka, Ukraine.

The Second Phase of the Trypillia Mega-site Methodological Revolution: A New Research Agenda (2014)
Journal Article
Chapman, J., Videiko, M. Y., Hale, D., Gaydarska, B., Burdo, N., Rassman, K., …Kruts, V. (2014). The Second Phase of the Trypillia Mega-site Methodological Revolution: A New Research Agenda. European Journal of Archaeology, 7(3), 369-406. https://doi.org/10.1179/1461957114y.0000000062

The first phase of the Trypillia mega-sites’ methodological revolution began in 1971 with aerial photography, magnetic prospection, and archaeological excavations of huge settlements of hundreds of hectares belonging to the Trypillia culture in Ukrai... Read More about The Second Phase of the Trypillia Mega-site Methodological Revolution: A New Research Agenda.

The planning of the earliest European proto-towns: a new geophysical plan of the Trypillia mega-site of Nebelivka, Kirovograd Domain, Ukraine (2014)
Journal Article
Chapman, J., Videiko, M., Gaydarska, B., Burdo, N., Hale, D., Villis, R., …Rud, V. (2014). The planning of the earliest European proto-towns: a new geophysical plan of the Trypillia mega-site of Nebelivka, Kirovograd Domain, Ukraine. Antiquity, 88(339),

The Trypillia (Russian Tripolye) mega-sites in the Kirovograd and Cherkassy regions of Ukraine constitute the largest sites in fourth millennium BC Europe (Videiko 2004). Discovered in the 1970s, aerial photography and geophysical prospection were us... Read More about The planning of the earliest European proto-towns: a new geophysical plan of the Trypillia mega-site of Nebelivka, Kirovograd Domain, Ukraine.