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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!.

Field Archaeology from Around the World. Ideas and Approaches (2015)
Book
Carver, M., Gaydarska, B., & Monton, S. (Eds.). (2015). Field Archaeology from Around the World. Ideas and Approaches. Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09818-0

Field practice in archaeology varies greatly throughout the world, mainly because archaeological sites survive in very different ways in different counties. Many manuals see this as a problem - to be defeated by the imposition of standardised procedu... Read More about Field Archaeology from Around the World. Ideas and Approaches.

Neolithic and Copper Age Monuments. Emergence, function and the social construction of the landscape. (2014)
Book
Schulz Paulsson, B., & Gaydarska, B. (Eds.). (2014). Neolithic and Copper Age Monuments. Emergence, function and the social construction of the landscape. Archeopress

The Neolithic and Copper age monuments in Europe, consisting of stone temples and circles, standing stones, henge monuments, long barrows, megalithic graves, buildings and pyramids, are the most impressive remains of past societies and present striki... Read More about Neolithic and Copper Age Monuments. Emergence, function and the social construction of the landscape..

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.

Little Cucuteni pots of hope: a challenge to the divine nature of figurines (2014)
Journal Article
Watson, E., & Gaydarska, B. (2014). Little Cucuteni pots of hope: a challenge to the divine nature of figurines

Discussion of figurines is one of the most popular topics in the prehistory of Eastern Europe. They have been perceived as goddesses and gods, toys, individuals, dividuals, comforting miniatures, embodying personhood and more recently as “teaching de... Read More about Little Cucuteni pots of hope: a challenge to the divine nature of figurines.

Spatial Analysis in Field Archaeology (2013)
Book Chapter
Gaydarska, B. (2013). Spatial Analysis in Field Archaeology. In C. Smith (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology. Springer Verlag

Houses in the Archaeology of the Tripillia—Cucuteni Groups. (2013)
Book Chapter
Burdo, N., Videiko, M., Chapman, J., & Gaydarska, B. (2013). Houses in the Archaeology of the Tripillia—Cucuteni Groups. In D. Hofmann, & J. Smyth (Eds.), Tracking the Neolithic house in Europe. Sedentism, architecture and practice (95-115). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5289-8_5

The excavation of burnt, and occasionally unburnt, houses forms a key element of the story of Tripillia–Cucuteni archaeological excavations, since the domestic zone in these groups was much more developed than the mortuary domain. In the 2,000-year p... Read More about Houses in the Archaeology of the Tripillia—Cucuteni Groups..

Palaeo-environments of the Balkan Lateglacial and their potential – were humans absent from the Garden of Eden? (2013)
Journal Article
Magyari, E., Gaydarska, B., Pettitt, P., & Chapman, J. (2013). Palaeo-environments of the Balkan Lateglacial and their potential – were humans absent from the Garden of Eden?. Bulgarian e-Journal of Archeology, 3(1), 1-30

The lower part of a sediment core taken from the Ezero lake, next to Tell Ezero, in the Thracian Plain, Bulgaria, covers the period 15500–13500 calBP (Greenland Ice Core Stages G1-1c–1e). The recovery of plant macrofossils as well as pollen grains in... Read More about Palaeo-environments of the Balkan Lateglacial and their potential – were humans absent from the Garden of Eden?.

West Pontic Diets: A Scientific Framework for Understanding the Durankulak and Varna I Cemeteries, Bulgaria (2013)
Journal Article
Honch, N., Higham, T., Chapman, J., Gaydarska, B., Todorova, H., Slavchev, V., Yordanov, Y., & Dimitrova, B. (2013). West Pontic Diets: A Scientific Framework for Understanding the Durankulak and Varna I Cemeteries, Bulgaria. Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica (On-line), 4(2), 147-162. https://doi.org/10.24916/iansa.2013.2.2

Stable isotope analysis and AMS dating of human and animal bone from the Bulgarian Black Sea coastal sites of Varna I and Durankulak provide fascinating insights into their spatial development as Neolithic and Aeneolithic (Copper Age/Chalcolithic) ce... Read More about West Pontic Diets: A Scientific Framework for Understanding the Durankulak and Varna I Cemeteries, Bulgaria.

Investigations of the Mega-Structure at the Trypillia Culture Settlement Near Nebelivka in 2012 (2013)
Journal Article
Videiko, M., Chapman, J., Gaydarska, B., Burdo, N., Ovchinnikov, E., Pashkevych, G., & Shevchenko, N. (2013). Investigations of the Mega-Structure at the Trypillia Culture Settlement Near Nebelivka in 2012. Tyragetia, Seria Noua 7(1), 97-123

In 2012 the British-Ukrainian expedition continued investigations at the Trypillian culture settlement near Nebelivka. The main aim of the field season was exploration of the largest object in the area (about 20×60 m), which was detected in 2012 by m... Read More about Investigations of the Mega-Structure at the Trypillia Culture Settlement Near Nebelivka in 2012.

Fragmentation (2012)
Book Chapter
Gaydarska, B. (2012). Fragmentation. In N. A. Silberman (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. (Second Edition). OUP USA