Claudia Gerling - Topoi Berlin Studies of the Ancient World Volume 25: Prehistoric Mobility and Diet in the West Eurasian Steppes 3500 to 300 BC

Claudia Gerling

Prehistoric Mobility and Diet in the West Eurasian Steppes 3500 to 300 BC

Topoi

Berlin Studies of the Ancient World

Edited by

Excellence Cluster Topoi

Volume 25

De Gruyter

ISBN 978-3-11-030924-9
e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-031121-1
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ISSN 2191-5806

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It would not have been possible to complete this doctoral thesis without the help and support of a number of people.

Foremost, I am exceptionally grateful to my supervisors Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfram Schier, Dr. Volker Heyd and Dr. Alistair Pike for advice, assistance and encouragement. I also thank Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Hermann Parzinger for his assistance regarding the samples of the Scythian period. Furthermore, I would like to thank Dr. Elke Kaiser, Ivo Popov and Manfred Woidich of the Research Group A II of the Excellence Cluster 264 Topoi for fruitful discussions and sample acquisition. The award of a three years' doctoral grant by the Excellence Cluster Topoi facilitated excellent working conditions and extensive stays abroad.

I would like to give warm thanks to our cooperation partners from Bulgaria, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine for providing access to the samples and to their reports from the site and also for providing additional information:

• Dr. Daniela Agre, Dr. Stefan Aleksandrov (National Archaeological Institute with Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Dr. Nadezhda Atanassova-Timeva, Borislava Galabova, Dr. Yordan Yordanov (Department of Anthropology and Human Anatomy, Institute of Experimental Morphology, Pathology and Anthropology with Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Dr. Iliya Iliev (Museum of History Yambol), Dr. Plamen Karailiev (Archaeological Museum Maritsa-Iztok, Radnevo), Dr. Stefan Chohadzhiev (University of Veliko Tarnovo),
• Prof. Dr. Eszter Bnffy, Dr. Kitti Khler, Dr. Gabriella Kulcsr (Institute of Archaeology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest), Dr. Jnos Dani (Dri Mzeum, Debrecen), Vajk Szevernyi (Mra Ferenc Mzeum, Szeged), whom I also thank for the close and excellent cooperation in writing two papers,
• Dr. Galiya Bazarbaeva, Dr. Zainolla Samashev (Academy of Science in Kazakhstan, Institute of Archaeology, Almaty),
• Dr. Aleksandr Gei (Russian Academy of Sciences), Dr. Aleksandr Khokhlov (Samarski State Pedagogical University, Samara), Dr. Natalya Shishlina (State Historical Museum Moscow) and her team at the excavation in Remontnoe,
• Dr. Marina Daragan, Dr. Aleksandra Kozak, Dr. Alla Nikolova, Dr. Inna Potekhina, Dr. Sergei Polin, Dr. Yuri Rassamakin (Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Science in Ukraine, Kiev), Dr. Dimitrii Teslenko (University Dnepropetrovsk), Dr. Sergei Sanzharov (East Ukrainian Volodymyr Dahl National University Lugansk).