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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina

@nikulinaav.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Researcher and Project Manager at Leiden University. Archaeology, agent-based modelling, GIS and 3D modelling.

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Stable carbon isotopes from #Mesolithic hazelnuts from 6 Danish sites show that 83% of source hazels grew under open or semi-open conditions - in contrast to classic closed-forest expectations🔆🍃Thx to Laila Rehmeier & @felixthehauskat.bsky.social for leading!⬇️ #Palaeoecology #Archaeology #Forests
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Last week, I presented at the conference organised by @sse1k.bsky.social in Venice. Great #conference, and one of the most beautiful venues I’ve ever seen! ✨ #research #archaeology
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
National Geographic France featured my #study in their June issue 😊🥳 #research #archaeology
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Last week I went to a summer school organised by #PalaeOpen in Sofia🇧🇬: databases, quantitative #analysis, and lots of #networking. A very cool week! #research
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🚨New paper just published! 📄 What drives #resilience and #sustainability in societies? Our paper reviews research in the #Mediterranean (1000 BCE–1000 CE) and explores how agent-based modelling can help test the mechanisms behind socio-ecological change 🌍 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Scales, Sources, and Simulations: Reviewing Studies on Human–Environment Interactions in the Mediterranean from 1000 BCE to 1000 CE - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Understanding long-term human–environment dynamics is essential for contemporary debates on resilience and sustainability. This paper reviews approaches to studying humans and their environments in th...
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Gave my first lecture to research master’s students at Leiden University on using agent-based modelling to study past human–environment interactions 👩🏻‍🏫 Teaching is cool 😎
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Just got back from a really interesting lecture on #diet in #humanevolution by @phytolith.bsky.social Lots to think about, and excited to be working on some of it right now! 🌱🍓🥦
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Helen Foxhall Forbes @helenfoxhallforbes.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
It was great fun working on this with @calthalas.bsky.social @realhistoryguy.bsky.social @jmharland.bsky.social @dl-arch.bsky.social @vickymanolopoulou.bsky.social @sypianski.bsky.social @nikulinaav.bsky.social and others
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Nice feature on our recent work on neandertals (led by @nikulinaav.bsky.social) and their effects on their environment👣 deephistory.substack.com/p/the-neande... #neandertal #neanderthal #archaeology #anthropology #wilderness
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The Neanderthal Garden: Landscape Engineering and the End of the "Pristine Wilderness" Myth
By Seth Chagi World of Paleoanthropology
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Snow welcomed my Siberian soul on one of my first days in my new role as a postdoc and project manager at @unileiden.bsky.social Felt like #home ❄️
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Over the past year, I worked at Durham University within @sse1k.bsky.social It was a real pleasure to be part of this team! I met wonderful colleagues and made great friends within the Department and the project. A new chapter begins for me this year, but the previous one was amazing💔
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Last week I presented at #CAA #UK in Cambridge. It was exciting since these are our first modelling results from the @sse1k.bsky.social project. The presentation went really well, and I’m grateful to the organisers and everyone who made the #conference such a great experience. Photo credit: CAA UK
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Came to Cambridge for a couple of days at CAA-UK 2025. Really looking forward to all the talks and discussions! #research #caa
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
On November 21, I became Dr. Nikulina. 13 years of study and hard work, including five wonderful years at Leiden University working on my dissertation. Дальше — больше! More to come! #PhD #PhDLife #research #nextchapterbegins
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
So happy to see that our work on the earliest #human impact on #landscapes ended up in #Weekendavisen, Denmark’s leading weekly #newspaper 🎉 🔗Read here: www.weekendavisen.dk/ideer/jaeger...
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 24/10/2025
Fascinating new #research by @nikulinaav.bsky.social, who has recently joined @arcdurham.bsky.social. She used an innovative #AI approach to reveal how #Neanderthals shaped Europe's #landscapes. Read her @plosone.org paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #archaeology @unileiden.bsky.social
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On the ecological impact of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe: Early Holocene (Mesolithic) and Last Interglacial (Neanderthal) foragers compared
Recent studies have highlighted evidence of human impact on landscapes dating back to the Late Pleistocene–long before the advent of agriculture. Quantifying the extent of vegetation transformations b...
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Laboratoire GEODE - UMR 5602 @geode-cnrs.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
📖 "On the ecological impact of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe: Early Holocene (Mesolithic) and Last Interglacial (Neanderthal) foragers compared": un article co-écrit par F. Mazier de Geode, qui vient de paraître dans PLOS One ➡️ à lire ici : journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
🔥See our new paper led by @nikulinaav.bsky.social People shaped Europe’s #ecosystems long before farming 🦣#Megafauna effects on #vegetation openness dropped from 77%→57% bt #Eemian & #Mesolithic 🧑‍🦱Mesolithic people shaped up to 47% of landscapes w Neanderthals affecting 6–14% doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
🔥Before farming, hunter-gatherers already transformed nearly half of Europe’s #landscapes via burning and hunting! Our new study using an #AI approach shows #Neanderthals began reshaping ecosystems; later foragers continued this process 👉 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #Paleoecology #Anthropocene
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On the ecological impact of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe: Early Holocene (Mesolithic) and Last Interglacial (Neanderthal) foragers compared
Recent studies have highlighted evidence of human impact on landscapes dating back to the Late Pleistocene–long before the advent of agriculture. Quantifying the extent of vegetation transformations b...
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
How did #Neanderthals use #fire to hunt?🔥 Our new conceptual agent-based #model simulates their fire-driven hunting strategies around the Neumark-Nord site in Germany. Available here 👉 www.comses.net/codebases/86...
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HUMLAND FIRE-IN-THE-HOLE agent-based model
HUMLAND Fire-in-the-Hole is a conceptual agent-based model (ABM) designed to explore the ecological and behavioral consequences of fire-driven hunting strategies employed by hunter-gatherers, specific...
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SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Many thanks to all who attended the first talk of our Online Seminar Series yesterday🌟Join us again on 10 November for Prof. Alessandro Fontana’s talk! 🔗 Register: www.tinyurl.com/sse1kseminarsrs
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SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
📢 SSE1K Online Seminar Series: People and their Environments in the First Millennium CE Join us on 14 Oct, 16:00 CEST when Prof. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences) will talk “About volcanoes, icons, solar storms, and toads” 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/sse1kseminars
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🚨 New volume online! 🚨 This collection celebrates the outstanding career of Prof. Wil Roebroeks. 🔥 Our paper “Fire in the hole: a prototype agent-based model for studying #hunter-gatherers’ fire-driven #hunting” is part of the volume – take a look! 🐘 www.sidestone.com/books/intent...
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Intent on the Paleolithic @ Sidestone Press
This collection of papers was compiled in celebration of the remarkable academic career of Professor Wil Roebroeks, who has established himself as one of Europe’s leading figures in Palaeolithic archa...
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
New cool study on Corded Ware and Bell Beaker #burials shows fast apread across #Europe in many places at once and not from one big #migration www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Spatiotemporal reconstruction of Corded Ware and Bell Beaker burial rituals reveals complex dynamics divergent from steppe ancestry
Chronological modeling shows fast, polyfocal dissemination of Corded Ware and Beaker rites before rapid Pan-European convergence.
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Dan Lawrence @dl-arch.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Postdoc Job! Come and work with me in Durham, and a bunch of @sse1k.bsky.social heroes in Venice and Basel, doing agent-based modelling of socio-environmental systems in the Ancient Mediterranean... durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology and Agent-Based Modelling
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
👋 #MeetTheTeam @nikulinaav.bsky.social Anastasia Nikulina is a postdoctoral researcher exploring human–environment interactions through agent-based modelling. She’s based at @arcdurham.bsky.social. Originally from the real #Siberia, Anastasia knows how (cold) weather shapes #human decisions.
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Last week, I had the opportunity to be an invited respondent at @sse1k.bsky.social session on #resilience and the #environment at @imc-leeds.bsky.social in Leeds. My first time in this role! ☺️
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Neanderthal "fat factory"! 🥩🔥 Last Interglacial #Neanderthals at Neumark-Nord (Germany) were fat engineers processing bones to extract grease 125,000 years ago. A large-scale operation long before the Upper #Paleolithic. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Thank you to everyone who joined our sessions at @imc-leeds.bsky.social! It was a pleasure to discuss different aspects of #environment and #resilience. Huge thanks to the organizers for putting together such a fantastic congress #IMC2025
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Attending the International Medieval Congress in Leeds for the first time 😊 #IMC2025
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Helen Foxhall Forbes @helenfoxhallforbes.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Exciting papers at #IMC2025 from @sse1k.bsky.social SSE1K: Science, Society and Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE and friends today! @nikulinaav.bsky.social @danlawrence86.bsky.social
Logo for the project SSE1K: Science, Society and Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE: image is a dark blue circle with interlocking half circles and the initials SSE1K with the project title underneath
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SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Looking forward to seeing everyone at @imc-leeds.bsky.social‬ ! 🙌✨ Our three sessions " #Resilience and #Environment in the #Mediterranean" are on July 9🗓️, Clarendon Building 1.02📍
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SSE1K @sse1k.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Heading to @imc-leeds.bsky.social‬? Don’t miss our session " #Resilience and #Environment in the #Mediterranean " on 🗓️June 9 ⏰10:00–11:30, 12:15–13:45 and 15:15–16:45! Check out the full programme for the International Medieval Congress here: 🔗 www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2025/pro...
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IMC 2025 Programme | International Medieval Congress
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Great PhD opportunity with @phytolith.bsky.social : www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
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PhD Candidate: Costs and benefits of wild plants (1.0 FTE, 48 months)
PhD Candidate: Costs and benefits of wild plants (1.0 FTE, 48 months)The Department of Archaeological Sciences, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, is looking for a PhD candidate to perform res...
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Workshop day organised by @sse1k.bsky.social at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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Dr. Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Last week in Basel, I presented at the international graduate #conference “Humans and #Landscapes: An Everlasting Story of Mutual Interactions”. A wonderful opportunity to share my work and connect with others in the field.
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