Dr. Starkovich studies the prehistoric use of animals by humans in Europe and southwest Asia. Her primary focus is applying models from human behavioral ecology to understand changes in subsistence across the course of the Paleolithic at sites in the Mediterranean region (particularly Greece) and in Germany. She works on multiple assemblages from the Epipaleolithic or Neolithic in southwest Asia, investigating early domestication and dietary practices on the cusp of domestication. Dr. Starkovich has ongoing work on a sacrificial altar to the god Zeus in southern Greece. She has worked extensively on burned bone, including taphonomic issues and applying radiocarbon dating to calcined bones. She coordinates teaching zooarchaeology at Tübingen and teaches multiple undergraduate and graduate-level classes in the department.
Employment History
2012 - present
Senior Researcher & Curator of Zooarchaeology
Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen and Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
2011 - 2012
Postdoctoral Research Associate
School of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Education
2018
Habilitation, Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, University of Tübingen. Hominin Subsistence Strategies in the Eurasian Quaternary.
2011
Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson. Major: Archaeology; Minor: Environmental Anthropology. Dissertation title: Trends in Subsistence from the Middle Paleolithic through Mesolithic at Klissoura Cave 1 (Peloponnese, Greece), advisor Dr. Mary C. Stiner.
2005
Masters of Arts in Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson. Thesis title: Faunal Data from Hallan Çemi Tepesi: A Late Epipaleolithic/Neolithic Transition Site in Southeast Anatolia, advisor Dr. Mary C. Stiner.
2003
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Bachelor of Science in Biology, with honors, University of Wyoming, Laramie.
