Dr. Britt Starkovich
Senior Researcher & Curator of Zooarchaeology
Office:
S563 Hölderlinstraße 12, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
+49-(0)7071-29-77113
britt.starkovich@uni-tuebingen.de
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Areas of Research
- Zooarchaeology
- Early domestication
- Early dietary practices
About Dr Starkovich:
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. |