In May of 2013, Dr. Radu Iovita working with Professor Zhaken Taimagambetov (Kazakh National University (KazNU) in Almaty and the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana), began a long-term archaeological study of the piedmonts in Kazakhstan. During the first two field seasons, they took luminescence dating samples from two important early Upper Paleolithic sites, Valikhanova […]
Contact Information Director: Dr. Radu Iovita Email: iovita@nyu.edu Phone: 212-992-7475 Research Let him lose himself in wonders as amazing in their littleness as the others in their vastness.– Blaise Pascal, Pensées, Man’s Disproportion (1670, trans. T.S. Eliot, 2003 edition) The Anthrotopography Laboratory takes advantage of a common methodology (surface analysis) to link two strands of […]
Associate Professor of Anthropology Ph.D. 2008, University of Pennsylvania; MPhil 2002, University of Cambridge; B.A. 2001, Harvard University Email: iovita@nyu.edu Phone: 212-992-7475 Office: 805 curriculum vitae Anthrotopography Lab website Research Interests Paleolithic archaeology Eurasian loess steppe lithics controlled experiments human responses to environmental change archaeological survey techniques use-wear geometric morphometrics Other Affiliations ERC Group Leader, […]
