Dr. Anastasia Nikulina
@nikulinaav.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at Durham University. Archaeology, agent-based modelling, GIS and 3D modelling.
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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...
journals.plos.org
🔥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
Our new study using an #AI approach shows #Neanderthals began reshaping ecosystems; later foragers continued this process
👉 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
#Paleoecology #Anthropocene
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
Дальше — больше! More to come! #PhD #PhDLife #research #nextchapterbegins
November 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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
Дальше — больше! More to come! #PhD #PhDLife #research #nextchapterbegins
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...
🔗Read here: www.weekendavisen.dk/ideer/jaeger...
October 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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...
🔗Read here: www.weekendavisen.dk/ideer/jaeger...
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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
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
#archaeology @unileiden.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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
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": un article co-écrit par F. Mazier de Geode, qui vient de paraître dans PLOS One
➡️ à lire ici : journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
➡️ à lire ici : journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
October 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
📖 "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...
➡️ à lire ici : journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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🔥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...
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...
October 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
🔥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...
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...
🔥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
Our new study using an #AI approach shows #Neanderthals began reshaping ecosystems; later foragers continued this process
👉 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
#Paleoecology #Anthropocene
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...
journals.plos.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🔥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
Our new study using an #AI approach shows #Neanderthals began reshaping ecosystems; later foragers continued this process
👉 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
#Paleoecology #Anthropocene
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...
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...
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...
www.comses.net
October 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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...
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...
Reposted by Dr. Anastasia Nikulina
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
🔗 Register: www.tinyurl.com/sse1kseminarsrs
October 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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
🔗 Register: www.tinyurl.com/sse1kseminarsrs
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📢 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
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
October 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
📢 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
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
🚨 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...
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...
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...
www.sidestone.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
🚨 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...
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...
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/...
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.
www.science.org
August 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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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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...
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology and Agent-Based Modelling
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
August 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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...
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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👋 #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.
@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.
July 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
👋 #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.
@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.
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! ☺️
July 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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! ☺️
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....
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....
www.science.org
July 18, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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....
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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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
July 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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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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
@nikulinaav.bsky.social @danlawrence86.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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
@nikulinaav.bsky.social @danlawrence86.bsky.social
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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📍
July 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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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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...
🗓️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...
IMC 2025 Programme | International Medieval Congress
www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
July 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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...
🗓️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...
Great PhD opportunity with @phytolith.bsky.social : www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
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...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
April 24, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Great PhD opportunity with @phytolith.bsky.social : www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
Workshop day organised by @sse1k.bsky.social at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
March 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Workshop day organised by @sse1k.bsky.social at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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.
December 14, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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.