Institute of Forensic Medicine

Anthropology

CV

  • Since 6/2023 Associated Researcher, Department of Anthropology, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern.
  • 6/2022 – 5/2023 Research Fellow, SNSF Scholars at Risk, Department of Anthropology, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern.
  • Since 5/2005 Head of the Department of Bioarchaeology, Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv.
  • Since 2005 Associate Professor, Department of History/Archaeology, National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Kyiv.
  • 2002 – 2005 Visiting Researcher, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institutions, Washington DC.
  • 2000 – 2002 Visiting Researcher, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, USA
  • 1992 PhD in History, Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
  • 1985-1986 PhD internship, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (supervisor – M. Gerasimova).
  • 1975 – 2000 Research assistant, Researcher, Senior Researcher, Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv.
  • 1973 – 1975 Research assistant, Institute of Art, Folklore and Ethnology, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv.
  • 1973 Master of Science in Biology, T.G. Shevchenko National University, Kyiv.

 

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Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Department of Archaeology, National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”

 

Research focus

  • Anthropology of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Populations
  • Bioarchaeology, Archaeogenetics, Diet reconstructions, Paleopathology, Paleodemography.

Publications and Talks

Complete List of Publications

Selected Publications

Monographies

Prehistoric Ukraine. From the First Hunters to the first Farmers. 2020. Lillie, M., Potekhina, I. (Eds.) Oxford: Oxbow Books, 336 р.

Methodological Recommendations on the Field Anthropology. 2019. Lviv: "Prostir-M", NDC "Ryativna Archaeological Service" IA NAS of Ukraine, 108 p. (with Kozak, O., Slobodyan, T., Gupalo, V., in Ukrainian)

Eneolithic Cultures of Sredny Stog and Novodanilovka in the Azov Sea-Black Sea Region. 2001. Lugansk: Shlyakh, 152 pp. (with D. Telegin, A. Netchitaylo, and Yu. Panchenko, in Russian, with English summary).

Neolithic and Early Eneolithic Populations of Ukraine according to Anthropological Data. 1999. Kiev: Academy of Sciences, 216 pp. (in Russian, with English summary).

Stone “Gods” of the Copper Age in Ukraine. 1998. Kyiv: Ukrainian Society for Protection of the Historical and Cultural Monuments, 46 pp., (with D. Telegin, in Ukrainian, with English summary).

Neolithic Cemeteries and Populations in the Dnieper Basin. 1987. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports International Series 383, 224 pp. (with D. Telegin).

Der Grabhügel Sugokleja. Archäologische und anthropologische Untersuchungen zu den Bestattungen der Bronzezeit in der zentralen. Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie. Habelt-Verlag,Bonn – Berlin (in press) (with E. Kaizer, A. Nikolova, O.Kozak).

Bookchapters

Lillie, M., Potekhina, I. 2020. Introduction. In: Lillie, M., Potekhina, I. (Eds.). Prehistoric Ukraine. From the First Hunters to the first Farmers. Oxford: Oxbow Books, р. 1—6.

Potekhina, I. 2020. The prehistoric Populations of Ukraine: Population dynamics and group composition. In: Lillie, M., Potekhina, I. (Eds.). Prehistoric Ukraine. From the First Hunters to the first Farmers. Oxford: Oxbow Books, р.155-186.

Lillie, M., Budd, Ch., Potekhina, I. 2020. Radiocarbon dating of sites in the Dnieper Region and western Ukraine.In: Lillie, M., Potekhina, I. (Eds.) Prehistoric Ukraine. From the First Hunters to the first Farmers. Oxford: Oxbow Books, р. 187- 234.

Lillie, M., Potekhina, I., Nikitin, A., Sokhatsky, M. 2015. First evidence for Interpersonal Violence in Ukraine’s Trypillian Farming Culture: Individual 3 from Verteba Cave, Bilche Zolote. In: Gerdau-Radonic, K., McSweeney, K. (eds) Trends in Biological Anthropology, 1. Oxford: Oxbow Books, p. 54—60.

Потєхіна, І. Д. Слободян, Т. І. 2013. Про населення давньоруської Шестовиці за матеріалами інгумацій та кремацій. В: Слов’яни і Русь: археологія та історія. Київ, с. 237—246.

Lillie, M., Potekhina, I., Budd, Ch., Nikitin, A. 2012. Prehistoric populations of Ukraine: Migration at the later Mesolithic to Neolithic transition. In: Kaiser, E., Burger, J., Schier, W. (eds.) Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics. Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 77—92.

Potekhina, I. 2011. Ukraine. In: Márquez-Grant, N., Fibiger, L. (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Archaeological Human Remains and Legislation: an international guide to laws and practice in the excavation, study and treatment of archaeological human remains. London: Routledge, p. 469—477. (https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203838716)

Долженко, Ю. В., Потєхіна, І. Д. 2011. Мешканці Чернігівського Дитинця: антропологічне дослідження. В: Моця О., Казаков А. Давньоруський Чернігів. Київ: Стародавній Світ, с. 279—296.

Потехина, И. Д. 2009. Антропологическое исследование скелетов из кургана Близнец-2. В: Ромашко В. А., Скорый С. А. Близнец-2: скифский аристократический курган в Днепровском правоберeжном Надпорожье. Днепропетровск: Пороги, c.119—126.

Потехина, И.Д. 2002. Об антропологическом материале из раскопок Южно-Крымской экспедиции Государственного Эрмитажа на горе Аю-Даг в 1994-1995 гг. В: Адаксина, С. Б. Монастырский комплекс X—XVI веков на горе Аю-Даг. Санкт-Петербург: Изд-во Государственного Эрмитажа, с. 29—36.

Potekhina, I. 1999. Postswiderian Population of North-Eastern Europe as Seen from the Anthropological Data. In: Koslowski, S. K., Gurba, J., Zaliznyak, L. L. (eds). Tanged Points Cultures in Europe. Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press, p. 333—336.

Potekhina, I. 1998. Ancient North Europeans in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition of Southeast Europe. In: Zvelebil, M., Dennell, R., Domanska, L. (eds). Harvesting the Sea, Farming the Forest. The Emergence of Neolithic Societies in the Baltic Region. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, p. 65—70.

Potekhina, I. 1998. South-Eastern Influences on the Formation of the Mesolithic to Early Eneolithic Populations of the North Pontic Region: the Evidence from Anthropology. In: Beyond Balkanization. Baltic-Pontic Studies, 5, p. 226—231.

Потехина, И. Д., Кислый, А. Е. 1994. Реконструкция демографической структуры скифов лесостепной и степной зоны. В: Крыжицкий, С.Д. (ред.) Палеодемография скифского населения Северного Причерноморья. Киев, с. 22—45.

Потехина, И. Д. 1989. Антропологические материалы из могильника Маяки. В: Патокова Э. Ф., Петренко В. Г., Бурдо Н. Б., Полищук Л. Ю. Памятники трипольской культуры в Северо-Западном Причерноморье. Киев: Наукова думка, с.125—130.

Potekhina, I.D. 1986. Palaeoanthropological study of the Dnieper region in the Early Eneolithic. In: Telegin, D.Ya. Dereivka. A Settlement and Cemetery of Copper Age Horse Keepers on the Middle Dnieper. Oxford: BAR, p.127—134.

Boris

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Journal Article

Mattila, Tiina M; Svensson, Emma M; Juras, Anna; Günther, Torsten; Kashuba, Natalija; Ala-Hulkko, Terhi; Chyleński, Maciej; McKenna, James; Pospieszny, Łukasz; Constantinescu, Mihai; Rotea, Mihai; Palincaș, Nona; Wilk, Stanisław; Czerniak, Lech; Kruk, Janusz; Łapo, Jerzy; Makarowicz, Przemysław; Potekhina, Inna; Soficaru, Andrei; Szmyt, Marzena; ... (2023). Genetic continuity, isolation, and gene flow in Stone Age Central and Eastern Europe. Communications biology, 6(1), p. 793. Springer Nature 10.1038/s42003-023-05131-3

Book Section

Sokhatskyi, M; Potiekhina, Inna (2022). Secrets of the Verteba Cave. In: Archaeology of Ukraine during the Years of Independence (pp. 111-119). Kyiv: Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Ukrainian Association of Archaeologists

Conference or Workshop Item

Potiekhina, Inna (11 November 2022). Anthropological study of the ancient populations in Ukraine: main directions and approaches (Unpublished). In: Meeting of the Swiss Society for Anthropology (SGA). Basel. 11.-12.11.2022.

Working Paper

Mattila, Tiina; Svensson, Emma; Juras, Anna; Günther, Torsten; Kashuba, Natalija; Ala-Hulkko, The erhi; Chyleński, Maciej; Pospieszny, Łukasz; Constantinescu, Mihai; Rotea, Mihai; Palincaș, Nona; Wilk, Stanisław; Czerniak, Lech; Kruk, Janusz; Łapo, Jerzy; Makarowicz, Przemysław; Potiekhina, Inna; Soficaruc, Andrei; Szmyt, Marzena; Szostek, Krzysztof; ... (September 2022). Genetic continuity, isolation, and gene flow in Stone Age Central and Eastern Europe (Submitted) Research Square 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1966812/v1

Nikitin, Alexey G.; Ivanova, Svetlana; Budd, Chelsea E.; Culleton, Brendan J.; Potiekhina, Inna; Lillie, Malcolm C.; Reich, David (2022). Radiocarbon Dating and Stable Isotope Analysis of Human Remains from the Usatovo Culture Site of Mayaki in Ukraine 10.2139/ssrn.4236123

Potiekhina, Inna (2022). Population Genomics of Stone Age Eurasia (bioRxiv). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 10.1101/2022.05.04.490594

Teaching

Сourses "Historical Anthropology" and "Methodology of Anthropological Research", Department of History, National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Kyiv.