Natalia Burdo

Dr. Natalia Burdo, the Ph.D. in history and senior researcher at the Institute of Archaeology in Ukraine, wrote her Ph.D. thesis on the subject of “The Early Population Stage of Tripillian Culture Between Rivers Dniester and Southern Bug”, which was presented and defended at the Department of Neolithic-Bronze Age at Archaeological Institute of Ukraine in 1994.

She participated in the excavations of many settlements of the early Tripillian culture including Alexandrovka Tymkove, Slobidka West of Odessa region. She was part of field studies of settlements in Maydanetske, Talne 2, Nebelivka in the Bug-Dnieper rivers, burial “Lighthouses near Odessa”, Hatysche, Ihnatenkova Gore, Yancha-VI, Khomyn and the Kolomyia Yar in the Middle Dnieper. She also participated in the excavation of Durankulak (Bulgaria, 1976), the excavations of new buildings and freeways constructions in Poland, 2000. Dr. N. Burdo was a member of the international scientific research projects: Baltic-Pontic Studies, Trypillian Culture Mega-Sites and the mapping of the Tripillian settlements.

The range of professional interests of Dr. N.Burdo includes studies of archaeological sources, the Neo-Neolithic era in Europe, the study of issues related to early-agricultural Copper Age cultures, including Trypillian culture. The key areas of her research is directed to analysis of archaeological sources related to reconstruction of historical processes on the territory of Ukraine during the Copper Age period, including sacred customs, architecture, cultural and historical contacts of farming communities and the research of the history of the Tripillian culture including the issues of chronology and timing of the Copper Age archaeological cultures and the systematization of archaeological sources.

Dr. N.Bordo is an author of 346 scientific papers including coauthor of monographs on archeology and ancient history of the Carpathian-Danube region. She was a member of the editorial board and the executive secretary of the “Encyclopedia of Tripillian Civilization” (2003-2004). She is a member of the editorial board of the present electronic Internet publication “Trypillian Civilization Journal” since 2010.