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I was born in Bulgaria in 1969 and, after completing my BA and MA at Sofia University, I came to Durham to study for a PhD on Landscape archaeology in Bulgaria. I worked on a series of post-doctoral research posts with John Chapman on Fragmentation in prehistory, on the ‘Forest of Stones’ Early Modern megalithic phenomenon, on the Neolithic and Copper Age of Old Europe, on the Trypillia Megasites Project. I was also involved in the ERC Project ‘The Times of Their Lives (directed by Alasdair Whittle and Alex Bailyss) that helped me to develop additional career path working more closely with all aspects of radiocarbon dating and chronological modelling.
My main specialisation is the prehistory of Eastern Europe, with emphases on material culture studies, inter-disciplinary studies/archaeological science, landscape archaeology, identity and early urbanism. I am a leading specialist in fragmentation studies in archaeology. The interpretative link between fragments and enchainment that is one of my principal research themes has recently been adjudged as an 'essential constitutive condition of archaeology'.