Kseniia Bondar

Senior Researcher (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine )

BIO

Kseniia Bondar was born in 1980 in Kyiv/Ukraine and studied geophysics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where she received her diploma in 2001. In 2004 she finished her PhD thesis (Natural remanent magnetization of the recent soils of Ukraine and its geophysical importance). Kseniia Bondar is currently a senior researcher in the Institute of Geology of Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv. Since 2006 she has been being a leader of the Research Group for Geophysical Prospection of Archaeological Sites. Kseniia Bondar managed geophysical measurements on the large variety of historical monuments and archaeological sites in Ukraine dating from Early Palaeolithic period to WWII in co-operation with the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Bondar, K., Daragan, M., Polin, S. (2018). Modelling of space and reconstruction of the funeral ritual at a Scythian kurgan burial after magnetometry and archaeological prospection. Virtual Archaeology, 3, 13-28. 2.
  2. Johnston, Stuart & Diachenko, Aleksandr & Gaydarska, Bisserka & Nebbia, Marco & Voke, Patricia & Bondar, Kseniya & Litkevych, Vladyslav & Chapman, John. (2018). The Experimental Building, Burning and Excavation of a Two-Storey Trypillia House. In book: Materiality and Identity in Pre- and Protohistoric Europe (Homage to Cornelia-Magda Lazarovici), Senica Țurcanu and Constantin-Emil Ursu (eds), Publisher: Karl A. Romstorfer, 397-434. 3.
  3. Bondar, К., Ridush, В. (2015). Rockmagnetic and palaeomagnetic studies of unconsolidated sediments of Bukovynka Cave (Chernivtsi region, Ukraine). Quaternary International, 357, 125-135. 4.
  4. Fassbinder, J. W. E., Bondar, K. (2013). Geophysikalische Prospektion und magnetische Eigenschaften von ausgewahlten Boden der Osterinsel / Zeitschrift fur Archaologie Aussereuropaischer Kulturen, 5 (2013): 111–139.