Research Area(s)
- Collaborative archaeology
- Human-animal studies
- Zooarchaeology
- Canadian Prairies
- Circumpolar North
Publications
Selected Publications:
Nomokonova, T., Losey, R.J., Razdymakha, S.E., Okotetto, S., Plekhanov, A.V., Gusev, A.V., 2022. Entangled with Antlers on the Iamal Peninsula of Arctic Siberia. Journal of Ethnobiology 42(1): 3-19.
Sick, J., Nomokonova, T., Bazaliiskii, V.I., Lieverse, A.R., 2022. Rekonstruktsiia aktivnosti v bioarkheologii: entezisnye izmeneniia i ikh primenenie v Pribaikal’e Sibiri. Reports of the Laboratory of Ancient Technologies 18(2): 22-36 [in Russian].
Nomokonova, T., Losey, R.J., Kosintsev, P.A., Plekhanov, A.V., 2021. Reindeer demographics at Iarte VI, Iamal Peninsula, Arctic Siberia. Environmental Archaeology, doi=10.1080/14614103.2021.1995260
Losey, R.J., Bazaliiskii, V.I., Nomokonova, T., 2021. An integrative examination of elk imagery in Middle Holocene Cis-Baikal, Siberia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 63: 101311.
Nomokonova, T., Losey, R.J., Fedorova, N.V., Gusev, A.V. & Arzyutov, D.V., 2021. Reindeer imagery in making at Ust’-Polui in Arctic Siberia. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 31(1): 161-181.
Losey, R.J., Nomokonova, T., Arzyutov, D.V., Gusev, A.V., Plekhanov, A.V., Fedorova, N.V., Anderson, D.G., 2021. Domestication as enskilment: harnessing reindeer in Arctic Siberia. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 28: 197-231.
Nomokonova, T.,Losey, R.J., Plekhanov, A.V., McIntyre, H.J., 2020. The variable histories of reindeer scapula on the Iamal Peninsula of Arctic Siberia. Archaeological Research in Asia 21: 100176.
Nomokonova, T., Losey, R.J., McLachlin, Bachura, O.P., Gusev, A.V., Kosintsev, P.A., Fedorova, N.V. & Sablin, M.V., 2020. Age estimation of archaeological dogs using pulp cavity closure ratios. Journal of Archaeological Science 123: 105252.
Wolff, C.B., Holly, D.H., Erwin, C., Nomokonova, T., Swinarton, L. 2019. The Stock Cove site: A large Dorset seal-hunting encampment on the coast of southeastern Newfoundland. Arctic Anthropology 56(1): 77-95.
Nomokonova, T.,Losey, R.J., Plekhanov, A.V., McIntyre, H.J., 2018. Iarte VI and Late Holocene reindeer remains from the Iamal Peninsula of Arctic Siberia. Arctic Anthropology 55(2): 54-73.
Losey, R.J., Nomokonova, T.,Gusev, A.V., Bachura. O.P., Fedorova, N.V., Kosintsev, P.A., Sablin, M.V., 2018. Dogs were domesticated in the Arctic: sacrifice, consumption, and dog sledding at Ust’-Polui. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 51: 113-126.
Nomokonova, T., McIntyre, H.J., Plekhanov, A.V., Losey, R.J., 2018. Zooarkheologiia pestsa so srednevekovogo Iamala. Journal of Ancient Technology Laboratory 14(1): 98-107 [in Russian].
Losey, R.J., Nomokonova, T.(Eds.), 2017. Holocene Zooarchaeology of Cis-Baikal, Siberia. German German Archaeological Institute.Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt.
Nomokonova, T., Losey, R.J., Goriunova O.I., Novikov A.G., Weber, A., 2015. A 9,000 year history of seal hunting on Lake Baikal, Siberia: The zooarchaeology of Sagan-Zaba II. PLoS One 10(5): e0128314.
Nomokonova, T.Iu, Losey, R.J., Goriunova, O.I., Bazaliiskii, V.I., 2014. Holocene seal imagery in the Lake Baikal region of Eastern Siberia.Archaeology, Ethnography, and Anthropology of Eurasia 42 (3): 21-28.
Nomokonova, T.,Losey, R.J., Iakunaeva, V.N., Emel’ianova, Iu. A., Baginova, E.A., Pastukhov, M.V., 2013. People and seals at Siberia’s Lake Baikal. Journal of Ethnobiology 33(2): 259-280.
Nomokonova, T.,Losey, R.J., Goriunova, O.I., Weber, A.W., 2013. A freshwater old carbon offset in Lake Baikal, Siberia and problems with the radiocarbon dating of archaeological sediments: evidence from the Sagan-Zaba II site. Quaternary International 290-291: 110-125.
Nomokonova, T., Losey, R.J., Goriunova, O.I., 2009. Prehistoric Fishing on Lake Baikal, Siberia: Analyses of Faunal Remains from Ityrkhei Cove. VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller.
Teaching & Supervision
ARCH 112: The Human Journey: Introduction to Archaeology and Biological Anthropology
ARCH 353: Plains Archaeology
ARCH 398: Archaeology of Siberia
ANTH 358: Zooarchaeology I
ANTH 458: Zooarchaeology II
ARCH 462: Contemporary Archaeological Theory
ARCH 498: Archaeology of Food
ANTH 400: Contemporary Issues in Archaeology and Anthropology
ARCH 805: Archaeological Method and Theory
Research
Bison Canadian Prairies Collaborative Archaeology Human-Animal Relationships Indigenous Archaeology Reindeer/Caribou Siberia Zooarchaeology
Over the last 15 years I have led and participated in several multidisciplinary international projects focusing on human-animal relationships in the North. These projects include studies of Nenets reindeer domestication practices on the Iamal Peninsula in the Russian Arctic, the life histories of ancient dogs in the Circumpolar North, interactions between Indigenous people and Baikal seals, and the diets and subsistence practices of boreal forest foragers and pastoralists in Eastern Siberia. All of these projects involve integration of zooarchaeology and ethnography, and collaborative work with Indigenous communities.
Education & Training
MA, PhD (University of Alberta)
Diploma Specialist (Irkutsk State University)