Selected Publications: 

Nomokonova, T., Kohut, G., Ockerman, V. 2025. Cody, Bison, and the Fletcher Site on the Canadian Prairies. Paleoamerica 11(1): 30-42.

Sick, J., Lieverse, A.R., Nomokonova, T., Losey, R. 2025. Identifying habitual sled-pulling in dogs through the study of entheseal changes. Journal of Archaeological Science 177: 106204.

Kohut, G., Losey, R., Kutz, S., Khidas, K., Pelletier, M., Nomokonova, T. 2025. An improved age estimation method for caribou and reindeer using tooth eruption and wear. Journal of Archaeological Science 174: 106133. 

Nomokonova, T., Losey, R.J., Gusev, A.V., Kohut, G., Razdymakha, S., Vozelova, L., Plekhanov, A.V. 2024. The one-eyed Elder woman stitches an ornament: needles, needle cases, and women from the Iamal-Nenets region of Arctic Siberia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 74: 101589. 

Kohut, G., Losey, R., Kutz, S., Khidas, K., Nomokonova, T. 2024. Assessing current visual tooth wear age estimation methods for Rangifer tarandus using a known age sample from Canada. PLOS ONE 19(4): e0301408.  

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.

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.

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., 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.

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.

ANTH 112: The Human Journey: Introduction to Archaeology and Biological Anthropology

ARCH 300: Archaeology Research Course

ARCH 353: Plains Archaeology

ARCH 398: Archaeology of Siberia

ANTH 358: Zooarchaeology I

ANTH 458: Zooarchaeology II

ARCH 462: Contemporary Archaeological Theory

ANTH 440: Archaeology of Food

ANTH 498: Collaborative Practice in Archaeology

ANTH 400: Contemporary Issues in Archaeology and Anthropology

ANTH 401: Independent Research in Anthropology

ARCH 805: Archaeological Method and Theory

ARCH 855: Problems in Archaeology

Canadian Prairies Circumpolar North Collaborative archaeology Human-animal studies Zooarchaeology

My main scholarly interests are zooarchaeology and human-animal relationships in the Circumpolar North and on the Canadian Prairies. Over the last 20 years, I have studied reindeer domestication and hide working practices in the Western Siberian Arctic, the life histories of ancient dogs in the North, and the trans-Holocene diets and subsistence practices of the Lake Baikal regional populations in Eastern Siberia. The majority of these projects were devoted to the development of collaborative archaeological practices with Indigenous communities and a commitment to multidisciplinary and public outreach approaches. Some of my recent work includes the analysis of animal remains from Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada, Late Holocene pastoralists sites from Mongolia, and Promontory Cave 1 in Utah in the United States.

PhD (University of Alberta)