CURRICULUM VITAE DR. NATALIA SHISHLINA
Name: Nataliya Shishlina / patronymic name-Ivanovna/
Born: January 10,1962, Moscow, Russia
Nationality: Russian, Gender - female
Professional address: 109012, Russia, Moscow, Red sq.,1, State History Museum, Department of
Archaeology
EDUCATION:
September 1980 June 1986
- undergraduate student, Sub-Faculty of Archaeology, History Department, Moscow State
University / Master of Science Degree in History/Archaeology,
February 1987 December 1990 - post-graduate student, Department of Neolithic-Bronze Age, Institute of Archaeology,
USSR Academy of Sciences, Ph. D. degree in History/Archaeology.
DISSERTATION AND THESES
Master's degree in History/Archaeology: Thesis : " The bow of the Srub culture"; Faculty of Archaeology,
Department of History, Moscow State University (1986)
Ph.D. Degree in History/Archaeology: Thesis:" The Early Stage of the Middle Bronze Age of Kalmykia"
Department of Neolithic and Bronze Age, Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Sciences of Russia,
(1992)
Big Doctorate in History/Archaeology: Thesis: “ The Northwestern Caspian Steppes during the Bronze
Age (V-III millennia BC) (2008)
EMPLOYMENT
October 1979 October 1980 State History Museum /Russia, Moscow.109012, Red sq. 1. Guide.
October 1980 March 1983 Moscow State University, the Department for Foreign Citizens. Office assistant.
Russia, Moscow. ul.Krzhizhaanovskogo,27
March 1983 October 1984 - Institute of Archaeology, USSR Academy of Sciences, assistant.
Russia, Moscow, 117036, ul. D.Ulianova,19
October 1984 up to now
State History Museum. Department of Archaeology. Researcher, curator
of the Bronze Age collections of Russia.
Since 2002
Senior Researcher
Since 2006
Head of the Archaeology Department
October 1993 - Moscow State University, Department of October 1997, History, Historical Department,
May 1997
Sub-Faculty of Archaeology – lecturer
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
1996 - Fulbright Fellowship at Harvard University, Peabody Museum, “Ancient nomadic cultures of the
Eurasian steppe”
1996-1997 – CEU grant, “Nomadism as an ecological and cultural evolution in the Bronze Age of the
Eurasian steppe” (project director)
1994-1997 - Russian Presidential grant for young Russian scholars
1998-2000 – Russian Presidential grant for Russian senior scholars
1997-1998 – grant of the Russian Humanitarian Scientific Fund. “Textiles of the Bronze Age nomads of
the Eurasian steppe” (project leader): grant No. 97-01-00185
1997-1998 – grant of the Russian Fund of Basic Research, “Seasonality of the Bronze age nomads
(Yamnaya and Catacomb cultures) of the Caspian maritime steppe in the III-II mill. BC (project leader):
grant No. 97-06-80141
1998, 2000, 2001 - National Geographic Society, Development of nomadism in the Western Eurasian
steppe, grants. 1998, No. 5341-98; 2000, No. 2805-00; 2001, No. 7078-01
2000
- Wenner-Gren Foundation, “Origin and development of the Textile Production in the Eurasian
Bronze Age steppe”, Grant No. 6576
2001 - Scientific grant of the President of Russian Federation. “Ancient crafts of Bronze Age nomads”
(project leader): Grant No. 60/129-ri.
2002
- British Academy, Ashmolean Museum. “Prehistoric Textiles: Reconstruction of technology,
production and cultural significance”
2003 - National Geographic Society, “Dietary system of Bronze Age nomadic cultures” (project leader):
Grant No. 7432-03
2003, 2007 - German Institute of Archeology, Eurasian department. “Bronze Age cultures of the Eurasian
steppe: chronology and development”
2005-2007 – Russian Fund for Basic Research. “Reservoir effect and Bronze Age chronology of the
Eurasian steppes”, Grant No. 05-06-80802
2008 – 2009 – Grant of the Potanin Fund for Museum research “ Museum of Archaeology for blind
children”, №10.
2008-2010 - Russian Fund for Basic Research. “Paleoecology, subsistence and chronology of the Bronze
Age Eurasian steppe cultures ”, Grant No. 08-06-00069
EXCAVATION AND FIELDWORK
1978 - The Volga expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences .
1981 - The North-Caucasus expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences .
1982 - The Novgorod expedition of Moscow State University .
1983 - The Evpatoria expedition of Moscow State University,
The Margiana expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
1984 - The Kalmykia expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences
since 1986 present Head of the Steppe (former Kalmykia) expedition of the State History Museum.
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:
 origins and development of nomadic cultures of the Eurasian steppe.

Diet of the Bronze Age nomads

Bronze Age chronology and 14-C reservoir effects
CURRENT MUSEUM RESEARCH:
Project “Museum of Archaeology for blind children in the State Historical Museum”
Project “ Reconstruction of the Dolmen Kolikho - Bronze Age megalithic tomb”
Project “ Re-organization of the Bronze Age Hall in the permanent exhibition of the State Historical
museum”
International Project “Bronze Age of Europe” in co-operation with the Berlin Museums, Germany, State
Historical Museum, the Hermitage Museum and the Pushkin Museum of Arts, Russia
Main publications
Monographs
1. N.I. Shishlina. North-western Caspian Steppes during the Bronze Age (V-III millennium BC). Papers of
the State Historical museum. Vol. 165. Moscow: State Historical museum, 1-398. (2007) (in Russian)
2. Natalia Shishlina. Reconstruction of the Bronze Age of the Caspian Steppes. Life styles and life ways of
pastoral nomads. BAR International Series 1876. 2008, 1-299. (in English)
In Russian
Collective monographs
1. The steppe and the Caucasus (cultural traditions). Ed. by P.M. Kozhin. Papers of the State Historical
Museum. Vol.97.1997. Moscow: State Historical Museum, 1-132.
2. Textiles of the Bronze Age Eurasian steppe. Ed. By Natalia Shishlina. Papers of the State Historical
Museum. Vol.109.Moscow. 1999, 1-253.
3. Mandjikiny-1 – Bronze Age-Early Iron age sites of Kalmykia. Ed. by E.V.Tsutskin and N.I. Shishlina,
Moscow-Elista: State Historical Museum. 1999: 1-94.
4. Seasonality studies of the Bronze Age Northwest Caspian steppe. Ed. by Natalia Shishlina. Papers of the
State Historical Museum. Vol. 120. Moscow: State Historical Museum. 2000: 1-201.
5. Complex investigation of the Mu-Sharet burial ground in Kalmykia. Ed. by E.V. Tsutskin and N.I.
Shishlina. Moscow, Elista: State Historical Museum, 1-132.
6. Burial mound Ostrovnoy. Results of the inter-disciplinary investigation of archeological sites from the
Northwest Caspian Sea maritime steppe. Ed. by N.Shishlina & E.Tsutskin. 2002. Moscow-Elista: State
Historical Museum, 1-324.
Papers in English and German
1. N.I. Shishlina. Wechselwirkungen und Transformationen der Grab- und Bestattungssitten des
Kalmuckengebietes gegen Ende des 3 Jahrtausends v.Chr. Zeitschrift fur Archaologie, 27-1993: 273-286.
2. F. Hiebert and N. Shishlina. Between Lapis and Jade. Introduction. Ancient Cultures of Central Asia.
Anthropology and Archaeology of Eurasia. Spring 1996.Vol.34, n.4.
3. A.L. Alexandrovsky, O.A. Chichagova, N.I. Shishlina. 14C studies of Burial Mounds in the Steppe
Zones: Chronology and Palaeoenvironment. International Workshop on Isotope-Geochemical Research in
the Baltic Region. Ed. by J, van der Plicht. Tallinn. 1996: 107-112.
4. Bow and arrow of the Eurasian steppe Bronze Age nomads, Journal of European Archaeology. Vol.5,
No. 2.1997: 53-66.
5. F. Hiebert, N. Shishlina. The Steppe and the Sown: Interaction between Bronze Age nomads and
Agriculturalists. The Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age peoples of the Eastern Central Asia. Ed. By
V.N.Mair.1998.
6. Klevezal G.A., N.I. Shishlina. Assessment of the Season of Death of Ancient Humans from Cementum
Annual Layers. Journal of Archaeological Science (2000) 28, 481-486.
7. N.I. Shishlina. Alexandrovsky A.L., Chichagova O.A. & J.van der Plicht. Radiocarbon chronology of
the Kalmykia Catacomb culture of the west Eurasian steppe. Antiquity, 2000. 74: 793-9
8. N. Shishlina, V. Golikov & O. Orfinskaya. Bronze Age Textiles of the Caspian Sea maritime Steppes.
BAR, #890. 2000
9. N. Shishlina. The seasonal cycle of grassland use in the Caspian Sea steppe during the Bronze Age: a
new approach to an old problem. European Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 4(3). 2001: 346-366.
10. N. Shishlina. Yamnaya culture pastoral exploitation: a local sequences. Prehistoric steppe adaptation
and the horse. Ed. by M. Levin, C. Renfrew and K. Boyle. Cambridge. 2002: 353-365.
11. N. Shishlina, O. Orfinskaya, V. Golikov. Bronze Age Textiles from the North Caucasus: New
Evidence of Fourth Millennium BC Fibers and Fabrics, Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 22(4). 2003, 331344.
12. N. Shishlina. North-west Caspian steppe: environment and migration crossroads of pastoral culture
population during the third millennium BC. Impact of the Environment on Human Migration in Eurasia.
E.M. Scott et al. (eds.). 2004, 91-106.
13. N. Shishlina, O. Orfinskaya. Headdress from the Catacomb Culture Grave of the Shakhaevskaya Burial
Ground in the Rostov Region. Archaeological Textiles Newsletter. N.40. 2005:6-8.
14. N. Shishlina. Decoration of Skulls: Funerary rituals of the Yаmnaya and Catacomb Cultures in the
Eurasian Bronze Age. BAR International Series 1539. 2006, 59-66.
15. N. Shishlina, J. van der Plicht, R.M.E. Hedges, E.P. Zazovskaya, V.S. Sevastyanov, O.A. Chichagova.
. Reservoir effect and 14C Chronology of the Catacomb cultures of the North-West Caspian Steppes Area: a
case study. Eurasia Antiqua. Band 12. 2006 : 113-126.
16. N. Shishlina, A. Borisov, A. Bobrov, M. Pakhomov. Methods of Interpreting Bronze Age Vessel
Residues: Discussion, Correlation and the Verification of Data. Theory and Practice of Archaeological
Residue Analysis. BAR International Series 1650. 2007: 29-41.
17. N. Shishlina, J. van der Plicht, R.M.E. Hedges, E.P. Zazovskaya, V.S. Sevastyanov, O.A. Chichagova.
The catacomb cultures of the North-west Caspian steppes: 14C chronology, reservoir effect, and paleodiet.
Radiocarbon. Vol .49, Nr 2. 2007 – сс.713-726.
18. A. Shortland, N. Shishlina, A. Yegorkov. Origin and Production of Faience Beads in the North
Caucasus and the Northwest Caspian Sea region in the Bronze Age. Le culture du Caucasuse (VI-II
millenaires avant notre ere). Leurs relations avec le Proche-Orient. Ed. by B. Lionett. 2007 : 269-283.
19. N.I. Shishlina, E.I. Gak and A.V. Borisov. Nomadic Sites of the South Yergueni Hills on the Eurasian
Steppe. Models of Seasonal Occupation and Production. Archaeology of Mobility. Old World and New
World Nomadism. Ed. by H. Barnard and W. Wendrich. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. 2008.
20. N I Shishlina, E P Zazovskaya, J van der Plicht, R E M Hedges, V S Sevastyanov, O.A. Chichagova.
Paleoecology, Subsistence and 14C Chronology of the Eurasian Caspian Steppe Bronze Age. Radiocarbon.
Vol.51. Nr.2. 2009, 481-500.