CURRICULUM VITAE
Ilga Zagorska
LAST UPDATE: 21 November 2012
Email: izagorska@yahoo.com
EDUCATION AND DEGREES
1992 – Dr.hist. (history, archaeology), Latvian Academy of Sciences
1983 – Cand. hist., Scientific Council of the Institute of History, Academy of
Sciences of the Latvian SSR
1964 – Professional qualification – historian, Latvian State University
WORK EXPERIENCE
Since 2010 – Senior Researcher, Institute of Latvian History
1998–2010 – Researcher, Institute of Latvian History
1972–1998 – Junior Researcher, Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of the
Latvian SSR
1964–1972 – Technician, Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian
SSR
PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS
Fundamental and applied research projects funded by the Latvian Council of
Sciences:
Since 2010: Virtual Encyclopaedia of Humanities: Personalities, Sources, Terms;
Since 2009: The interaction of society and material culture in the Stone and Metal
Ages in the territory of Latvia;
2005–2008: Man and culture in the environmental context in Latvian early prehistory
International projects:
Since 2011 – Stone Age habitation in the Lake Burtnieki region: Riņņukalns
settlement site. Cooperation agreement with the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian
Archaeology, Schleswig, Germany;
Since 2011 – Early Europeans (Neolithisation), cooperation with Johannes Gutenberg
University, Paleogenetics Group, Mainz, Germany;
Since 2010 – Target Area Pioneer Settlement in Northern Europe. Social organization
and regions in the Late Palaeolithic and Early Mesolithic Northern Europe
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2011, 2012 – bachelor’s papers (supervisor) on Stone Age themes at the Faculty of
History, University of Latvia
1987–1988 – teaching in bachelor’s programmes (Latvian Stone Age), Faculty of
History, University of Latvia
OTHER
Archaeological fieldwork
Since 1964 – participation in archaeological fieldwork, directing approximately 10
field projects (Salaspils Laukskola, Vilmaņi, Siliņupe, Ziedoņskola, Zvejnieki
archaeological complex, Kaulēnkalns, Riņņukalns etc.) Participation in and direction
of archaeological survey work
Participation in professional, non-governmental organizations:
Since 2009 – International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP),
commission “The Final Palaeolithic of Northern Eurasia”
Since 1998 – Latvian Association for Quaternary Research (LATQUA)
Since 1996 – European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)
Since 1994 – Latvian Association of Archaeologists
Scientific expert:
Since 2010 – ordinary expert from the Institute of Latvian History, Latvian Council
of Science
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• the glacial retreat and the earliest settlement of the territory of Latvia
• Mesolithic cultures and their environment in the East Baltic
• antler and bone artefact typology in the East Baltic Stone Age
• Stone Age burial traditions and their symbolic meaning in Northern Europe
• The history of research of the Stone Age of Latvia
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
The ancient reindeer hunters in Latvia – Riga, „Zinātne” Publishers, 2012, p. 206,
ISBN 978-9984-12-3 (in Latvian); contribution by M. Winiarska-Kabacinska,
Poznan;
Back to the Origin. New research in the Mesolithic–Neolithic Zvejnieki cemetery and
environment. Northern Latvia. – 2006. Lund, Acta Archaeologica Lundensia, Series
in 8° , no.52. Almqwist & Wiksel International, p. 338, Editors: L. Larsson and I.
Zagorska. Two articles in the volume by I.Zagorska “The history of the research on
the Zvejnieki site” (p. 5–24) and “Radiocarbon chronology of the Zvejnieki burials”
(p.91–114) (in English). Database: REFDOC
Apals, J., Atgāzis, M., Graudonis, J., Loze, I., Mugurevičs, E., Vasks, A., Zagorska,
I. “Latvijas senākā vēsture” [The Prehistory of Latvia]. Publishers of the Institute of
the History of Latvia, 2001, p.463 , ISBN 9984-601-51-X; (I.Zagorska – first two
chapters, pp. 22.–73)
ARTICLES (200 in total, 10 given here)
1. A first glimpse of the organisation of space in the Late Palaeolithic of Latvia –
In: Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls, 2012, 3, pp.5–21; Co-author –
M.Winiarska-Kabacinska. Publishers of the Institute of the History of Latvia
2. People and places in the Latvian Mesolithic: a case study from the Zvejnieki
archaeological complex. In: Mesolithic Horizons. Papers presented at the
Seventh International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, Belfast, 2005.
Oxford, Oakville, 2009, pp. 255–260
3. The use of ochre in Stone Age burials of the East Baltic. In: The materiality of
Death, bodies, burials, beliefs. Oxford, Arheopress, 2008, pp. 115–124 ; BAR
International series 1768, ed. F.Fahlander, T.Oestigaard; Database: US
Library of Congress
4. New radiocarbon dates of human and bird bones from Zvejnieki Stone Age
burial ground in Northern Latvia. In: Before farming, 2007/1, article 2;
Accessible:
http://www.waspjournals.com/journals/beforefarming/journal_2007,
1/abstracts/ index.php#200712). Co-authors: K.Mannermaa, H.Jungner,
G.Zariņa
5. The earliest antler and bone harpoons from the East Baltic. In: Archaeologica
Baltica, 7, Klaipeda, Klaipeda University Press, ed. V.Žulkus, 2006, pp. 178–
186; Database: EBSCO
6. History of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in the eastern Baltic region and its
implications for the origin and immigration routes of the recent northern
European wild reindeer populations. In: BOREAS, no. 35, 2006, pp. 222–230;
Co-authors: P.Ukkonen, L.Lõugas, L.Daugnora, E.Lukševics, L.Lukševiča,
H.Jungner.
Database: ERIH
7.
Stone Age hunter-fisher-gatherers at Zvejnieki, Northern Latvia: radiocarbon,
stable isotope and archeozoology data. In: Before farming, no.1, 2003, p.47–
67; Co-authors: G.Eriksson, L.Lõugas
8.
The tooth-pendant head dresses of Zvejnieki cemetery. In: Muinasaja Teadus
8, De temporibus antiqissimis ad honorem Lembit Jaanits. Tallinn, 2000, ed.
V.Lang, A.Kriiska, pp.223–244. Co-author L.Lõugas
9.
Sea mammal hunting strategy in the Eastern Baltic. In: Lietuvos Arheologija
19, Vilnius, 2000, pp. 275–285
10.
The Mesolithic in Latvia. In: Acta Archaeologica, Vol. 63–1992, Kobenhavn,
1993, pp. 97–117
REVIEWS
1. I.Zagorska “Sulgostowska Z. Kontakti społecznosci poznopaleolitycznych i
mezolitycznych miedzy Odra, Dzina i Górnym Dniestrem” (Warszawa, 2005).
In: Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls, 2006, nr.4, pp. 203–205 (in Latvian);
2. I.Zagorska “Ukkonen P. Shaped by the Ice Age. Reconstructing the History of
Mammals in Finland during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene
(Helsinki, 2001). In: Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls, 2003, nr.1, pp.181–
183; (in Latvian);
3. I.Zagorska “Preface” to L.Vankina L. The Collection of Stone Age Bone and
antler Artefacts from Lake Lubana. Riga, 1999, pp.5–6 (The Proceedings of
the Latvian History Museum, nr.4). (In Latvian);
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Mother tongue: Latvian;
Other languages: English, Russian, German (last: reading, writing);