Dr. Marta Andriiovych

Marta Andriiovych studied archaeology and world history at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where she obtained her BA (2014) and MA (2016) in archaeology. Between 2014 and 2017, she participated in the Network in Eastern European Neolithic and Wetland Archaeology (NEENAWA) project. In 2018, she began her PhD research at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bern, supported by a Swiss Excellence Scholarship.

Her doctoral project focused on the cultural context of ceramics from Neolithic Mariupol-type cemeteries, and she received her PhD in 2022. She subsequently conducted postdoctoral research within the MOVE project The Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Meaning of Ornamented Pottery from Late Neolithic Wetland Sites of the Northern Alpine Foreland. Since 2023, she has been affiliated with the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, where she has carried out research funded by an SNSF Postdoc.Mobility grant for the project Off the Beaten Track: The Significance of the Black Sea Regions for European Neolithization. Since May 2026, she has continued this project at the Laboratory of Prehistoric Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Geneva.