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Elena Marinova is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany and has a research focus primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Archeology, Anthropology, and Ecology.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Aeolian processes and effects

Elena Marinova has contributed to frequent publication venues such as:

  • Grana
  • Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
  • Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Earth system science data
  • PLoS ONE

Recent publications cover a variety of subjects in environmental and archaeological research:

  • New AMS 14C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2, 2020, Earth system science data
  • Mashes to Mashes, Crust to Crust. Presenting a novel microstructural marker for malting in the archaeological record, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Middle Bronze Age land use practices in the northwestern Alpine foreland - a multi-proxy study of colluvial deposits, archaeological features and peat bogs, 2021, SOIL

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative research efforts include:

  • Manfred Rösch
  • Elske Fischer
  • Oliver Nelle
  • Ivanka Hristova
  • Spassimir Tonkov

Elena Marinova's publications reflect interdisciplinary approaches combining aspects of archeology, paleoclimatology, and ecology to address questions related to ancient environmental changes and human interactions with ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • Crop manuring and intensive land management by Europe’s first farmers

    Amy Bogaard;Rebecca Fraser;Tim H.E. Heaton;Michael Wallace

  • Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes

    A.L. Daniau;P.J. Bartlein;S.P. Harrison;S.P. Harrison;I.C. Prentice;I.C. Prentice;I.C. Prentice

  • Climate Variability and Associated Vegetation Response throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) between 60 and 8 ka

    A. Feurdean;A. Perşoiu;I. Tanţău;T. Stevens

  • A comparison of early Neolithic crop and weed assemblages from the Linearbandkeramik and the Bulgarian Neolithic cultures: differences and similarities

    Angela Kreuz;Elena Marinova;Eva Schäfer;Julian Wiethold

  • 12,000-Years of fire regime drivers in the lowlands of Transylvania (Central-Eastern Europe): a data-model approach

    A. Feurdean;J. Liakka;B. Vannière;E. Marinova

  • New AMS 14C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe.

    Dragana Filipović;John Meadows;Marta Dal Corso;Wiebke Kirleis

  • Origin of the forest steppe and exceptional grassland diversity in Transylvania (central-eastern Europe)

    Angelica Feurdean;Elena Marinova;Anne Birgitte Nielsen;Johan Liakka

  • Pioneer farming in southeast Europe during the early sixth millennium BC: Climate-related adaptations in the exploitation of plants and animals

    Maria Ivanova;Bea De Cupere;Jonathan Ethier;Elena Marinova;Elena Marinova

  • Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe

    Angelica Feurdean;Angelica Feurdean;Boris Vannière;Walter Finsinger;Dan Warren

  • Holocene anthropogenic landscapes in the Balkans: the palaeobotanical evidence from southwestern Bulgaria

    Elena Marinova;Spassimir Tonkov;Elissaveta Bozilova;Ivan Vajsov

  • Prehistoric cereal foods from Greece and Bulgaria: investigation of starch microstructure in experimental and archaeological charred remains

    Soultana-Maria Valamoti;Delwen Samuel;Mustafa Bayram;Elena Marinova

  • Anthropogenic impact on vegetation and environment during the Bronze Age in the area of Lake Durankulak, NE Bulgaria: Pollen, microscopic charcoal, non-pollen palynomorphs and plant macrofossils

    Elena Marinova;Juliana Atanassova

  • The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2

    Basil A. S. Davis;Manuel Chevalier;Philipp Sommer;Vachel A. Carter

  • Species identification of archaeological dung remains: a critical review of potential methods.

    Veerle Linseele;Heiko Riemer;Jan Baeten;Dirk De Vos

  • The rapid spread of early farming from the Aegean into the Balkans via the Sub-Mediterranean-Aegean Vegetation Zone

    Raiko Krauß;Elena Marinova;Hanne De Brue;Bernhard Weninger

  • Biodiversity variability across elevations in the Carpathians: Parallel change with landscape openness and land use:

    Angelica Feurdean;Angelica Feurdean;Catherine L Parr;Ioan Tanţău;Sorina Fărcaş

  • Archaeobotanical data from the early Neolithic of Bulgaria

    Elena Marinova

  • Pollen and plant macrofossil analyses of radiocarbon dated mid-Holocene profiles from two subalpine lakes in the Rila Mountains, Bulgaria

    Spassimir Tonkov;Elena Marinova

  • Sites with Holocene dung deposits in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: visited by herders?

    V. Linseele;E. Marinova;W. Van Neer;W. Van Neer;P.M. Vermeersch

  • An Industrial Site at al-Shaykh Said/Wadi Zabayda

    H. Willems;S. Vereecken;L. Kuijper;B. Vanthuyne

  • State of the (t)art. Analytical approaches in the investigation of components and production traits of archaeological bread-like objects, applied to two finds from the Neolithic lakeshore settlement Parkhaus Opéra (Zürich, Switzerland).

    Andreas G. Heiss;Ferran Antolín;Niels Bleicher;Christian Harb

  • Faecal biomarker and archaeobotanical analyses of sediments from a public latrine shed new light on ruralisation in Sagalassos, Turkey

    Jan Baeten;Elena Marinova;Véronique De Laet;Patrick Degryse

Frequent Co-Authors

Angelica Feurdean
Angelica Feurdean Goethe University Frankfurt
Sandy P. Harrison
Sandy P. Harrison University of Reading
Dirk De Vos
Dirk De Vos KU Leuven
Thomas Hickler
Thomas Hickler Goethe University Frankfurt
Walter Finsinger
Walter Finsinger University of Montpellier
Boris Vannière
Boris Vannière Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Suzanne A.G. Leroy
Suzanne A.G. Leroy University of Liverpool
David Kaniewski
David Kaniewski Paul Sabatier University
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter

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