I am an archaeologist interested in studying the influence of interactions – both between societies and between humans and their environments – on the development of early complexity in South America. In pursuing these interests, I have participated in projects in Peru, the U.S. Southwest, the Republic of Georgia, Slovakia, Serbia, and Germany and worked in labs learning geoarchaeological, biogeoarchaeological, and archaeological isotope techniques. My Master’s thesis investigated the utility of standard geoarchaeological measurements collected from archaeological profiles for answering archaeological questions of a transect of European tell settlements. I am also interested in the effect of modern political situations on interpretations of the past and making archaeological findings (and research) more accessible, inclusive, and relevant to local communities and the public.
2024 Martini, S.J., L.J. Espinoza Escobar, A. Lopez Corodva, & D. Nicolas Lorenzo. “El intermedio temprano y las relaciones sociales en el extremo norte de los andes centrales: informe preliminar de las excavaciones en Cerro La Plaza de Portachuelo de Culucán, provincia de Ayabaca” Arqueología y Sociedad 41: 43-80. https://doi.org/10.15381/arqueolsoc.2024n41.e28240.
2024 Hofmann, R., Furholt, M., Medović, I., Stanković Pešterac, T., Medović, A., Dreibrodt, S., Martini, S., Staniuk, R. & K. Furholt. “Strategy and Results of Ten Years Interdisciplinary Fieldworks at the Late Neolithic Multi-component and Multi-Period Settlement Borđoš.” In Project Borđoš – Ten Years of Research. Vol. I. T. Stanković Pešterac (ed). Novi Sad: Museum of Vojvodina Novi Sad & The Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University.
2022 Dreibrodt, S., R. Hofmann, M. Dal Corso, H-R. Bork, R. Duttmann, S. Martini, P. Saggau, L. Schwark, L. Shatilo, M. Videiko, M-J. Nadeau, P. Meiert Grootes, W. Kirleis, & J. Müller. “Earthworms, Darwin and prehistoric agriculture – Chernozem genesis reconsidered” Geoderma 409: 115607. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115607
2022 Schmidt, S.C., S. Martini, R. Staniuk, C. Quatrelivre, M. Hinz, O. Nakoinz, M. Bilger, G. Roth, J. Laabs & R.V. Plath. “Tutorial on Classification in Archaeology: Distance Matrices, Clustering Methods and Validation”. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6325372
2020 Dreibrodt, S., R. Hofmann, G. Sipos, L. Schwark, M. Videiko, L. Shatilo, S. Martini, P. Saggau, H-R. Bork, W. Kirleis, R. Duttmann, & J. Müller. “Holocene soil erosion in Eastern Europe-land use and/or climate controlled? The example of a catchment at the Giant Chalcolithic settlement at Maidanetske, central Ukraine” Geomorphology 367: 107302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107302
2019 Martini, S.J., B. Athanassov, M. Frangipane, K. Rassmann, P.W. Stockhammer, & S. Dreibrodt. “A budgeting approach for estimating matter fluxes in archaeosediments, a new method to infer site formation and settlement activity: Examples from a transect of multi-layered Bronze Age settlement mounds.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 26: 101916. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101916
2019 Hofmann, R., A. Medović, M. Furholt, I. Medović, T.S. Pešterac, S. Dreibrodt, S. Martini, & A. Hofmann. “Late Neolithic multicomponent sites of the Tisza region and the emergence of centripetal settlement layouts.” Prähistorische Zeitschrift 94(2): 351-378. https://doi.org/10.1515/pz-2019-0003
2016 Liebmann, M.J., J. Farella, C.I. Roos, A. Stack, S. Martini, & T.W. Swetnam. “Native American depopulation, reforestation, and fire regimes in the Southwest United States, 1492-1900 CE.” PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113(6): E696-E704. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1521744113
Contact Info
Subfield:
Archaeology
Adviser(s):
Richard Burger
Degree(s):
B.A. Anthropology, Harvard University, 2016;
M.A. Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität (Kiel, Germany), 2019