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Yuri Demydenko

Berehove/Kyiv

Forschungsprojekt

Social and instrumental practices of the Ice Age. Spatio-temporal patterns of tool-making and tool-use during the Last Glacial Maximum and their implications for knowledge transfer and agency in small-world societies

Stone tools are the best-preserved remains of practices of Ice Age peoples and an important proxy for inferring knowledge transfer and agency. The practice of tool-making and tool-use is an integral part of Paleolithic mundane daily life. It is embedded in larger bundles of compound practices with a characteristically pronounced spatio-temporal distribution. Identifying patterns of compound practices and idiosyncrasies and comparing them through time and space allows inferences about production, persistence, and transfer of knowledge as well as the agency of stone-tool practitioners. This project will focus on the Last Glacial Maximum, i.e. the time 25.000 to 19.000 years ago. At the beginning of this period, two communities, presumably without contact over the course of 1500 years, can be observed in Western and Eastern Europe with fundamentally different ecological preferences as well as instrumental and social practices. Later, the practices connected to the demographically much smaller community in Eastern Europe become dominant also in the Western European community. The proposed project aims at a better understanding of this puzzling and to date poorly understood process.

Yuri Demydenko

Vita

Yuri E. Demydenko studierte Archäologie und Geschichte an der Staatlichen Universität Kiew (1979–1984). Anschließend arbeitete er am Archäologischen Museum Kiew, am Zoologischen und später am Archäologischen Institut der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften der Ukraine (1983–1995), und verteidigte 1990 am Institut für Geschichte, Philologie und Philosophie der Sibirischen Abteilung der Akademie der Wissenschaften der UdSSR (Nowosibirsk, Russland, UdSSR) seine Doktorarbeit zum Thema „Die Anfangsphase des Jungpaläolithikums in der Karpaten-Balkan-Region”. Von 1995 bis 2014 arbeitete Demydenko in der Krim-Abteilung des Archäologischen Instituts der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften der Ukraine (Simferopol, Krim, Ukraine). Als Russland die Krim besetzte, verließ Demydenko die Krim und arbeitete anschließend in Kiew am Archäologischen Institut der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften der Ukraine (2014–2022). Seit 2018 ist er am Ferenc-Rakoczi-II-Hochschulkolleg für Transkarpatien (Berehove, Transkarpatien) tätig.

Forschungsschwerpunkt
  • Paläolitische Archäologie in der Ukraine, Russland, Polen, Jordanien und Tschechien
Publikationen (Auswahl)

Buchpublikationen

  • V.P. Chabai, Yu.E. Demidenko & A.I. Yevtushenko. 2000. Paleolithic of the Crimea: methods of investigations and conceptual approaches. Simferopol – Kyiv.
  • Yu.E. Demidenko (ed.). 2004. Buran-Kaya III rock-shelter, layer B – the etalon find complex for Kiik-Koba type industry of Crimean Micoquian Tradition. Complex analysis of flint artifacts. Simferopol – Kyiv.
  • Yu.E. Demidenko, M. Otte & P. Noiret (eds.). 2012. Siuren I rock-shelter. From Late Middle Paleolithic and Early Upper Paleolithic to Epi-Paleolithic in Crimea. Liege.
  • Yu.E. Demidenko & Th. Uthmeier. 2013. Kiik-Koba groto, Crimea (Ukraine). Re-analysis of a key site of the Crimean Micoquian. Kölner studien zur Prähistorischen archäologie Band 3. Cologne.

Artikel

  • Demidenko, Yu.E., Škrdla, P. 2023. Lincombian Ranisian Jerzmanowician Industry and South Moravian Sites: a Homo sapiens Late Initial Upper Paleolithic with Bohunician Industrial Generic Roots in Europe // Journal of Palaeolithic Archaeology 6:17.
  • Demidenko, Yu.E., Škrdla, P., Beres, S., Racz, B., Nemergut, A. 2022 (published in February 2023) The Middle Aurignacian in the Carpathian Basin of Eastern Central Europe // Slovenska Archeologia LXX (2): 189-255.
  • Demidenko, Yu.E., Škrdla, P., Rácz, B., Nemergut, A., Béres, S. 2021. Aurignacian in the Carpathian Basin of Eastern Central Europe and its Proto-Aurignacian industry type. Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice (serie nouă) suppl. I: 141-182.
  • Demidenko, Yu.E. 2021. South of Eastern Europe and Upper Paleolithic diversity around the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary International 581-582: 290–295.
  • Demidenko, Yu.E., Rácz, B., Nemergut, A. 2020. Proto-Aurignacian unique site cluster in Europe: logistic settlement pattern with a base camp and a series of supply chain loci at raw material outcrops in Transcarpathia (Ukraine). Slovenská archeológia  LXVIII-2: 193-218.
  • Demidenko, Yu.E., Škrdla, P, Rios-Garaizar, J. 2019. In between Gravettian and Epigravettian in Central and Eastern Europe: a peculiar LGM Early Late Upper Paleolithic industry. Přehled výzkumů, 60-1: 11-42.

Auerbach Lecture

Kontakt

Prof. Yuri E. Demydenko
Paläolithische Archäologie
Ferenc Rakoczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education, Berehove

Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies
Aufenthalt: 01.12.2025–31.01.2026
​​​​​​​E-Mail: yu.e.demidenko(at)gmail(dot)com