Teija
Alenius
Docent, School of History, Culture and Arts Studies
PhD
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Areas of expertise
Palaeoecology
land cover reconstruction
environmental change
cultural landscape development
environmental archaeology
natural archives
lake sediments
peat deposits
soil samples
stratigraphy
pollen analysis
charcoal analysis
non-pollen palynomorphs
sedimentology
paleoenvironment
Biography
I have a PhD from 2007 in geology and paleontology and I am a docent in palaeoecology since 2009. Currently, I am working as a Collegium Researcher at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (Department of Archaeology). I work within several projects on environmental vegetation history over long time perspective. I am working in side by side with archaeologists in order to achieve a more holistic understanding of past human lifeways and people-environmental interactions
Publications
Human-environment interaction during the Holocene along the shoreline of the Ancient Lake Ladoga: A case study based on palaeoecological and archaeological material from the Karelian Isthmus, Russia (2020)
Holocene
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The environment they lived in: anthropogenic changes in local and regional vegetation composition in eastern Fennoscandia during the Neolithic (2020)
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Neolithic land use in the northern Boreal zone: high-resolution multiproxy analyses from Lake Huhdasjarvi, south-eastern Finland (2017)
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Landscape dynamics in southern Finland during the Iron Age and the Early Modern Era - Pollen-based landscape reconstruction (LRA), macrofossil and historical data from Western Uusimaa (2017)
Journal of archaeological science : reports
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Quantifying the effects of land use and climate on Holocene vegetation in Europe (2017)
Quaternary Science Reviews
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Archaeobotanical remains from inhumation graves in Finland, with special emphasis on a 16th century grave at Kappelinmäki, Lappeenranta (2017)
Journal of archaeological science : reports
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Event reconstruction through Bayesian chronology: Massive mid-Holocene lake burst triggered large-scale ecological and cultural change (2014)
Holocene
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The history of settlement on the coastal mainland in Southern Finland. Palaeoecological, archaeological, and etymological evidence from Lohjansaari Island, Western Uusimaa, Finland (2014)
Journal of Archaeological Science
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Holocene changes in vegetation composition in northern Europe: why quantitative pollen-based vegetation reconstruction matter (2014)
Quaternary Science Reviews
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Pollen analysis as a tool for reconstructing Viking Age landscapes. (2014)
Studia fennica historica
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))