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Paula

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Doumani

Dupuy

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Paula

N 

Doumani

Dupuy

Fingerprints in ancient pots and idiosyncrasies across old tattered textiles remind us that the people we write about in scientific papers shared stories and built memories within their society too.

Bio

I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, where I’ve worked since 2016. I was awarded my PhD in Anthropology in 2014 from Washington University in St Louis and have been engaged in the archaeology of central Eurasian prehistoric pastoralism since 2005.

The study of ancient material culture and operating excavations in Kazakhstan’s steppe and mountain regions occupy my main research. My interests include the materiality of agro-pastoralism, community interactions and mobility underlying craft production, and the transfer of technologies/materials during the Bronze Age. This research is carried out alongside many team members jointly investigating how Bronze Age (approximately 5500-3000 BP) nomadic populations were incorporated into, and crucial, to the establishment of trans-regional webs of exchange and technology transfer thousands of years before the historic Silk Roads.

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Publications


Publications


Publications

English language publications

Endo, E.; Shoda, S*.; Frachetti, M.; Kaliyeva, Z.; Kiyasbek, G.; Zhuniskhanov, A.; Liu, X.; Doumani Dupuy, P.D.*(2023) Pottery Impressions Reveal EarlierWestward Dispersal of Foxtail Millet in Inner Asian Mountain Corridor. Agronomy, 13, 1706. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13071706

Doumani Dupuy, P. N., Kubatbek, T., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, G.A. (2023) A Wooly Way? Fiber technologies and cultures 3,000-Years-Ago along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: Paleoecology (SpecialIssue: Effects of Novel Environments on Domesticated Species) January 6th. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.1070775

Sasaki, Y., Rakhimzhanova, S., Onggar, A., Kairmagambetov,A., Endo, E., Doumani Dupuy, P., Makulbekova, M., Spengler, R., Shoda, S. (2022) Отпечатки проса на керамике раннего железного века из кургана Тортоба в Западном Казахстане [Broomcorn Millet Impressions on Early Iron Age Ceramics from Тоrtoba Burial Mound in Western Kazakhstan] Archaeology of Kazakhstan 4(8)116-132. https://doi.org/10.52967/akz2022.4.18.116.132

Rouse, L. Doumani Dupuy, P.N., Brite. E. (2022) The Agro-pastoralism debate in Central Eurasia: Arguments in favor of a nuanced perspective on socio-economy in archaeological context. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 67:101438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101438

Doumani Dupuy, P., Collins, N., Bekenova, K. (2022) Heritage, Law, and Communities: BRI and Archaeological Impact in Kazakhstan. The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice Volume 3, Issue 3. https://doi.org/10.1080/17567505.2022.2068256

Doumani Dupuy, P. N. (2021) The unexpected ancestry of Inner Asian mummies. News and Views, Nature 599: 204-206  https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02872-1

Doumani Dupuy, P. Luneau, E. Rouse, L.M. (2021) Pluralising Power: Ceramics and social differentiation in Bronze Age Central Eurasia. World Archaeology (online publication date: December 16, 2021)  https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2021.1993987

Hermes, T.R., Doumani Dupuy, P.N., Henry, E.R., Meyer, M., Mar’yashev A.N., Frachetti, M.D. (2021) Early Bronze Age settlement at “Dali”, Kazakhstan, and the roots of institutional participation along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor. Asian Perspectives 60(2):345-381. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/837993

Doumani Dupuy, P.N., Zhuniskhanov, A., Bullion, E., Kiyasbek, G.K., Tashmanbetova, Z., Rakhmankulov, E.Zh., Isin, A.I. (2021) The newly discovered bronze age site of Koken: Merging micro-regions with major study zones in the high steppes of Kazakhstan. Archaeological Research in Asia 27:1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2021.100292

Hermes, T.R., Frachetti, M.D., Voyakin, D., Yermolaeva, A.S., Beisenov, A., Doumani Dupuy, P.N., Papin, D.V., Motuzaite-Matuzeviciutei, G., Bayarsaikhan, J.,  Houle, J., Tishkin, A.A., Nebel, A., Krause-Kyora, B., Makarewicz, C.A. (2020) High mitochondrial diversity of domesticated goats persisted among Bronze and Iron Age pastoralists in the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor, PLOS ONE 15(5): e0233333. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233333

Doumani Dupuy, P., Jia, P.W., Betts, A., Cong. D. (2019) Pots and Potters of the Bronze Age of north-west Xinjiang, Antiquity 93(371):1231-1248 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.136

Hermes, T.R., Frachetti, M.D., Doumani Dupuy, P.N., Mar’yashev, A.N., Nebel, A., Makarewicz, C.A. (2019) Early integration of pastoralism and millet cultivation in Bronze Age Eurasia, Proceedings of the Royal Society B. B 286: 20191273. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1273

Schmaus, T., Frachetti, M., Doumani Dupuy, P. (2019) Variability in Seasonal Mobility Patterns in Bronze and Iron Age Kazakhstan through Cementum Analysis, Quaternary International http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.04.018

Jia, P.W., Betts, A., Doumani Dupuy, P., Cong. D., Jia. X. (2018) Bronze Age Hill Forts: New evidence for defensive sites in the western Tian Shan, China. Archaeological Research in Asia 15:70-81https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2017.10.005

Doumani Dupuy P. N., Spengler III, R. N., Frachetti, M.D. (2018) Eurasian Textiles: Case Studies in exchange during the incipient and later Silk Road periods, Quaternary International https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.09.067

Doumani Dupuy, P.N., Rakhmankulov, E., (2018) Bronze Age Ceramics of the Koken Cemetery (Sary-Arka Region, Kazakhstan). Altai Archaeology (Алтай түркі әлемінің алтын бесігі). Ust-Kamenogorsk:Department of Culture, Archives and Documentation, pp.123-26.

Jia, P.W., Betts, A., Cong. D., Jia. X., Doumani Dupuy, P. (2017) Adunqiaolu: New evidence for the Andronovo in Xinjiang, China, Antiquity 91(357): 621-639 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2017.67

Greene, A. F., Hartley, C. W., Doumani Dupuy, P. N., Chinander, M. (2017) The Digital Radiography of Archaeological Pottery: Programs and Protocols for the Analysis of Production, Journal of Archaeological Science 78:120-133 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.11.007

Doumani Dupuy, P. N. (2017), Bronze Age Pottery Technology on the Kazakh Steppe Fringe, In A. T. Smith, L. Khatchadourian and E. Hite (Eds.) Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics, Fourth Eurasian Archaeology Conference Volume. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

Doumani Dupuy, P. N. (2016) Bronze Age Central Asia, Oxford Handbooks Online, ed. C. Riggs. New York: Oxford University Press.

Doumani, P. N., Frachetti, M. D., Beardmore, R., Schmaus, T., Spengler, R. N., Mar’yashev, A. (2015)  Burial Ritual, Agriculture, and Craft Production among Bronze Age Pastoralists at Tasbas (Kazakhstan), Archaeological Research in Asia 1-2:17-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2015.01.001

Spengler, R., Frachetti, M., Doumani, P., Rouse, L., Cerasetti, B., Bullion, E., Mar’yashev, A. (2014) Early agriculture and crop transmission among Bronze Age mobile pastoralists of Central Eurasia, Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 281: 20133382. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.3382

Spengler, R. N., Frachetti M. D., Doumani, P. N. (2014) Agriculture on the Piedmont of Eastern Central Eurasia: The Late Bronze Age at Tasbas, Kazakhstan.  Quaternary International 348:147-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.03.039

Doumani, P. N., Frachetti, M. D. (2012) Bronze Age Textile Evidence in Ceramic Impressions: Weaving and Pottery Technology among Mobile Pastoralists of Central Eurasia, Antiquity 86 (332): 368-382 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00062827

Frachetti M. D., Benecke N., Doumani, P. N., Mar’yashev, A. N. (2010) Eurasian Pastoralists and their Shifting Regional Interactions at the Steppe Margin: Settlement History at Mukri, Kazakhstan, World Archaeology 42(4): 622-646 https://doi.org/10.1080/00438240903371270

Russian language publications

 

Paula N. Doumani Dupuy, Zhuldyz Tashmanbetova, Galymzhan Kiyasbek, Victor Merts, Reed Coil, Aidyn Zhuniskhanov, Zainolla Samashev. (2023) The earliest human burial in Kazakhstan: Neolithic findings from the Koken settlement [Самое древнее захоронение человека в Казахстане: по неолитическим находкам поселения Кокен] Kazakhstan Archaeology [Археология Казахстана] 3(21):164-186. https://doi.org/10.52967/akz2023.3.21.164.186

Samashev, Z., Aitkalu, A., Zhuniskhanov, A. Doumani Dupuy, P., Rakhmankulov, Ye., Kiyasbek, G.K (2021) Предварительные результаты исследования памятников эпохи бронзы горного массива Кокентау в 2020 г. Proceedings of International Scientific Conference Ancient and Medieval Archaeology of Central Asia: Continuity and transformation of cultures dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of Omarov Gani Kalikhanuly. Kazakhstan, Almaty, 5 June 2021, p.47-62.

Doumani Dupuy, P., Zhuniskhanov, A.S., Bullion, E., Rakhmankulov, Ye., Kiyasbek, G.K. Tashmanbetova, Z., Isin, A.I., Merkle, A., Gymirova, O. (2020) Aрхеологические исследования памятника Кокен (восточный Казахстан): предварительные результаты. Маргулановские Чтения, Материалы Международной археологической научно практической конференции, посвященной 96 летию со дня рождения выдающегося казахстанского археолога К.А. Акишева. Almaty. 15-17 April 2020, P. 68-81.

Aitqaly, А.K., Zhuniskhanov, А.S., Doumani Dupuy, P.N., Isin, А.I.  Rakhmankulov, Ye. (2019) Курганы с «Усами» Восточного Казахстана (About Barrows with Stone Moustaches). In B. V. Bazarov, N. N. Kradin (Eds.) Nomadic Empires of Eurasia in Archaeological and Interdisciplinary Studies IV, International Congress of Medieval Archeology of the Eurasian Steppes, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Russian academic archeology, Vol 1:82-87. Ulan-Ude Publishing House of BSC SB RAS. 

Doumani Dupuy, P.N., Frachetti, M., Hermes, T., Gumirova, O., Mar’yashev, A.N. (2019) Кремация, Сельское Хозяйство иремесленное производство на поселение бронзового века Тасбас (Семиречье) History and Archaeology of Semirech’ye 6:85-100. Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan National Institute of Archaeology A.H. Margulan.

 Frachetti, M., Doumani Dupuy, P.N., Hermes, T., Mar’yashev, A.N. (2019) Поселения горной части Семиречья и вопросы экологии и хозяйства в Бронзовом Веке. History and Archaeology of Semirech’ye 6:31-38. Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan National Institute of Archaeology A.H. Margulan.

 Aitqaly, A.K., Zhuniskhanov, A.S., Doumani Dupuy, P.N., Isin, A.I., Rakhmankulov, Ye., Kurmangaliev, A.K. (2019) Новые Данные o Курганах c «Усами» Восточного Казахстана (New materials about barrows with stone ridges of East Kazakhstan). Маргулановские Чтения,  Материалы Международной археологической научно практической конференции, посвященной 95 летию со дня рождения выдающегося казахстанского археолога К.А. Акишева.Nur-Sultan.

Frachetti, M., Mar’yashev, A.N., Doumani Dupuy, P.N. (2018) Поселения Горной Части Семиречья И Вопросы Экологии и Хозяйства в Бронзовом Веке. Международную научно-практическую конференцию, Маргулановские чтения, Сборник материалов международной научно практической конференции Маргулановские чтения - 2018. Духовная модернизация и археологическое наследие. Almaty, Aktobe.