Degrees

Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis, 2014

M.A. Washington University in St. Louis, 2009

Paula N. Doumani Dupuy is an archaeologist of Inner Asian prehistory. Her research interests include the materiality of pastoralism, community interactions and mobility, technologies of ceramic and textile production, and the transfer of agricultural systems during the Bronze Age. These topics are addressed through her active fieldwork and international collaborations in eastern Kazakhstan’s steppe and mountain regions. She is Director of the Trans-Eurasian Exchanges: Contemporary Dialogues and Archaeological Inquiry Project (TEECA-II) and Co-director of the Dzhungar Mountains Archaeology Project (DMAP) in collaboration with the Institute of Archaeology in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Webpages

http://www.doumanidupuy.com

https://nu-kz.academia.edu/PaulaDoumaniDupuy

2021 Doumani Dupuy, P. Luneau, E. Rouse, L.M., 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

2021 Hermes, T.R., Doumani Dupuy, P.N., Meyer, M., Henry, E.R., Mar’yashev A.N., Frachetti, M.D., 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.

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

2021 Doumani Dupuy, P.N., Zhuniskhanov, A., Bullion, E., Kiyasbek, G.K., Tashmanbetova, Z., Rakhmankulov, E.Zh., Isin, A.I. 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.

2021 Samashev, Z., Aitkalu, A., Zhuniskhanov, A. Doumani Dupuy, P., Rakhmankulov, Ye., Kiyasbek, G.K. 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.

2020 Hermes, T.R., Frachetti, M.D., Voyakin, D., Yerlomaeva, 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. 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

2020 Doumani Dupuy, P., Zhuniskhanov, A.S., Bullion, E., Rakhmankulov, Ye., Kiyasbek, G.K. Tashmanbetova, Z., Isin, A.I., Merkle, A., Gymirova, O., 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.

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

2019 Hermes, T.R., Frachetti, M.D., Doumani Dupuy, P.N., Mar’yashev, A.N., Nebel, A., Makarewicz, C.A. Earliest genetic and isotopic evidence for integrated pastoralism and millet cultivation in Bronze Age Eurasia, Proceedings of the Royal Society B. DOI:10.1098/rspb.2019.1273

2019 Schmaus, T., Frachetti, M., Doumani Dupuy, P., Variability in Seasonal Mobility Patterns in Bronze and Iron Age Kazakhstan through Cementum Analysis, Quaternary International

2019 Doumani Dupuy, P.N., Frachetti, M., Hermes, T., Gumirova, O., Mar’yashev, A.N., Кремация, Сельское Хозяйство и ремесленное 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 Institute of Archaeology A.H. Margulan.

2019 Frachetti, M., Doumani Dupuy, P.N., Hermes, T., Mar’yashev, A.N., 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 Institute of Archaeology A.H. Margulan.

2019 Aitqaly, А.K., Zhuniskhanov, А.S., Doumani Dupuy, P.N., Isin, А.I.  Rakhmankulov, Ye. Курганы с «Усами» Восточного Казахстана. 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. 

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

2018 Jia, P.W., Betts, A., Doumani Dupuy, P., Cong. D., Jia. X. Bronze Age Hill Forts: New evidence for defensive sites in the western Tian Shan, China. Archaeological Research in Asia 15:70-81

2018 Doumani Dupuy P. N., Spengler III, R. N., Frachetti, M.D. Eurasian Textiles: Case Studies in exchange during the incipient and later phases of the Silk Roads, Quaternary International 468:228-239 

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

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

2017 Greene, A. F., Hartley, C. W., Doumani Dupuy, P. N., Chinander, M. The Digital Radiography of Archaeological Pottery: Programs and protocols for the analysis of production, Journal of Archaeological Science 78:120-133

2017 Doumani Dupuy, P. N. 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, pp.175-189. Brill Publishing

2016 Doumani Dupuy, P. N. Bronze Age Central Asia, Oxford Handbooks Online, ed. C. Riggs. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/97801999345413.013.15

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

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

2014 Spengler, R. N., Frachetti M. D., Doumani, P. N. Agriculture on the Piedmont of Eastern Central Eurasia: The Late Bronze Age at Tasbas, Kazakhstan.  Quaternary International 348:147-157

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

2010 Frachetti M., Benecke N., Doumani, P., Mar’yashev, A. Eurasian Pastoralists and their Shifting Regional Interactions at the Steppe Margin: Settlement History at Mukri, Kazakhstan, World Archaeology 42: 622-646

World Prehistory (ANT 140)

Life, Death and Economy: Archaeology of Central Asia (ANT 232)

Nomads Around the World and Through Time (ANT 286)

Archaeology of Power and Inequality (ANT 331)

Materiality and Eurasian Society (ANT 520)