R. Banytė-Rovell | A. Čivilytė | L. Gaižauskas | L. Kurila | L. Muradian | G. Piličiauskas | V. Podėnas | A. Simniškytė-Strimaitienė | R. Vengalis | E. Pranckėnaitė |

K. A. Bojarskaitė | V. Micelicaitė | I. Vengalė

Agnė Čivilytė, PhD Humanities Senior Researcher

Biographical data:

Born on May 20, 1972, in Vilnius. In 1990, she graduated from Vilnius Secondary School No. 23. In 1994, she completed undergraduate studies in archaeology at the Faculty of History of Vilnius University. From 1994 to 1997, she studied at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), specializing in European prehistory, Near Eastern archaeology, and Classical archaeology. She graduated with a master’s degree. Master’s thesis topic was “Jungbronzezeitliche Vollgriffschwerter (Periode V) in neuen Bundesländern und Polen” (Late Bronze Age swords in Eastern Germany and Poland). From 1998 to 2003, she pursued doctoral studies at the University of Heidelberg. In 2003, defended her dissertation “Bronzezeitliche Waffendeponierung im nördlichen Mitteleuropa: Ein Versuch der Deutung”(Deposition of Bronze Age weapons in northern Central Europe: an interpretive study) (supervisor Prof. Joseph Maran). Since January 2004, she has been working at the Archaeology Department of the Lithuanian Institute of History. For more than 20 years, she has worked in the field of research on prehistoric metallurgy in Europe. Funded by prestigious foreign foundations, she led international archaeological projects. One of her research projects was the first in Lithuania to win an EU grant competition (European Research Council Starting Grant/General Grant). She is also an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo (New York State, USA) and a professor at Klaipėda University. Teaching is her scientific engine, and teamwork—mentoring the new generation of scholars (supervising dissertations and postdoctoral studies)—inspires new ideas and the emergence of projects. From 2019 to 2024, she was the editor-in-chief of Lithuania’s first professional archaeological journal “Lietuvos archeologija”. Since 1991, she has actively participated in various archaeological expeditions in Lithuania, and in 2016–2018 had the opportunity to lead them herself. During her studies in Germany, she had the chance to excavate famous archaeological sites such as Göbekli Tepe (Turkey) and Tiryns (Greece). She also took part in an expedition in Georgia. She is an internationally active scholar: organize academic events, participate in conferences and congresses, she is a member of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) and the Society for American Archaeology (SAA). A. Čivilytė says, that for her, archaeology is above all a science about the human being—as an individual initiator of creativity, an inventor, and an active member of the community—who leaves traces that we study, attempting to understand the community’s actions, ways of life, mindsets, and behaviors.

Main research areas:

Bronze Age research, archaeometallurgy, social archaeology, cultural processes and formations; deposition, communication of prehistoric communities, environmental studies, sustainability, materials recycling, history of archaeology.

Contacts:

Email: agne.civilyte@istorija.lt

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8793-7255

Academia.edu: https://independent.academia.edu/AgneCivilyte

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Agne-Civilyte