Giedrė Keen (Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė), PhD Humanities

Senior Researcher

Research interests and specialisations:

Farming economy; reconstruction of ancient food; human nutrition, culinary heritage, sources of food production; beginning of food globalisation; domestication of plants and taming of animals; the first East-West contacts across the Eurasian steppe; Neolith-the Bronze Age in Ukraine, Lithuania, and Central Asia; reconstructions of the palaeo-environment, evolution of the Holocene landscape and human interaction with nature, human adaptation to natural conditions, human impact on nature, farming strategies.

Key publications:

Articles:

• Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G. Securing the Timeline of our Past: Concerns and Perspectives of Radiocarbon Dating in the east Baltic. Interarchaeologia, vol. 5, 2015, p. 227-243.
• Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G., Lightfoot E., O’Connell T. C., Voyakin D., Liu X., Loman V., Svyatko S., Usmanova E., Jones M. K. The extent of agriculture among pastoralist societies in Kazakhstan determined using stable isotope analysis of bone collagen during the Bronze Age-Turkic period. Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 59, 2015, p. 23-34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.03.029
• Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G., Preece R. C., Wang S., Colominas L., Ohnuma K., Kume S., Abdykanova A., Jones M. K. Ecology and subsistence at the Mesolithic and Bronze Age site of Aigyrzhal-2, Naryn Valley, Kyrgyzstan. Quaternary International, vol. 437, 2015, p. 35-49. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.06.065
• Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G., Telizhenko S., Lillie M. AMS radiocarbon dating from the Neolithic of Eastern Ukraine casts doubts on existing chronologies. Radiocarbon, vol. 57(4), 2015, p. 657-664. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2458/azu_rc.57.18438
• Salavert A., Messager E., Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute G., Lebreton V., Bayle G., Crépin L., Puaud S., Péan S., Yamada M., Yanevich A. First results of archaeobotanical analysis from Neolithic layers of Buran Kaya IV (Crimea Moutains, Ukraine). Environmental Archaeology, vol. 20(3), 2015, p. 274-282.
• Grikpedis M., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G. The beginnings of rye (Secale cereale) in the East Baltics. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 25, 2016, p. 601-610.
• Jones M. K., Hunt H., Kneale C., Lightfoot E., Lister D., Liu X., Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute G. Food globalisation in prehistory: The agrarian foundations of an interconnected continent. Journal of British Academy, vol. 4, 2016, p. 73-87. DOI: https://doi.org/5871/jba/004.073
• Liu X., Lister D. L., Zhijun Z., Staff R. A., Jones P., Zhou L., Pokharia A. K., Petrie C. A., Pathak A., Lu H., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G., Bates J., Pilgram T. K., Jones M. K. The virtues of small grain size: Potential pathways to a distinguishing feature of Asian wheats. Quaternary International, vol. 426, 2016, p. 107-119. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.02.059
• Liu X., Reid R. E. B., Lightfoot E., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G.; Jones M. K. Radical change and dietary conservatism: Mixing model estimates of human diets along the Inner Asia and China’s mountain corridors. Holocene, vol. 26(10), 2016, p. 1556-1565. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683616646842
• Мотузайте Матузевичуйте Г. Рацион питания населения Каратумы, определенный с помощью анализа костного коллагена. К. М. Байпаков, Д. А. Воякин, С. В. Захаров (eds.), Могильник Каратума. Некрополь раннего железного века в Семиречье. Приложение, vol. 3, 2016, p. 623-633.
• Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G., Kiryushin Y. F., Rakhimzhanova S. Zh., Svyatko S., Tishkin A. A., O’Connel T. Climate or dietary change? Stable isotope analysis of Neolithic-Bronze Age populations from the Upper Ob and Tobol River basins, Holocene, vol. 26(10), 2016, p. 1711-1721. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683616646843
• Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G., Logvin A., Shevnina I., Seitov A., Feng J., Zhou L. The first OSL dating results of the ancient geometric earthworks of Kazakhstan. Archaeological Research in Asia, vol. 7, 2016, p. 1-7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2015.12.001
• Grikpedis M., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G. A Review of the Earliest Evidence of Agriculture in Lithuania and the Earliest Direct AMS Date on Cereal. European Journal of Archaeology, vol. 21(2), 2017, p. 264-279.
• Liu X., Lister D., Zhao Z., Petrie C. A., Zeng X., Jones P. J., Staff R. A., Pokharia A. K., Bates J., Singh R. N., Weber S. A., Motuzaite Matuzeviute G., Dong G., Li H., Lü H., Jiang H., Wang J., Ma J., Tian D., Jin G., Zhou L., Wu X., Jones M. K. Journey to the east: wheat and barley took different pathways, and faced different environmental challenges, on the way to prehistoric China, PlosOne, vol. 12(11), 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/1371/journal.pone.0187405
• Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė G., Jonaitis R., Kaplūnaitė I. Ūkinio pastato, stovėjusio Civitas Rutenica kvartale, archeobotaniniai tyrimai: kitataučių kasdienybė Vilniaus miesto aplinkoje XIV a. pabaigoje – XV a. I pusėje. Lituanistica, vol. 63(4), 2017, p. 219-233. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6001/lituanistica.v63i4.3609
• Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G., Telizhenko S. First farmers of Ukraine: based on AMS dates of wheat grains from Ratniv-II site. Archeologia Lituana, vol. 17, 2017, p. 100-111. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15388/ArchLit.2016.17.10685
• Ananyevskaya E., Aytqaly A., Beisenov A., Dmitriev E., Garbaras A., Kukushkin I., Loman V., Sapolaite J., Usmanova E., Varfolomeev V., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G. Early indicators to C4 plant consumption in central Kazakhstan during the Final Bronze Age and Early Iron Age based on stable isotope analysis of human and animal bone collagen. Archaeological Research in Asia, vol. 15, 2018, p. 157-173. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2017.12.002
• Buitkutė E., Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė G. Medinio pastato Vilniaus Žemutinės pilies teritorijoje paskirtis ekofaktinių tyrimų duomenimis. Archeologija Lituana, vol. 19, 2018, p. 194-206. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15388/ArchLit.2018.19.11
• Liu X., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G., Hunt H. V. From a fertile idea to a fertile arc: the origins of broomcorn millet 15 years on. Lightfoot, X. Liu, D. Q. Fuller (eds.), Far from the Hearth. Essays in Honour of Martin K. Jones, 2018, p. 155-164.
• Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G. The Possible geographic margin effect on the delay of agriculture introduction into the East Baltics. Estonian Journal of Archaeology, vol. 22, 2018, p. 49-62. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3176/arch.2018.2.03
• Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G., Abdykanova A., Kume S., Nishiaki Y., Tabaldiev K. The effect of geographical margins on cereal grain size variation: Case study for highlands of Kyrgyzstan. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 20, 2018, p. 400-410. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.04.037
• Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė G., Rusteikytė A. Kaip archeologai rekonstruoja ką valgėme? D. Luchtanienė (eds.), Eksperimentinė archeologija. Lietuvos materialaus paveldo rekonstrukcija. II tomas.
• Tetereva D., Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė G., Blaževičius P. Žuvų žvynų analizė Vilniaus miesto archeologinės medžiagos pagrindu: rūšies, amžiaus bei dydžio nustatymas. Lietuvos archeologija, vol. 44, 2018, p. 173-194.
• Frantz L. A. F., Haile J., Lin A. T., Scheu A., Geörg C., Benecke N., Alexander M., Linderholm A., Mullin V. E., Daly K. G., Battista V. M., Price M., Gron K. J., Alexandri P., Arbogast R. M., Arbuckle B., Bӑlӑşescu A., Barnett R., Bartosiewicz L., Baryshnikov G., Bonsall C., Borić D., Boroneant A., Bulatović J., Çakirlar C., Carretero J. M., Chapman J., Church M., Crooijmans R., De Cupere B., Detry C., Dimitriejevic V., Dumitraşcu V., du Plessis L., Edwards C. J., Erek C. M., Erim-Özdoğan A., Ervynck A., Fulgione D., Gligor M., Götherström A., Gourichon L., Groenne M. A. M., Helmer D., Hongo H., Jorwitz L. K., Irving-Pease E. K., Lebrasseur O., Lesur J., Malone C., Manaseryan N., Marciniak A., Martlew H., Mashkour M., Matthews R., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G., Maziar S., Meijaard E., McGovern T., Megens H. J., Miller R., Mohaseb A. F., Orschiedt J., Orton D., Papathanasiou A., Parker Pearson M., Pinhasi R., Radmanović D., Ricaut F. X., Richards M., Sabin R., Sarti L., Schier W., Sheikhi S., Stephan E., Stewart J. R., Stoddart S., Tagliacozzo A., Tasić N., Trantalidou K., Tresset A., Valdiosera C., van den Hurk Y., Van Poucje S., Vigne J. D., Yanevich A., Zeeb-Lanz A., Triantafyllidis A., Gilbert M. T. P., Schibler J., Rowley-Conwy P., Zeder M., Peters J., Cucchi T., Bradley D. G., Dobney K., Burger J., Evin A., Girdland-Flink L., Larson G. Ancient pigs reveal a near-coplete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 116(35), 2019, p. 17231-17238. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1901169116
• Liu X., Jones P. J., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G., Hunt H. V., Lister D. L., An T., Przelomska N., Kneale C. J., Zhao Z., Jones M. K. From ecological opportunism to multi-cropping: Mapping food globalisation in prehistory. Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 206, 2019, p. 21-28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.12.017
• Stephens L., Fuller D., Boivin N., Rick T., Gauthier N., Kay A., Marwick B., Armstrong C. G., Barton C. M., Denham T., Douglass K., Driver J., Janz L., Roberts P., Rogers J. D., Thakar H., Altaweel M., Johnson A. L., Sampietro Vattuone M. M., Aldenderfer M., Archila S., Artioli G., Bale M. T., Beach T., Borrell F., Braje T., Buckland P. I., Jiménez Cano N. G., Capriles J. M., Diez Castillo A., Çilingiroğlu Ç., Negus Cleary M., Conolly J., Coutros P. R., Covey R. A., Cremaschi M., Crowther A., Der L., Di Lenia S., Doershuk J. F., Doolittle W. E., Edwards K. J., Erlandson J. M., Evans D., Fairbairn A., Faulkner P., Feinman G., Fernandes R., Fitzpatrick S. M., Fyfe R., Garcea E., Goldstein S., Goodman R. C., Guades J. D., Herrmann J., Hiscock P., Hommel P., Horsburgh K. A., Hritz C., Ives J. W., Junno A., Kahn J. G., Kaufman B., Kears C., Kidder T. R., Lanoë F., Lawrence D., Lee G. H., Levin M. J., Lindskoug H. B., López-Sáez J. A., Macrae S., Marchant R., Marston J. M., McClure S., McCoy M. D., Miller A. V. Morrison M., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G., Müller J., Nayak A., Noerwidi S.., Peres T. M., Peterson C. E., Proctor L., Randall A. R., Renette S., Robbins Schug G., Ryzewski K., Saini R., Scheinsohn V., Schmidt P., Sebillaud P., Seitsonen O., Simpson I. A., Sołtysiak A., Speakman R. J., Spengler R. N., Steffen M. I., Storozum M. J., Strickland K. M., Thompson J., Thurston T. L., Ulm S., Ustunkaya M., C., Welker M. H., West C., Williams P. R., Wright D. K., Wright N., Zahir M., Zerboni A., Beaudoin E., Garcia S. M., Powell J., Thornton A., Kaplan J. O., Gaillard M. J., Goldewijk K. K., Ellis E. Archaeological assesment reveals Earth’s early transformation though land use. Science, vol. 365(6456), 2019, p. 897-902. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax1192
• Grikpėdis M., Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė G. From barley to buckwheat: Plants cultivated in the Eastern Baltic region until the 13th-14th century AD. S. Vanhanen & P. Lagerås (eds.), Archaeobotanical studies of past plant cultivation in northern Europe. Advances in Archaeobotany, vol. 5, 2020, p. 155-170. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv19qmf01.14
• Hermes T. R., Frachetti M. D.; Voyakin D., YerlomaevaA. S., BeisenovA. Z., Doumani-Dupuy P. N., Papin D. V., Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute G., Bayarsaikhan J., Houle J. L., 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. PlosOne, vol. 15(5), 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233333
• Luneu E., Martinez Ferreras V., Abdykanova A., Tabaldiev K., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G. The First Combined Archaeological and Archaeometric Analyses on Bronze Age Pottery from Kyrgyzstan (Uch Kurbu site). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 31, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102302
• Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė Keen G. 2020. The adoption of agriculture: archaeobotanical studies and the earliest evidence for domesticated plants. M. C. Lillie, I. D. Potekhina, (eds.), The prehistoric Ukraine. From the first hunter to the fist farmers, 2020, p. 309-325.
• Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G., Hermes R. H., Mir-Makhamad B., Tabaldiev K. A package of southwest Asian grain crops facilitated high-elevation agriculture in the central Tien Shan during the mid-third millennium BCE. PlosOne, vol. 15(5), 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229372
• Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė Keen G., Rusteikytė A., Minkevičius K., Žėkaitė M., Tamulynas L. From Bronze age hillfort to capital city. New radiocarbon dates and the first archaeobotanical investigation at the Vilnius Castle Hill. Acta Archaeologia, vol. 91(2), 2020, p. 47-60.
• Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G., Tabaldiev K., Hermes T., Ananyevskaya E., Grikpedis M., Luneau E., Merkyte I., Rouse L. High-Altitude Agro-Pastoralism in the Kyrgyz Tien Shan: New Excavations of the Chap Farmstead (1065–825 CAL B.C.). Journal of Field Archaeology, vol. 45(1), 2020, p. 29-45. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2019.1672128
• Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G., Liu X. Prehistoric Agriculture in China: crop domestication and dispersal. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389414.013.168
• Spengler R. N., Ventresca Miller A., Schmaus T., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G., Miller B., Wilkin S., Taylor W., Li Y., Haruda A., Roberts P., Boivin N. An Imagined Past? Nomadic Narratives in Central Eurasian Archaeology. Current Anthropology, vol. 62 (93), 2021, p. 251-286. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/714245
• Doumani Dupuy N., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G. A Wooly Way? 3000-Year-Old Textiles along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 10, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.1070775
• Indrulėnaitė-Šimanauskienė V., Girlevičius L., Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė G. Rusų gatvės 5 Vilniuje gyventojų mityba ir paleoaplinka (XVI-XVIII amžiais) archeobotaninių tyrimų bei istorinių šaltinių duomenimis. Archaeologia Lituana, vol. 23, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15388/ArchLit.2022.23.13
• Spate M., Leipe C., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G. Reviewing the Palaeoenvironmental Record to Better Understand Long-Term Human-Environment Interaction in Inner Asia During the Late Holocene. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 10, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.939374
• Karaliūtė R., Žvirblys A., Ananyevskaya E., Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė G. The dietary stories of one household: multiproxy study of food remains at Dominikonų St. 11 in Vilnius between AD 15-18th. Journal of Danish Archaeology, vol. 12(1), 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/dja.v12i1.133624

• Brindzaitė R., Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė G., Jonaitis R., Kaplūnaitė I., Rudinska A., Jakaitienė A., Jankauskas R. Dietary tendencies between social and religious groups in Vilnius during the 13th–18th centuries. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology vol. 35, 2025, p. 326–340. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.70028

• Karaliūtė R., Buržinskas Ž., Ananyevskaya E., Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė G. Agroekonomika XIII–XIV a. ankstyvuosiuose miestuose pietryčių Lietuvoje: Merkinės pavyzdys. Archaeologia Lithuana, T. 26, 2025, p. 56-75.

• Spate M., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G., Tabaldiv K. Dust storms or landslides? Investigating drivers of settlement, abandonment and landscape change at a Bronze Age farming site in Kyrgyzstan. Quaternary International, vol. 30, 2025, p. 109803. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109803

Contacts:

Email: giedre.motuzaite@gmail.com; giedre.keen@if.vu.lt

ORCID: 0000-0001-9069-1551

Frontiers: 1152808

ResearchGate: Giedre-Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute

Scopus: 25225888900