Mia Lempiäinen-Avci
PhD
Biodiversity unit mialem@utu.fi +358 29 450 2114 +358 40 053 9279 : Herbarium |
Archaeology, Archaeobotany, Environmental history, Macrofossils, Cultivation history, Economic Plants, Barley, Rye, Middle Ages, Early Modern Period
I received my Master's degree in archaeology at University of Turku in 2008. I have worked as an archaeobotanist in the Archaeological museum at the University of Stavanger, Norway, during 2016-2019. I received my PhD in 2019. For the majority of my career I have worked as a grant researcher in research projects funded by various foundations and the Academy of Finland. My affiliations include the University of Turku (Department of Archaeology and Biodiversity unit), University of Stavanger and Niedersächsisches Institut für historische Küstenforschung. I am a post doc at Biodiversity unit at UTU. Currently I work as a Research coordinator at the Human Diversity consortium at UTU.
My research focuses especially on history of economic plants, cultivation, agriculture and biodiversity during Iron age and the Middle Ages from an archaeological and archaeobotanical point of view. Geographically my research covers Fennoscandia and Baltic regions. My research have included genetic studies of Finnish crop history, cultivation history of medieval rural villages, analyses of plants in graves, studies on diet and consumption from archaeological sites, analyses of wood species of medieval sculptures and coffins, waterlogged plant material from ship wrecks, and crime scene analysis.
I teach archaeobotany at the University of Turku for geology students. I supervise Master's theses and review them.
- New evidence of late Neolithic and early Metal Period agriculture in Turku, southwest Finland (2025)
- Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
- Millaista monimuotoisuutta kaupunkiluontoon kaivataan? (2024)
- Turun Sanomat
- Submerged Mesolithic plant remains reveal lush thermophilous woodland on remote isle off the SW-Norwegian coast (2024)
- Quaternary International
- Witte Swaen from 1636. The Discovery and Archaeological Survey of an Intact Fluit in the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea (2024)
- International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
- Artisans of the Stone Age: the utilisation of plant- and wood-based raw materials at the wetland site of Järvensuo 1 (2023)
- Antiquity
- Autolla Ruotsin muinaisuuteen ja Pohjoismaiden kaupunkiarkeologiaan - Nordic Urban Archaeology -konferenssi (NUA 2023) 10.–12.5.2023 (2023) Harjula Janne, Haggren Georg, Kinnunen Jussi, Lempiäinen-Avci Mia
- Herbarium TUR Celebrates Its 100 Years (2023)
- Taxon
- Archaeobotany - a tool to explore the past (2022) Oodeja Mikalle: Juhlakirja professori Mika Lavennolle hänen täyttäessään 60 vuotta Lempiäinen-Avci Mia
- Heinänsiemenkauppaa Lahden kylässä (2022) Raittikylästä kaupungiksi: Lahden kehitys ja elämänmuodon muutos keskiajalta 1900-luvun alkuun Lempiäinen-Avci Mia
- Juhakkalan talon kasvimaalla maapääronain eli potatesten viljelyä? (2022) Raittikylästä kaupungiksi: Lahden kehitys ja elämänmuodon muutos keskiajalta 1900-luvun alkuun Lempiäinen-Avci Mia
- Nurmimaamunat eli kuukuset – taikuuteen, lääkkeeksi tai ruuaksi (2022) Raittikylästä kaupungiksi: Lahden kehitys ja elämänmuodon muutos keskiajalta 1900-luvun alkuun Lempiäinen-Avci Mia, Huhtinen Seppo
- Underwater archaeobotany: plant and wood analyses from the Vrouw Maria, a 1771 shipwreck in the Finnish Baltic Sea (2022)
- Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
- A medieval latrine and a yard in Turku, Southwest Finland -- a multidisciplinary study of ecofacts (2021)
- Fennoscandia Archaeologica
- Archaeological and historical materials as a means to explore Finnish crop history (2020)
- Environmental Archaeology
- Ekskursio Novgorodiin 15.–19.10.2019 (2020)
- SKAS
- The life of wood in North-eastern Europe in AD 1100–1600 (2020)
- Antiquity
- Plant remains in archaeology : a multidisciplinary approach to cultivation,consumption, trade and migration of economic plants in Southern Finland AD 1000−1900 (2019) Lempiäinen-Avci Mia
- Koroisten vainajien viimeinen leposija mäntyarkussa (2018) Koroinen : Suomen ensimmäinen kirkollinen keskus Lempiäinen-Avci Mia
- Planted, designed and managed landscapes – A review of Finnish garden archaeology involved in garden history with an archaeobotanical view (2018) Landscapes of the past and future: Current Finnish Research in Landscape Archaeology Teija Alanko, Mia Lempiäinen-Avci
- Archaeobotanical analysis of radiocarbon-dated plant remains with special attention to Secale cereale (rye) cultivation at the medieval village of Mankby in Espoo (Finland) (2017)
- Vegetation History and Archaeobotany