{"id":10711,"date":"2020-08-26T20:27:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T00:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=10711"},"modified":"2024-09-18T10:18:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T14:18:45","slug":"peter-kovacik","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/profile\/peter-kovacik\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Kov\u00e1\u010dik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matriculated September 2018<\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<p><span>Environmental archaeology; archaeobotany; dendroanthracology; political ecology; legacy data; Archaeology of the American Southwest and Great Basin; Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean; paleoenvironmental reconstruction<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Academic Accounts<\/h3>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">ResearchGate:<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Peter-Kovacik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" id=\"LPNoLPOWALinkPreview\" data-linkindex=\"0\" data-ogsc=\"\">https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Peter-Kovacik<\/a><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">Academia:<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bu.academia.edu\/PeterKov%C3%A1%C4%8Dik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" id=\"LPNoLPOWALinkPreview_1\" data-linkindex=\"1\" data-ogsc=\"\">https:\/\/bu.academia.edu\/PeterKov%C3%A1%C4%8Dik<\/a><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">LinkedIn:<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peter-kovacik-354178109\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" id=\"LPlnk357621\" data-linkindex=\"2\" data-ogsc=\"\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peter-kovacik-354178109\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">Google Scholar:<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=EdevMD0AAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" id=\"LPNoLPOWALinkPreview_2\" data-linkindex=\"3\" data-ogsc=\"\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=EdevMD0AAAAJ&amp;hl=en<\/a><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">Orcid:<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2185-3590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" id=\"LPlnk186024\" data-linkindex=\"4\" data-ogsc=\"\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2185-3590<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>About<\/h3>\n<p>I am interested in studying human-landscape interaction in arid and semi-arid environments, through a variety of means, primarily wood charcoal and macrobotanical\u00a0analyses.\u00a0I have been involved in\u00a0multidisciplinary investigations, analyzing prehistoric human coprolites from Peru and historic privy contexts in California and the North Eastern US, for the reconstruction of diet. I have experience in selecting the most reliable and appropriate specimens for carbon dating in collaborative archaeological and geological projects from across North and South America, the Carribean, and Asia. My previous research largely included analysis of charcoal and other macrofloral remains from North America and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>I am currently conducting anthracological analysis on charcoal from \u00c7amlibel Tarlas\u0131, a Chalcolithic metalworking site in highland central Turkey, to reconstruct woodland vegetation and wood selection during the site use.<\/p>\n<h3>Awards &amp; Grants<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Graduate Writing Fellowship. (AY23-24).<\/li>\n<li>Graduate Research in the United States Fellowship (GRUF). (Summer 2023).<\/li>\n<li>New Mexico Archaeological Council Grants Program. (2022).<\/li>\n<li>Department of Anthropology Summer Research Grant, Boston University. (2022).<\/li>\n<li>Center for Innovation in Social Science Travel Awards, Boston University. (2022).<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Awarded &#8220;Outstanding Teaching Fellow&#8221; by Boston University <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Department of Archaeology. (2021).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Awarded best &#8220;Graduate Student Instructor (Hybrid Modality)&#8221; by the Boston University Center for Teaching and Learning. (2021).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Anthropology Summer Research Grant; Boston University. (2020).<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><span>Boston University Dean\u2019s Fellowship. (Fall 2018, Spring 2019).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Marston, John M., Canan \u00c7ak\u0131rlar, Christina Luke, Peter Kov\u00e1\u010dik, Francesca G. Slim, Nami Shin, Christopher H. Roosevelt. (2021). &#8220;Agropastoral Economies and Land Use in Bronze Age Western Anatolia,&#8221; <em>Environmental Archaeology<\/em> online before print.<\/li>\n<li>Marston, John M., Peter Kov\u00e1\u010dik, and Ulf-Dietrich Schoop. (2021). &#8220;Environmental reconstruction and wood use at Late Chalcolithic \u00c7aml\u0131bel Tarlas\u0131, Turkey,&#8221; <em>Quaternary International<\/em> 593-594:178-194.<\/li>\n<li>Dillehay, Tom D., Carlos Ocampo, Jose Saavedra, Mario Pino, Linda Scott-Cummings, Peter Kov\u00e1\u010dik, Claudia Silva, Rodrigo Alvar. (2019). &#8220;New excavations at the late Pleistocene site of Chinchihuapi I, Chile,&#8221; <em>Quaternary Research<\/em> 92(1):70-80.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kov\u00e1\u010dik, Peter\u00a0<\/strong>and Linda Scott Cummings. (2017). Reconstruction of Woodland Vegetation and Firewood Exploitation in Nine Mile Canyon, Utah, Based on Charcoal and Pollen Analysis. <em>Quaternary International\u00a0<\/em>463(B):312-326.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/318243954_Reconstruction_of_woodland_vegetation_and_firewood_exploitation_in_Nine_Mile_Canyon_Utah_based_on_charcoal_and_pollen_analysis\">Download PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bunch, James, Linda Scott Cummings,\u00a0<strong>Peter Kov\u00e1\u010dik<\/strong>, and Patricia DeBunch. (2015). The Ash Springs Site 26LN2978: New Data from 14C and Macrofloral Analysis.\u00a0 <em>Nevada Archaeologist\u00a0<\/em>28:1-27.<\/li>\n<li>Scott Cummings, Linda, Barbara L. Voss, Connie Young Tu,\u00a0<strong>Peter Kov\u00e1\u010dik<\/strong>, Kathryn Puseman, Chad Yost, Ryan Kennedy, and Megan S. Kane. (2014). Fan and Tsai: Intracommunity Variation in Plant-Based Food Consumption at the Market Street Chinatown, San Jose, California. <em>Historical Archaeology\u00a0<\/em>48(2):143-172.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/265250754_Fan_and_Tsai_Intracommunity_Variation_in_Plant-Based_Food_Consumption_at_the_Market_Street_Chinatown_San_Jose_California\">Download PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Horv\u00e1th, Pavol and\u00a0<strong>Peter Kov\u00e1\u010dik<\/strong>. (2007). Jaskynn\u00e9 n\u00e1lezy zo Slovensk\u00e9ho krasu (Cave finds from the Slovak karst). <em>AVANS<\/em>\u00a0v r. 2005:84-86.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":9123,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9123"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15905,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10711\/revisions\/15905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}