Dr. Kseniia Boxleitner (Ashastina)

Kseniia erhielt 2011 ihr Diplom in Physischer Geographie und Ökologie von der Staatlichen Universität St. Petersburg, Russland, und 2013 den doppelten MSc-Abschluss in Polar- und Meeresforschung von der Universität Hamburg, Deutschland, und der Staatlichen Universität St. Petersburg, Russland. Im Anschluss begann sie das Promotionsprojekt "Das Ende der pleistozänen Tundra-Steppe - Wechselwirkungen zwischen Vegetation, Klima und großen Pflanzenfressern in West-Beringia während des Spätquartärs" an der Senckenberg Forschungsstation für Quartärpaläontologie in Weimar, Deutschland. Im Jahr 2018 hat Kseniia ihre Doktorarbeit mit dem Titel " Palaeo-environments at the Batagay site in inland West Beringia during the late Quaternary " an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena verteidigt.

Publikationen

Antonosyan, M., Roberts, P., Aspaturyan, N., Mkrtchyan, S., Lucas, M., Boxleitner, K., Jabbour, F., Hovhannisyan, A., Cieślik, A., Sahakyan, L. and Avagyan, A., 2024. Multiproxy evidence for environmental stability in the Lesser Caucasus during the Late Pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 330, p.108559.

^{Peters, C., Richter, K.K., Wilkin, S., Stark, S., Mir-Makhamad, B., Fernandes, R., Maksudov, F., Mirzaakhmedov, S., Rahmonov, H., Schirmer, S., Ashastina, K., Begmatov, A., Frachetti, M., Kurbanov, S., Shenkar, M., Hermes, T., Kidd, F., Omelchenko, A., Huber, B., Boivin, N., Wang, S., Lurje, P., von Baeyer, M., Dal Martello, R., Spengler, R.N.III. 2024. Archaeological and molecular evidence for ancient chickens in Central Asia. Nature communications, 15(1), p.2697.}

Murton, J., Opel, T., Wetterich, S., Ashastina, K., Savvinov, G., Danilov, P., Boeskorov, V., 2023. Batagay megaslump: A review of the permafrost deposits, Quaternary environmental history, and recent development. Permafrost and Periglac Process 1- 18. doi:10.1002/ppp.2194

Dal Martello, R., von Baeyer, M., Hudson, M., Bjorn, R. G., Leipe, C., Zach, B., Mir-Makhamad, B., Billings, N., Muñoz Fernández, I.M., Huber, B., Boxleitner, K., Lu, J.-C., Chi, K.-A., Liu, H.-L., Kistler, L., Spengler, R.N., 2023. The Domestication and Dispersal of Large-Fruiting Prunus spp.: A Metadata Analysis of Archaeobotanical Material. Agronomy 13(4):1027. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13041027

Shnaider, S., Zhilich, S.V., Zotkina, L.V., Boxleitner, K.A., Taylor, W.T., Sayfullaev, N., Koval, V.V., Baranova, S.V., Chernonosov, A.A., Kutnyakova, L.A. and Tonasso-Calvière, L., 2023. Occupation of highland Central Asia: New evidence from Kurteke rockshelter, Eastern Pamir. Archaeological Research in Asia, 34, p.100443.

Cerasoni, J.N., Hallett, E.Y., Orijemie, E.A., Ashastina, K., Lucas, M., Farr, L., Höhn, A., Kiahtipes, C.A., Blinkhorn, J., Roberts, P., Manica, A. 2023. Human interactions with tropical environments over the last 14,000 years at Iho Eleru, Nigeria. iScience 26(3), 106153, https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.isci.2023.106153

Spengler, R.N., Kienast, F., Roberts, P., Boivin, N., Begun, D.R., Ashastina, K., Petraglia, M. 2023. Bearing Fruit: Miocene Apes and Rosaceous Fruit Evolution. Biological Theory, pp.1-18, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00413-1

Shnaider, S. V., Ashastina, K., Alisher kyzy, S., Sayfullaev, N., Zakabluk, G. A., Chernonosov, A. A., Spengler, R. N., Zotkina, L. V. 2021. The results of the complex study of the Kurteke site (Eastern Pamir), Theory and Practice of Archaeological Research, 33(4), https://doi.org/10.14258/33(4).-16

Reinecke, J., Ashastina, K., Kienast, F., Troeva, E., Wesche, K. 2021. Effects of large herbivore grazing on relics of the presumed mammoth steppe in the extreme climate of NE-Siberia, Scientific Reports, 11, 12962. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92079-1

Spengler, R.N., Petraglia, M., Roberts, P., Ashastina, K., Kistler, L., Mueller, N. and Boivin, N., 2021. Exaptation Traits for Megafaunal Mutualisms as a Factor in Plant Domestication, Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, p. 434.

Opel, T., Murton, J. B., Wetterich, S., Meyer, H., Ashastina, K., Günther, F., Grotheer, H., Mollenhauer, G., Danilov, P. P., Boeskorov, V., Savvinov, G. N., and Schirrmeister, L., 2019. Middle and Late Pleistocene climate and continentality inferred from ice wedges at Batagay megaslump in the Northern Hemisphere’s most continental region, Yana Highlands, interior Yakutia, Climate of the Past, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2018-142.

Kienast, F., Ashastina, K., and Troeva, E., 2018. Phylogeography of a west-Berin­gian endemic plant: An ancient seed of Stellaria jacutica Schischk. detected in permafrost deposits of the last interglacial. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 259, 48-54 p.

Ashastina, K., Kuzmina, S., Rudaya, N., Troeva, E., Schoch, W.H., Römermann, C., Reinecke, J., Otte, V., Savvinov, G., Wesche, K., and Kienast, F., 2018. Woodlands and steppes: Pleistocene vegetation in Yakutia‘s most continental part recorded in the Batagay permafrost sequence. Quaternary Science Reviews, 196, 38-61 p.

Ashastina, K., Schirrmeister, L., Fuchs, M., and Kienast, F., 2017. Palaeoclima­te characteristics in interior Siberia of MIS 6–2: first insights from the Batag­ay permafrost mega-thaw slump in the Yana Highlands. Climate of the Past, 13(7), p.795.

Nicht-wissenschaftliche Publikationen 

An article in Science by Richard Stone "Siberia’s ‘gateway to the underworld’ grows as record heat wave thaws permafrost", published Jul. 28 2020.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/siberia-s-gateway-underworld-grows-record-heat-wave-thaws-permafrost

A short video by the BBC "Siberia's enormous hole in the ground is getting bigger", published Jul. 27 2020.
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p08lmh4z/siberia-s-enormous-hole-in-the-ground-is-getting-bigger

Comic book Frozen Ground Cartoon. Lead translator of the Russian version of the Comic Book. https://frozengroundcartoon.com/

Ashastina, K., Reinecke, J., 2017. Conserved in permafrost - glance in the Ice Age environment. Photo presentation at  360° OST - 15. Potsdamer Lange Nacht der Naturphotographie (360° EAST - 15. Potsdam Long Photography Night), Potsdam 14 January 2017.