Alice Mathea Choyke
Professor
Medieval Studies
Central European University
Hungary
Biography
Alice Mathea Choyke have worked in the field of bioarchaeology for thirty years, particularly in the field of achaeozoology and the study of worked osseous materials from animals. She is involved with a number of projects concerned with the way people in the past used material culture, especially objects derived from the animal body, in various forms of social discourse. Related to this,She is also generally interested in multiple and often contradictory attitudes towards animals in the medieval past. She completed BA, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, USA, MA, Department of Anthropology, S.U.N.Y. Binghamton, USA and PhD, Department of Anthropology, S.U.N.Y. Binghamton, USA.
Research Interest
Archaeology, Archaeozoology, Cultural Heritage Studies.
Publications
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Choyke AM. Cut to fit: comparing Roman Period and medieval bone workshop debris from urban areas. In: Bartosiewicz L, Gál E, editors. Csontvázak a szekrényből Válogatott tanulmányok a Magyar Archaeozoológusok Visegrádi Találkozóinak anyagából 2002–2009. Budapest: Martin Opitz Kiadó; 2009. p. 235-50.
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Choyke AM. Grandmother’s Awl: Individual and Collective Memory through Material Culture. In: Barbiera I, Choyke AM, Rasson J, editors. Materializing Memory, Archaeological Material Culture and the Semantics of the Past. Oxford: Archeopress; 2009. p. 21-40. (BAR International Series; no 1977).
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Choyke AM, Barbiera I, Rasson J. BAR international series. Vol 1977. Oxford: Archaeopress; 2009.
