Inga Utkina-Wöhrl, M.A.
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About
Inga Utkina-Wöhrl was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She studied »Archaeology of the Ancient World« and obtained a Bachelor's degree (2017) and a Master's degree (2022) from Leipzig University. Between October 2017 and December 2020, she was a student and research assistant at the Chair of Prehistory and Early History at the Leipzig University. Between March 2017 and October 2020, she participated in various excavations of the State Office for Archaeology in Saxony. In October 2023, she began her doctoral studies in Prehistoric Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin. From January 2025 to June 2025, she was part of the team at the Leibniz Centre for Archaeology (LEIZA), funded by the Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus - Byzantium between Orient and Occident (Mainz/Frankfurt). In April 2025, she was awarded the Elsa-Neumann Scholarship and admitted to the Landscape Archaeology and Architecture (LAA) programme of the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS/Berliner Antike-Kolleg).
She joined the GWZO in September 2018 as a student assistant and continued working there, with short interruptions, as a research assistant in the Department »Humans and Environment« until December 2024. Since 2025, she has been an associated researcher at the GWZO.
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Work Focus
- Hoards and hoarding patterns
- Human-environment interactions
- Intercultural relations
Current topic of research
Hoards in the Middle Dnieper Region
The Slavic metal hoards on the Middle Dnieper have long been seen as hiding places in times of crisis. However, their presence in the forest-steppe belt – a landscape and cultural contact zone – has not been considered in explanations of this phenomenon. This project investigates this desideratum.
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