Natalia Khamaiko, M.A.

Natalia Khamaiko was born in Horodnia, Ukraine. She studied history, cultural anthropology and archaeology at the Taras Shevchenko Chernihiv State Pedagogical University (now - T.H. Shevchenko National University »Chernihiv Collegium«). From 2003 to 2011, she was a research fellow of the permanent archaeological expedition at the Podil in Kyiv. Since 2011, she has been Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv. Since 2001, she has carried out teaching assignments at the T.H. Shevchenko National University »Chernihiv Collegium« and since 2008 at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She has been managing archaeological excavations since 1999.

From 2022 to 2023, she was a visiting fellow at the GWZO funded by the DBU and Volkswagen Stiftung scholarship programmes for refugee researchers.
Natalia Khamaiko has been a researcher in the GWZO’s »Humans and the« Environment Department since September 2023.

• Archaeology and history of Early Rus’; archaeology of Kyiv

• Cultural and trade contacts 

• Board games in medieval Europe

• Worldviews in Early Rus'

• Zooarchaeology

Natalia Khamaiko has taught courses on archaeological methodology and the history of Ukraine at the T.H. Shevchenko National University »Chernihiv Collegium« and the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.