TRAP Publications

Sobotkova, A., McKristensen, Ross, Marlon, Orla, Ross, S.A. (in press): Validating Predictions of Burial Mounds with Field Data: the Promise and Reality of Machine Learning, Journal of Documentation

Sobotkova, A., S.A. Ross, Ch. Nassif-Haynes, and B.Ballsun-Stanton (2023). “Creating Large, High-Quality Geospatial Datasets from Historical Maps Using Novice Volunteers.” Applied Geography 155 (June): 102967. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.102967.

Penske, S., A. B. Rohrlach, A. Childebayeva, G. Gnecchi-Ruscone, C. Schmid, M. A. Spyrou, G. U. Neumann, N. Atanassova, K. Beutler, A. Sobotkova, et al. (2023). “Early Contact between Late Farming and Pastoralist Societies in Southeastern Europe.” Nature 620 (7973): 358–65. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06334-8.

Sobotkova A. and Janouchova, P. (2022). The Emergent Archaeological Realities and Reusable Datasets: What is the priority? In: Watrall and Goldstein (eds.) Digital Heritage & Archaeology in Practice. University Press Florida:135-149

Sobotkova, A. (2022). “Thracian State: A Myth or Reality?” In Ancient Thrace: Myth and Reality, The Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress of Thracology, Kazanlak, September 3-7, 2017,em> edited by Peter Delev, Totko Stoyanov, Svetlana Yanakieva, Hristo Popov, Anelia Bozkova, Maya Vassileva, Julia Tzvetkova, Margarit Damyanov, Petya Ilieva, and Juliy Emilov, 335–42. Sofia: St Kliment Ohridski University Press.

Sobotkova, A., B. Weissova (2020). "Soviet topographic maps and burial mounds of the Yambol province: digital workflow for mortuary landscape verification". Archaeological Prospection: February, 1-10.

Valchev, T., and A. Sobotkova (2019). "Monitoring Burial Mounds in the Yambol Province: Deploying Mobile Technology to Improve Cultural Heritage Protection." In Kyriakidis, P., Agapiou, A., and Lysandrou, V. (eds.) Spreading Excellence in Computer Applications for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Greek Chapter (Caa-Gr) Limassol, 18-20 June 2018, 19-23. Limassol-Cyprus: Cyprus University of Technology, 2019.

Sobotkova, A. (2018). "Sociotechnical obstacles to archaeological data reuse." Advances in Archaeological Practice, 6.2 (2018):117-124.

Ross, Shawn, A. Sobotkova, Julia Tzvetkova, Georgi Nehrizov, and Simon Connor, eds. 2018. The Tundzha Regional Archaeological Project: Surface Survey, Palaeoecology, and Associated Studies in Central and Southeast Bulgaria, 2009-2015 Final Report. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Eftimoski, M., S. Ross, and A. Sobotkova. ‘The impact of land use and depopulation on burial mounds in the Kazanlak Valley, Bulgaria: An ordered logit predictive model’. Journal of Cultural Heritage 23C (2017): 1-10.

Sobotkova, A., and S. Ross. ‘The Tundzha Regional Archaeology Project: Social Complexity and the Rise of the State in Early Thrace”. Ancient History: Resources for Teachers, 45 (2015): 1-25.

Iliev, I., S. Ross, A. Sobotkova, S. Bakardzhiev, and S. Connor. 2012. The Tundzha Regional Archaeological Project: Elhovo 2009 Preliminary Report (bilingual English-Bulgarian). A publication of the Historical Museum, Yambol.

Connor, S., S. Ross, A. Sobotkova, A. Herries, S. Mooney, C. Longford, I. Iliev. “Environmental conditions in the Southeast Balkans since the Last Glacial Maximum and their influence on the spread of agriculture into Europe”. Quaternary Science Reviews 68 (2013): 200-215.

Nehrizov, G., A. Sobotkova, S. Ross, and Barbara Weissova. 2010. "Tundzha Regional Archaeological Project Kazanlak Survey and Investigations: A Preliminary Report" (pp. 56-66). In Jan Bouzek, editor, Studia Hercynia XIV. Charles University Press.

Ross, S., A. Sobotkova, S. Connor, and I. Iliev. 2010. "An interdisciplinary pilot project in the environs of the ancient city of Kabyle, Bulgaria". Archaeologia Bulgarica 14.2: 69-85.

Sobotkova, A. and S. Ross. 2010. "High-resolution, multi-spectral satellite imagery and extensive archaeological prospection: Case studies from Apulia, Italy, and Kazanlak, Bulgaria" (pp. 25-28). Space, Time, and Place 2009: The Third International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology (Tiruchirappali, India, 17-21 August 2009). Archaeopress.

Ross, S. and A. Sobotkova. 2010. "An 'Encyclopedia of Archaeological Heritage'? The Encyclopedia of Life as a model for digital cultural atlases" (pp. 399-406). Space, Time, and Place 2009: The Third International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology (Tiruchirappali, India, 17-21 August 2009). Archaeopress.

Other publications by affiliated researchers

Ross, S. A., B. Ballsun-Stanton, S. Cassidy, P. Crook, J. Klump, and A. Sobotkova (2022). ‘FAIRer Data through Digital Recording: The FAIMS Mobile Experience’. Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology. 5.1, 271 - 285.

Sobotkova, A. and Weissova, B. 2019. 'Locational Analysis of Burial Mounds in the Middle Tundzha River Watershed. Combining Historical Maps with Field Survey and Satellite Image Analysis Data', Studia in honorem Iliae Iliev; Vesti na Yambolskiyat musei, 6 (9), 161-75.

Janouchova, P. and Weissova, B. 2018. 'The Use of Writing in a Funerary Context in Classical and Hellenistic Thrace'. in Arslan, Murat (ed.)SOMA 2015: Time, Space and People. Proceedings of the 19th Symposiumon Mediterranean Archaeology, 59-74. Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology.

Sobotkova, A. 2016. 'Searching for Nomads in Iron Age Thrace.' In Manoledakis, M.(ed.) The Black Sea in the Light of New Archaeological Data and Theoretical Approaches; Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Black Sea in Antiquity held in Thessaloniki, 18-20 September 2015, 77-88. Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology.

Weissova, B. 2016. ‘Quantification of Burial Mounds in Yambol District, Ancient Thrace.’ Ancient East and West 15, 115-127.

Polla, S., Gruber, B., Springer, A.,Tušlová, P., Weissová, B. and Bakardzhiev, S. 2015. ‘The Content of Roman and Late Antique Amphorae as Economic Proxy. A Case Study on the Analysis of the Organic Residues in Amphorae from the Black Sea Hinterland (Yambol District, Southeastern Bulgaria).’ Poster presented at the International Interactive Conference Roman Amphora Contents, Reflection on Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, 5-7 October 2015, Cadiz, Spain. https://goo.gl/ufHGFN

Janouchova, P. 2014. ‘Database of Greek Inscriptions ‘Hellenisation of Ancient Thrace’: A Final Report on Investigations during 2013-2014.’ Studia Hercynia 18 (1-2): 67–74.

Janouchova, P. 2016. ‘The Ancestral Apollo Cult in Ancient Thrace: a result of internal colonisation?’ Ancient East and West 15: 83–101.

Sobotkova, A. 2013. ‘Resisting Rule in Ancient Thrace.’ In Manoledakis, M. (ed.) Exploring the Hospitable Sea. Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Black Sea in Antiquity held in Thessaloniki, 21-23 September 2012. 133-146. Oxford: Archaeopress.

Sobotkova, A. 2012. The Valley of the Kings? Social Complexity of Inland Thrace during the First Millennium BC. PhD Dissertation, IPCAA, University of Michigan. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/91457