Cecilia Conte

Steering Committee Secretary

Cecilia Conte is an ethnographic archaeologist interested in pastoralism, Bronze Age landscapes, and rock art in Inner Asia. During her master’s at Oxford University, she specialised in the archaeology and anthropology of Mongolia. At Humboldt Universität, for her master’s in Central Asian studies, she focussed on local approaches to heritage in southern Siberia. Cecilia has taught several undergraduate courses which combine regional studies and archaeological approaches. Since 2024 she is a PhD student at Freie Universität and the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS) in the Landscape Archaeology and Architecture programme. Her dissertation, funded by the Elsa-Neumann Foundation, seeks to critically approach Mongolian horses through time and space by combining archaeology, ethnography and genetics. Cecilia also co-directs the Theory Network of the Berliner Antike Kolleg.

Research Interests

 Pastoralism past and present, rock art, Bronze Age, Inner Asia, interspecies archaeology, more-than-human relationships

Contact

cecilia.conte.15@alumni.ucl.ac.uk