Anatolijs Venovcevs
Job description
Administrator of Unruly Heritage Instagram page
Assistant administrator of Unruly Heritage Twitter account
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Between Use and Abandonment: An Archaeology of Mothballing
17. October 2024 DOI
Anatolijs Venovcevs,
Torgeir Rinke Bangstad
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Living with Heritage: Involuntary Entanglements of the Anthropocene – An Introduction
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Ambiguous Matter: The Life of Mine Waste
Matthew Walker Magnani,
Natalia Magnani,
Anatolijs Venovcevs,
Stein Farstadvoll
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A contemporary archaeology of pandemic
Matthew Walker Magnani,
Anatolijs Venovcevs,
Stein Farstadvoll,
Natalia Magnani
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How to Record Current Events like an Archaeologist
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Living with socialism: Toward an archaeology of a post-soviet industrial town
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Extracted Frontiers: A Call from the North
Anatolijs Venovcevs,
Barry Gaulton
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Winter housing: Archaeological perspectives on Newfoundland’s non-pastoral transhumant tradition
2020
Eystein Markusson,
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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How to address legacies of past mining operations? Lessons from the world’s northernmost museum
26. August 2025
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Svalbard – A Material-Environmental History from the Edge of the Anthropocene
22. August 2025
Dina Brode-Roger,
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Missing Ways of Seeing: Material and Embodied Encounters with Arctic Extractive Heritage
29. August 2025
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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An Introduction to Lacto-Fermentation
30. September 2025
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Returning to a Home that isn’t There: An Auto-archaeology of My Childhood Summerhouse
22. May 2024
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Eat the Past Kitchen: Materializing the Microbial
18. January 2024
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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What Does the Fungus Say? Exploring Ruins with Mycological Citizen Scientists
07. March 2024
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Mine Waste and Mushrooms: Life in the Gray Zones of Extraction
15. May 2024
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Rethinking the Leprosy of Houses: Fungi as Future Makers
20. August 2024
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Past Gazes Back – Fungal Heritage Ecologies in an Anthropogenic World
24. September 2024
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Re-activating Svalbard Heritage: Past, Present, and Future of Archaeology in Northernmost Norway
22. November 2024
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Warplanes, shipwrecks, and bunkers: the haunting WWII relics left in Arctic Norway
25. January 2024 DOI
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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The Fungal Lives of Ruins: A Mushroom Archaeology
01. September 2023
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Citizen Science, Fungi, and Nazi Ruins: A Mushroom Archaeology
30. November 2023
Bjørnar Julius Olsen,
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Vestiges of a Previous Industrial Age: A Contemporary Archaeology of Twentieth Century Single Industrial Mining Regions in the Far North
UiT Norges arktiske universitet 15. September 2023
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Industrial Vestiges: Legacies of Ancillary Impacts of Resource Development
Fink Raymond Juhl,
Steffen Tjøtta Bakke,
Johan Eilertsen Arntzen,
James Williamson,
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Twin Falls Soil Analysis and Drone Imagery Updates
Provincial Archaeology Office 2022 Archaeology Review 2023 ARKIV
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Between Function and Ruin: Mothball Materialities
03. March 2022
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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A Return to What? Things a Shrub can Teach us About Remediation and Heritage
22. September 2022
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Archaeology of Non-Abandonment
25. October 2022
Anatolijs Venovcevs,
James Williamson
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Twin Falls Revisited – A Survey of Labrador’s First Industrial Community
Provincial Archaeology Office 2021 Archaeology Review 2022
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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A Contemporary Archaeology of Labrador West
Provincial Archaeology Office 2021 Archaeology Review 2022
Matthew Walker Magnani,
Anatolijs Venovcevs,
Stein Farstadvoll,
Natalia Magnani
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Digital Methods for Arcaheological Currents
Cambridge Core Blog 2021
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Twin Falls was a power ‘parent’ for Labrador’s industrial era
21. June 2021 FULLTEKST
Anatolijs Venovcevs,
James Williamson
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Industrial Heritage is what one researcher is calling the abandoned community of Twin Falls
22. June 2021 FULLTEKST
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Why Lab West Reminds me of Soviet Russia: The Heritage of Single Industry Towns
2021
Anatolijs Venovcevs,
James Williamson
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Heritage of the Last Industrial Age: Archaeology at the Twin Falls Hydroelectic Community
Network in Canadian History for the Environment 2021 FULLTEKST
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Industrial Heritage with Anatolijs Venovcevs
01. October 2021 FULLTEKST
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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What does Labrador West have in common with the Soviet Union
07. October 2021 FULLTEKST
Anatolijs Venovcevs,
Matthew Magnani,
Natalia Magnani,
Stein Farstadvoll
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“Hold Avstand”: The Archaeology of and in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Tromsø, Norway
2021
Anatolijs Venovcevs,
Barry Gaulton
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Social distancing in the woods: archaeological expressions of isolated winter habitations of Newfoundland’s early European fisherfolk
2021
Natalia Magnani,
Matthew Magnani,
Anatolijs Venovcevs,
Stein Farstadvoll
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Material Transformations of Memory
American Anthropologist 02. July 2020 FULLTEKST
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Mapping Subterranean Worlds – Public Utilities as Unseen Historical and Social Arenas
2020
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Twin Falls – Labrador’s Unruly Industrial Heritage
Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Archaeology Office 2020
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Fast Development, Slow Futures: Urbanism in the High North Mining Towns
2020
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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W is for Waste
16. October 2020
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Mining Our Own Business: Northern Industrial Towns as Future Archaeology
2020
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Sør-Varanger er veldig likt gruvesamfunn i andre land
05. October 2020 FULLTEKST
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Cabins in the Woods: (Re-)Reflections on Migratory Lives of Euro-Newfoundland Fisher-Farmers
2019
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Living with Mine Waste
2019
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Mushroom Picking in the Hazard Area: Lives, Histories, and Memories in Anthropogenic Landscapes
2019
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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Mining Pasts – Mining Futures
2019
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Research interests
Research Project: Unruly Heritage: An Archaeology of the Anthropocene (PhD Candidate, 2018-2022)
Research explores twentieth century mining towns in Murmansk Region, Russia, Finnmark, Norway, and Labrador, Canada through an archaeological perspective.
Current Interests:
- Contemporary archaeology
- Industrial archaeology
- Mining and extractive industry
- Soviet history
- Northern and Arctic Canada
- Modern ruins
Other Expertise:
- Post-Medieval archaeology
- Landscape archaeology
- Geographical Information Systems
- Remote sensing
- Cultural Heritage Management
- Material Culture
- Agricultural history
- Urban planning
Member of research group
CV
Earlier experience:
- 2016 - 2018, GIS Technician. Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
- 2017, Researcher and Analyst, "Community Collections Archaeological Research Project", Newfoundland and Labrador Archaeological Society, North West River, Labrador, Canada.
- 2014 - 2016, GIS Assistant and Teaching Assistant, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
- 2013 - 2014, GIS Assistant, Sir Sandford Fleming College, Linday, Ontario, Canada.
- 2011 - 2013, Staff Archaeologist and Material Culture Specialist, Archaeological Services Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- 2008 - 2010, Field Archaeologist, Archaeological Services Inc., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- 2007 - 2010, Teaching Assistant, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Utdanning:
- 2014 - 2017, Masters in Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
- 2013 - 2014, Ontario College Graduate Certificate, GIS - Application Specialist, Sir Sandford Fleming College, Lindsay, Ontario, Canada.
- 2006 - 2010, Bachelor in Archaeology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Awards:
- 2020 Foreign travel stipend
- 2020 SSHRC – Doctoral Fellowship
- 2020 Fellow of the Institute of Social and Economic Research
- 2020 Institute of Social and Economic Research, Research Grant
- 2017 Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies
- 2016 SSHRC – Doctoral Fellowship
- 2016 Northern Scientific Training Program
- 2016 Department of Archaeology Research Excellence Award
- 2015 School of Graduate Studies Bursary
- 2015 Provincial Archaeology Office Research Grant
- 2015 Daniel Weetaluktuk Award
- 2015 Institute of Social and Economic Research, Master’s Fellowship
- 2015 Institute of Social and Economic Research, Research Grant
- 2014 J.R. Smallwood Foundation Research Grant
- 2014 Second place winner, 3-Minute Thesis Competition
- 2014 School of Graduate Studies Bursary, Memorial University of Newfoundland
- 2014 SSHRC – Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship
- 2014 Dr. Ibrahim Elshayal Excellence in Problem Solving Award
Administrative positions:
- 2019 - 2020, Styreleder, TODOS: Doctoral Students at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway
- 2017 - 2019, Styremedlem, Newfoundland and Labrador Archaeology Society
- 2016 - 2018, President og WHS Styremedlem, Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 2019
- 2016 - 2018, Styremedlem og Styreleder av Arkivutvalget, Them Days Inc.
- 2015 - 2016, Studentrepresentant, Canadian Institute for Geomatics
Languages: English, Norwegian Bokmål, and Russian