Esther Jacobson-Tepfer is Maude Kerns Professor Emeritus in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Oregon. Her many years of fieldwork in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia has supported her research in the rock art and surface monuments of that region. Among her significant publications may be included: The Deer Goddess of Ancient Siberia (Brill 1993); The Art of the Scythians (Brill 1995); The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals (Oxford 2015); The Life of Two Valleys in the Bronze Age (Luminaire 2019); The Anatomy of Deep Time (Cambridge 2020); Monumental Archaeology in the Mongolian Altai (Brill 2023); several volumes on rock art sites of the Russian and Mongolian Altai (Paris 1996, 2001, 2006), and Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai: an Atlas (ESRI: 2010). This last volume, prepared with colleagues James Meacham and Gary Tepfer, received the Globe Book Prize for 2010 from the Association of American Geographers and Honourable Mention for Best Atlas of 2010, from CaGIS. Jacobson-Tepfer was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Institute of Archaeology (2003) and the Kublai Khan Gold Medal (2016), both from the Mongolian Academy of Sciences.
Research Keywords & Expertise
paleoenvironments
Altai mountain
rock art
cultural change
Short Biography
Esther Jacobson-Tepfer is Maude Kerns Professor Emeritus in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Oregon. Her many years of fieldwork in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia has supported her research in the rock art and surface monuments of that region. Among her significant publications may be included: The Deer Goddess of Ancient Siberia (Brill 1993); The Art of the Scythians (Brill 1995); The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals (Oxford 2015); The Life of Two Valleys in the Bronze Age (Luminaire 2019); The Anatomy of Deep Time (Cambridge 2020); Monumental Archaeology in the Mongolian Altai (Brill 2023); several volumes on rock art sites of the Russian and Mongolian Altai (Paris 1996, 2001, 2006), and Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai: an Atlas (ESRI: 2010). This last volume, prepared with colleagues James Meacham and Gary Tepfer, received the Globe Book Prize for 2010 from the Association of American Geographers and Honourable Mention for Best Atlas of 2010, from CaGIS. Jacobson-Tepfer was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Institute of Archaeology (2003) and the Kublai Khan Gold Medal (2016), both from the Mongolian Academy of Sciences.
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