Autor/-in: Karlene Jones-Bley

As an undergraduate, Karlene Jones-Bley studied European history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), concentrating on Europe and Russia. She returned to UCLA to receive her Ph. D in the interdisciplinary Indo-European Studies Program, which integrated courses in Indo-European languages and linguistics as well as mythology with those in her specialty of Iron and Bronze Age archaeology. Since obtaining her Ph. D. , she has held the position of research associate at UCLA and has taught archaeology and an introduction to Indo-European Studies at UCLA, history at Marlbough School for Girls, and linguistics at California State University Los Angeles. She has also written a number of articles regarding women and war as well as queenship, mythology, and burial ritual that have appeared in peer-reviewed journals and anthologies. She has also participated in excavations in England, Northern Ireland, Germany, and the Russian Steppe. From 1997 to 2007, she served as co-editor of the Proceedings of the of the Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. As a result of her excavations and research in Russia, she produced the monograph, Early and Middle Bronze Age Pottery from the Volga-Don Steppe, which was published by the British Archeological Reports International Series.