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Taras Tkachuk, Ph.D. is the head of the department of archaeology of the National Reserve "Ancient Halych", Ukraine. In 1985 he graduated from Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University. From 1985 to 1992 he worked at the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine as a senior laboratory assistant. From 1992 to 1995 he studied at the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He was awarded the Diploma of the Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine, the Fulbright Scholarship at Stanford, University of Arizona and others. Taras Tkachuk is a member of the European Association of Archaeologists and author of over 100 articles. His research interests include the neo-Eneolithic archaeology of South-Western Europe, semiotics, philosophy and methodology of science.
Oleksandr Melnyk, MSc. received his master's degree in renewable energy systems engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien. In his thesis, he investigated the energy flexibility potentials based on building information modelling. For this work, he received “Energietechnik-Preis 2020” award from the Austrian Association of Electrical Engineers - OVE. In 2017, at China Three Gorges University (Department of Architecture and Urban Planning) Oleksandr worked on the development of energy-efficient construction concepts in a subtropical Asian climate with a specific focus on improved quality control of innovative building renovation projects. Apart from renewable energy systems and engineering, his interests include methodology of science, social sciences, history of art and philosophy. This book is his first Ukrainian-English translation in the field of semiotics.
