Cecilia Conte, Yunchen Tan und Inga Utkina-Wöhrl erhalten für ihre Promotionsvorhaben jeweils ein Stipendium des Landes Berlin.

Cecilia Conte forscht zu ihrer Doktorarbeit mit dem Titel "What is a horse? Approaching Mongolian horses through archaeology, ethnography, and genetics" (Ein Pferd, was ist das? Mongolische Pferde durch Archäologie, Ethnographie und Genetik verstehen)". Sie beschreibt die Ziele ihrer Forschung so: "This doctoral project aims to create an interdisciplinary understanding of horse-human relationships in Mongolia across time. It approaches ancient and living horses through a combination of scientific and pastoral knowledges, while also reflecting on research practices and contributing to multi-vocal dialogues."

Yunchen Tan verfasst eine Doktorarbeit zum Thema: "Tracking Settlement Transitions and Emergent Social Complexity among Non-Agricultural Societies in Northeast China". Dazu sagt sie: "My study aims to explore how prehistoric non-agricultural societies in Northeast China developed social diversification and interacted with neighbouring regions. It will also examine human-environment interactions, particularly the role of different ecosystems in supporting and constraining emergent social dynamics."

Inga Utkina-Wöhrl untersucht in ihrer Doktorarbeit "Deponierungen im Mittel-Dnjepr-Gebiet an der Wende vom 7. zum 8. Jh. n. Chr. – Soziale Praktik(en) in kulturellen und landschaftlichen Übergangszonen" Fundstellen in der ukrainischen Waldsteppe. Sie beschreibt ihr Projekt so: "In my project, the deposition of jewellery and other objects is conceptualised as a social practice in order to examine not only the motivational models of the groups of people involved, but also their social exchange relationships
and the role that the forest steppe, as a landscape, cultural and economic transition and/or contact zone, plays in the formation of this phenomenon."