Archaeology of Siberia
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The Finnish researcher Matthias Alexander Castrén (1813–1852) carried out several excavations and archaeological surveys during his expeditions through Lapland, northern Russia, and southern Siberia between 1838 and 1849. This article... more
Лапчатые привески, один из наиболее ярких и интересных элементов карасукской культуры, не слишком часто встречаются в материалах погребений или поселенческих комплексах. Существующие на сегодняшний день работы, посвящённые их... more
Развитие снаряжения верхового коня на территории Китая в III в. до н.э.- III в. н.э. шло в русле тенденций, характерных для степной зоны Евразии, о чем свидетельствуют находки седел, их изображений и моделей династий Цинь, Хань, Вэй и... more
Pazyryk Tattoos as an Artistic Testimony of Ancient Wars and Marriages. Azbelev, Pavel Petrovich (The State Hermitage Museum, Educational Department) Abstract. The Pazyryk culture of the Altai mountains (second half of the 1st... more
The book by Kharinsky A. V. describes some aspects of Medieval history of Priolkhonye area on the western coast of Lake Baikal. The notions of ancient inhabitants of the Baikal coast on the next world are disclosed based on the data on... more
The article is devoted to the history of research and analysis of the planigraphy of the Oglakhta burial ground, known to the scientific community primarily for its phenomenal preservation of organic objects. According to the aerial... more
The interpretation of depictions in petroglyphs belonging to the Bronze Age in South Siberia as shamanic ones is debatable. Obviously, cultic attributes belonging to men were not removed from barrows 2 and 5 in Pazyryk. Their series can... more
В монографии дан краткий обзор истории развития методов планиграфического анализа в российской археологии в контексте исследований жилищ эпохи палеолита. Представлены результаты анализа пространственной организации верхнепалеолитических... more
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Монография представляет собой комплексный современный взгляд на хронологию и культурогенез археологических памятников эпохи палеометалла Минусинских котловин (XXXV–IX вв. до н.э.). На основании изучения 5000 погребений этого периода в... more
Three vectors of the development of nonferrous metalwork of forest-steppe and taiga peoples of the Urals and the West-Siberian Valley are marked. They are: the one connected to the inner evolution and transformation of latebronze cultures... more
The collection of papers devoted to the problems of the development of the population of Ural, Kazakhstan and Western Siberia in the late Bronze Age — subjects of 35-year’s researches of the Tyumen archaeologist A.V. Matveev. The results... more
The book by Artur V.Kharinskii provides a thorough review on the genesis and time spans of Pre-Baikalian cultures of end of 1 millennium BC - middle of the 2nd millennium AD. The evidence of written documents is provided on the... more
Chukchi warfare in the 17th c. to the early 20th c.(in Russian)
В монографии публикуются материалы аварийных раскопок курганного могильника Сапогово-1, который исследовался в 1993-1995 годах Кузнецкой комплексной археолого-этнографической экспедицией. Приводится описание памятника, систематизируются... more
// Актуальные вопросы истории кыргызского народа: прошлое, настоящее и будущее. Сб. статей в честь 70-летия кыргызского историка и востоковеда Мокеева А.М. Бишкек: 2019. С. 277-284.
The slab burials of Priolkhonye have common features. The goner was placed to bone chamber. He was extended on a back oriented by the head to the east - the southeast. From above the bone chamber was blocked by a laying from the... more
The fall of Manchukuo, in the closing days of the Second World War, resulted in the capture by the Soviet Union of thousands of Japanese troops and civilians. Interned in labour camps, it would take them years to go home. Since the end of... more
The Siberian Northeast shows striking parallels between the cosmologies of hunters and reindeer herders. What may this tell us about the transformation from hunting to pastoralism? This article argues for a structural identity between... more
Pressure flaking to produce microblades was first identified in Siberia by J. Flenniken (1987) and has been suggested for most of the Paleolithic microblade material from northeast Asia and North America. However, different modes for the... more
In 1997, an ancient iron production site, Barun-Khal 2, was discovered in the Barun-Khal valley (Olkhon region, near the west shore of Lake Baikal). This discovery initiated studies of the archaeometallurgical potential of the valley.... more
We have often mistakes in the chronological evaluation of compared complexes of the EIA Urals and Western Siberia when we are dating by analogies. The evolutionary-typological method can be supplemented by a chronological analysis of... more
Аннотация. Хронология оленных камней остается дискуссионной. При определении их возраста среди прочих аргументов исследователи используют аналогии некоторым деталям изображений среди карасукских бронз Минусинских котловин. Проведенные в... more