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Archaeological
Sites
Arzan
Scythian necropolis, investigations by the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.
German.
Aurora /
Svensksund
Underwater archaeology, in Viborg bay, ships sunk during the battle of Svensksund
in 1790. In Russian.
Valley of Ak-Alakha
Excavations of a Scythian necropolis by a joint project by the University of Brussels and
others.
Ekven
Bimiak culture excavations (700-900 AD) in Chukotka, from Hansjürgen Müller-Beck at the
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Universität Tübingen.
Dalnaja Bay
Underwater archaeologists have discovered a Viking era ship, a newsbrief from Archaeology
Magazine.
Derbent
In Daghestan, Islamic occupation (late 5th / early 6th centuries) .in the Caucausus, from
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. German.
Diring Site
A site in Siberia, TL dated to more than 250,000 years old, an article in the Mammoth
Trumpet.
The Dolmen Path
Information and photographs of several megalithic sites in Russia. Russian and English.
The Khazar Fortress of Sarkel
A medieval site on the Don River, from Kevin Brook at the Khazaria Information Center
Klin
Yar
A joint project from the Universities of Reading and Stavropol, presently very minimal
data on this large cemetary in the North Caucasus.
Megalithic Sites in
Russia
From Nikita Kondrjakow by way of the Megalithic Pages, some photographs of Wolf Rock and
Chernomorka dolmens.
Novaya Zemlya
Russian-Dutch-American research into the Dutch Maritime explorations of the
Russian Arctic in the late 16th century.
Novgorod
University of Bournemouth, the palaeo-environment of the Medieval town of Novgorod and its
hinterland from the 8th to the 11th centuries AD
Olbia
Greek colony in the Khernia region on the Bugliman coast, 6th-4th centuries BC.
Solovetsky
Archipelago
Human and natural elements of this chain of islands in the White Sea, from World
Heritage Review.
Suchanicha
Scythian necropolis in Siberia, excavations by Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. German
Tanais
Greek colony in southern Russia, international project with this report from the Deutsches
Archäologisches Institut. German.
Tsimlyansk
Reservoir
Khazarian hill fort containing aqueducts, recently found on the coast of the
Tsimlyansk Reservoir in the valley of Don River. News story by Natalia Filippova in Komsomol'skaya
Pravda - na-Donu; Russian. Computer
translation into English provided by Kevin Brook.
Ustinovka
Upper Paleolithic site in far eastern Eurasia, excavated by Tohoku Fukushi University and
dated between 11,500 and 10,600 bp. Includes microblade and microcore technology and some
of the earliest pottery in Eurasia.
Velikent
A Chalcolithic and Bronze Age site, excavated by a joint American-Daghestani team
led by David Stronach at Berkeley.
Weasel Cave
The St. George Russian-American Archaeological Program; the first multi-component
Paleolithic site investigated between the Caspian Sea and northwestern Caucasus.
Yamal Diary
From the Danish Polar Center's Nyheder, a brief article by William W. Fitzhugh on
investigations in Western Siberia.
Research
Institutions
Deutsches Archäologische
Institut
The Eurasian Section, conducts investigations in Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Daghestan,
Thrace, Kazakstan.
École Française
d'Athènes
Excavations in Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Bulgaria, and Russia.
The Russian
Academy of Science
From the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, a wealth of archaeological information on
the prehistory of Russia, including links to data on sites and overviews of culture
history. Not completed yet, but the site has tons of information on Altai sites. English
and Russian.
St.
George Russian-American Archaeological Program
Joint Project between Larry R. Kimball (Appalachian State University) and Dr. Nazim I.
Hidjrati (North Ossetian State University), presently studying the Paleolithic site of
Weasel Cave, North Ossetia.
Current
Researchers
Grennady
Baryshnikov and John F. Hoffecker
Mousterian Hunters of the NW Caucasus: Preliminary Results of Recent Investigations, an
abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.
Burchard
Brentjes
Rock art in Russian Far East and Siberia, an article in the TRACCE
Newsletter.
Vladimir E.
Eremenko
Research in Early Iron Age chronology of East Europe from Elba and Northern Italy
up to Dnepr and Don VIII century BC - II century AD. This page contains a wealth of
information about eastern Europe. Russian and English.
Larry
Kimball
Appalachian State Univesity, lithic analysis, microwear analysis, quantitative methods;
eastern US, Paleolithic (France & Russia)
Ludmila Koryakova
An Overview of the Andronovo Culture: Late Bronze Age Indo-Iranians in Central
Asia; a lecture abstract from the Center for the Study of the Eurasian Nomads.
Sintashta-Arkaim
Culture a second lecture abstract
Malcolm C.
Lillie
Study of a Dnieper Rapids cemetery indicates that trepanation was practiced during
Mesolithic period Russia; an abstract from Archaeology Magazine, and an abstract from Antiquity
about other implications of the new C14 dates.
Hansjürgen
Müller-Beck
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Abteilung Ältere
Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie, Universität Tübingen; widely known for his work in
paleolithic archaeology, and most recently, work on the Bimiak culture..
David Stronach
University of California at Berkeley, excavations at Daghestan.
Donald
B. Wagner
Early Iron in Siberia, part of Early iron in China, Korea,
and Japan points for discussion at a roundtable discussion at the Annual
Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Los Angeles, 25-28 March 1993.
Andzrej
Weber
University of Alberta; an article in the alumni magazine about Weber's work in
the Lake Baikal region.
Novaya Zembla
A joint Dutch-Russian project investigating the historic archaeology of this polar ice
region.
Ezra Zubrow
University of Buffalo, ecology, simulation methods, demography, marginal cultural areas;
is currently in Finland working on a program in Arctic Finland and Russia.
Cultural History
Archeologie du Baikal
From Tamara Maric at the Lake Baikal site, a cultural history overview of the region in
Siberia; in French.
Donskaya Arkheologia
An online report in English and Russian, on excavations at Chastiye Kurgany
burial mound group and at the Zolotiye Gorki (Golden Hills) Khazar site of ancient
settlement.
History of Khazaria
A history of the Jewish people living in Russia and the Ukraine in the Middle Ages, from
Kevin Brook at the Khazaria Information Center.
Russian
Evolution
Twenty centuries of architecture in a vast troubled land; a terrific resource from Jackie
Craven, your About guide to Architecture.
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