Russian archaeology
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Russian archaeology begins in the Russian Empire in the 1850s and becomes Soviet archaeology in the early 20th century. The journal Sovetskaya Arkheologiia is published from 1957.
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[edit] Archaeologists
- Aleksey Uvarov (1825-1884)
- Dmitry Samokvasov (1843-1911)
- Dmitry Nikolayevich Anuchin (1843-1923)
- Nikodim Kondakov (1844-1925)
- Fyodor Uspensky (1845-1928)
- Nikolay Veselovsky (1848-1918)
- Vasilij Gorodtsov (1860-1945)
- Boris Farmakovsky (1870-1928)
- Michael Rostovtzeff (1870-1952)
- Sergei Rudenko (1885-1969)
- Mikhail Artamonov (1898-1972)
- Boris Grakov (1899-1970)
- Vasily Abaev (1900-2001)
- Artemiy Artsikhovsky (1902-1978)
- Mikhail Gerasimov (1907-1970)
- Alexey Okladnikov (1908-1981)
- Boris Piotrovsky (1908-1990)
- Boris Rybakov (1908-2001)
- Boris Marshak (1933-2006)
- living
- Viktor Sarianidi (b. 1929)
- Valentin Yanin (b. 1929)
- Dmitry Machinsky (b. 1937)
- Natalia Polosmak
[edit] Sites
- Further information: Kurgan and Eurasian nomads
major archaeological cultures and sites in Russia
- Khvalynsk culture (Eneolithic)
- Novotitorovka culture (Early Bronze Age)
- Maykop culture (Early Bronze Age)
- Afanasevo culture (Early Bronze Age)
- Abashevo culture (Bronze Age)
- Andronovo culture (Middle to Late Bronze Age)
- Tanais (Late Bronze to Iron Age)
- Pazyryk culture (Iron Age)
- Tmutarakan
- Staraya Ladoga (Viking Age)
- Sarkel (9th century)
[edit] Literature
- G. Trigger, A History of Archaeological Thought, McGill University, Montréal, pp. 327ff.
- Mikhail Miller, Archaeology in the U.S.S.R, New York (1956).
