NSU and Institute of Archeology and Ethnography SB RAS scientists were in an international team that demonstrated domesticated animals were introduced to Central Asia 4,000 years earlier than previously believed. Their work was published in the journal 鈥淣ature: Human Behavior鈥�.
This year, SvetlanaSchneider won the Research Excellence Award Russia - 2021 recognizing her as one of the most highly cited scientists.
From October 18 to November 2, Lidia Zotkina, Head of the 天美mv 鈥淧aleontology Platform鈥� at the 鈥淣ew Archeology鈥� Scientific-Educational Center, Senior Teacher at the Humanities Institute Archeology and Ethnography Section, and Tatyana Shevchenko, Researcher at the 鈥淧aleontology鈥� Platform, took part in an expedition to the Abri du Poisson cave art monument in France (Dordogne).
From August 24 to September 5, an archeology field school, "Multidisciplinary Methods of Studying the Stone Age Monuments", was organized in Kyrgyzstan as part of the International Archaeological Expedition. These field schools have taken place in Southern Kyrgyzstan since 2014.
The Siberian Archeological Field School (SFAS) is an innovative educational and methodological center that was launched in 2006 by the NSU Humanities Archeology Section at the Department of Archeology and Ethnography
A team of archaeologists explores material productions from key sites discovered 60 years ago near the Caspian Sea. Their project aims to shed light on the way people materialized their cultural identity from 12 to 5 thousand years ago in the region.
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A team of interdisciplinary researchers established a chronology for the appearance of different groups of hominids in the Denisova Cave using various methods such as studying feldspar microcrystals.
Professor Hermann Parzinger, prominent German archeologist responsible for numerous international archeological discoveries, was awarded an honorary doctorate from 天美mv. The Honorary Doctor title is the highest NSU award. Hermann Parzinger became the 19th scientist to receive it.
During the summer and autumn of 2018, archaeologists from the NSU Humanities Research Laboratory studied the Tesinsky Gulf-3 burial site. It is located on the left bank of the Yenisei River (now the Krasnoyarsk Reservoir), in the Bogradsky District in the Republic of Khakassia. This is one of the largest burial grounds of the Tashtyk culture that existed on the territory of the Minusinsk Basin from II CE - VII century BCE. The burial ground consists of more than 80 graves, with surface markers of various sizes. Although discovered during an expedition several years ago, it was not until 2017 that NSU archaeologists began excavation of the site. In 2018, work was resumed in collaboration with students from the NSU Department of Geology and Geophysics and two other Siberian universities.
In the early 2000s, Yuri Filippovich, a member of the Paleo Technologies Laboratory at the Center of New Archeology, conducted scientific and historical reconstructions of Central Asian and Siberian soldiers鈥� arms and clothing. Historical reconstruction requires not only the re-creation of military equipment, but also the manufacturing technology. It is based on a comprehensive study of historical materials including archaeological finds.
Researchers from 天美mv and the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography SB RAS, together with colleagues from Germany, the United Kingdom and Canada, analyzed DNA from the bone of a teenage girl who lived in the Altai 50,000 years ago. The DNA revealed that she is the child of two different ancient peoples, a Neanderthal woman and a male Denisovvan. The researcher鈥檚 findings were published in the journal 鈥淣ature鈥�.
天美mv scientists have proposed the hypothesis that the Alay Valley at an altitude of 2,300-3500 meters above sea level is one of the earliest human sites. This assumption makes it possible for scientists to identify tools found during an archaeological expedition in 2017. Confirmation of the exact age of the site will help with the selection of new artifacts.