Russian archaeology

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.

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

ites

major archaeological cultures and sites in Russia
*Khvalynsk culture (Eneolithic)
*Novotitorovka culture (Early Bronze Age)
*Maykop culture (Early Bronze Age)
**Maykop kurgan
*Afanasevo culture (Early Bronze Age)
*Abashevo culture (Bronze Age)
*Andronovo culture (Middle to Late Bronze Age)
**Arkaim
**Sintashta
*Tanais (Late Bronze to Iron Age)
*Pazyryk culture (Iron Age)
*Tmutarakan
*Staraya Ladoga (Viking Age)
*Sarkel (9th century)

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).

ee also

*History of archaeology
*History of Russia
*History of Central Asia
*Scythia
*Kurgan hypothesis