2021 June 17 Two expedition-affiliated Master’s degree students successfully defended their theses at Novosibirsk State University: Matvey Zhukov, Microblade production in Early Holocene lithic industries of Mongolia (Gobi Altai). Supervisor – Arina Khatsenovich Galina Posmetnaya, Paleoclimatic conditions of Late Pleistocene human occupation in the Orkhon Valley, Mongolia (pollen spectra of the Orkhon 1 and 7Continue reading “Two Master’s degree students defended theses on the Paleolithic of Mongolia”
Author Archives: Mongolian Expedition
Dr. Irina Vishnevskaya performs pretreatment and measurements of Strontium isotope composition
Irina spent April 2021 in the “Geoanalytic” geochemical lab in Ekaterinburg performing sample pretreatment and measuring 87Sr/86SR ratios on samples from the Altai Mountains and Mongolia. She will present the first results of her work online at Goldshmidt2021, July 4-9 in Lyon, and at DIG2021, May 17-21 in Faro.
Alexei Klementiev’s analyses of Pleistocene faunal remains from Mongolian Paleolithic sites
Work conducted in March 2021 in the collections storage facility of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS was very difficult for our team. Faunal collections are ready to be moved to new storage facilities, so we needed to locate the Mongolian collections that have been stored there, untouched and unanalyzed, since the 1980s.Continue reading “Alexei Klementiev’s analyses of Pleistocene faunal remains from Mongolian Paleolithic sites”
Arina Khatsenovich, Irina Vishnevskaya, and Evgeny Mikheev present results of their paleoisotopic research at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
They presented the first results of their study of Strontium isotopic composition: the first stage of 87Sr/86Sr ratio mapping in the Altai region and Mongolia and, results of a study of faunal samples from Orkhon-1 and Moiltyn-am. 87Sr/86Sr ratios of bone samples, compared to results obtained on sediments from site profiles, indicate that some speciesContinue reading “Arina Khatsenovich, Irina Vishnevskaya, and Evgeny Mikheev present results of their paleoisotopic research at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS”
Tomorrow Dr. Evgeny Rybin will defend a thesis of his Dr. Habil. dissertation
December 21, 06:00 a.m. (Moscow time) Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science. Event will be available online on YouTube (even after defense) in Russian Сессия диссертационного совета Института археологии и этнографии СО РАН – YouTube Evgeny Rybin will present his dissertation ” Regional variability of Initial Upper Paleolithic lithicContinue reading “Tomorrow Dr. Evgeny Rybin will defend a thesis of his Dr. Habil. dissertation”
John Olsen becomes an Honorary Doctor of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS, Novosibirsk
University of Arizona Regents’ Professor Emeritus John W. Olsen has worked with the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS since 1995. The Joint Mongolian-Russian-American Archaeological Expedition that he co-directs celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2020. The Expedition has investigated Tsagaan Agui Cave and Chikhen Agui Rockshelter, the Chikhen-2 site, and discovered the Tolbor Valley’sContinue reading “John Olsen becomes an Honorary Doctor of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS, Novosibirsk”
Isotopic Research in the Altai Mountains
Mongolia and the Altai Mountains were closely connected in the Upper and, probably, Middle Paleolithic: people migrated across these regions and throughout Central Asia and southern Siberia. These migrations represent human dispersals stimulated by several causes, including climate change and the movement of game animals. People transported animal bones, minerals and organic raw materials, andContinue reading “Isotopic Research in the Altai Mountains”
The Initial Upper Paleolithic Tolbor-21 site: a new article in Quaternary International
Our new paper Evgeny P. Rybin, Cleantha N. Paine, Arina M. Khatsenovich, Tsedendorj Bolorbat, Sahra Talamo, Daria V. Marchenko, William Rendu, Alexei M. Klementiev, Davakhuu Odsuren, Byambaa Gunchinsuren, Nicolas Zwyns., 2020. A new Upper Paleolithic occupation at the site of Tolbor-21 (Mongolia): Site formation, human behavior and implications for the regional sequence has appeared onlineContinue reading “The Initial Upper Paleolithic Tolbor-21 site: a new article in Quaternary International”
Archaeological survey in the Russian Altai Mountains
In July 2020, our team visited several Paleolithic sites in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia. We had geographical coordinates of sites investigated in the 1980s-1990s, including Maloyalomanskaya Cave and Kara-Tenesh, but, of course, those coordinates proved to be incorrect! Local people were very kind and helped us find Maloyalomanskaya Cave, which is in goodContinue reading “Archaeological survey in the Russian Altai Mountains”
Arina Khatsenovich presents talk for “Down Ancient Trails”
Down Ancient Trails is an international archaeological forum organized by the Sharma Center for Heritage Education, India and supported by the Leakey Foundation. It is an online platform for specialists in archaeological sciences and anthropology to share their research. A number of headliners in archaeology gave presented talks about various subjects that they study. ShantiContinue reading “Arina Khatsenovich presents talk for “Down Ancient Trails””
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