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Micromorphological features of medieval cultural layers formed in different environmental backgrounds
Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana. 2022. Vol. 74. No. 3. Article A080822.
Bronnikova M., Karpova J., Murasheva V., Kochkina A. F., Stashenkov D. A., Arzhantseva I., Haerke H. G.
This research compares results of micromorphological case studies conducted on four early medieval archaeological sites with differentiated spatialization of human impacts and a varied craft production located in different background environments: humid climate, subzone of mixed forests, floodplain of the Dnieper River (Gnezdovo site); semi-humid climate, subzone of forest-steppe, Middle Volga region (Muromsky Gorodok and Malaya Ryazan’ sites); arid climate, cold desert of the Aral region, ancient delta-alluvial plain of the Syr-Darya River (Dzhankent site).
Soloshcheva M., Российское китаеведение 2026 Vol. 14 No. 1 P. 6–23
This article examines the conceptualization of Chinese soft power and the implementation
of the PRC’s soft power strategy in Africa. First introduced into academic
discourse by American political scientist Joseph Nye in 1990, the concept was subsequently
adopted and critically re-evaluated by Chinese political theorists, most notably
Wang Huning, Yan Xuetong, Yang Shengping and Zhang Guozuo. The term has ...
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Веретёнов В. А., Технологос 2023 № 2 С. 115–123
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Верняев И. И., Уральский исторический вестник 2026 Т. 92 № 3 С. 24–33
This article explores the factors driving the regional differentiation of judicial activity in the post-reform Russian Empire. The historiography is currently divided between two poles: the paradigm of legal dualism, which postulates the alienation of rural and non-Russian (inorodtsy) populations from the Crown courts, and the opposing thesis of mass grassroots legalism, large- ly verified ...
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Chronopoulos D., Вестник Омского университета. Серия: Исторические науки 2027 № 1
В 1863 г. в России отметили тысячелетие славянской письменности. Имперские власти и церковные деятели осознавали общеславянский характер праздника и его важность для «славянского вопроса». В общественной дискуссии фигуры Кирилла и Мефодия были мобилизованы для осмысления ключевых вопросов — от народного просвещения до обострившегося в связи с восстанием «Польского вопроса». Парадоксальным образом обращение к «общеславянскому» прошлому ...
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Pochekaev R. Y., Тутаев И. В., Христианское чтение 2026 № 3 С. 254–269
The article presents an attempt to clarify the general trends and analyze some specific examples of how the form and content of canon law documents in the 13th-15th centuries were affected by the fact that Russian lands were under the rule of the Golden Horde khans. The discussion covers such aspects as the types of ...
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Stoyanov R., Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 2026 Vol. 32 No. 1 P. 1–13
This study examines the fragment of an architectural block adorned with vegetal ornamentation which was discovered at the ancient settlement of Kepoi, situated in the Asiatic Bosporus on the northern coast of the Black Sea (fig. 1). The block’s façade features a spiraling vegetal motif rendered in high relief with exceptional detail (fig. 2). The ...
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Ivantchik A., Зайцев А. В., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2026 Vol. 86 No. 1 P. 141–152
This article publishes the inscriptions preserved on the funerary stele from Parion, discussed in the preceding article. The stele was used twice, and the Greek inscription, carved at the same time as the stele was created in the late second – early first century BC, was partly erased when it was re-used. It was reconstructed ...
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Istanbul: Ege Yayınları, 2025.
This volume presents the results of the first season of a Turkish–Russian–French research project at Parion, one of the most important Greek poleis on the southern shore of the Propontis, in the northern Troad. Archaeological excavations were carried out in July and August 2021 as part of an international project devoted to the multidisciplinary study ...
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Данилочкина К. С., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2026 Т. 1 № 30 С. 537–546
The article examines the issue of naming the wooden writing tablets from the Roman fort Vindolanda (late 1st - first quarter of the 2nd century AD), which represent a unique corpus of epistolary and documentary sources for the history of Roman Britain. Since their discovery in the 1970s, over a thousand specimens have been found, ...
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Щавелев А. С., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2026 Т. 17 № 6(164) Статья 3
The present study considers a suite of insignia recovered from the large burial mound C‐74 (Serg‐1900) within the Gnezdovo archaeological complex, dated to the 10th century. The interment was performed in situ according to the cremation‐in‐boat rite. The richness of the grave assemblage, notably the presence of several paired high‐status items (two sets of horse ...
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Романенко А. А., Философия. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2026 Т. 9 № 2 С. 71–95
В статье представлен опыт анализа славянофильского понимания «народа» — одной из ключевых тем учения славянофилов и одного из важнейших понятий их политической доктрины. Славянофильство нами рассматривается в «узком» смысле слова, как идейное объединение А.С. Хомякова, И.В. Киреевского, Ю.Ф. Самарина, К.С. и И.С. Аксаковых, А.И. Кошелева и других, сформировавшееся в начале 1840-х гг.; анализ нами доводится ...
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Kirilov D., Диалог со временем 2026 № 96 С. 146–160
This article examines Irish November 5th sermons published between 1691 and 1711. These government-issued texts are considered as instruments for shaping cultural memory and symbolic authority. Through teleological narratives grounded in a substantive philosophy of history, preachers drew parallels between biblical stories and the situation of Protestants in Ireland, transforming sacred history into lessons and ...
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Abilova R., Вестник Томского государственного университета. История 2023 № 85 С. 141–148
The article is devoted to the photographs of Lubinskis, taken in the Soviet Union in the summer of 1928. The author reconstructs the context of the creation and existence of photographs. The research is based on digital photography collections of Spaarnestad Photo Foundation and Ullstein Bildarchiv, Kurt Lubinski`s travelogue book “This is our world” (1938), ...
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Young P. I., Журнал фронтирных исследований 2026 Т. 11 № 3 С. 85–106
In 1876, a group of Swedish ironworkers arrived at the Urals in order to construct modern Swedish blast furnaces and modernize the local metal production. On the Ural frontier, they encountered a multiethnic environment populated by Russians, Germans, and Bashkirs. The present article examines the relations between the Swedish colonists and the local population with ...
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Шистерова А. Д., Сибирские исторические исследования 2026 № 2 С. 213–231
The article analyzes the sources that were presented in the emissaries’ accounts of the first two embassies from the Muscovite kingdom to China. This analysis identifies key trends that influenced the languages of space and China description development. It emphasizes the uniqueness of each emissaries’ account and the distinctive methods ambassadors used for working with ...
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Mitina E., Гуманитарные исследования в Восточной Сибири и на Дальнем Востоке 2026 № 77 С. 22–30
The article is devoted to the practice of wearing national costume in the Russian Empire in the first third of the 19th century. Two types of the national costume are analyzed: the Russian dress (women's court dress) and stylized Russian costume with a sarafan. A tradition of using Russian court dress during the celebration of ...
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Kurbanova F., Konstantinov E. A., Lebedeva M. P. et al., Catena 2025 Vol. 255 Article 109011
The Kostenki-Borshevo archaeological complex, located on the right bank of the Don Valley, is the largest cluster of Upper Paleolithic sites in Eastern Europe. Despite extensive research, many paleoecological issues related to these sites remain unresolved, particularly those concerning the history of their surface and pedogenic processes. In this study, we focus on the topography ...
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Mingalev V. V., Мингалева М. К., В кн.: Культура русских в археологических исследованиях: сборник научных статей. В 2-х томах: Том 1.: Издательский Дом "Наука", 2024. С. 153–158.
The article investigate part of a large collection of rings found during archaeological excavations in the Perm. All artefacts are from the cultural layer of the 18th century. The introduction describes a brief history of the place of excavations with reference to old maps of city, and the general conclusions of the excavation results and ...
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Karpova J. O., Bronnikova M. A., Lebedeva M. P. et al., Eurasian Soil Science 2025 Vol. 58 Article 36
The article is devoted to the features of the cultural layer of the early medieval settlement of Dzhankent in the Eastern Aral Sea region ...
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Bricheva S., Akhmetgaleeva N., Panin A. et al., Anthropologie 2024 Vol. 128 No. 2 Article 103241
The Byki complex on the left bank of the Seim River (Desna basin) comprises eight sites, including multilayer ones, differing chronologically and culturally. The dates of key cultural layers are from 21 to 18 thousand BP. Questioning the use of local landscapes by prehistoric people and the reasons for repeated occupation of the area required ...
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Vasilyev S., Puzanova T., Vasilyev D. et al., International Journal of Anthropology 2021 Vol. 36 No. 1-2 P. 119–137
The article discusses the possibilities of using various geoarchaeological methods for a burial mound located in the Caspian Lowland. The investigated mound group “Bogomolnye Peski – 1” is a vivid example of a unique monument, since it was originally constructed during the Bronze Age (the first structure) and then completed in the Early Iron Age, ...
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Ф. Г. Курбанова, Пузанова Т. А., Асеева Е. Н. et al., Геоморфология и палеогеография (ранее - Геоморфология) 2022 Т. 53 № 5 С. 32–47
Due to isolation from the external environment, the soils buried under the mounds of burial complexes are valuable natural archives that provide information on the past environments. The paper deal with soils buried under mounds in the Middle Ages with a short time interval - 25-50 years. The research included the detailed field morphological description ...
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Kurbanova F., Makeev A., Aseyeva E. et al., Catena 2023 Vol. 220 Article 106675
Soils buried under five defensive ramparts of the Early Iron and Middle Ages were studied in the forest-steppe zone of the Russian Plain (Lipetsk region, Russia). The time of the burial differs from each other for hundred years allowing studying variation of soil properties based on short-term chronosequences within these ranges and reconstructing the comparatively ...
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Arzhantseva I., Haerke H. G., Tazhekeev A., , in: Proceedings of the international scientific and practical conference “Methods and methodology of archaeological sciences in archaeological field research”, 18 September 2019, Al-Farabi National Kazakh University.: Almaty: Kazakh Universiteti Almaty, 2019. P. 4–11.
Report on the methods (geophysics, geomorphology, palaeobotany, micromycology) used in the fieldwork in the early medieval town of Dzhankent (Kazakhstan) ...
Added: October 26, 2019