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Multi-scale palaeolandscape reconstruction at the Upper Paleolithic Byki sites, central East European Plain
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 a paleolandscape reconstruction. For this purpose, a set of methods were applied on a research scale from local (archaeological excavation) to regional (within a radius of several kilometres). The site's position in the regional topography has been studied using GIS methods, for the nearest encirclement of Byki a detailed digital terrain model was constructed. The near-surface stratigraphy was studied by ground penetrating radar (GPR) and magnetic survey, coring and archaeological excavations. This resulted in the creation of a map of natural depressions layout and their three-dimensional visualisation. It was found that by the time people first arrived, the natural relief was a combination of sand dunes and rounded thermokarst sinkholes. The sediments filling the sinkholes indicate the over-watered conditions made them unsuitable for human habitation (the cultural layers do not extend into the sinkholes), but they could provide a source of water. Most of the sites are found on top of an aeolian barkhan. The distance maps showed that the sites’ location provided the best visibility in all directions. Thus, this atypical location of Byki sites at significant distances from the nearest rivers can be explained by a combination of several advantages: location on the edge of a valley in terms of distance vision, local topographic diversity that provided comfortable living conditions and possibly a water supply.
Шмитт К., М.: Праксис, 2026.
Классическая работа известного немецкого правоведа и политического теоретика Карла Шмитта, посвященная рассмотрению партизана как «фигуры мирового духа», начиная с его зарождения в ходе борьбы испанского народа против наполеоновских войск в 1808—1813 годах и вплоть до судьбы партизана в ходе «всемирной гражданской войны» ХХ века.
Перевод с немецкого Ю. Ю. Коринца. Новая редакция перевода Т. А. Дмитриева ...
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Kildyushov O., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2026 Т. 35 № 2 С. 6–21
This article examines a heuristic framework for analyzing the significance of Russian themes in Max Weber’s corpus, in connection with the completion of the complete edition of his works as a comprehensive source base. It highlights the ambivalent position of Russian themes in the his legacy: while Russia was never central to his scholarship, the issue ...
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Mkrtchyan N. V., Regional Research of Russia 2026 Vol. 16 No. 1 P. 170–181
The aim of the study is to assess the provision of all settlements in four regions of the Near North of Russia (Vologda, Kostroma, Kirov, and Yaroslavl oblasts) with social infrastructure institutions and to analyze whether the migration balance of settlements is associated with different provision of these institutions. The study was conducted using data ...
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Паникар М. М., Polar Journal 2026
The article attempts to explore the process of formation of a new sphere of relations between the USSR and the countries of the Arctic region in the period from 1986 to 1990. The April Plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee in 1985 laid the groundwork for a profound transformation in both the domestic and ...
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Кузнецова А. Д., Славяноведение 2025 № 6 С. 5–18
The article examines the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth`s description in «Opisanie sveta», a Russian translation of the Latin cosmography «Descriptio Orbis» by Luca de Linda. This description, to which Luca de Linda paid special attention, has been changed in the translation: the parts about geography, ranks, and Polish kings are reworked and contain details absent in the original. ...
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Loshkareva M. E., Шестакова Н. Ф., Новое прошлое 2026 № 1 С. 98–11
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Gaeva D. V., Barinova G. M., Romanchuk A. Y., Theoretical and Applied Climatology 2026 Vol. 157 Article 302
The objective of the paper was the spatio-temporal analysis of the dynamics of extreme climate indices for the south-eastern coast of the Baltic Sea over the 40-year period 1981–2020, employing 10 extreme indices proposed by Expert Team (ET) on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI), characterizing hazardous phenomena as: extremely high temperatures, heat waves and ...
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Mkrtchyan N. V., Известия РАН. Серия географическая 2026 Т. 90 № 1 С. 231–245
Objective of the study is to assess the provision of all settlements in four regions of the Russian Near
North (Vologda, Kostroma, Kirov, and Yaroslavl oblasts) with social infrastructure facilities and to
analyze whether the migration balance of settlements is associated with varying levels of provision of
these facilities. The study is based on data collected from open ...
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Vinogradov A., Slovĕne 2025 Т. 14 № 2 С. 38–55
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Bodrova M., Археология евразийских степей 2026 № 1 С. 287–292
The article examines a Neo-Babylonian seal discovered among the grave goods of a Sarmatian burial in Kurgan No. 3 near the village of Tbilisskaya (Pre-Caucasus region). Although the burial itself dates to the late 1st – early 2nd century CE, the seal’s iconography and carving technique indicate its origin in the Neo-Babylonian cultural sphere of the ...
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Gužvica S., Tokovi Istorije 2026 No. 1 P. 15–52
The paper analyzes the intellectual climate and political circumstances that shaped and heavily influenced the literary imagination and the semantic horizon of two novels—The Optimists: the Novel of a Revolution by Ervin Sinkó and Like a Tear in the Ocean: A Trilogy by Manès Sperber. Besides introductory remarks and conclusion, the paper’s structure is threefold, ...
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Крол А. А., Кузнецов Д. А., Ladynin I. A., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2026 № 1 С. 244–261
The publication presents a new translation and commentary of the Quban Stela of Ramesses II (Musée des beaux-arts Grenoble, Collection égyptienne, inv. 1937, 1969, 3565). This monument dates to the beginning of his reign (ca. 1287 BC); it was found near the ruins of the fortress of Baki, close to the Nubian village of Kuban. The composers of the ...
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Ladynin I. A., Дашкина А. Р., Проблемы истории, филологии, культуры 2026 № 1 (91) С. 24–37
The article examines two aspects of the integration of Nubia (with particular attention to Lower Nubia) into the statehood of ancient Egypt during early antiquity (up to the end of the 2nd millennium BC). During the First and Second Intermediate Periods, Nubia demonstrates the adoption of Egyptian traditions of royal power, incorporating its territory into ...
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Ladynin I. A., Вестник древней истории 2024 Т. 84 № 1 С. 5–26
The article analyses a set of Classical evidence reflecting the Egyptian conquest of Bactria or its attempt (Diod. I. 46–47; Tac. Ann. II. 60. 3; Strabo XVII. 1. 46), a statement of Manetho of Sebennytos on the vast conquests of king Sethos-Ramesses (I) (Manetho. Frg. 50 = Ios. C.Ap. I. 15. § 98–102), and the ...
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Ladynin I. A., Немировский А. А., Social Evolution & History 2025 Vol. 24 No. 2 P. 162–167
The article deals with the problem of the state formation in the two key areas of the early civilizations, i.e. Egypt and Mesopotamia. In Egypt the stage of the so-called nome states was largely avoided, as the local polities had probably the nature of chiefdoms and the state emerged when they were integrated into larger ...
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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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Svoyski Y., Леванова Е. С., Романенко Е. В. et al., Археология, этнография и антропология Евразии 2025 Т. 53 № 3 С. 45–52
We present preliminary fi ndings relating to the Rashaan-Khad (Arshan-Khad, Mongolia) petroglyph site studied by
the Russian-Mongolian expedition in 2016 and 2023. Special attention is paid to petroglyphs that, in A.P. Okladnikov’s
words, appear archaic and those that can with various degree of certainty be interpreted as representations
of Late Pleistocene mammals such as woolly rhinoceros or mammoths. ...
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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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Bronnikova M., Karpova J., Murasheva V. et al., Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana 2022 Vol. 74 No. 3 Article A080822
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 ...
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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) ...
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Almaty: Kazakh Universiteti Almaty, 2019.
Proceedings of a conference on the application of scientific methods in archaeological fieldwork, mostly in Kazakhstan ...
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M., Smolensk: -, 2012.
International conference “Geomorphic Processes and Geoarchaeology: from Landscape Archaeology to Archaeotourism” was held in Moscow-Smolensk, Russia, August 20-24, 2012. The conference was organized with the support of Administration of the Smolensk Region, Russian Association of Geomorphologists, Moscow State Lomonosov University (Faculty of Geography and Faculty of History), Smolensk University for Humanities, Institute of Geography and ...
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