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Bones from the wooden street pavements of the medieval Novgorod the Great: Can they tell a story?
Вестник Тверского государственного университета. Серия: Биология и экология. 2019. Vol. 3. P. 61–68.
Zinoviev A.
Here I discuss a collection of animal bones, found on the two succeeding
wooden pavements of the medieval Kozmodemyanskaya Street of Novgorod
the Great. The pioneering study draws attention to the bones found in
wooden street pavements as a valuable source of information on the life of
the medieval city.
Gippius A., Вопросы языкознания 2025 № 4 С. 7–41
This article contains a preliminary publication of 30 birchbark letters found during the 2024 archaeological season at the Troitsky excavation in Veliky Novgorod. The vast majority of the published texts date back to the 12th century. Most important in historical and philological terms are the following items: a letter mentioning a military campaign and related ...
Added: September 21, 2025
Gippius A., Вопросы языкознания 2024 № 4 С. 7–26
The article contains a preliminary publication of nineteen birchbark letters found during the archaeological season of 2023 in Veliky Novgorod (Nos. 1158–1172) and Staraya Russa (Nos. 55–58). The published documents date back to the 12th— early 16th centuries. From the historical point of view, three 14th-century documents are of the greatest value: No. 1164 is ...
Added: September 7, 2024
Gippius A., Вопросы языкознания 2022 № 6 С. 7–20
The article contains a preliminary publication of seven birchbark letters of the 12th — first half
of the 15th centuries found during the archaeological season of 2021 in Veliky Novgorod (Nos. 1136–
1141, 1144) and the letter No. 52 from Staraya Russa. Especially interesting in their contents are
No. 1137 (early 15th century) — a fragment of a ...
Added: December 5, 2022
Gippius A., Mikheev S. M., Slovo 2022 Т. 72 № 1 С. 47–92
The paper continues in the vein of similar research on Glagolitic graffiti from 2012 and 2015.
It presents 26 newly discovered inscriptions from Novgorod, all dating to the 11th and 12th
centuries.
The graffiti are found on the walls of the 1145–1150 St. Sophia Cathedral, the Church of the
Annunciation at Gorodische (founded in 1103 and demolished in the ...
Added: November 19, 2022
Zinoviev A., В кн.: Сборник материалов Международной научной конференции "Хэйлунцзян - Приамурье".: ИЦ ПГУ им. Шолом-Алейхема, 2022. С. 142–145.
Here we provide a comparative analysis of the zooarchaeological material from the places of status of medieval cities of Rus’. The analysis is based on the substantial material obtained in Tver Kremlin and city ...
Added: March 31, 2022
Bojcov M. A., Historische Zeitschrift 2022 Vol. 315 No. 1 P. 105–116
Extended review of the book: Carsten Goehrke, Unter dem Schirm der göttlichen Weisheit. Geschichte und Lebenswelten des Stadtstaates Groß-Nowgorod, Zürich: Chronos, 2020. ...
Added: January 30, 2022
Zinoviev A., В кн.: Археология и история Пскова и Псковской землиТ. 35. Вып. 65.: Институт археологии РАН, 2020. С. 431–439.
Data on the zooarchaeology of the Medieval Kremlin of Tver ...
Added: January 7, 2022
Полехов С. В., Gippius A., Лукин П. В. et al., Труды Института российской истории РАН 2021 № 16 С. 41–75
An Old Russian missive written in March 1425 by the authorities of the city of Reval (modern Tallinn in Estonia) to Novgorod, concerning the arrest and captivity of Reval merchants, is published for the first time, accompanied by historical and linguistic commentary. Alongside with it, a parallel Middle Low German version of the same document ...
Added: October 28, 2021
Gippius A., Вопросы языкознания 2021 № 5 С. 66–92
The article is a preliminary publication of fourteen birchbark letters found in Veliky Novgorod during the archaeological season of 2020. With the exception of Nо. 1135 (mid-12th century), the published documents date back to the 14th — first half of the 15th century. Despite the fragmented state of most of the texts, their overall content can ...
Added: October 28, 2021
Gippius A., Шаги/Steps 2021 Т. 7 № 3 С. 67–81
The social term shestnik, known from Novgorod-Pskov sources of the 13th–16th centuries, despite repeated attempts to interpret it, has not yet received a convincing explanation either in terms of its content or in terms of etymology. The article shows that the widespread understanding of this term as a designation of various kinds of newcomers, connected ...
Added: October 27, 2021
Zinoviev A., International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 2021 Vol. 31 No. 4 P. 568–582
The paper is focused on the comparative zooarchaeological analysis of one of the Russian medieval strongholds. Animal bones originating from the sediments of the Tver stronghold (Tver Kremlin), accumulated over the period of its existence (12-18th centuries), are analyzed. The composition and nature of the bones of animals from Tver Kremlin correspond in general to ...
Added: February 13, 2021
Gippius A., Вопросы языкознания 2020 № 5 С. 22–37
Stat'ja predstavljaet soboj predvaritel'nuju publikaciju berestjanyh gramot, najdennyh v Velikom Novgorode i Staroj Russe v arheologicheskom sezone 2019 g. ...
Added: November 16, 2020
Hamilton-Dyer S., Maltby M., Sablin M. et al., , in: Animals and archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia: Zooarchaeological studies in Novgorod and its region.: Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2020. P. 255–293.
Bird bones from Novgorod and sites in its immediate hinterland ...
Added: March 12, 2020
Hamilton-Dyer S., Maltby M., Sablin M. et al., , in: Animals and archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia: Zooarchaeological studies in Novgorod and its region.: Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2020. P. 293–307.
Fish bones from Novgorod, sites in its immediate hinterland and Minino ...
Added: March 12, 2020
Maltby M., Hamilton-Dyer S., Hambleton E. et al., , in: Animals and archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia: Zooarchaeological studies in Novgorod and its region.: Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2020. P. 87–136.
The exploitation of domestic mammals in Novgorod: Evidence from Troitsky IX, X and other sites in Novgorod ...
Added: March 12, 2020
Maltby M., Hamilton-Dyer S., Zinoviev A. et al., , in: Animals and archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia: Zooarchaeological studies in Novgorod and its region.: Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2020. P. 223–237.
The exploitation of wild mammals in Novgorod and sites in its immediate hinterland ...
Added: March 12, 2020
Maltby M., Hambleton E., Hamilton-Dyer S. et al., Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2020.
This is the third book in a series on Medieval Novgorod and its surroundings and deals with a substantial body of animal bones that have been recovered over the last decade. The zooarchaeological evidence is discussed by the editor and a number of English and Russian specialists who dug the site, looking at domestic exploitation ...
Added: March 12, 2020
Zinoviev A., International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 2010 Vol. 20 No. 5 P. 586–590
The aim of this study was to investigate a unique case of polydonty in wild boar from the early medieval Novgorod (second half of 11th century AD). The only preserved distal part of the right mandibular branch shows a rotated transitional permanent extra premolar between P3 and P4. This abnormality has the potential to serve as ...
Added: March 8, 2020
Zinoviev A., Вестник Тверского государственного университета. Серия: Биология и экология 2015 Vol. 3 P. 78–83
The aim of the communication is to report and investigate the discovery of the Steppe marmot lower jaw in the layers the first centuries AD in the ancient Greek city Panticapaeum. This is the first record of the marmot remains from the easternmost part of the Crimean Peninsula (Kerch Peninsula). Although the animal could have ...
Added: March 7, 2020
Zinoviev A., International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 2018 Vol. 28 No. 2 P. 109–119
The aim of this study was to investigate the unique find from medieval Novgorod the Great—an almost complete skull of a young Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber L.). Comparisons of the craniometry of this skull with the skulls of the autochthonous and reintroduced populations of beavers from the same and adjacent regions suggest that a type ...
Added: February 28, 2020
Zinoviev A., International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 2019 Vol. 29 No. 2 P. 356–360
Here we report a discovery of a bone of the black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius L.) in medieval layers of the rural Savvatiev Monastery (Tver Region, Russia). Deposited in the wooden house, presumably refectory, subfloor, the woodpecker's remains could be associated with an activity of the cat. A complex of bones, associated with the find, characterizes the ...
Added: February 14, 2020
Selin A. A., В кн.: Переводчики и переводы в России конца XVI - начала XVIII столетия. Материалы международной научной конференции. Москва, 12-13 сентября 2019 г.: М.: Институт российской истории РАН, 2019. С. 128–134.
The article is about Olfer Severov who served as an interpretor in Novgorod the Great in the time of Novgorod-Swedish political alliance ...
Added: November 7, 2019
Gippius A., Вопросы языкознания 2019 № 4 С. 47–71
The article is a preliminary publication of the birchbark letters found in Veliky Novgorod and Staraya Russa during the archaeological season of 2018. ...
Added: October 11, 2019
Зализняк А. А., Gippius A., Вопросы языкознания 2018 № 4 С. 7–24
The article is a preliminary publication of the birchbark letters found in Novgorod and Staraya Russa
during the archeological season of 2017. This is the last publication in the series prepared by Andrey Anatolyevich
Zaliznyak. ...
Added: February 21, 2019