Website of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia reports about the participation of AltSU in the organization of an international conference on archeology

29 May 2020 Department of Information and Media Communications
The official website of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation reported that Altai State University has become one of the organizers of the international scientific conference “Archaeological Monuments of South Siberia and Central Asia: from the emergence of cattle-breeding communities to the formation of state entities”.

The scientific forum is planned for the first decade of April 2021 and will be held in St. Petersburg at the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the State Hermitage Museum.

In 2020–21 the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IHMC RAS) celebrates two memorable dates - the 90th anniversary of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Gleb A. Maksimenkov and the 85th anniversary of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Elga B. Vadetskaya - two famous researchers of antiquities of Southern Siberia, long-term employees of IHMC  RAS (Leningrad Department of the Institute of Archeology, USSR), who studied archaeological sites of a wide chronological range - from the Eneolithic era to the time of the formation of the first state formations.

The program and organizational committees of the conference, devoted to a wide range of problems associated with the study of archaeological sites of the Eneolithic, Bronze, Early Iron Age and Early Middle Ages, includes leading scientists of the AltSU Institute of History and International Relations: Head of the Department of Archeology, Ethnography and Museology, Doctor of History, Professor Aleksey Tishkin, Associate Professor of the Department of Archeology, Ethnography and Museology, Doctor of History, Sergey Grushin and Doctor of History, Nikolai Seregin.

Following the results of the conference, it is planned to publish a collection of selected proceedings of the scientific forum, which will include full versions of reports that have caused the greatest interest and highly reflect the current level of scientific research (conceptual problems of chronology and cultural periodization, new discoveries, the use of innovative methods of studying archaeological material, and interdisciplinary research).

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