Hizri A. Amirkhanov- Professor
- Head of Department at Russian Academy of Sciences
Hizri A. Amirkhanov
- Professor
- Head of Department at Russian Academy of Sciences
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Gobustan is home to a large group of archaeological sites and many thousands of rock images dating from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. Due to its extraordinary scientific and artistic significance, the Gobustan complex is included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List. This paper focuses on rock images dating back to the Stone Age....
In the early 21st century, a substantial group of Oldowan sites was discovered in Central Dagestan. The thickness of the early Quaternary deposits at most of these sites exceeds 70 meters, containing more than three dozen cultural layers. In the majority of these layers, archaeological remains are represented solely by flint tools, while some layer...
The ethnogenesis and ethnic history of the peoples of the North-Eastern Caucasus remain a fascinating yet underexplored area of historical Caucasian studies. This article proposes a hypothesis regarding the origin of two ethnonyms: suli, used by the Chechens to designate Dagestanis (particularly Avars), and burti, employed by the Avars to refer to...
Based on the study of concrete material, the paper proposes to introduce a new Neolithic archaeological culture in the Caucasus – the Gobustan culture. As the basis for a detailed typological analysis, the author examined numerous collections of stone tools, uncovered from the cultural layers of the Anazaga site. Although known since 1965, these ma...
In the east of the Republic of Azerbaijan, in Gobustan district, there are numerous Stone Age sites with preserved culture-bearing deposits. Interest in the richest rock art sites concentrated there overshadowed studying the stone inventory of the region’s earliest sites relegating them to the background. In this work, the author proposes a general...
The article publishes for the first time the results of radiocarbon dating of cultural deposits of the multilayered Chokh settlement in Central Dagestan (Northern Caucasus, Russian Federation). The Chokh settlement - a monument with layers of the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age - for many decades has been and remains a key monument for the rec...
The collection of archeological sites of the North Caucasus sometimes contain obsidian artefacts. The question of the sources of this type of raw material, with the use of possibilities of natural science methods for the region under study, has not been raised before. Meanwhile, for such a region as the North-Eastern Caucasus, where there are no na...
To date, sixty years have passed since the excavations of V. G. Kotovich at the Chokh settlement and almost forty years after the fieldwork was carried out there by the author. Over these decades, much has changed in the approaches to excavations and to the interpretation of materials obtained from layers with heterogeneous archaeological stratigra...
Archaeological data fr om strati fi ed Early Pleistocene sites in Central Dagestan ar e arranged in a direct stratigraphic sequence, making it possible to reconstruct the changes in lithic industry over a span of 1.2 mln years, from ~2.0 to 0.8 Ma BP, and to separate the principal stages in the Early Paleolithic culture of the Caucasus. This study...
Археологические материалы многослойных раннеплейстоценовых памятников Центрального Дагестана представлены в виде прямой стратиграфической последовательности. Это дает возможность проследить здесь изменения каменной индустрии на протяжении 1,2 млн лет, от примерно 2,0 до 0,8 млн л.н., и выделить значимые рубежи периодизации культуры ранней первобытн...
Новыми раскопками верхних слоев стоянки Мухкай 1, проводившимися в 2019 г., получены важные данные для характеристики особенностей одного из памятников Северо-Восточного Кавказа, датирующегося временем около 1 млн л. н. и принадлежащего стадии перехода от олдована к ашелю. Изучение планиграфии находок слоя 7в дает возможность выявить дифференцирова...
An examination of the material from this site permits the conclusion that in the Caucasus, we can see the same kind of primary raw material working and technological development as is observed in the typical Oldowan complexes of Eastern Africa. Nonetheless, by comparison there is also a significant chronological delay in the timing of the transitio...
Раннепалеолитические стоянки Мухкай II и Мухкай IIa расположены на территории Акушинского района республики Дагестан на среднегорных высотах (h1629 м над ур. м.) акушинско-левашинского платообразного поднятия гимринского хребта (северная часть Восточного Кавказа). Стоянки залегают в толще раннеплейстоценовых отложений возрастом 2,11,7 млн. л.н. В х...
Shahmardan Nazimovich Amirov-leading researcher Of the Institute of archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, doctor of historical Sciences celebrates his sixtieth anniversary on January 1, 2020. The name of the hero of the day comes to mind to specialists of any level one of the first when problems of archeology and primitive history of the...
Сборник статей Горы Кавказа и Месопотамская степь на заре бронзового века посвящен юбилею выдающегося российского археолога, лауреата Государственной премии РФ, члена-корреспондента РАН, доктора исторических наук, профессора Рауфа Магомедовича Мунчаева. Весомый вклад Рауфа Магомедовича в изучении эпохи поздней первобытности Кавказа и Переднего Вост...
В статье дается обоснование выделению на Северо Восточном Кавказе раннеплейстоценовой крупноотщеповой индустрии. Сравнение материалов Центрального Дагестана соответствующего времени с инвентарем местного типичного олдована и индустриями раннего ашеля Африки и Южной Европы приводит к выводу о представленности на рассматриваемой территории культуры с...
The paper is devoted to a rare case of an encounter in the Early Pleistocene cultural layer of a bone with cut marks and a flint tool bearing use-wear traces. These artifacts were discovered in the context of Oldowan industry at the site Muhkai IIa, layer 2013-2, which dates back to no later than 1.95 million years ago. Complex analysis of the mate...
The paper presents the materials from the Middle Acheulian site Meshhed III in Wadi Douan (Republic of Yemen). The
site was discovered in 1986, but up to date the information on the site has been published only in Russian. Meanwhile, Meshhed III is
the only Acheulean site in the south of the Arabian Peninsula where the archaeological materials are...
The paper deals with the materials obtained from the lower layers of the multilayered cave site of Al-Guza in South Arabia.
The analysis of the available evidence makes it possible to date the stone industry to the Early Pleistocene and to define it as
belonging to the Oldowan. Thus, for the time being Al-Guza provides the most reliable evidence of...
Currently, in the eastern part of the North Caucasus (Central Dagestan; Akushinsky District of the Republic of Dagestan), the Ainikab- Muhkai-Gegalashur group consisting of eight multilayer Early Pleistocene sites is being studied. This work in а systematized form shows the current state of the
sources and presents the main results of the study of...
The paper presents the materials from the Middle Acheulian site Meshhed III in Wadi Douan (Republic of Yemen). The site was discovered in 1986, but up to date the information on the site has been published only in Russian. Meanwhile, Meshhed III is the only Acheulean site in the south of the Arabian Peninsula where the archaeological materials are...
The article gives an analytical overview of paleoanthropological finds from Palaeolithic Caucasus. Archaeological studies show that in the Early Pleistocene, the region was extensively inhabited. The path of the first settlers ran along the Western Caspian and possibly the Eastern Black Sea regions. This way was probably a transit on the one hand,...
В статье рассматривается развитие форм бифасов (главным образом рубил) в ашеле Северо-Восточного Кавказа. Выделяется четыре морфологические группы, которые соответствуют определенным подразделениям (верхний эоплейстоцен; баку, сингиль, хазар) местной стра-
тиграфической схемы плейстоцена. Фиксируется развитие рубил в соответствии с тенденциями, общ...
The paper deals with the temporal evolution of forms of Acheulian bifaces, predominantly handaxes, from the Northeast Caucasus. Four cultural-chronological groups corresponding to certain subdivisions, i.e. Upper Eopleistocene, Baku, Singil, and Khazar, of the local stratigraphic Pleistocene pattern are distinguished. It appears that the evolution...
The new art objects from Zaraysk show an extraordinary repertoire of incised carving on mammoth ivory plaques and carving in the round, including representations of women and large mammals, and geometric decoration on bone utensils. The authors show that while belonging to the broad family of Upper Palaeolithic artists, the Zaraysk carvers produced...
The skull and lower jaw morphology of a calf of Archidiskodon sp. from the Oldowan (Early Paleolithic) Muhkai IIa site (Akushinskii raion, Dagestan) is described. The Muhkai IIa site is dated more than 1.5 Ma. This is the first record of the skull and lower jaw of calf of this species from the northern Caucasus. A skull fragment and lower jaw with...
A unique Palaeolithic sculpture from the site of Zaraysk (Russia) - Volume 76 Issue 293 - Hizri Amirkhanov, Sergey Lev
The results of study of faunal materials unique for the north-eastern Caucasus are published, deriving from layer 80 of the Oldowan site of Muhkai II. Twenty-six specimens of four species of carnivorous mammal and six species of herbivorous mammal were identified in this material. In addition, the remains of small mammals, reptiles and amphibians w...
Cet article présente les résultats de fouilles et de recherches multidisciplinaires sur le site extraordinaire Muhkai II d’Oldowan, dans le Nord du Caucase (république du Dagestan, Russie) de 2008 à 2012. Les matériaux archéologiques et paléontologiques, de même que les résultats d’analyses paléomagnétiques et palynologiques obtenus à partir de 34...
The first art object from the Gravettian site of Zaraysk (Russia, Moscow Region), discovered during the excavations of 2001, is a figurine of a bison made from mammoth ivory. The statuette, a real masterpiece of Palaeolithic sculpture, is dated around 22000 BP. In comparison with known examples of mobiliary art objects from Eastern and Central Euro...
This paper presents some of the results of exploration and excavation by the Soviet-Yemeni expedition carried out between 1983 and 1990 in Hadramaut and Mahra. Oldowan, Acheulean, Middle Palaeolithic, Upper Palaeolithic, and‘Neolithic’stone tool industries are attested, providing what is probably the most detailed sequence covering these periods in...
In the article are presented the resultes of investigation of Tell Gihayu - the settlement of prehistoric fishermen and mollusk gatherers in the Khor Umayra lagoon, Gulf of Aden, Republic of Yemen
Previous research has documented textile and basketry production at Moravian Upper Palaeolithic sites, c.27,000 BP. Recent research extends these technologies to Russia and Germany, and amplifies information on perishable fibre artefacts from France. Collectively, these data illustrate the ubiquity of perishable technologies across the late Pleisto...
