LEADERS OF THE ST. PETERSBURG SCHOOL OF SIBERIAN ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE LATE 20TH AND EARLY 21ST CENTURIES: NIKOLAI ANATOLIEVICH BOKOVENKO (ON THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SCHOLAR)
Abstract
This article dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the prominent Saint-Petersburg archaeologist, senior fellow of the IHMC RAS, PhD in History and associate professor Nikolai Anatolievich Bokovenko, presents a brief scientific biography of one of the leading researchers of the Leningrad/Saint Petersburg school of Siberian archaeology, a student and follower of its founder, professor Mikhail P. Gryaznov.
The article describes the key events associated with the formation of his scientific views and field research skills. N. A. Bokovenko’s contribution to the study and preservation of the region’s ancient past and the development of modern concepts of the formation of archaeological cultures and origins of ancient societies of the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Southern Siberia and Central Asia is evaluated. The article is supplemented by a selected bibliography of the scholar.
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