ARC HAEOLOGICAL STUDIES OF AXEL HEIKEL IN TRANSBAIKALIA
Abstract
The paper is devoted to little known data and research conducted in Transbaikalia in the 19th century. Thus, the expedition of the Finnish researcher Axel Olai Heikel conducted research of monuments of writing, stone steles with runic letters, inscriptions in ancient Uighur and Chinese, in the Orkhon River valley in Mongolia. On the way back from Mongolia, Aksel Heikel spent time in Troitskosavsk to study archaeological materials and sites of Transbaikalia. He examined khereksurs, slab graves, deer stones, rock paintings and steles with inscriptions near Troitskosavsk and Verkhneudinsk, as well as in the Uda River valley. A. Heikel’s publication today has mainly historiographical interest, with the exception of the only one surviving photographic image published in it, the lost deer stone from the Sanniy Mys burial ground.
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