Archaeology of Russia

Russian archaeology begins in the Russian Empire in the 1850s and becomes Soviet archaeology in the early 20th century. Quotes Reliance upon migrations as the principal agent of social change has been typical of Russian archaeological interpretations, along with a blurring of the distinction between ethnic, linguistic, racial, and cultural entities, the isolation of racial/ethnic groups by the craniometric methods of physical anthropology, and the use of linguistic paleontology to reconstruct the development of cultural groups. Lamberg-Karlovsky, C.C. (2002). Archaeology and Language. Current Anthropology, 43, 63 - 88. External links Category:Archaeology Category:Russia