M Dyakonov
Biographic Data
| ID | 116566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Dyakonov |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Dyakonov |
| SIGNATURE | DYAKONOV M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4899-6148 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
An Unusual Bronze Figurine from the Samartai Museum, Yakutia: The “Thing-in-Itself” and Semantic Content
В работе представлены результаты исследования уникального бронзового идола — крылатого медведя с изображениями антропоморфной личины и головы медведя на груди. Артефакт был найден в Хангаласском улусе Якутии и хранится в музее «Самартай» с. Кердём. Поиск аналогий данному предмету привел к целому кругу культур раннего железного века и Средневековья в Предуралье, Приуралье и Западной Сибири. Подобные полиэйконические образы были характерны для куль…
Preliminary Results of the Study of the Oy-Muran Neolithic Burial Complex on the Middle Lena River (Sakha Republic (Yakutia))
The article presents preliminary results of 2025 excavations of the Neolithic burial complex in the Oy-Muran locality on the Lena River. The conducted investigations revealed two soil burials: a paired burial and a separate burial of a skull. Both skeletons from the paired burial were interred with a significant grave good set including arrowheads, fragments of bone bow covers, a composite inset knife, a bone dagger in a sheath with bone covers, …
Preliminary Results of Works in 2025 on Chetyrekhstolbovoy Island in the Eastern Siberian Arctic (Medvezhyi Islands Archipelago)
Exploration works on the Chetyryokhstolbovoy Island – a part of the Medvezhyi Islands Archipelago in the East Siberian Sea – in the field season of 2025 by the archaeologists from S.A. Fedoseeva Museum of Arctic Archaeology at the Arctic Research Center of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and Yakut Integrated Laboratory of Archaeology of the Far North of the IAET SB RAS revealed ten dwellings belonging to the carriers of the Birnirk culture and po…
An Unusual Bronze Figurine from the Samartai Museum, Yakutia: The “Thing-in-Itself” and Semantic Content
This article presents a rare bronze idol—a winged bear with an anthropomorphic mask and a bear head on the chest. The artifact was found in the Khangalas Ulus (district) of Yakutia and is kept in the Samartai Museum in the village of Kerdem. The search for parallels led to a wide range of Early Iron Age and medieval cultures of the Western Urals and Western Siberia. Similar composite images are common among cast ritual items relating to the Pecho…
Materials of Excavations of the Khatyngnaakh II Multilayer Site on the Middle Vilyui in 2024
The article provides the first results of rescue archaeological excavations at the Khatyngnaakh II multilayer site, located in the impact zone of the Vilyui HPP-3 reservoir. The site was discovered by PAE and investigated by N.V. Antipina in 1979–1982. Excavations were complicated by the presence of permafrost soils, high water level, and disturbance of cultural deposits by postsedimentation processes. The excavations revealed finds and objects r…
First Archaeological Research on Krestovsky Island in the East Siberian Arctic (Medvezhyi Islands Archipelago)
In the field season of 2024, the Arctic Team of the Yakut Integrated Laboratory for Archaeology of the Far North at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, together with the Arctic Research Center of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), did first archaeological exploration on Krestovsky Island which is part of the Medvezhyi Islands Archipelago in the East Siberian Sea. Three ancient Eski…
A Metric Analysis of a Human Cranium from the Khatystyr Cave, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
В работе представлены результаты исследования краниологических материалов раннеголоценового времени, обнаруженных в пещере у с. Хатыстыр (Якутия) в 1962 г. Для черепа мужчины, погребенного в пещере, были получены измерения восьми признаков. На их основании был сделан дискриминантный канонический анализ с использованием индивидуальных данных по 14 древним выборкам с территории Сибири и Дальнего Востока, рассчитана матрица евклидовых расстояний меж…
A Metric Analysis of a Human Cranium from the Khatystyr Cave, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
We present the results of a metric study of a male Early Holocene cranium found in a cave near the Khatystyr village , Yakutia , in 1962. Eight measurements taken on the specimen were subjected to canonical discriminant analysis , using individual data on 14 ancient samples from Siberia and the Far East. Euclidean distances between these samples were calculated , and k- means clustering was performed . Results revealed similarity of the Khatystyr…
Comprehensive Study of Paleolithic Objects in the Arctic Zone (Muostakh Site, Bulunsky District, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia))
The burial Ogonyok in the middle Lena River region: A new site of the Bel'kachi Culture
The article presents the results of a comprehensive study of the Ogonyok burial, discovered and investigated in 2016 in the city of Yakutsk, Central Yakutia, in the middle reaches of the Lena River. The purpose of the study was to determine its cultural and chronological characteristics, to identify the features of the funeral rite and spe-cifics of the accompanying grave goods. In addition to historical and archaeological methods, the methods of…
Remains of Animals from the Mukhatta Site (the End of the Pleistocene - Holocene, Middle Steam of the Lena River, Yakutia)
Results of Survey on the Medvezhyi Islands Archipelago in the Eastern Siberian Arctic in 2021
This article presents the data on archaeological prospects of Medvezhyi Islands — a remote Arctic archipelago located in the East Siberian Sea north of the mouth of the Kolyma River. Traces of presence of ancient people have been observed there since the 18th century by polar explorers and expeditions. Some evidence was obtained by the staff of the Soviet polar station on Chetyrekhstolbovoi Island and was published by N.A. Beregovaya and V.M. Rau…
A Yakut Composite Bow from the Toybokhoy Museum
Якутский сложносоставной лук из фондов Тойбохойского музея DOI: 10.17746/1563-0102.2020.48.3.099-106 Р.И. Бравина, В.М. Дьяконов Институт гуманитарных исследований и проблем малочисленных народов Севера СО РАН ул. Петровского, 1, Якутск, 677027, Россия Статья вводит в научный оборот уникальный сложносоставной лук центрально-азиатского типа, который хранится в Тойбохойском краеведческом музее Сунтарского улуса Якутии. В работе приводятся информаци…
Provenance analysis of obsidian artifacts from the Indigirka River basin (Northeast Siberia) and the long-distance exchange of raw material in prehistoric Siberian Arctic
A Yakut Composite Bow from the Toybokhoy Museum
We give the fi rst description of an unusual composite bow of the Central Asian type, owned by the Toybokhoy Museum in the Suntarsky District of Yakutia, and provide information about its discovery. We foc us on the details and structural peculiarities of the specimen, and note that this refl ex composite bow differs in terms of construction and technology from those of the Northe rn type used by the Yakuts in the 17th to 19th centuries. It resem…
The spread of metal and metal production technology in the Far Northeast and Alaska over the second millennium BC to the first millennium AD
Findings and traces of early metallurgical production in the Far Northeast of Asia and Alaska show that the spread of bronze and iron metallurgy took place mainly along the Lena River towards of the Far Northeast, as well as to Taimyr. Spread of metallurgical technology is confirmed by the casting mould for a burin or awl, which was discovered in Eastern Chukotka on the Amguema River. However, metals in Chukotka were obviously too rare to trade u…
Determination of the source for prehistoric obsidian artifacts from the lower reaches of Kolyma River, Northeastern Siberia, Russia, and its wider implications
The Woman's Burial of Atlasovskoe-2 of the Xvii Century in Central Yakutia: Results of a Complex Research
XVII . -2 . ( , ) ( , , , , -), , XVI-XIX
A Medieval Yakut Burial Near Lake Atlasovskoye of the 14th–15th Centuries: An Anthropological Study
The burial near Lake Atlasovskoye, Yakutia, is one of the earliest Yakut burials, dating back to the 14th or 15th centuries and associated with the medieval Kulun-Atakh culture. Initially, its age was assessed by the comparative typological method based on artifacts, and later а radiocarbon estimate was generated, suggesting that the burial dates to the early stage of the Kulun-Atakh culture. Its highly unusual feature is that the individual was …
Comprehensive Study of the Early Yakut Sergelyakh Burial of the Xv - Beginning of the Xvi Centuries
The paper presents a comprehensive study of graves which relate to rare burial sites of the early stage of ethnic history of the Yakuts. The burial belongs to an equestrian warrior. It is confirmed by the findings of the horse harness and fragments of weapons, including a part of a Central Asian composite bow which is unique to the Yakuts, arrowheads and a blade of palma (Siberian pole weapon). The vertebral pathologies and morphological features…
The Ritually Disturbed Burials of Yakuts (Xvii-Xviii Сenturies)
Basing on the analysis of the archaeological data on medieval burials of Yakuts we raise the problems of interpretation of graves with traces of an ancient ritual penetration and violation of burial structures and of anatomical integrity of the skeletons of the buried, using ethnographic and folklore data. We give a generalized description of the main types of disturbed graves of the late Middle Ages of Yakutia: secondary burial, embalming, rende…
Ceramics of the Ulakhan-Segelennyakh Culture, Early Bronze Age, Yakutia
The principal diagnostic feature of the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC) Ulakhan-Segelennyakh culture of southern, southwestern, and western Yakutia, which was first described by the present author, is pottery decorated with punched nodes in combination with dentate impressions and stamp imprints. This type of pottery differs from Ust-Mil pottery and resembles both ancestral Ymyiakhtakh ceramics and ceramics made by immigrants. The Ulakhan-Segelenn…
Radiocarbon Chronology of Neolithic and Bronze Age Cultures in Yakutia
Based on 92 radiocarbon dates (some unpublished) obtained from 30 sites subjected to dendrochronological calibration, previous chronologies of the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of Yakutia are revised and a new "calendar chronology" proposed. During the Bronze Age, two newly described cultures existed in addition to the Ust-Mil culture: Ulakhan Segelennyakh and Sugunnakh, the latter being a derivative of Ymyiakhtakh. In the 2nd millennium…
The spread of metal and metal production technology in the Far Northeast and Alaska over the second millennium BC to the first millennium AD
Findings and traces of early metallurgical production in the Far Northeast of Asia and Alaska show that the spread of bronze and iron metallurgy took place mainly along the Lena River towards of the Far Northeast, as well as to Taimyr. Spread of metallurgical technology is confirmed by the casting mould for a burin or awl, which was discovered in Eastern Chukotka on the Amguema River. However, metals in Chukotka were obviously too rare to trade u…
Radiocarbon Chronology of Neolithic and Bronze Age Cultures in Yakutia
Based on 92 radiocarbon dates (some unpublished) obtained from 30 sites subjected to dendrochronological calibration, previous chronologies of the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of Yakutia are revised and a new "calendar chronology" proposed. During the Bronze Age, two newly described cultures existed in addition to the Ust-Mil culture: Ulakhan Segelennyakh and Sugunnakh, the latter being a derivative of Ymyiakhtakh. In the 2nd millennium…
A Medieval Yakut Burial Near Lake Atlasovskoye of the 14th–15th Centuries: An Anthropological Study
The burial near Lake Atlasovskoye, Yakutia, is one of the earliest Yakut burials, dating back to the 14th or 15th centuries and associated with the medieval Kulun-Atakh culture. Initially, its age was assessed by the comparative typological method based on artifacts, and later а radiocarbon estimate was generated, suggesting that the burial dates to the early stage of the Kulun-Atakh culture. Its highly unusual feature is that the individual was …
Ceramics of the Ulakhan-Segelennyakh Culture, Early Bronze Age, Yakutia
The principal diagnostic feature of the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC) Ulakhan-Segelennyakh culture of southern, southwestern, and western Yakutia, which was first described by the present author, is pottery decorated with punched nodes in combination with dentate impressions and stamp imprints. This type of pottery differs from Ust-Mil pottery and resembles both ancestral Ymyiakhtakh ceramics and ceramics made by immigrants. The Ulakhan-Segelenn…
A Yakut Composite Bow from the Toybokhoy Museum
We give the fi rst description of an unusual composite bow of the Central Asian type, owned by the Toybokhoy Museum in the Suntarsky District of Yakutia, and provide information about its discovery. We foc us on the details and structural peculiarities of the specimen, and note that this refl ex composite bow differs in terms of construction and technology from those of the Northe rn type used by the Yakuts in the 17th to 19th centuries. It resem…
A Metric Analysis of a Human Cranium from the Khatystyr Cave, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
We present the results of a metric study of a male Early Holocene cranium found in a cave near the Khatystyr village , Yakutia , in 1962. Eight measurements taken on the specimen were subjected to canonical discriminant analysis , using individual data on 14 ancient samples from Siberia and the Far East. Euclidean distances between these samples were calculated , and k- means clustering was performed . Results revealed similarity of the Khatystyr…
Provenance analysis of obsidian artifacts from the Indigirka River basin (Northeast Siberia) and the long-distance exchange of raw material in prehistoric Siberian Arctic
Radiocarbon Chronology of Neolithic and Bronze Age Cultures in Yakutia
Based on 92 radiocarbon dates (some unpublished) obtained from 30 sites subjected to dendrochronological calibration, previous chronologies of the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of Yakutia are revised and a new "calendar chronology" proposed. During the Bronze Age, two newly described cultures existed in addition to the Ust-Mil culture: Ulakhan Segelennyakh and Sugunnakh, the latter being a derivative of Ymyiakhtakh. In the 2nd millennium…
Ceramics of the Ulakhan-Segelennyakh Culture, Early Bronze Age, Yakutia
The principal diagnostic feature of the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC) Ulakhan-Segelennyakh culture of southern, southwestern, and western Yakutia, which was first described by the present author, is pottery decorated with punched nodes in combination with dentate impressions and stamp imprints. This type of pottery differs from Ust-Mil pottery and resembles both ancestral Ymyiakhtakh ceramics and ceramics made by immigrants. The Ulakhan-Segelenn…
A Medieval Yakut Burial Near Lake Atlasovskoye of the 14th–15th Centuries: An Anthropological Study
The burial near Lake Atlasovskoye, Yakutia, is one of the earliest Yakut burials, dating back to the 14th or 15th centuries and associated with the medieval Kulun-Atakh culture. Initially, its age was assessed by the comparative typological method based on artifacts, and later а radiocarbon estimate was generated, suggesting that the burial dates to the early stage of the Kulun-Atakh culture. Its highly unusual feature is that the individual was …
Comprehensive Study of the Early Yakut Sergelyakh Burial of the Xv - Beginning of the Xvi Centuries
The paper presents a comprehensive study of graves which relate to rare burial sites of the early stage of ethnic history of the Yakuts. The burial belongs to an equestrian warrior. It is confirmed by the findings of the horse harness and fragments of weapons, including a part of a Central Asian composite bow which is unique to the Yakuts, arrowheads and a blade of palma (Siberian pole weapon). The vertebral pathologies and morphological features…
The Ritually Disturbed Burials of Yakuts (Xvii-Xviii Сenturies)
Basing on the analysis of the archaeological data on medieval burials of Yakuts we raise the problems of interpretation of graves with traces of an ancient ritual penetration and violation of burial structures and of anatomical integrity of the skeletons of the buried, using ethnographic and folklore data. We give a generalized description of the main types of disturbed graves of the late Middle Ages of Yakutia: secondary burial, embalming, rende…
The Woman's Burial of Atlasovskoe-2 of the Xvii Century in Central Yakutia: Results of a Complex Research
XVII . -2 . ( , ) ( , , , , -), , XVI-XIX
Determination of the source for prehistoric obsidian artifacts from the lower reaches of Kolyma River, Northeastern Siberia, Russia, and its wider implications
The spread of metal and metal production technology in the Far Northeast and Alaska over the second millennium BC to the first millennium AD
Findings and traces of early metallurgical production in the Far Northeast of Asia and Alaska show that the spread of bronze and iron metallurgy took place mainly along the Lena River towards of the Far Northeast, as well as to Taimyr. Spread of metallurgical technology is confirmed by the casting mould for a burin or awl, which was discovered in Eastern Chukotka on the Amguema River. However, metals in Chukotka were obviously too rare to trade u…
A Yakut Composite Bow from the Toybokhoy Museum
Якутский сложносоставной лук из фондов Тойбохойского музея DOI: 10.17746/1563-0102.2020.48.3.099-106 Р.И. Бравина, В.М. Дьяконов Институт гуманитарных исследований и проблем малочисленных народов Севера СО РАН ул. Петровского, 1, Якутск, 677027, Россия Статья вводит в научный оборот уникальный сложносоставной лук центрально-азиатского типа, который хранится в Тойбохойском краеведческом музее Сунтарского улуса Якутии. В работе приводятся информаци…
Provenance analysis of obsidian artifacts from the Indigirka River basin (Northeast Siberia) and the long-distance exchange of raw material in prehistoric Siberian Arctic
A Yakut Composite Bow from the Toybokhoy Museum
We give the fi rst description of an unusual composite bow of the Central Asian type, owned by the Toybokhoy Museum in the Suntarsky District of Yakutia, and provide information about its discovery. We foc us on the details and structural peculiarities of the specimen, and note that this refl ex composite bow differs in terms of construction and technology from those of the Northe rn type used by the Yakuts in the 17th to 19th centuries. It resem…
Remains of Animals from the Mukhatta Site (the End of the Pleistocene - Holocene, Middle Steam of the Lena River, Yakutia)
Results of Survey on the Medvezhyi Islands Archipelago in the Eastern Siberian Arctic in 2021
This article presents the data on archaeological prospects of Medvezhyi Islands — a remote Arctic archipelago located in the East Siberian Sea north of the mouth of the Kolyma River. Traces of presence of ancient people have been observed there since the 18th century by polar explorers and expeditions. Some evidence was obtained by the staff of the Soviet polar station on Chetyrekhstolbovoi Island and was published by N.A. Beregovaya and V.M. Rau…
Comprehensive Study of Paleolithic Objects in the Arctic Zone (Muostakh Site, Bulunsky District, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia))
The burial Ogonyok in the middle Lena River region: A new site of the Bel'kachi Culture
The article presents the results of a comprehensive study of the Ogonyok burial, discovered and investigated in 2016 in the city of Yakutsk, Central Yakutia, in the middle reaches of the Lena River. The purpose of the study was to determine its cultural and chronological characteristics, to identify the features of the funeral rite and spe-cifics of the accompanying grave goods. In addition to historical and archaeological methods, the methods of…
A Metric Analysis of a Human Cranium from the Khatystyr Cave, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
В работе представлены результаты исследования краниологических материалов раннеголоценового времени, обнаруженных в пещере у с. Хатыстыр (Якутия) в 1962 г. Для черепа мужчины, погребенного в пещере, были получены измерения восьми признаков. На их основании был сделан дискриминантный канонический анализ с использованием индивидуальных данных по 14 древним выборкам с территории Сибири и Дальнего Востока, рассчитана матрица евклидовых расстояний меж…
A Metric Analysis of a Human Cranium from the Khatystyr Cave, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
We present the results of a metric study of a male Early Holocene cranium found in a cave near the Khatystyr village , Yakutia , in 1962. Eight measurements taken on the specimen were subjected to canonical discriminant analysis , using individual data on 14 ancient samples from Siberia and the Far East. Euclidean distances between these samples were calculated , and k- means clustering was performed . Results revealed similarity of the Khatystyr…
Materials of Excavations of the Khatyngnaakh II Multilayer Site on the Middle Vilyui in 2024
The article provides the first results of rescue archaeological excavations at the Khatyngnaakh II multilayer site, located in the impact zone of the Vilyui HPP-3 reservoir. The site was discovered by PAE and investigated by N.V. Antipina in 1979–1982. Excavations were complicated by the presence of permafrost soils, high water level, and disturbance of cultural deposits by postsedimentation processes. The excavations revealed finds and objects r…
First Archaeological Research on Krestovsky Island in the East Siberian Arctic (Medvezhyi Islands Archipelago)
In the field season of 2024, the Arctic Team of the Yakut Integrated Laboratory for Archaeology of the Far North at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, together with the Arctic Research Center of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), did first archaeological exploration on Krestovsky Island which is part of the Medvezhyi Islands Archipelago in the East Siberian Sea. Three ancient Eski…
An Unusual Bronze Figurine from the Samartai Museum, Yakutia: The “Thing-in-Itself” and Semantic Content
В работе представлены результаты исследования уникального бронзового идола — крылатого медведя с изображениями антропоморфной личины и головы медведя на груди. Артефакт был найден в Хангаласском улусе Якутии и хранится в музее «Самартай» с. Кердём. Поиск аналогий данному предмету привел к целому кругу культур раннего железного века и Средневековья в Предуралье, Приуралье и Западной Сибири. Подобные полиэйконические образы были характерны для куль…
Preliminary Results of the Study of the Oy-Muran Neolithic Burial Complex on the Middle Lena River (Sakha Republic (Yakutia))
The article presents preliminary results of 2025 excavations of the Neolithic burial complex in the Oy-Muran locality on the Lena River. The conducted investigations revealed two soil burials: a paired burial and a separate burial of a skull. Both skeletons from the paired burial were interred with a significant grave good set including arrowheads, fragments of bone bow covers, a composite inset knife, a bone dagger in a sheath with bone covers, …
Preliminary Results of Works in 2025 on Chetyrekhstolbovoy Island in the Eastern Siberian Arctic (Medvezhyi Islands Archipelago)
Exploration works on the Chetyryokhstolbovoy Island – a part of the Medvezhyi Islands Archipelago in the East Siberian Sea – in the field season of 2025 by the archaeologists from S.A. Fedoseeva Museum of Arctic Archaeology at the Arctic Research Center of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and Yakut Integrated Laboratory of Archaeology of the Far North of the IAET SB RAS revealed ten dwellings belonging to the carriers of the Birnirk culture and po…
An Unusual Bronze Figurine from the Samartai Museum, Yakutia: The “Thing-in-Itself” and Semantic Content
This article presents a rare bronze idol—a winged bear with an anthropomorphic mask and a bear head on the chest. The artifact was found in the Khangalas Ulus (district) of Yakutia and is kept in the Samartai Museum in the village of Kerdem. The search for parallels led to a wide range of Early Iron Age and medieval cultures of the Western Urals and Western Siberia. Similar composite images are common among cast ritual items relating to the Pecho…
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