H A Amirkhanov
Biographic Data
| ID | 43022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H A Amirkhanov |
| GIVEN NAMES | H A |
| FAMILY NAME | Amirkhanov |
| SIGNATURE | AMIRKHANOV H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Russian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9904-2539 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Danukh Neolithic Sites of the Mountainous Dagestan
In the North-Eastern Caucasus, very few Neolithic sites with preserved cultural layers have been identified to date. In this context, the discovery in 2006 of two new sites from this period at the Kharib Pass in the Gumbetovsky District of the Republic of Dagestan was a significant event. These sites were documented by an expedition led by R.G. Magomedov, which conducted archaeological monitoring during road construction work related to the layin…
Rock art in the stone age of Gobustan: An archaeologist’s view
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. An attempt is made to systematize petroglyphs, taking into account their types, artistic styles, te…
Oldowan Sites of Dagestan in the Context of Eurasian Prehistory
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 layers also contain numerous faunal materials. Interdisciplinary studies of these cultural layers have un…
The Origin of the Ethnonyms Burti and Suli
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 the Chechens. The author posits that the ethnonym suli derives from the Sal (Salar) people, who resi…
Three Types of Industry in the Stone Age of Gobustan
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 systematization of the materials of the Gobustan Stone Age. The paper contains detailed typological…
The Gobustan Neolithic Culture
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 materials have not been the subject of any monographic publication until now. The proposed study consi…
The Chokh Archaeological Culture: Composition and Structure of Basic Components
Чохская археологическая культура является специфическим локальным образованием, яркие технологические и типологические особенности которой имеют хронологическую протяженность, охватывающую во Внутреннем Дагестане мезолит и неолит. На неолитической стадии своего бытования эта культура предстает в виде многосоставного образования, включающего три разнородных компонента. В таком сочетании это триединство для Кавказа уникально. Одной из главных соста…
To the 75th anniversary of Vyacheslav Ivanovich Molodin
75- ... 1948 . . .( )
Microstructure and Elemental Composition of Obsidian From the Almalo 1 Location in Dagestan: The Source of the Raw Material and the Direction of Cultural Relations
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 natural outcrops of obsidian, the results of a comparative analysis of artifacts from this material wi…
Chronology of Cultural Deposits of the Chokhsky Multilayer Settlement (As Data for 2022)
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 reconstruction of the landscape of one of the typical mountainous regions of the Northeast Caucasus at …
Evolution of the Lithic Industry in Central Dagestan During the Early Pleistocene: The Rising Occurrence of Flake Blanks
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 первобытности Кавказа. В работе рассматриваются заготовки для орудий, обнаруженные в отложениях стоянок айник…
Formation, Taphonomy and Dating of the Neolithic Layer of the Chokh Settlement: Data Revision
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 stratigraphy and complex lithological structure. A new understanding of the Chokh materials leads to the need…
Evolution of the Lithic Industry in Central Dagestan During the Early Pleistocene: The Rising Occurrence of Flake Blanks
Archaeological data from stratified Early Pleistocene sites in Central Dagestan are 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 examines blanks found at sites of the Ainikab-Mukhkay group, such as Ainikab-1, and Mukhkay-1, -2, and -…
Раннеплейстоценовая Стоянка Мухкай 1 (Слой 7в) В Дагестане: Структура Функциональных Элементов
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 дифференцированные структурные элементы культурного слоя. Последние свидетельствуют о наличии элементов специализа…
Palaeolithic culture of the Caucasus in the upper Eopleistocene: Oldowan, early Acheul, transition stage
Cores from the site of Ainikab 1 (layer 21) in the general context of the Oldowan in the Caucasus
For the 60th Anniversary of Shahmardan Amirov
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 Near East and Caucasus are discussed. The roads of life and professional destiny of sh. N. Amirov ra…
Early Pleistocene Large Flake Industry of the Northeast Caucasus: Stadial Status
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 переходными от олдована к раннему ашелю чертами. The paper provides substantiation for identificati…
The Middle Acheulian site Meshhed III in Wadi Douan (Republic of Yemen)
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 deposited in a clear geological context and have absolute age determination. The latter provides an …
Memories Mamaikhan Aglarovich Aglarova (1935-2017)
Faunal remains from the Oldowan site of Muhkai II in the North Caucasus: Potential for dating and palaeolandscape reconstruction
Une statuette de bison découverte dans le site de Zaraïsk (région de Moscou, Russie)
Le premier objet d’art mobilier du site gravettien de Zaraysk (Russie, région de Moscou) a été découvert au cours de la campagne de fouilles de 2001. Il s’agit d’une figurine de bison en ivoire de Mammouth, un véritable «chef d’oeuvre » de sculpture paléolithique daté aux alentours de 22000 BP. Au regard d’autres exemples d’objets d’art mobilier bien connus d’Europe centrale et orientale, cet artefact est non seulement l’une des plus anciennes pr…
New Finds of Paleolithic Art from the Zaraisk Site
(2008). New Finds of Paleolithic Art from the Zaraisk Site. Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia: Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 24-45
New finds of art objects from the Upper Palaeolithic site of Zaraysk, Russia
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 forms particular to their region, some with magical associations
A unique Palaeolithic sculpture from the site of Zaraysk (Russia)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Palaeolithic perishables made permanent
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 Pleistocene world
Research on the Palaeolithic and Neolithic of Hadramaut and Mahra
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 the entire Arabian peninsula
Faunal remains from the Oldowan site of Muhkai II in the North Caucasus: Potential for dating and palaeolandscape reconstruction
New finds of art objects from the Upper Palaeolithic site of Zaraysk, Russia
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 forms particular to their region, some with magical associations
The Chokh Archaeological Culture: Composition and Structure of Basic Components
Чохская археологическая культура является специфическим локальным образованием, яркие технологические и типологические особенности которой имеют хронологическую протяженность, охватывающую во Внутреннем Дагестане мезолит и неолит. На неолитической стадии своего бытования эта культура предстает в виде многосоставного образования, включающего три разнородных компонента. В таком сочетании это триединство для Кавказа уникально. Одной из главных соста…
Evolution of the Lithic Industry in Central Dagestan During the Early Pleistocene: The Rising Occurrence of Flake Blanks
Archaeological data from stratified Early Pleistocene sites in Central Dagestan are 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 examines blanks found at sites of the Ainikab-Mukhkay group, such as Ainikab-1, and Mukhkay-1, -2, and -…
The Middle Acheulian site Meshhed III in Wadi Douan (Republic of Yemen)
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 deposited in a clear geological context and have absolute age determination. The latter provides an …
A unique Palaeolithic sculpture from the site of Zaraysk (Russia)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Research on the Palaeolithic and Neolithic of Hadramaut and Mahra
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 the entire Arabian peninsula
Palaeolithic perishables made permanent
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 Pleistocene world
A unique Palaeolithic sculpture from the site of Zaraysk (Russia)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
New Finds of Paleolithic Art from the Zaraisk Site
(2008). New Finds of Paleolithic Art from the Zaraisk Site. Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia: Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 24-45
New finds of art objects from the Upper Palaeolithic site of Zaraysk, Russia
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 forms particular to their region, some with magical associations
Une statuette de bison découverte dans le site de Zaraïsk (région de Moscou, Russie)
Le premier objet d’art mobilier du site gravettien de Zaraysk (Russie, région de Moscou) a été découvert au cours de la campagne de fouilles de 2001. Il s’agit d’une figurine de bison en ivoire de Mammouth, un véritable «chef d’oeuvre » de sculpture paléolithique daté aux alentours de 22000 BP. Au regard d’autres exemples d’objets d’art mobilier bien connus d’Europe centrale et orientale, cet artefact est non seulement l’une des plus anciennes pr…
Faunal remains from the Oldowan site of Muhkai II in the North Caucasus: Potential for dating and palaeolandscape reconstruction
Memories Mamaikhan Aglarovich Aglarova (1935-2017)
The Middle Acheulian site Meshhed III in Wadi Douan (Republic of Yemen)
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 deposited in a clear geological context and have absolute age determination. The latter provides an …
Early Pleistocene Large Flake Industry of the Northeast Caucasus: Stadial Status
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 переходными от олдована к раннему ашелю чертами. The paper provides substantiation for identificati…
Раннеплейстоценовая Стоянка Мухкай 1 (Слой 7в) В Дагестане: Структура Функциональных Элементов
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 дифференцированные структурные элементы культурного слоя. Последние свидетельствуют о наличии элементов специализа…
Palaeolithic culture of the Caucasus in the upper Eopleistocene: Oldowan, early Acheul, transition stage
Cores from the site of Ainikab 1 (layer 21) in the general context of the Oldowan in the Caucasus
For the 60th Anniversary of Shahmardan Amirov
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 Near East and Caucasus are discussed. The roads of life and professional destiny of sh. N. Amirov ra…
Evolution of the Lithic Industry in Central Dagestan During the Early Pleistocene: The Rising Occurrence of Flake Blanks
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 первобытности Кавказа. В работе рассматриваются заготовки для орудий, обнаруженные в отложениях стоянок айник…
Formation, Taphonomy and Dating of the Neolithic Layer of the Chokh Settlement: Data Revision
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 stratigraphy and complex lithological structure. A new understanding of the Chokh materials leads to the need…
Evolution of the Lithic Industry in Central Dagestan During the Early Pleistocene: The Rising Occurrence of Flake Blanks
Archaeological data from stratified Early Pleistocene sites in Central Dagestan are 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 examines blanks found at sites of the Ainikab-Mukhkay group, such as Ainikab-1, and Mukhkay-1, -2, and -…
Microstructure and Elemental Composition of Obsidian From the Almalo 1 Location in Dagestan: The Source of the Raw Material and the Direction of Cultural Relations
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 natural outcrops of obsidian, the results of a comparative analysis of artifacts from this material wi…
Chronology of Cultural Deposits of the Chokhsky Multilayer Settlement (As Data for 2022)
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 reconstruction of the landscape of one of the typical mountainous regions of the Northeast Caucasus at …
Three Types of Industry in the Stone Age of Gobustan
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 systematization of the materials of the Gobustan Stone Age. The paper contains detailed typological…
The Gobustan Neolithic Culture
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 materials have not been the subject of any monographic publication until now. The proposed study consi…
The Chokh Archaeological Culture: Composition and Structure of Basic Components
Чохская археологическая культура является специфическим локальным образованием, яркие технологические и типологические особенности которой имеют хронологическую протяженность, охватывающую во Внутреннем Дагестане мезолит и неолит. На неолитической стадии своего бытования эта культура предстает в виде многосоставного образования, включающего три разнородных компонента. В таком сочетании это триединство для Кавказа уникально. Одной из главных соста…
To the 75th anniversary of Vyacheslav Ivanovich Molodin
75- ... 1948 . . .( )
Rock art in the stone age of Gobustan: An archaeologist’s view
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. An attempt is made to systematize petroglyphs, taking into account their types, artistic styles, te…
Oldowan Sites of Dagestan in the Context of Eurasian Prehistory
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 layers also contain numerous faunal materials. Interdisciplinary studies of these cultural layers have un…
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