Nadezhda A Dubova
Biographic Data
| ID | 92615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadezhda A Dubova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadezhda A |
| FAMILY NAME | Dubova |
| SIGNATURE | DUBOVA N A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4340-1037 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Folk beliefs of the Kyrgyz. The elusive Zhyl Azhyrash: The displacement of the traditional New Year by Navruz in Kyrgyzstan (regional aspect)
The transformation of traditional holidays in Kyrgyzstan reflects deep ethno-cultural processes, revealing the displacement of native traditions. This study focuses on the New Year festive complex, analyzing the coexistence of the Kyrgyz Zhyl Azhyrash and the borrowed Navruz – a regionally understudied topic. Its relevance is confirmed by significant territorial differences in their practice. The aim is to identify regional characteristics and tr…
The Relationship Between Archaic Construction Methods in Pottery and Architecture in Central Asia
В данном исследовании была поставлена цель установить наличие взаимосвязи между существующими в Центральной Азии архаичными методами конструирования в гончарстве, сохранившимися на сегодня в основном в производстве тандыров (тонуров), и строительными технологиями с использованием необожженной глины (пахса, кулох, саманный кирпич). Обследование проводилось на территории следующих областей: Согдийской Таджикистана, Туркестанской Казахстана, Ферганс…
Territorial variability of the Hisobi Mard time account in the Pamir region and Darvaz
For the first time in recent decades, a large-scale study of the Hisobi Mard or time counting by human body, which is a unique solar calendar known only in this region and lacking analogues in other cultures, has been conducted in the vast terri-tory of Pamir and Darvaz. As a result of the research, extensive body of materials has been collected allowing comparison of the knowledge of modern informants with the data collected by Soviet ethnograph…
The Relationship Between Archaic Construction Methods in Pottery and Architecture in Central Asia
This study explores the connection between archaic construction methods in pottery in Central Asian, mostly that of tandoors (tonurs), and present-day building technologies associated with the use of unbaked clay (“pakhsa”, “kuloh”, “adobe bricks”). Ethnographic fi eldwork was done in several areas of Central Asia, including the Sughd Region of Tajikistan, the Turkestan Region of Kazakhstan, the Fergana and Samarkand regions of Uzbekistan, and th…
Traditional Calendar and Astronomical Knowledgeof the Khingou Valley Inhabitants (Tajikistan)
The article presents the results of an ethnographic study of the traditional calendar and astronomical knowledge conducted in 2023 among the inhabitants of the Khingou River valley (Sangvor district, Republic of Tajikistan). 56 informants from 21 villages, which cover the entire currently populated part of the valley, were interviewed. The paper describes the local traditions of determining important dates of the agricultural calendar based on ob…
Integrated Anthropological Research on Korku Tribes in 2020 (India, Maharashtra). Preliminary Results
Introduction. In February 2020, the third season of the Russian-Indian Anthropological expedition was conducted in Maharashtra. The field work was coordinated by Paleoethnology Research Center (Russia) and Department of Anthropology of Savitribai Phule Pune University (India). The goal was to examine Korku people, who are members of the Mundo-speaking branch of the Austroasiatic family. Data and methods. A total of 293 people were examined from t…
Звездный календарь киргизов / Kyrgyz Star Calendar
Помимо хорошо известных лунных и лунно-солнечных календарей, которые широко распространены на Востоке, теоретически возможны лунно-звездные календари, длительность месяца в которых определяется посредством соединения Луны с какой-нибудь звездой, расположенной вблизи плоскости эклиптики. Один из подобных календарей, описанный Б. А. Куфтиным (1916), основывался на соединениях Луны и Плеяд. В представленной статье анализируются полевые материалы, по…
Spatial Modeling of the Folk Astronomical Knowledge among the Residents of Tajikistan
The term "folk astronomical knowledge" refers to a set of practical knowledge that allows a person to navigate in space and time. An important point is the possibility of a total assessment of this knowledge not only at the level of an individual, but also at the level of a separate settlement or region. The authors developed a method for determining an indicator characterizing the level of folk astronomical knowledge, based on field materials co…
A 1500-year retrospective of intergroup craniometric variability in Central Asian population (7th c. BC – 8th c. AD)
Introduction. The paper revisits the intergroup craniometric variability in the Early Iron Age, Antiquity and Early medieval Central Asian population. Some new cranial materials are considered within the hierarchical system of the regional populations. Materials and methods. The comparison included 61 cranial samples from all historical and cultural regions of Central Asia with a total of 1100 crania. 12 standard measurements of the facial skelet…
Звезды в жизни населения долины реки Зеравшан (Stars in the Life of the Population of the Zeravshan River Valley)
С целью изучения народных календарно-астрономических знаний жителей Республики Таджикистан летом 2022 г. была проведена этнографическая экспедиция по долине реки Зеравшан. Было опрошено 39 информаторов-таджиков из 23 кишлаков в Горно-Матчинском, Айнинском и Педжикентском районах, территория которых находится в долине р. Зеравшан. Собранный материал показал достаточно высокий уровень традиционных астрономических знаний населения. В Пенджикентском …
Modern Pamir house and calendar and astronomical views of the Pamiris
This paper presents the evolution of the Pamir house over the past 100 years since the explorations of the Russian ethnographer Mikhail S. Andreev took place. Despite the availability of the studies of the 1920s-1950s on the Tajik traditional dwelling (Pisarchik, 1958a; Voronina, 1951, 1975; review studies: Mamadnazarov, 1978; Muradov, 2021), the classical Andreev's work (1958), conducted in the valley of the Khuf River (Pamir), remains topical. …
Personal Archive of Archaeologist V.I. Sarianidi: Study, Preservation and Prospects for Use
The article presents the main aspects of the study of materials from the personal archive of the world famous archaeologist Viktor Ivanovich Sarianidi. For a long time, the scientist’s personal fund was in a state of archival placers, which did not allow using it fully. To organize the entire array of documents, their analysis, description and systematization were carried out. Several key thematic sections have been formed, including materials re…
Several Results of Bioarchaeological and Ethnoecological Investigations in Tajikistan
The article describes several topics of joint Russian-Tajik research conducted since 2013 in the Khatlon velayat of the Republic of Tajikistan within the framework of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the N. N. Miklukho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of Russian Academy of Sciences and the A. Donish Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. Th e text includes several in…
Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) in Gonur-Depe and the issues of the species distribution in the Ancient East
Animal husbandry, along with agriculture, was the main branch of the producing economy of the ancient population in Southern Turkmenistan. To date, sufficient data have been gathered to consider the exterior of large and small cattle, the time of their appearance in the region, and the nature of their exploitation. Still, very little information is available on a number of species, including Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus). This is due to the…
Domestic donkey (Equus asinus asinus) at Gonur Depe and its distribution in the Ancient East
The domestic donkey (Equus asinus asinus) is a hardy, versatile working animal. This species still plays an important role in the traditional economy of the peoples of Central Asia and adjacent regions. At the same time, very little is known about the ways in which this domestic species appeared in the region and the nature of its use in the early historical epochs. The morphological features of ancient donkeys are also poorly studied. It is as-s…
Taphonomic bias in preservation and representativeness of skeletal samples (a case of Gonur Depe)
The topic of this article is theoretical and practical issues underlying the problems of representativeness of skeletal samples, as well as age and sex biases in preservation of skeletal remains, and the impact of these fac-tors on paleodemographic reconstructions. The impact of taphonomic bias in preservation on the qualitative and quantitative composition of skeletal sample is discussed on the materials from Gonur Depe - a Bronze Age proto-urba…
Intragroup analysis of new craniometric data from the ancient Panjakent nauses
The article discusses new cranial materials excavated at the ancient Panjakent necropolis in 2003-2004. The crania were found in ossuary burials in nauses (small separate crypts) dating from the late VII to the early VIII centuries AD. The materials of the study include 19 crania of various preservation statuses (7 males, 11 females and one non-adult individual). The present study aims to compare the newly obtained cranial data with the al-ready …
Newly discovered burials of the Bronze Age in the territory of Tajikistan
This paper publishes newly discovered materials of the Bronze Age from Southern Tajikistan — six burials at the cemetery of Khulbuk occupying the southern section of the hill on which a palace was built in the 9th century. The archaeological complex represented in these burials can be attributed, on the whole, neither to the Beshkent-Vakhsh culture of Tajikistan nor to the agriculturalist cultures of the Sapalli or Namazga type. By contrast, it d…
Lubov’ Borisovna Kircho. Archaeology and life
The World of the Oxus Civilization
New polychrome painting from Gonur Depe, Turkmenistan
Excavations at Gonur Oasis in the ancient delta of the Murghab River revealed a unique polychrome painting at the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex. Found in an unusual grave at Gonur 20, the painting may offer new insights into ancient technologies and interaction between Old World civilisations
Questioning the Oxus Civilization or Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Culture (BMAC)
The Oxus Civilization (ca. 2200–1700 BC), or Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC), is a relatively recent discovery, famous for its beautiful art masterpieces and seals, most of which come from tombs. Some are real imports (Indus, Iran, Mesopotamia) but most are reinterpretations of foreign pantheons or artifacts. Different interpretations have been advanced to explain the extraordinary network of relations brought to light (trade, migr…
The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia
Ancient human movements through Asia Ancient DNA has allowed us to begin tracing the history of human movements across the globe. Narasimhan et al. identify a complex pattern of human migrations and admixture events in South and Central Asia by performing genetic analysis of more than 500 people who lived over the past 8000 years (see the Perspective by Schaefer and Shapiro). They establish key phases in the population prehistory of Eurasia, incl…
Mosaics from the Bronze Age Necropolis in Gonur Depe, Turkmenistan
Unique mosaic composition of the end of the third millenium BC from the “Royal Necropolis” of Gonur Depe is describing. Some walls of the underground “hypogea” and so-called “ostensories” as well small originally wooden boxes found in them were decorated by figurative mosaics. These mosaics combine two techniques – painting and inlays (tesserae), which were made from the specially prepared minerals. They also presented the earliest example of usi…
Gonur Depe – City of Kings and Gods, and the Capital of Margush Country (Modern Turkmenistan): Its discovery by Professor Victor Sarianidi and recent finds
Serological researches in the south of Moldavia in connection with the problem of the ethnogeny of the Gagauzes, the Moldavians and the Bulgarians
With the aid of data of frequencies of genetically determined blood group systems, the authors have tried to show the basic ethno-genetic directional patterns in Southern Moldavia and in the Dniester-Carpathian-Danubian region in its entirety. Blood Groups A1A27B0, RHESUS, MN, and KELL have been determined in six random samples from four Gagauz villages (n = 330), one Moldavian village (n = 101) and one Bulgarian village (n = 96). The analysis of…
Taphonomic bias in preservation and representativeness of skeletal samples (a case of Gonur Depe)
The topic of this article is theoretical and practical issues underlying the problems of representativeness of skeletal samples, as well as age and sex biases in preservation of skeletal remains, and the impact of these fac-tors on paleodemographic reconstructions. The impact of taphonomic bias in preservation on the qualitative and quantitative composition of skeletal sample is discussed on the materials from Gonur Depe - a Bronze Age proto-urba…
Tumour-like lesions in a Late Bronze Age skeleton from Gonur Depe, Southern Turkmenistan
The article describes tumour-like lesions in a Bronze Age skeleton from Southern Turkmenistan. The combination of pathological manifestations observed in the skeleton does not permit making exact conclusions. Based on the skeletal lesions, malignant bone tumour (chondrosarcoma or parosteal osteosarcoma) seems to be the most feasible diagnosis. If this diagnosis is correct, the skeleton represents one of the earliest cases of primary malignant tum…
Serological researches in the south of Moldavia in connection with the problem of the ethnogeny of the Gagauzes, the Moldavians and the Bulgarians
With the aid of data of frequencies of genetically determined blood group systems, the authors have tried to show the basic ethno-genetic directional patterns in Southern Moldavia and in the Dniester-Carpathian-Danubian region in its entirety. Blood Groups A1A27B0, RHESUS, MN, and KELL have been determined in six random samples from four Gagauz villages (n = 330), one Moldavian village (n = 101) and one Bulgarian village (n = 96). The analysis of…
Nouvelles sépultures sur le territoire de la «nécropole royale» de Gonur Dépé
Cet article présente la découverte récente (2009) d’une sépulture non pillée sur le site de Gonur Dépé au Turkménistan (tombe no 3900). Datée 2400-2200 avant J.-C., cette tombe se rattache à la période ancienne de la « Nécropole royale » du site. Les parois de la chambre funéraire sont ornées de mosaïques décoratives. Le mobilier mis au jour comporte des récipients en céramique et en bronze, parmi lesquels un grand chaudron, ainsi que des objets …
Skeletal Remains From Buston Vi – A Sapalli Culture Cemetery in Uzbekistan
Human skeletal remains from a Bronze Age cemetery at Buston VI, southern Uzbekistan, are described. The burials date back to the Molali and Buston stages of the Sapalli culture and are relevant for reconstructing the culture of the Northern Bactrian agriculturalists. Results of the demographic, craniometric, osteometric, and paleopathological analysis suggest that the Buston population was intermediate between the Bronze Age populations of the st…
Tajiks of Sicharog: To the bioanthropology of the population of Central Tajikistan. Report I: Cranial non-metric traits
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Tumour-like lesions in a Late Bronze Age skeleton from Gonur Depe, Southern Turkmenistan
The article describes tumour-like lesions in a Bronze Age skeleton from Southern Turkmenistan. The combination of pathological manifestations observed in the skeleton does not permit making exact conclusions. Based on the skeletal lesions, malignant bone tumour (chondrosarcoma or parosteal osteosarcoma) seems to be the most feasible diagnosis. If this diagnosis is correct, the skeleton represents one of the earliest cases of primary malignant tum…
The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia
Ancient human movements through Asia Ancient DNA has allowed us to begin tracing the history of human movements across the globe. Narasimhan et al. identify a complex pattern of human migrations and admixture events in South and Central Asia by performing genetic analysis of more than 500 people who lived over the past 8000 years (see the Perspective by Schaefer and Shapiro). They establish key phases in the population prehistory of Eurasia, incl…
Mosaics from the Bronze Age Necropolis in Gonur Depe, Turkmenistan
Unique mosaic composition of the end of the third millenium BC from the “Royal Necropolis” of Gonur Depe is describing. Some walls of the underground “hypogea” and so-called “ostensories” as well small originally wooden boxes found in them were decorated by figurative mosaics. These mosaics combine two techniques – painting and inlays (tesserae), which were made from the specially prepared minerals. They also presented the earliest example of usi…
Gonur Depe – City of Kings and Gods, and the Capital of Margush Country (Modern Turkmenistan): Its discovery by Professor Victor Sarianidi and recent finds
Palaeodemography of Gonur: A Review
(2300-1500
A new monument of the early nomads in the south of Tajikistan: The Shakhidon burial ground (on the problem of the interactions between mobile cattle breeders and farmers)
To the Demography of Tajiks of Karategin: Paleodemographic Analysis of Xviii – Xx Cc. Sample From Sicharog Cemetery
The World of the Oxus Civilization
New polychrome painting from Gonur Depe, Turkmenistan
Excavations at Gonur Oasis in the ancient delta of the Murghab River revealed a unique polychrome painting at the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex. Found in an unusual grave at Gonur 20, the painting may offer new insights into ancient technologies and interaction between Old World civilisations
Questioning the Oxus Civilization or Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Culture (BMAC)
The Oxus Civilization (ca. 2200–1700 BC), or Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC), is a relatively recent discovery, famous for its beautiful art masterpieces and seals, most of which come from tombs. Some are real imports (Indus, Iran, Mesopotamia) but most are reinterpretations of foreign pantheons or artifacts. Different interpretations have been advanced to explain the extraordinary network of relations brought to light (trade, migr…
Newly discovered burials of the Bronze Age in the territory of Tajikistan
This paper publishes newly discovered materials of the Bronze Age from Southern Tajikistan — six burials at the cemetery of Khulbuk occupying the southern section of the hill on which a palace was built in the 9th century. The archaeological complex represented in these burials can be attributed, on the whole, neither to the Beshkent-Vakhsh culture of Tajikistan nor to the agriculturalist cultures of the Sapalli or Namazga type. By contrast, it d…
Lubov’ Borisovna Kircho. Archaeology and life
Personal Archive of Archaeologist V.I. Sarianidi: Study, Preservation and Prospects for Use
The article presents the main aspects of the study of materials from the personal archive of the world famous archaeologist Viktor Ivanovich Sarianidi. For a long time, the scientist’s personal fund was in a state of archival placers, which did not allow using it fully. To organize the entire array of documents, their analysis, description and systematization were carried out. Several key thematic sections have been formed, including materials re…
Several Results of Bioarchaeological and Ethnoecological Investigations in Tajikistan
The article describes several topics of joint Russian-Tajik research conducted since 2013 in the Khatlon velayat of the Republic of Tajikistan within the framework of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the N. N. Miklukho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of Russian Academy of Sciences and the A. Donish Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. Th e text includes several in…
Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) in Gonur-Depe and the issues of the species distribution in the Ancient East
Animal husbandry, along with agriculture, was the main branch of the producing economy of the ancient population in Southern Turkmenistan. To date, sufficient data have been gathered to consider the exterior of large and small cattle, the time of their appearance in the region, and the nature of their exploitation. Still, very little information is available on a number of species, including Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus). This is due to the…
Domestic donkey (Equus asinus asinus) at Gonur Depe and its distribution in the Ancient East
The domestic donkey (Equus asinus asinus) is a hardy, versatile working animal. This species still plays an important role in the traditional economy of the peoples of Central Asia and adjacent regions. At the same time, very little is known about the ways in which this domestic species appeared in the region and the nature of its use in the early historical epochs. The morphological features of ancient donkeys are also poorly studied. It is as-s…
Taphonomic bias in preservation and representativeness of skeletal samples (a case of Gonur Depe)
The topic of this article is theoretical and practical issues underlying the problems of representativeness of skeletal samples, as well as age and sex biases in preservation of skeletal remains, and the impact of these fac-tors on paleodemographic reconstructions. The impact of taphonomic bias in preservation on the qualitative and quantitative composition of skeletal sample is discussed on the materials from Gonur Depe - a Bronze Age proto-urba…
Intragroup analysis of new craniometric data from the ancient Panjakent nauses
The article discusses new cranial materials excavated at the ancient Panjakent necropolis in 2003-2004. The crania were found in ossuary burials in nauses (small separate crypts) dating from the late VII to the early VIII centuries AD. The materials of the study include 19 crania of various preservation statuses (7 males, 11 females and one non-adult individual). The present study aims to compare the newly obtained cranial data with the al-ready …
A 1500-year retrospective of intergroup craniometric variability in Central Asian population (7th c. BC – 8th c. AD)
Introduction. The paper revisits the intergroup craniometric variability in the Early Iron Age, Antiquity and Early medieval Central Asian population. Some new cranial materials are considered within the hierarchical system of the regional populations. Materials and methods. The comparison included 61 cranial samples from all historical and cultural regions of Central Asia with a total of 1100 crania. 12 standard measurements of the facial skelet…
Звезды в жизни населения долины реки Зеравшан (Stars in the Life of the Population of the Zeravshan River Valley)
С целью изучения народных календарно-астрономических знаний жителей Республики Таджикистан летом 2022 г. была проведена этнографическая экспедиция по долине реки Зеравшан. Было опрошено 39 информаторов-таджиков из 23 кишлаков в Горно-Матчинском, Айнинском и Педжикентском районах, территория которых находится в долине р. Зеравшан. Собранный материал показал достаточно высокий уровень традиционных астрономических знаний населения. В Пенджикентском …
Modern Pamir house and calendar and astronomical views of the Pamiris
This paper presents the evolution of the Pamir house over the past 100 years since the explorations of the Russian ethnographer Mikhail S. Andreev took place. Despite the availability of the studies of the 1920s-1950s on the Tajik traditional dwelling (Pisarchik, 1958a; Voronina, 1951, 1975; review studies: Mamadnazarov, 1978; Muradov, 2021), the classical Andreev's work (1958), conducted in the valley of the Khuf River (Pamir), remains topical. …
Geography (24 works) · Archaeology (21 works) · History (16 works) · Ancient history (14 works) · Demography (11 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (11 works) · Population (11 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Ancient Near East History (7 works)