Novgorod Birchbark Letters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3779465 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Ianin, V L Ianin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 14-41 |
| Publication date | 1997-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1061-1959 • E-ISSN: 1558-092X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2753/aae1061-1959350414 |
| OpenAlex | W2084702164 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
On 26 July 1951 in Novgorod during archeological excavations under the direction of A. V. Artsikhovskii, the first birchbark document [gramota] was found in the layer of the turn of the fourteenth-fifteenth centuries; subsequently another nine were found in that same field season. Forty-five years have elapsed since then, during which the number of comparable finds has grown each year. By the end of the 1995 season, the collection of Novgorod birchbark documents included 759 texts. In this time, documents on birchbark were discovered in eight more Russian cities: 26 in Staraia Rus', 13 in Smolensk, 7 in Pskov, 2 each in Tver' and in the Ukrainian ancient city of Zvenigorod, and one each in Moscow, Vitebsk, and Mstislavl (the last two cities being in Belarus). Birchbark documents have thus been transformed into a mass category of archeological finds. They belong to the number of primary sources on the history of medieval Rus', generating a significant literature devoted both to the concrete study of their texts and to a general assessment of the phenomenon of birchbark writing
Ancient history · Archaeology · Excavation · Fifteenth · Geography · Linguistics · Ukrainian · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
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| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |