Automatic detection of burial mounds (kurgans) in the Altai Mountains

F Chen, R Zhou, T Van de Voorde, X Chen… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Altai Mountains are one of the most impressive and valuable archaeological
areas in the world. Kurgans (burial mounds) of ancient civilizations, which are scattered …

Seasonal movements of Bronze Age transhumant pastoralists in western Xinjiang

P Jia, G Caspari, A Betts, B Mohamadi, T Balz… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The paper explores seasonal movements of Bronze Age mobile pastoralists in the western
Tianshan mountainous region of Xinjiang, China. Fieldwork by a team from the Institute of …

Radiocarbon dating and cultural dynamics across Mongolia's early pastoral transition

W Taylor, S Wilkin, J Wright, M Dee, M Erdene… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The emergence of mobile herding lifeways in Mongolia and eastern Eurasia was one of the
most crucial economic and cultural transitions in human prehistory. Understanding the …

Quantifying ritual funerary activity of the late prehistoric southern Kanas Region (Xinjiang, China)

G Caspari - Asian Perspectives, 2020 - JSTOR
Identifying peaks in anthropogenic activity in a landscape is an important starting point for
understanding past social dynamics in the longue durée. Through intensive surveys and …

Mound landscape of the eastern Kugitang piedmonts. A location analysis.

J Havlík, S Shaydullaev - Archaeological Research in Asia, 2024 - Elsevier
Archaeological evidence on the occurrence of kurgan mounds (ie, stone-or earthen-made
mounds of various dimensions) in the Surkhandarya province of southern Uzbekistan was …

“Virtual dwellings” or architecture for the living? A hypothesis

G Caspari - Archaeological Research in Asia, 2020 - Elsevier
In 2017 Bourgeois et al. published a paper on “Geometric stone settings in the Yustyd Valley
and its surroundings (Altai Mountains, Russia): Bronze Age 'virtual dwellings' and …

Humans and Nature in Siberia: From the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages

YV Kuzmin, NI Bykov, EP Krupochkin - Humans in the Siberian …, 2022 - Springer
The main patterns of human–environment interaction in Siberia and the Russian Far East in
antiquity (Palaeolithic–Middle Ages) have been established, based on geoarchaeology and …

[HTML][HTML] Съемка археологических памятников с использованием беспилотных летательных аппаратов на примере Горного Алтая

ЕП Крупочкин, СИ Суханов… - … геосистем и технологий …, 2021 - cyberleninka.ru
В статье описана методика определения границ археологических памятников с
использованием GPS-съемки и беспилотных летательных аппаратов (БПЛА) с …

Ритуальные сооружения мунх-хайрханской культуры на могильнике Маральское 2 в горах Западного Саяна

НА Боковенко, АА Ковалев - Известия Лаборатории древних …, 2019 - cyberleninka.ru
В статье приведены данные о ритуальных памятниках мунх-хайрханской культуры
(XVIII (XIX)-XIV вв. до н. э.), обнаруженных наряду с мунх-хайрханскими курганами в …

Researching monumental spaces in late prehistoric societies: new perspectives for landscape research in the Russian Altai

R Vergauwe, J Bourgeois, W Gheyle - Archaeological Research in Asia, 2018 - Elsevier
In this article we present a preliminary study discussing new perspectives for future research
and interpretation of the Bronze and Iron Age monuments and monumental landscapes in …