Illustrated Catalogue of Archaeological Materials from Kamchatka in T
Illustrated Catalogue of Archaeological Materials from Kamchatka in T. M. Dikova Collection Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (NEISRI FEB RAS), Magadan, Russia Katsunori Takase and Aleksander I. Lebedintsev Laboratory of Archaeology, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University, Japan The North-Eastern Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute, FEB RAS, Russia 2019 Illustrated Catalogue of Archaeological Materials from Kamchatka in T. M. Dikova Collection Preserved in the North-Eastern Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (NEISRI FEB RAS), Magadan, Russia Katsunori Takase and Aleksander I. Lebedintsev Archaeology Laboratory, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University, Japan The North-Eastern Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute, FEB RAS, Russia 2019 Preface This illustrated catalogue purposes to provide the whole image of artifacts in T. M. Dikova collection preserved in the North-Eastern Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (NEISRI FEB RAS), Magadan, Russia. In Kamchatka, several collections of archaeologi- cal materials excavated by W. Jochelson, S. Bergman, N. N. Dikov, T. M. Dikova, A.K. Ponomarenko, and A.V. Ptashinski have been known so far. They were collected in various periods during the 20th century and the 21st century focusing on different cultures and regions. Therefore, each collection has the significant meaning for archaeological research in Kamchatka. T. M. Dikova collection, the largest collection of archaeological materials from Southern Kamchatka, was formed through archaeological excavations intensively conducted in the 1970s (Fig.1). It is characterized by a huge number of artifacts restored by large-scale investigations at representative sites in Southern Kamchatka. Although she passed away in 1981, results of these excavations were published mainly by the efforts of N.
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