Department of Archaeology of the Great Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages

The department was established in 2014 on the basis of the Migration Period Antiquities Research Group, which had existed within the Slavic-Russian Department since 2002. The department is headed by Doctor of Historical Sciences A.M. Oblomsky.

The main goal of the department is to study the nature of the cultural transition that occurred in Eastern Europe in the middle to third quarter of the first millennium CE during the Migration Period, to reconstruct the overall picture of these changes, and to interpret them. This requires a comparison of archaeological structures from the late Roman period (3rd–5th centuries) and the early Middle Ages (5th–7th centuries), as well as a specialized study of sites from the Hunnic period (late 4th–5th centuries).

Currently, the department's activities focus on several areas:

Identifying and characterizing archaeological communities and studying cultural processes at the transition between the late Roman period