Department of Stone Age Archaeology

The Stone Age Department is the Institute's newest department. It was established in 1992, initially as the Paleolithic and Mesolithic Sector, and in 1994 it was transformed into the Stone Age Department. Its director is Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Kh.A. Amirkhanov.

The department's activities are aimed at giving new impetus to the development of this scientific field, creating a professional environment and a psychological atmosphere conducive to the unification of colleagues from other scientific institutions around the department in the interests of science.

The main topics of scientific research are divided into two main areas: "Humanity and the Natural Environment in the Upper Paleolithic of the Russian Plain" and "Initial Development and the Early Stages of Northern European Culture." The first area was implemented from 1995 to 1997. Within the framework of the "Eastern Gravettian" project on t