All-Russian conference “Ananyino world: processes of cultural genesis in the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age in Northern Eurasia”

On October 3-6, 2022, the All-Russian scientific conference “The Ananyino world: the processes of cultural genesis in the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age in Northern Eurasia, dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the birth of archaeologist and ethnographer B.S. Zhukov, was held in Yelabuga.

The organizers of the conference are: Institute of Archaeology named after A.H. Khalikov of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Kazan Federal University, Yelabuga State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve.

More than 40 researchers from scientific centers of the Russian Federation took part in the conference: Vologda, Yekaterinburg, Yelabuga, Izhevsk, Yoshkar-Ola, Kazan, Kostroma, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Perm, Petrozavodsk, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Ufa.

During the conference a number of key issues on the archeology of the Bronze Age – Early Iron Age were discussed: archaeological cultures of the Late Bronze Age and their role in the formation of cultures of the Early Iron Age in the Northern Eurasia, integration and isolation processes in Northern Eurasia in the Early Iron Age: forest and steppe, cultural genesis processes in the forest belt of Eastern Europe at the end of II – I thousand BC, sites of the Ananyino cultural and historical area; transformation of the cultural space of Northern Eurasia at the end of the I thousand BC – the beginning of the I thousand AD.

Excursions to the museum and exhibition facilities of the Elabuga State Museum-Reserve were organized for the participants of the conference: Museum of District Medicine named after V.M. Bekhterev, N.A. Durova Estate Museum, M.I. Tsvetayeva Memorial House, «Portomoynya» Museum, I.I. Shishkin House-Museum, Museum of Modern Ethnography, Museum of the Town History. The guests visited the historical and archaeological complex “Elabuga (“Devil’s”) settlement and the cultural heritage site of federal significance “Ananyino burial ground”.