Anastasiya N. Fedorina1,* and Maria V. Medvedeva2,**
1Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia
2Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia
*E-mail: nasfed@yandex.ru
**E-mail: marriyam@mail.ru
Keywords: anthropology, excavations of Vladimir burial mounds, A.S. Uvarov, P.S. Savelyev, craniological collections, archival records.
The 1851–1854 excavations of the Vladimir burial mounds conducted under A.S. Uvarov and P.S. Savelyev are known primarily due to the voluminous collections of objects stored in the State Historical Museum. At the same time, very little is known about the fate of the anthropological collection. Based on archival materials and museum catalogues, it was possible to follow the fate of the anthropological collection and understand how external factors of «secondary archaeology» (storage and movement of the collection) influenced the perception of A.S. Uvarov’s works by public. The results obtained made it possible to replenish the sample available for modern study with anthropological materials from eleven medieval burial grounds and expand the series of already studied sites including the burial grounds of large settlements Ves and Shekshovo so significant for understanding the formation of the Suzdal land complexes.
DOI: 10.31857/S0869606325020122, EDN: IRABQD
