COMPLEX PROJECTS "CULTURE, SOCIETY AND HUMAN IN THE PALEOMETAL ERA (URALS AND WESTERN SIBERIA)"
Purpose: The article describes the main results obtained by a team of two Institutes: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Institute of History and Archaeology (Urals Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences), to implement the project within the framework of fundamental research carried out in collaboration with organizations of the SB, Far East Branch (Russian Academy of Sciences), State Academies of Russia, National Academy of Sciences of the Commonwealth of Independent States and funded from the SB and UB in 2012-2013. The prime objective of the research was reconstruction cultural dynamics, genetic and social processes in the Urals and Western Siberia, to study directions and forms of migration, interactions within the cultural and historical communities in the Paleometal era. The work is based on the results of a multidisciplinary approach to the study of archaeological sources at all levels of his research. Field work was based on a comprehensive archaeological and geophysical program, which was successfully tested for a number of years of settlement and funerary significant site of Western Siberia, the Urals, the Russian and Mongolian Altai, as well as the study of significant site solid surface with the removal of the soil beyond the excavation site. Work on the project was organized in blocks corresponding chronological periods, and local areas of the Ural-Siberian region: Culture and Society-ratio and reflected in the archaeological source, аactors of cultural variability; Cultural-Genetic processes in the Urals and Western Siberia in the Paleometal era; Society of Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the Urals and Western Siberia; Personal and group identity in societies in the Paleometal era. During the project, the partners are in constant communication that allowed us to obtain specific scientific results. Results: Theoretical and historiographical study concerned the current state of historical and cultural approach to the archaeological research in Russia and abroad. Contextual and statistical analysis was performed on specific materials the Bronze and the Early Iron Ages. The problem of the origin and prolonged existence of long-distance relationships is solved on the basis of analysis of Bronze Age sites and learning resource base functioning societies. The findings are reflected in the various publications and are presented as conference papers. Conclusion: As part of the project was organized and conducted by the All-Russian research and practice seminar «Culture, society and the people in the Paleometal era (Ural and Western Siberia), 11-14 November 2013 in Chelyabinsk». It was attended by 25 scientists from different cities of Russia. The seminar and discussion that took place on it demonstrated the relevance of this problem and received during her research results. Some of the reports have been prepared for publication in this issue.