Archaeological Expedition Of The Hermitage 2018 Is Completed
2700 years — so many years are the artifacts which were demonstrated to the public on September 11 in the Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H. M. Berbekov at the presentation of the interim results of the North Caucasus Archaeological Expedition of the State Hermitage for 2016 — 2018.
About excavations, made together with students-historians and philologists of KBSU on the archaeological monument — burial ground of IV — VII centuries BC. e. the head of the expedition, an employee of the apparatus of the Directorate of the State Hermitage, Yulia Marchenko and her deputy, a member of the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mark Kotin, reported in the vicinity of Verkhny Kurkuzhin, Baksansky District. The presentation was attended by members of the Government of the CBD, representatives of the leadership of the universities of the CBD, scientists-archeologists of the North-Caucasus republics, teachers and students of the university.
Welcoming the guests of the University, the rector of Kabardino-Balkarian State University Yuri Altudov said:
Cooperation between the university and the State Hermitage took place. Today we reap its fruits. Along with scientists from St. Petersburg, our students participate in the excavations, and every year their number grows. I note that the Hermitage signed a cooperation agreement only with KBSU. Thank you for the fruitful work of all the participants of the expedition.
During the presentation, artifacts found during the excavation, which are of high scientific interest, were demonstrated. Among them are clay and bronze ware, women’s, children’s ornaments made of bronze, glass, pins, iron knives, spearheads, arrows, axes, women’s and men’s jewelry made of amber and other materials that prove the ties of southern and northern peoples that existed thousands of years ago, reflected in the culture of farming, military affairs and arts and crafts. All the discovered objects will remain in the museum of the university.
In just three years about 80 students took part in the expedition. This became possible within the framework of the agreement on cooperation between the Kabardino-Balkarian State University and the State Hermitage, signed in 2016.
