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found. A second occupation took
;
place in the Eariy Bronze Age.
numerous
remains
include
Village
features with abundánt archaeological materials. Gettingthere:The
site can be reached by car, bus,
or train and is situated 30 miles
(50 km) northeast of Kraków.
From Kraków, follow the main
road to the town of Kazimierza
Wielka, where the headquarters
are located. The village Slonowice lies at the outskirts of Kazimierza Wielka, a 50-minute drive from Kraków. The site is open
8:00-3:00.
Monday-Saturday,
There is an entrance fee. Appointments are required to visit
the site and to obtain a guide. Acfort will concentrate on burials
commodations are nearby in
and fortresses of the northern peKraków. There is a restaurant in
Kazimierza Wielka, one-half mile
riphery of the Silk Road. The first
in the Baitovo fortress
excavation
Contact
:
Krzysztof
(1 km) away.
i
Ettook
Tunia, Instytut Archeologii
place last August. The Barrow
Burial
Ground Skaty has not
ul.
Sfawkowska
17,
nologii PAN,
as yet been excavated, but it is
31-016 Kraków, Poland, (tel./fax)
similar to barrows of the Sarmat48-12-222905.
ian tribes of the Eurasian steppe.
Getting there: The site can be
Russia
reached by car, train, or bus. The
fortress is located 35 miles (60 km)
north of Kourgan, and the Burial
Baitovo Fortress and Barrow
Ground Skaty is approximately 20
Burial Ground Skaty (excavamiles (30 km) southwest of the
tions July
25,
10-August
The site is open all day
Fortfortress.
The
Baitovo
1996, 1997).
while excavations are in progress.
ress is located about 35 miles (60
There is no entrance fee. The
km) north of the city of Kourgan.
that
was
nearest accommodations are in
is
a
It
large settlement
in
the
first
the
of
middle
Kourgan, although there is a viloccupied
of
and
consists
millennium B.C.,
lage four miles (7 km) away. It
and
one
fortified
two sections,
may be possible to lodge in tents
at the camp. Contact:Ludmila Koone open. Dwelling depressions
and defensive linefcare clearly visryakova, Ural State University, 51
Lenin Avenue, 620083 Ekaterinible on the surface. Finds include
ceramics, tools, and objects of
burg, Russia, (tel.) 7-3432-55-7005; 7-3432-45-41-31, (fax) 7-3432everyday life from the Iron Age.
of
in
área
sites
Also this
are many
55-74-01; 7-3432-55-59-64, (e-mail)
the Neolithic and Bronze Age.
Ludmila@arch.urgu.e-burg.su.
The Burial Ground Skaty, con7 (excavations
Ivanovskoye
sisting of five large, high-status
is
located
miles
summer
20
barrows,
1996, 1997). Ivanin a peat minis
fort.
located
of
the
Baitovo
southwest
ovskoye
and
has
five
cultural layto
field
such
barrows belonged
ing
Usually
ers:
the nomadic Sargat culture^Early
Early, Late, and Final
A
first
millennium
Mesolithic
Iron Age,
B.C.).
(early seventh-late
and
Russian
sixth
efmillennia B.C.), Early and
four-year French

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Middle Neolithic (middle fifthearly fourth millennia B.c). Finds
include tools and weapons made
of stone, bone, and antler, and
Neolithic pottery fragments. Getting there: The sit is in the
Yaroslavl region, 12 miles (20 km)
north of Pereslavl. By car, go from
Pereslavl to Ivanovskoye. The site
is open year-round, send e-mail or
letter in advance to make an appointment. Accommodations in
tents at the expedition camp are
possible. Contact:Mikle Zhilin, Institute of Archaeology Russian
Academy of Sciences, 19 Dm.
Ulyanov Street, Moscow, Russia
117036, (tel.) 7-095-126-9454, (email) zhilin@iaras2.msk.su.
Medieval Moscow (July 20August 16, 1996). Excavations
in Moscow in the 1920s uncovered tombs and ancient settlements. The first full-scale dig took
place in 1946 to the east of the
Kremlin. Today, excavations are
in progress all over the city. The
Center for Archaeological Research in the Moscow Department of Preservation of Historical
Monuments, directed by archaeologist Alexander Veksler, oversees all restoration as well as all
new construction. Each period of
Moscow's early history ended
with the destruction of its wooden

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