Arctic Studies Center
Titles appearing in Art Book News Annual — January 2007
Taymyr; the archaeology of northernmost Eurasia.
Khlobystin, Leonid P. Ed. by William W. Fitzhugh and Vladimir V. Pitulko. Trans. by Leonid Vishniatski and Boris Grudinko. (Contributions to circumpolar anthropology; 5)
Arctic Studies Center, ©2005 235 p. $29.95 GN778
0-9673429-6-1
Russian Arctic archaeologist Khlobystin (1931-88) reports results from field work in the Taymyr Peninsula on the north coast of Russia, between 1967 and 1981. He covers climate, environment, and the initial colonizations of the Eurasian Arctic; the Taymyr neolithic; the early bronze age; the early iron age and the medieval period; and early economic and social development. Drevniaia istoriia Taimyrskogo Zapoliar'ia i voprosy formirovaniia kul'tur severa Evrazii was published in 1998 by Nauka Publishing House, St. Petersburg. Distributed in the US by Arctic Research Consortium of the US (ARCUS). (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
