B.S. Zhukov and his Research Approach to the Study of Antiquities of the IV–I Millennium BC of the Eastern Europe Forest Zone

Abstract

The paper considers methodological approaches in B.S. Zhukov’s scientific activity, one of the bright representatives of Russian archaeology in the 20s of the XX century. The basic principles of the paleoethnology he used in his studies are presented. An overview of the speeches of leading Russian ethnologists and paleoethnologists at the meetings of 1926 and 1927 is given. It is emphasized that the main problems discussed there were related to the development of the cultural-historical method. The main theses of B.S. Zhukov's main work "The theory of chronological and territorial modifications..." of 1929 are generalized. A high assessment is given to this work, which, firstly, demonstrated certain methods of analytical work with sources and, secondly, put extensive material of the IV–I millennium BC in the system, mainly from the territory of the Volga forest region. Innovative methods of study pottery collections introduced by B.S. Zhukov are considered.

Keywords

• archaeology
• .s. zhukov
• paleoethnology
• methodology
• cultural and historical method
• nizhny novgorod region
• pottery
• neolithic
• repression