THE RESEARCH OF 16TH-19TH CENTURIES’ SETTLEMENTS IN BASHKORTOSTAN: MODERN PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES OF ARCHAEOLOGY DEVELOPMENT IN THE REGION

Abstract

The paper presents the basic and modern wide-scale archaeology studies in the Republic of Bashkortostan. The poor degree of studying the 16th-19th centuries’ period sets the problem of ethnoarchaeological research in South Urals' historic towns. The positive research experience of the late Middle Ages in other regions and scientific centers of the Russian Federation is a good example of interdisciplinary integration which can be used for objective history reconstruction of the region. Such research is very complicated in historical towns of the 16th -19th centuries because they are located near modern inhabited areas and could have been destroyed by the construction works or economic activities in the late Middle Ages historical cultural layer zones.

Keywords

• modern archeology studies
• ethnoarchaeology
• studies of ufa
• cultural layer of the 16th – 19th centuries
• historic towns
• bashkir village