VIACHESLAV KANIVETS: PAGES OF LIFE...
Journal Title: Матеріали і дослідження з археології Прикарпаття і Волині - Year 2017, Vol 21, Issue
Abstract
The article is devoted to an archaeologist Viacheslav Kanivets who was a brilliant person in post-war archeology of Ukraine. For a short period of time of his being in Ukraine (till 1955) he made a great contribution to investigation of the Late Bronze age sites – the Earle Iron age in Western Ukraine. In particular the scientist made a valuable contribution to study of the Vysotska culture sites. In 1954 he defended a thesis on the themes of the Vysotska culture. In 1955 the researcher moved to Daghestan where the Bronze age sites became an object of his scientific interests. In 1958 V. Kanivets moved to Siktivcar (the Komi Republic) where he worked for the rest of his short life. In the North the investigator become a discoverer of the Pripolyare Paleolithic sites. In fact V. Kanivets laid down the foundations of primitive and medieval archaeology of Prypolyare. V. Kanivets perished tragically during the expedition on the Pechora river in 1972. A considerable part of V.Kanivets’s scientific legacy of both in Ukraine and in Rassia has not yet been published and it has been preserved as manuscripts in the scientific institutions archives. And among these manuscripts there is the manuscript “Vysotski burial ground”, which was prepared for printing as far back, as 1950s. The Vysotski burial ground was the site where V. Kanivets excavated 139 burial places.
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Vasyl Ilchyshyn
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