Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
1 The greater part of the information was translated and summarized by Eugene Prostov from Kratkie Soobshcheniia o dokladakh i polevykh issledovaniiakh Instituta Istorii Material’noi Kul’tury. [Brief Communications on Reports and Field Investigations of the Institute for the History of Material Culture] (IIMK) Nos. 3-4, Leningrad, 1940. Under Prostov’s supervision the Congressional Library System of transliteration has been used, with minor modifications, for all proper nouns in Russian.
2 See A. M. Tallgren and others in Eurasia Septentriotialis Antiqua (ESA) since 1926 ; also E. Golomshtok, ‘Anthropological Activities in Soviet Russia’, American Anthropologist, n.s. XXXV, 301-27,1933 ; and A. Zolotarev, ‘The Ancient Culture of North Asia’, ibid. XL, 13-23, 1938.
3 See H. Field and E. Prostov, in the following articles : American Anthropologist, n.s. XXXVIII, 260-90, 1936 ; XXXIX, 457-90, 1937 ; XL, 653-79, 1938 ; and XLII, 211-35, 1940. American Journal of Archaeology, XLI, 618-20, 1937; XLII, 146-7, 295-8, 1938; XLIII, 331-2, 507, 1939; XLIV, 138, 1940. American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, LII, 138-41,1936 ; LIII, 123-4, 275—6, 1937 ; LV, 109-12, 333-6, 1938 ; LVI, 110-2, 172-4, 322-4, 438-40, 1939; LVII, 112, 194-6, 327-9, 1940. Ars Islamic, V, 233-71. 1938 ; VI, 158-66, 1939. Asia, XL, 272-7, 327-30, 1940. Antiquity, XII, 341-5, 1938 ; and XIII, 99-101, 1939.
4 Excerpted from Moscow Daily News, 15 August 1940.
5 Gorkinskii mogilnik [The Burial Ground at Gorki] ‘Sbornik Statei po Arkheologii SSSR’, Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Istoricheskogo Muzeia, VIII, pp. 57-72, Moscow, 1938.
6 M. E. Foss, ‘Pogrebeniia na stoianke Kubenino’ [Burials at Kubenino] Sbornik Statei po arkheologii SSSR, Trudy Gosudarstvennogo istoricheskogo muzeia, VIII, pp. 73-91, Moscow, 1938.
7 P. N. Tret’iakov, ‘Archaeological monuments of eastern Slavic peoples in connection with the problems of ethnogenesis’ in Kratkie Soobshcheniia, IIMK, II, pp. 3-5, 1939.
8 Raskopki pravoberezhnogo Tsymlianskogo gorodishcha [Excavations of thegorodishche on the right bank near Tsymliansk] in Kratkie Soobshcheniia, IIMK, IV, pp. 58-62, 1940.
9 ‘Itogi poslednikh raskopok drevnei Tiritaki’ [Results of the latest excavations at ancient Tiritace] in Kratkie Soobshcheniia, IIMK, IV, pp. 54-8, 1940.
10 L. Melikset-Begov, ‘Armazni : istoriko-arkheologicheskii ocherk’ [Historico-archaeological description of Armazni], ‘Masalebi Sakartvelos da Kavkasiis Istoriisatvis’ [Materials for the Study of Georgian and Caucasian History] No. 2, pp. 1-119, 1938. [In Russian, with Georgian summary].
11 A. Kalandadze, ‘Armazis arkeologiuri ekspeditsiis tzinastzari angarishi’ [Excavations by the Armaz Archaeological Expedition] of EIMKI, in Moambe [Bulletin] II, No. 3, pp. 365-400. 1937. [In Georgian].
12 Prince Vakhushti gave the date as A.D. 55-129.
13 These are described by P. S. Uvarova in Museum Caucasicum V, 93-94.
14 G. K. Nioradze, Karsanis Hevis Sasaphleo, Bull. Mus. Georgi, IV, 1-54, 1926.
15 G. G. Lemlein, Saistorio Krebuli, III, 7, 1921.
16 Arkheologicheskie issledovaniia o doline z Talas [Archaeological Investigations in the Talas Valley] in Kratkie Soobshcheniia, IIMK, IV, 45-6, 1940.
17 ‘Arkheologicheskie issledovaniia v Kirgizii’, in Kratkie Soobshcheniia, IIMK, IV, 47-8, 1940.
18 M. E. Masson, ‘Ekspeditsiia arkheologicheskogo nadzora na stroitel’stve Bol’shogo Ferganskogo kanala im I.V. Stalina’ [Archaeological Supervision during construction of the Great Farghana Canal named after I. V. Stalin] in Kratkie Soobshcheniia, IIMK, IV, 52-4, 1940.
19 Burkhan ai-Din al-Marghinani.
20 The following summary of results obtained was received through VOKS in a private communication dated 19 August 1939.
21 A. A. Spitsin, ‘Materials for the Archaeology of the Eastern Provinces of Russia’, fase, I, p. 174.
22 See ‘The Pazirik Burial of Altai’, by M. P. Griaznov and Eugene A. Golomshtok, American Journal of Archaeology, XXXVII, No. 1, pp. 30-45 and pls. I-VI, 1933 ; M. Griaznov, ‘Pazyrykskii Kurgan’, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. and Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, 1937. [Summary in French] ; and H. Field and E. Prostov, ‘Soviet Archaeology Today-II’, Asia, XL, p. 330, 1940. Despite the descriptions previously published on the Pazyryk finds these notes, received from Leningrad during 1940, bring the results up to date.
23 Miss Dorothy Pedersen assisted with the editorial revision of the original text.