Journal of Eurasian Studies - EPA

April‐June 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 2.
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In the Altai‐Mountains the famous Scythian kurgans were excavated first by Griaznov, later by
Rudenko, and other well‐known Russian archeologists. The burial excavations are continued till our days
and several Western (European and American) archaeologists also take part in this work. Even the web
exhibits wonderful rich displays of these results from the kurgans of Berel, Ak‐Alaha, Arzhan. The sites at
the boundaries of Kazahstan, Russia, Mongolia and China in Southern Siberia effuses the finds of this rich
common heritage. The new sites can be found at Baikal‐lake region, where the permanent settlements of
the Huns were found at Derestui, Ivolga, Dureny, published by archaeologists of Saint Petersburg
(Davidova and Miniaev are mentioned here).
Rudenko was among the first scientists who began the analysis and comparison of this rich
archaeological material with those of Mesopotamia. Rudenko found connections between the Siberian art
(in the Altai‐Mountains) and Mesopotamian art, and his work was continued by Miniaev, who found
common topics and parallel arrangement between pair of buckle‐of‐belt and a vessel excavated in
Kefajah, Iraq.
Fig. 5. Fish and bird are among the main characters of wildlife of the lakes. Siberian fish‐and‐duck and
the famous Wettersfeld fish with animal population of its skin animals are separated as far as 8000
kilometers from each other, but they were formed in the same spirit of represeantation.
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