Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 42 (4) 2014

Annotation:  Test Study of Organic and Inorganic Residues on the Stone Tools from the Mesolithic Layer in the Dvo Carinated Pieces in Paleolithic Assemblages of Central Asia Ceramics of the Mariinskoye Culture from the Lower Amur Chronology of the Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age in the Urals Ethnic and Cultural Mosaic in Western Baraba During the Late Bronze to Iron Age Transition (14th–8th Imitation/Reconstruction of an Early Medieval Dwelling in the Western Amur Basin Inscriptions in Uyghur Writing and Runic Characters from the Urkosh Area (Central Altai) High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging of a Mummy from AkAlakha-3 Mound 1, Ukok Plateau, Gorny Altai: Paleolandscape Reconstruction of the Abrau Peninsula Littoral (Krasnodar Territory): Based on Sedime An Archaeological Landscape in the Dzhazator Valley (Altai Mountains): Surface Monuments and Petrogl Metal Plaques from the Fortifi ed Settlement Old Iskarra: Attribution and Subjects Ethnological Approach to Siberian Zoomorphs: A Search for Meaning and Implications for the Upper Pa Genealogies of the Siberian Bukharans: The Shikhovs Early Iron Age Surgical Technologies: Ante-Mortem Trepanation Among the Early Nomads of Gorny Altai   

Genealogies of the Siberian Bukharans: The Shikhovs

A.K. Bustanov and S.N. Korusenko.

This paper focuses on the analysis of historical stories associated with an elite family of Siberian Muslims. Particular attention is paid to verifi cation of the original Arabic-language sources by comparing them with data obtained from population censuses and ethnographic interviews. The existence of genealogy among the West Siberian Tatars refers to the Bukharans who populated the region intensively in the 16th–19th centuries, developing into an ethnic and class group, and then in the 20th century assimilated among the Siberian Tatars. Several versions of the genealogy of descendants of ‘Awwas-Baqi, who arrived from the city of Sayram in the outskirts of Tara in Siberia, as well as the social status of the main members representing the Shikhov family, have been successfully identifi ed.

Keywords: genealogy, Shaykhs, Siberian Bukharans, elite families.