Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 43 (4) 2015

Annotation:  The Pleistocene Peopling of the North: Paleolithic Milestones and Thresholds Horizons In Northern Eu Transitional Middle to Upper Paleolithic Industries in the Rubas Valley, Coastal Dagestan Truncated-Faceted Pieces in the Paleolithic of Northern Asia Archaeological Sites on the Angara Bank from the Chadobets River to Boguchany: Findings of a Survey A Rare Bronze Sword from Lake Baikal Shore A Stone Abrasive Tile from Cheremkhova, Western Amur Region A Ceremonial Saddle from Altynkazgan, Mangyshlak Peninsula, Kazakhstan First Steps Towards a National Geographic Information System, “Archaeological Sites of Russia” Petroglyphs of Khabarovsk Territory: The Impact of the 2013 Amur and Ussuri Flooding Shakan: Kazakh 18th–19th Century Narrow-Bladed Battle Axes Mapping the Traditional Dress Types of Southwestern Siberian Old Believers (late 1800s–early 1900s) The Impact of Urbanization on the Transmission of Culture and Language of the Sakha People: A Sociol The Morphology of Human Teeth from Afontova Gora II, Southern Siberia, and Their Status Relative to A Paleogenetic Study of Pazyryk People Buried at Ak-Alakha-1, the Altai Mountains   

First Steps Towards a National Geographic Information System, “Archaeological Sites of Russia”

N.A. Makarov, O.V. Zelentsova, D.S. Korobov, A.P. Chernikov, and A.N. Voroshilov.

The article describes the principles underlying the automated system of archaeological information processing (ASIP), “Terek”. It is part of a nationwide geographic information system, “Archaeological Sites of Russia”, designed at the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The system is based on information from archaeological reports which were submitted to the archives of the IA RAS. Currently, under Russian Science Foundation Project No. 14-1803755, fi eld data from the reports of 2009–2012 are being entered into “Terek”. At the present time, the system contains a brief description of approximately 20,000 sites and locations where no archaeological remains have been revealed by surveys. Open access cartographic systems enable automated mapping of sites based on Internet geoservers such as Google.Maps, Yandex.Maps, and SAS.Planeta. Examples of such mapping are provided.

Keywords: Archaeological heritage protection, geo information systems, databases, archaeological sites, archival materials, fi eld reports.