Gennadii Borisovich Zdanovich (Russian: Геннадий Борисович Зданович; 4 October 1938 – 19 November 2020) was a Russian archaeologist based at the historical site of Arkaim, Chelyabinsk, Russia.

Zdanovich led the excavation campaign at Arkaim in the Southern Urals.[1]

In the archaeology of the Sintashta culture, he introduced the term "the Country of Towns".[2] He was a proponent of an approach which seeks to unify archaeological and ecological approaches to the environment.

Zdanovich died on 19 November 2020.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Zdanovich, G. (1999) "Arkaim Archaeological park: an cultural-ecological reserve in Russia", in: Panel-Philippe, G.; Stone-Peter, G.(eds) The Constructed Past: Experimental Archeology, Education and the Public, Routledge; Chapter 20, pp. 283–291
  2. ↑ Andrey Bersenev, Andrey Epimakhov and Dmitry Zdanovich, SINTASHTA BOW OF THE BRONZE AGE OF THE SOUTH TRANS-URALS, RUSSIA, in: "Bronze Age Warfare: Manufacture and Use of Weaponry", 2011, ISBN 978 1 4073 0822 7
  3. ↑ "В Челябинске умер знаменитый археолог, который открыл Аркаим". Komsomolskaya Pravda (in Russian). Retrieved 19 November 2020.


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