Academic Degree:
Ph.D. in History (Doct. of Historical Sc., D.Sc.)

Academic Ranks:

Professor (1999), Corresponding Member of the RAS (2003), Corresponding Member of German Archaeological Institute (2002)

Position: 2008 till present – Deputy Academician Secretary

Affiliation: Division of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Contact Data:
amirkhanov@rambler.ru

General Information:

Education and Training, Previous Employing Institutions

Education and Training:

Dagestan State University (1967-1972), Candidate of Sciences degree (1977, theme of degree work ‘The Upper Paleolithic in the North Caucasus and its Relation to the Upper Paleolithic in Adjacent Territories’), Doctor of Sciences degree (1989, theme of degree work ‘The Paleolithic in South Arabia’).

Employment History:

Institute of Archaeology of the RAS (1977 till present);

Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography, Dagestan Scientific Center of the RAS (1975 till present)

Key Disciplines Taught: …………….
 

Research Interests:

Initial human migrations, chronology and periodization of Stone Age monuments, genesis of culture and geography of primitive societies, development of productive economies

List of Most Essential Works:

Monographs:

1. The Upper Paleolithic in Kuban Region. Moscow, 1986. 113 p.
2. The site of Chokh. Moscow, 1987. 224 p.
3. The Upper Paleolithic in South Arabia. Moscow, 1991. 344 p.
4. The Neolithic and Post-Neolithic in Hadhramaut and Mahra. Moscow, 1997. 267 p.
5. The site of Zaraisk. Moscow, 2000.  246 p.
6. Northeast Caucasus: investigating Oldowan monuments. Moscow, 2007. 52 p.
7. Investigating the Paleolithic in Zaraisk. 1999-2005. (In co-authorship). Moscow, 2009. 466 p.
8. The Paleolithic in Dagestan: research challenges. (In co-authorship). Moscow, 2012, 292 p.
9. North Caucasus: beginnings of pre-history. Moscow, 2016. 344 p.

Other Works:

1. Amirkhanov Kh.A., Lev S.Yu. The site of Zaraisk: newly discovered monuments of Paleolithic art.  Rossiyskaya arkheologiya. 2007. No. 1. Pp. 22-35.
2. Amirkhanov Kh. A., Trubikhin V. M., Chepalyga A. L. The multilayer Early Pleistocene site of Ainikab 1 (Central Dagestan): paleomagnetic dating materials. Drevneyshie migratsii cheloveka v Evrazii. Novosibirsk, 2009. Pp. 36-41.
3. Amirkhanov Kh.A. The Avar and Andi languages: the issue of divergence in archaeolinguistic perspectives. Vestnik Instituta istorii, arkheologii i etnografii. No. 3 (19). Makhachkala, 2009.
4. Amirkhanov Kh.A., Ozhereliev D.V., Gribchenko Yu.N., Sablin M.V., Semenov V.V., Trubikhin V.M. Comprehensive studies of the Early Pleistocene site of Mukhkay II (Northeast Caucasus): summarizing results of 2008-2011 excavations. 1150 let rossiyskoy gosudarstvennosti i kul'tury. Moscow, 2012. Pp. 217-241.
5. Chepalyga A. L., Amirkhanov Kh. A., Sadchikova T. A., Trubikhin V. M., Pirogov A. N. Geoarchaeology of Oldowan sites from highland Dagestan. Byulleten' Komissii po izucheniyu chetvertichnogo perioda. No. 72. Moscow, 2013. Pp. 73-94.
6. Amirkhanov Kh.A. Development of Acheulean culture in the North Caucasus revisited. Fundamental'nye problemy arkheologii, antropologii i etnografii Evrazii. K 70-letiyu akademika A.P. Derevyanko. Novosibirsk, 2013. Pp. 15-23.
7. Amirkhanov Kh.A., Davudov O.M. Shikhsaidov Amri Rzaevich (celebrating the  85^th anniversary of birth). Vestnik Instituta istorii, arkheologii i etnografii DNTs RAN. Makhachkala. 2013. No. 1. Pp. 152-154.
8. Sablin M.V., Amirkhanov Kh.A., Ozhereliev D.V. The Oldowan site of Mukhkay II: paleontological materials for dating and reconstructing natural surroundings. Rossiyskaya arkheologiya. 2013. No. 4. Pp. 7-19.
9. Amirkhanov Kh. A. Regional paleographic reconstructions based on data from the Early Pleistocene site of Mukhkay II. Vestnik Dagestanskogo nauchnogo tsentra. No. 53. Makhachkala, 2014. Pp. 60–64.
10. Amirkhanov Kh.A., Khazamov D.A. A hand axe discovered in Salta area of the Kara-Koysu River valler (highland Dagestan). Vestnik Dagestanskogo nauchnogo tsentra. No. 52. Makhachkala, 2014. Pp. 59–62.
11. Amirkhanov Kh.A. Dating the multilayer site of Ainikab I in the Northeast Caucasus. Trudy Otdeleniya istoriko-filologicheskikh nauk. Moscow: Nauka, 2017. Pp. 221-232.
12. Amirkhanov Kh.A. Acheulean culture in the Northeast Caucasus: hand axes. Rossiyskaya arkheologiya. 2017. No. 1. Pp. 3-18. 
13. Amirkhanov Kh.A. Lev S. New finds of art objects from the site of Zaraysk (Russia). Antiquity. 2008. Vol. 82. Pp. 1-9.
14. Amirkhanov Kh. A, Lev S. Y. Une statuette de bison découverte dans le site de Zaraïsk. Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française. 2009. No. 3. Pp. 457-475.
15. Amirkhanov H.A., Girya E.Yu. Hammerstone from multilayer Early Paleolithic Ainikab I site  (Inner Dagestan). Preistoria Alpina. Trento, 2013. No. 47. Рp. 97–105.
16. Amirkhanov H.A., Ozhereliev D.V., Gribchenko Yu.N., Sablin M.V., Trubikhin  V., Semenov V.V. Early Humans at the eastern gate of Europe: The discovery and investigation of Oldowan sites in northern Caucasus. Palevol. Vol. 13. Is. 8. Pp. 717-725.
17. Vasiliev S.V., Amirkhanov Kh.A. Palaeolithic Caucasus: Paleoanthropology Panorama. Quaternary International. 2018. Vol. 465. Part A. Pp. 105-116.
18. Amirkhanov Kh.A. Dating the multilayer site of Ainikab I in the Northeast Caucasus. Trudy Otdeleniya istoriko-filologicheskikh nauk RAN. 2016. Moscow, 2017. Pp. 221-232.
19. Amirkhanov Kh.A. Northeast Caucasus: Acheulean hand axes. Rossiyskaya arkheologiya. 2017. No. 1. Pp. 3-18.
20. Amirkhanov Kh.A., Taymazov A.I. Paleolithic finds discovered near the village of Khadagi (Republic of Dagestan). Kratkie soobscheniya Instituta arkheologii. 2017. No. 249-I. Pp. 7-15.
21. Amirkhanov Kh.A., Tesakov A.S., Ozhereliev D.V. Dating the Oldowan site of Mukhkay 2A in Dagestan. Byulleten' Komissii po izucheniyu chetvertichnogo perioda. 2017. Vol. 75. No. 75. Pp. 5-10.
22. Amirkhanov Kh.A. In memory of Mamaykhan Aglarovich Aglarov (1935-2017). Vestnik Instituta istorii, arkheologii i etnografii. 2017. No. 2 (50). Pp. 190-193.
23. Amirkhanov Kh.A. North Caucasus: beginnings of pre-history. Makhachkala, 2016.
24. Amirkhanov Kh.A., Ozhereliev D.V. The multilayer site of Mukhkay II. Rossiya kak arkheologicheskoe prostranstvo. Moscow, 2016. Pp. 42-43.
25. Amirkhanov Kh.A., Ozherelev D.V., Sablin M.V., Agadzhanyan A.K. Faunal Remains from the Oldowan Site of Muhkai Ii in the North Caucasus: Potential for Dating and Palaeolandscape Reconstruction. Quaternary International. 2016. Vol. 395. Pp. 233-241.
26. Tokhtarov Z., Amirkhanov K., Kassenov A., Kakimov M., Orynbekov D., Moldabayeva Z. Mineral Composition of Sea Buckthorn. Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences. 2016. Vol. 7. No. 4. Pp. 1373-1377.
27. Amirkhanov H.A., Ozherelyev D.V., Sablin M.V., Agadzhanyan A.K. Faunal Remains from the Oldowan Site of Muhkai Ii in the North Caucasus: Potential for Dating and Palaeolandscape Reconstruction. Quaternary International. 2015. Vol. 395. P. 233.
28. Maschenko E.N., Amirkhanov Kh.A., Ozhereliev D.V. Morphology of an elephant calf (Archidiskodon, Elephantidae) discovered in the Oldowan site of Mukhkay. Doklady Akademii nauk. 2015. Vol. 465. No. 1. Pp. 123.        
29. Amirkhanov Kh.A., Lev S.Yu. Works of the Zaraisk Expedition: 2010-2012. Arkheologicheskie otkrytiya. 2015. Vol. 2010-2013. Pp. 120-123.
30. Derevyanko A.P., Shun'kov M.V., Markin S.V. Dynamics of Paleolithic industries in Africa and Asia during the Late Pleistocene and the evolution of Homo Sapiens. Otvetstvennyy redaktor. Novosibirsk, 2014.
31. Amirkhanov Kh.A. Regional paleogeograhic reconstructions based on materials discovered in the Early Pleistocene site of Mukhkay II. Vestnik Dagestanskogo nauchnogo tsentra RAN. 2014. No. 53. Pp. 60-64.
32. Amirkhanov H.A., Ozherel'ev D.V., Gribchenko Y.N., Semenov V.V., Sablin M.V., Trubikhin V. Early Humans at the Eastern Gate of Europe: the Discovery and Investigation of Oldowan Sites in Northern Caucasus. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 2014. Vol. 13. No. 8. Pp. 717-725.
33. Amirkhanov Kh.A. Archaeological materials from Central Dagestan: a perspective from initial human migrations. Kratkie soobscheniya Instituta arkheologii. 2014. No. 235. Pp. 3-13.