Objective The research activities of this joint research project will concern the comparison of cultural, social and economic mechanisms in the east border regions of the European continent during the Bronze Age and Iron Age. The research and study of burials and settlements will be carried out and both will be connected with traditional trade roads between the Middle East and Europe. Mutations and changes in local communities will be investigated. For a long time now, the regions to the south of the Urals, occidental Siberia and the north border of the Kazakhstan steppes have been the subject of archaeological research. Many scientific works conducted by the Archaeological Laboratory of the Urals University and the Archaeology Institute of the Urals Science Centre demonstrate the importance of these contact regions between the steppes and forest, between Europe and Asia. The southern Urals was always the transit way where peoples and ideas passed through from Asia to Europe and reciprocally.The kurgans aristocratic graves and fortresses of the first and second millennia B.C. the real golden age of central Eurasia populations, are numerous but on the verge of destruction. The study of these monuments, fundamental for a knowledge of the protohistoric period, requires important field research and laboratory studies. Programme(s) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Topic(s) 74 - History, Archaeology Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique EU contribution No data Address Avenue du Maréchal Leclerc 35042 Rennes France See on map Total cost No data Participants (3) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Centre d'Investigations Archéologique de Girona Spain EU contribution No data Address 17007 Girona See on map Total cost No data Chelyabinsk History Museum Russia EU contribution No data Address 454000 Chelyabinsk See on map Total cost No data Ural State University Russia EU contribution No data Address 620083 Yekaterinburg See on map Total cost No data
