On January 23-25, 2006, Altai State University hosted the All-Russian Scientific Conference "Western and Southern Siberia in Ancient Times", dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the famous archaeologist, Professor Yu.F. Kiryushin. The conference had several sections. The author of the review focused on one of them related to the magazine's profile. The section" Antiquities of Eurasia " discussed reports on the archeology of the foreign East. The presentation of A. A. Kovalev (Research Institute of Integrated Social Research, St. Petersburg) "Chemurchek cultural phenomenon"attracted the greatest attention. Under this name, the author suggests combining a number of monuments of the early Bronze Age of Central Asia. In his opinion, it is possible to trace a certain unity of the population of Dzungaria and the Mongolian Altai due to the component introduced to these territories by migrants from Western Europe no later than the middle of the 3rd millennium BC. e. A. A. Kovalev sees the prototypes of burial structures of the Chemurchek culture in the" corridor tombs " of France; in the same place (in Languedoc), he identified stone Eneolithic statues that served as the basis for the iconography of Chemurchek sculptures. Moving from west to east, the "migrants" absorbed the achievements of the cultures of Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia and, in turn, transmitted them to the inhabitants of the forest-steppe zone of Siberia. The visual techniques of the Chemurchek people influenced the formation of Okunevo and Karasuk art; their connection with the Seimin-Turbino tradition is also traced. The discussion participants ' objections to the report of A. A. Kovalev were mainly reduced to the fact that the Chemurchek material itself is not yet very significant and does not allow us to draw such unambiguous and large-scale conclusions. The report of S. L. Komissarov (IET SB RAS, Novosibirsk) criticizes the identification of the so-called Syba culture in Western Gans ... Читать далее