The space of antiquity: Archaeological sites on the map of Russia

Abstract

This article is dedicated to the results of three years of labor by the team of authors on the creation of the first domestic national-scale archaeological map. The geoinformation system “Archaeological Sites of Russia” contains information about 15367 archaeological heritage sites and 11489 archaeological dig sites without traces of antiquities, obtained from scientific reports from 2009 to 2012. This sampling reflects the scale of recent archaeological surveys, the spatial distribution of archaeological sites over the country’s territory, and the degree and ways of development of these territories in various historical periods.