Обзор IX международной научной конференции, посвященной памяти академиков В.П. Алексеева и Т.И. Алексеевой

Abstract

IX International Scientific Conference dedicated to the memory of academicians V.P. Alexeev and T.I.Alexeeva, was held in Moscow from October 17th to October 20th, 2022. This time, the leading organizer of the event was the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology N.N. Miklukho-Maclay of the Russian Academy of Sciences, although as in the previous Alexeevsky readings, the Scientific Research Institute and the Museum of Anthropology named after D.N. Anuchin Moscow State University and the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences were actively involved in it’s organization. Despite the fact that this time all presentations were held online, it should be noted that the quality of papers, as well as the activity of the participants of the event, turned out to be at the highest level. 90 papers were presented by 120 authors from Russia, Armenia, Belarus, India, Poland, Mongolia and Great Britain. Russian speakers represented scientific institutions from Moscow, Krasnodar region, Nizhny Novgorod, Kemerovo, Tyumen and Rostov regions, Volgograd, Ufa, Magadan, Pskov and St.Petersburg. At the opening of the conference, the names of the winners of the V.P Alexeev and T.I.Alexeeva Award in the field of interdisciplinary research in archaeology and anthropology in 2022 were announced. They were DSci Balabanova Aria Afanasievna and PhD Pererva Evgeny Vladimirovich. We sincerely congratulate our Volgograd colleagues and wish them new discoveries and scientific achievements. The topics of the meeting reflected the main modern trends in biological anthropology and related disciplines and included the Russian-Indian roundtable “Children’s Growth and Health”, conducted in English, as well as the sections “Human Evolution and Behavior: Modern Approaches and Perspectives”, “Modern Problems in Applied Anthropology”, “Adaptation Processes in the Indigenous People from the Modern Human Populations”, “Sports Anthropology”, “Modern Issues of the Ethnogenesis of Ancient Populations”, “Factors of the Population Variability – New Approaches and Perspectives of Research”, “Bioarchaeological Reconstruction – Perspectives and Limits of the Method”, “Paleoecological Aspects of Human Studies in the Context of Modern Biogeochemical Research”, “Demography as a tool for analyzing the stress resistance of a population in the past and present”.