Museum of Archeology and Ethnography of Altai

Barnaul - Quick Look Around Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography

A short look at some of the collections at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology museum at Altai University during a Grants Pass - Rubtsovsk Sister City visit.
The Altai region has a varied cultural past and much more can be done. It is few hours drive from the Denisovan cave, an area we know had Neanderthals, Denisovans and Sapians. As archaeologist Olga Lichachova told us, When we get money, we dig.
There is a small collection of skulls with elongated heads. They attribute them to the Huns in the migration period. They also had red hair as do many with other groups with head shaping cultures.
Preliminary DNA research has connect them to people in Crimea, the Black Sea and as far away as Paracas, Peru.
The Museum of Archeology and Ethnography of Altai is part of the history department at Altai State University in Barnaul, Russia. Classes are held in Archeology, Ethnography and Museology.
The collections of the museum are in demand by various disciplines - archeologists, historians, anthropologists, ethnographers - from Russia and foreign countries.
Located at Dimitrova Street 66, Barnaul.
Musical excepts from Czech composers Suk and Smetana for piano trio copyright the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and used by permission. -David Owens