Persons

Vdovchenkov
Evgeny V.

Dr. of History

IOS RAS » Department of Anthropology of the East » Leading Researcher

Scientific Interests

Social archaeology; social anthropology of early societies; steppe zone of Eastern Europe in antiquity and the early Middle Ages; Barbaricum of the Roman period and the era of the Great Migration of Peoples; early Nomads; Sarmatian archeology; social history of the Sarmatians; Tamgi; Bosporan Kingdom; spiritual culture and religious and mythological representations of ancient societies; images of space in traditional cultures; Khazar Khaganate; archeology and paleogenetics.

Education

2000 - graduated from Rostov State University, Faculty of History. Specialty "Historian. A history teacher".
2003 - completed postgraduate studies at the Faculty of History of the Rostov State University (General History and Archaeology).
2005 - defended PhD thesis at Voronezh State University, specializing in Archeology. The topic of the dissertation is "Migration of the Sarmatians to the Middle Danube region (according to archeology and ancient tradition)".
Scientific degree - Doctor of Historical Sciences, dissertation defended in 2023 at the Russian State University for the Humanities on the topic: "Social history of the nomadic population of the Lower Don region of the Sarmatian epoch (II century BC - IV century AD)" (General History).

Main publications

He is the author of more than 180 publications, including 7 monographs (5 of them are collective), more than 20 publications indexed in Scopus and in WoS.

Monographs:

  1. Vdovchenkov E.V. Social archeology and new materiality: in search of new approaches // Russian Anthropology and the “Ontological Turn” (Innovations in Anthropology, Vol.2) / ed. by S.V. Sokolovsky. Moscow: IEA RAS, 2017 (electronic version)/ 400 p. pp. 130-148 (in Russian).
  2. Vdovchenkov E.V. Social history of the Sarmatians of the Lower Don region. Editor-in-chief S.A. Yatsenko. Moscow: Aquilon, 2018. 212 p. (in Russian).
  3. Vdovchenkov E.V. Chapter 9. The political organization of the Iranian nomads in ancient times // Politogenesis and historical dynamics of political institutions: from local potestarity to the global world system: a collective monograph / edited by L. E. Grinin. Moscow: Moscow edition of the Uchitel Publishing House, 2019. pp. 235-265 (in Russian).
  4. Petrov M.A., Vdovchenkov E.V. The Scythian Empire // Nomadic empires of Eurasia: features of historical dynamics / edited by B.V. Bazarov, N.N. Kradin; Institute of Mongolian Studies, Buddhology and Tibetology SB RAS; Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East FEB RAS. Moscow: Nauka - East lit., 2019. pp. 48-74 (in Russian).
  5. Vdovchenkov E.V. Ethnosocial reconstruction of Sarmatian society. Editor-in-chief V.A. Popov. Rostov-on-Don; Taganrog: Southern Federal University Press, 2020. 290 p. (in Russian).
  6. Vdovchenkov E.V. King power and social order among the early Nomads: homoarchy and heterarchy in the western part of the steppe zone of Eurasia // Principles and forms of socio-cultural organization: historical contexts of interaction / Edited by D.M. Bondarenko, G.V. Alexandrov. Moscow: YASK Publishing House, 2024. pp. 80-105 (in Russian).
  7. Vdovchenkov E.V. The influence of climate on the military activity of the Nomads of Eastern Europe in the Early Iron Age // Civilization and barbarism: landscape barbarism (Collective monograph) / Under the general editorship of V.P. Budanova. Moscow: Aquilon, 2024. pp. 211-223 (in Russian).

Editorial activity:

  1. Deputy editor-in-chief of the journal "New Past", Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
  2. Member of the Editorial Board of the yearbook "Civilization and Barbarism" (Moscow, IVI RAS).
  3. Editor-in-chief of collections: All-Russian Archaeological Conference of Students and Postgraduates "Problems of Archeology of Eastern Europe", Rostov-on-Don, from 2012 to the present.