Alexei Rezepkin

Alexei Rezepkin (Russian: Алексей Дмитриевич Резепкин; born 25 March 1949) is a Russian archaeologist who made some significant archeological discoveries. He is a senior researcher at the Institute of History of Material Culture in St. Petersburg where he lives.

He was born in Yershovka, Chelyabinsk oblast, and attended school in Sibay, Bashkortostan. He comes from the family of Orenburg Cossacks that in the past suffered repression from Soviet authorities. He graduated from the Department of Archaeology of the University of Leningrad, and started work at the Institute of History of Material Culture in 1976. He is married to G. N. Poplevko.

Starting in 1979, he was leading excavations in the territory of the North Caucasus and Transcaucasia (Adygea, Krasnodar Region, Karachay-Cherkessia, Abkhazia). Over 30 years he has thoroughly excavated the Klady kurgan burial complex near Novosvobodnaya in Adygea. Rezepkin contributed significantly to the study of settlements and burials of the early Bronze Age in the North Caucasus.

In 1989 Rezepkin defended his Ph.D. thesis "Northwest Caucasus in the Early Bronze Age (based on burial sites of Novosvobodnaya type)". He also confirmed the existence of megaliths in the southern Urals.

He also contributed to the study and discussion of the origin of the Proto-Indo-Europeans.

Rezepkin sees Novosvobodnaya culture as independent from Maikop culture.

For the first time, Rezepkin linked the finds from Novosvobodnaya with the artifacts of the Funnelbeaker culture from the ancient Germany and Denmark, rather than with the Globular Amphora culture, as was thought previously.

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