PROBLEMS OF INNER ASIA NOMADIC EMPIRES HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE PRESERVATION
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DOI: 10.31773/2078-1768-2019-46-172-179
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Information about authors: Vasyutin Sergey Aleksandrovich, Dr of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Department of World History and Socio-political Sciences, Kemerovo State University (Kemerovo, Russian Federation). E-mail: vasutin2012@list.ru
Annotation: The last decade, the researches of Inner Asia nomadic cultures have been focused on archaeological, linguistic, ethnological and social and anthropological studies, publishing the excavation materials, their presentation in museum and private collections. The purpose of the article is to study the essential problems of Inner Asian nomadic empires’ historical and cultural heritage. In Mongolia and the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia in China, a great care is currently devoted to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of Genghis Khan and the Mongolian Empire. The heritage of the Turks, Uyghur city culture and Khitan is great and includes material culture objects, ancient manuscripts, city centers, religious and cultural traditions of different ethnopolitical units of the nomads, ended up in steppe Sogdians, Chinese and other ethnic groups of settled peoples. Comparative and historical method has allowed to outline the importance of certain historical and cultural objects and compare the Turk, Uyghur and Khitan heritage with the Mongolian Empire heritage in modern Mongolia. Analytical studies have been done to generalize the forms and methods of protection of nomadic empires’ historical and cultural heritage in modern Mongolia and reveal the main problems of archaeological sites and objects of the middle 1st – early 2nd Millennials. The research has shown that besides the historical and cultural heritage of the Mongolian Empire period, there are serious problems of the Early Middle Age city sites’ preservation, use of ambiguous ways of museification of architectural and archaeological objects with Middle Age inscriptions in steppe conditions, minimizing the artifact selection for museums and a wide range of other questions. A limited participation of Mongolian culture administration bodies in preservation of historical and cultural heritage of nomadic empires in the 5-12th centuries doesn’t allow using the complex approach of cultural preservation activities and leads to loss of certain objects and destruction of big historical and cultural objects of the Middle Age.
Keywords: nomadic empires, Inner Asia, ancient manuscripts, steppe and city culture.
DOI: 10.31773/2078-1768-2019-46-172-179
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Information about authors: Vasyutin Sergey Aleksandrovich, Dr of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Department of World History and Socio-political Sciences, Kemerovo State University (Kemerovo, Russian Federation). E-mail: vasutin2012@list.ru
Annotation: The last decade, the researches of Inner Asia nomadic cultures have been focused on archaeological, linguistic, ethnological and social and anthropological studies, publishing the excavation materials, their presentation in museum and private collections. The purpose of the article is to study the essential problems of Inner Asian nomadic empires’ historical and cultural heritage. In Mongolia and the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia in China, a great care is currently devoted to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of Genghis Khan and the Mongolian Empire. The heritage of the Turks, Uyghur city culture and Khitan is great and includes material culture objects, ancient manuscripts, city centers, religious and cultural traditions of different ethnopolitical units of the nomads, ended up in steppe Sogdians, Chinese and other ethnic groups of settled peoples. Comparative and historical method has allowed to outline the importance of certain historical and cultural objects and compare the Turk, Uyghur and Khitan heritage with the Mongolian Empire heritage in modern Mongolia. Analytical studies have been done to generalize the forms and methods of protection of nomadic empires’ historical and cultural heritage in modern Mongolia and reveal the main problems of archaeological sites and objects of the middle 1st – early 2nd Millennials. The research has shown that besides the historical and cultural heritage of the Mongolian Empire period, there are serious problems of the Early Middle Age city sites’ preservation, use of ambiguous ways of museification of architectural and archaeological objects with Middle Age inscriptions in steppe conditions, minimizing the artifact selection for museums and a wide range of other questions. A limited participation of Mongolian culture administration bodies in preservation of historical and cultural heritage of nomadic empires in the 5-12th centuries doesn’t allow using the complex approach of cultural preservation activities and leads to loss of certain objects and destruction of big historical and cultural objects of the Middle Age.
Keywords: nomadic empires, Inner Asia, ancient manuscripts, steppe and city culture.
