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Far-Eastern University to open Archaeological representative office in Ecuador

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Far-Eastern University to open Archaeological representative office in Ecuador


29.12.2017

Press-service FEFUFar Eastern Federal University is going to open Archaeological representative office in Ecuador, TASS reports. According to Rector of University Nikita Anisimov, the archaeologists from Vladivostok are studying historical heritage protected by UNESCO in tandem with local scientists, in particular, ancient cultures of the coastline of the Pacific Ocean.

He has explained that at present this question is discussed in the Russian Foreign Ministry. Scientists have been researching this area for three years. This project was included into the programme of raising university competitiveness among leading scientific-educational centers. Polytechnic University of Guayaquil city, Ecuador, is a partner of this programme.

The main task of the Russian and Ecuadorian scientists is to compare adaptation of humans to environmental changes in ancient times at opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean – banks of the South America and Eastern Asia. The research works are simultaneously conducted at the South Primorye, at the Russky Island.

The archaeologists from Primorye discovered ancient artefacts aged six thousand years during excavations. They found a cultural layer demonstrating first stages of human settlements in the New World. Tools of stone and fragments of ceramics are related to the insufficiently explored culture of San-Pedro and give an opportunity to specify its role in the pre-Columbian America.

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