The second stage of the summer archaeological school has passed

The next module of archeozoological (paleozoological) research of the international summer field archaeological school has been completed, which takes place in the archaeological complex “Akbaur” of the East Kazakhstan Regional Museum of Local History of Oskemen and the Institute of Archeology named after A. H. Margulan from July 5 to 15 this year. The lecture on this module was delivered by Shagirbayev Mambet, the head of the Archeozoological Department of the Institute of Archeology named after A. H. Margulan. During the practice, work was carried out with animal bones found as a result of excavations. Based on the morphological features of the animal’s bones, age and gender were determined. They also showed the Latin name of the bones and how to collect scattered animal bones.