Yury Esin

Post Doc, ERC SyG-Horsepower

Forschungsprofil

  • Archaeology of Eurasian Steppe
  • Bronze Age in the east of Eurasian Steppe
  • Rock art and stone stelae in the east of Eurasian Steppe
  • Transport and routes of communication in the east of Eurasian Steppe
  • History and archaeology of the Xiongnu
  • Ancient/medieval history and archaeology of the Kyrgyz
  • Clan-emblems of Asian herders
  • Methods for recording and interpreting ancient art

Werdegang

  • 2023–2024 Invited researcher, University of Burgundy (Dijon, France)
  • 2022–2023 Invited researcher, Archaeological Research Center, National University of Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)
  • 2008–2021 Head of the Dept. Archaeology, Khakass Research Institute for Language, Literature, and History (Abakan, Republic of Khakassia, RF)
  • 2004–2008 Head of the Dept. History, Khakass Research Institute for Language, Literature, and History (Abakan, Republic of Khakassia, RF)

Education

  • 2004
    PhD Pre- and Early Historical Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology & Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, RF)
  • 1995
    Specialist (MA) in History with specialisation in Archaeology, Kemerovo State University, History faculty (Kemerovo, RF)

Projects (third party financed only)

  • 2024
    Rock art survey in the Chui and Issyk-Kul regions of the Kyrgyz Republic; Kyrgyz Republic’s program “Secrets of Ancient History / Kөөnө tarikh syrlary – 2024”
  • 2022–2023
    Hearth & Home: Emerging Landscapes of ‘Nomadic’ Settlement in the Southern Siberian and Mongolian Iron Age; Exploring the northernmost capital of the Xiongnu and the Function of the Palace in Xiongnu Society (PI); Gerda Henkel Foundation
  • 2018-2019
    Monumental Myopia (Early Iron Age settlements in the Republic of Khakassia); British Academy Project Award (PI)
  • 2016
    Study and preservation of ancient rock art sites (Oglakhty mountains in the Republic of Khakassia); Russian Geographical Society
  • 2013–2015 
    Technological and visual aspects in the study of ancient rock art (PI); Russian Foundation for the Humanities
  • 2013-2014 
    History of wheeled transport in the northeastern part of the Eurasian steppe belt (based on materials from the rock art of the Minusinsk basin, Southern Siberia) (PI); Russian Foundation for the Humanities
  • 2007–2008
    Art of the Okunev culture (Southern Siberia) (PI); Grants Council under the President of the RF
  • 2007-2008
    Rock art of the Okunev culture (Southern Siberia) (PI); Russian Foundation for the Humanities
     

Member of Editorial Board 

  • 2013-2022
    Sayan-Altai Scientific Review (annual issue “Archaeology”)
     

Exhibitions 

  • 2015 
    Mysterieuse civilisation Okuniev: Art de Sibérie au III millénaire avant notre ère. Musée d’Anthropologie préhistorique de Monaco (commissaire)
  • 2014
    Premiers nomades de Haute-Asie, voyage au cœur des steppe Mongole et Sibérienne. Au Musée de Prehistoire des Gorges du Verdon. Quinson, Alpes de Haute-Provence (member of the scientific committee) 

 

Kontakt

 Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie
Ludwig-Lindenschmit-Forum 1
55116 Mainz
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Forschungsprojekte

Zentrales Menschengrab (Khirigsuur) mit Camp im Hintergrund

Horsepower

Publikationen

Selected publications

  • ESIN, Y. 2025. Birds of Prey in the Art of Early Asian Herders and the Problem of the Origins of Falconry. In: O. Grimm (ed.), Beast and Human – Case Studies for Northern Europe, from Prehistoric to Early Modern Times. Mainz, pp. 221–242.
  • ESIN, Y., R. O’SULLIVAN. 2025. Xiongnu Rulers' Residences in the Historical Records of the Han Dynasty. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 68 (Iss. 1-2), 121-160.
  • ESIN, Y. N. 2022. The Kyrghyz Country on the maps in al-Idrisi’s great atlas. Sayan-Altai Scientific Review, 1 (33), 53–109. (in Russian)
  • ESIN, Y., J. MAGAIL, J.-O. GANTULGA, & CH. YERUUL-ERDENE. 2021. Chariots in the Bronze Age of Central Mongolia based on the materials from the Khoid Tamir river valley. Archaeological Research in Asia, 27, 1–14.
  • ESIN, Y., J. MAGAIL, CH. YERUUL-ERDENE, & J.-O. GANTULGA. 2018. Au sujet des traces de peintures sur les stèles ornées de Mongolie de la fin de l’âge du Bronze et du début de l’âge du Fer. Bull. Mus. Anthropol. préhist. Monaco, 58, 145–156.
  • MONNA, F., Y. ESIN, J. MAGAIL, L. GRANJOND, N. NAVARRO, J. WILCZEK, L. SALIGNY, S. COUETTE, A. DUMONTET, & C. CHATEAU. 2018. Documenting carved stones by 3D modelling – Example of Mongolian deer stones. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 34, 116–128.
  • ESIN, Y. N. 2018. The oldest implement for controlling draught animals in the east of the Eurasian steppe belt. Sayan-Altai Scientific Review, 1 (21), 115–125. (in Russian)
  • ESIN, Y. N. 2017. Rock art of the Oglakhty. Аlbum. Abakan. (in Russian)
  • ESIN, Y. N. 2010. Mystery of the Ancient Steppe Gods. Abakan. (in Russian and English).
  • ESIN, Y. N. 2009. Ancient Art of Siberia: The Samus Culture. Tomsk. (in Russian) 

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