Boris Kuftin Explained

Boris Alekseevich Kuftin (2 February 1892 in Samara, Russia - 2 August 1953 in Lielupe (now a part of Jūrmala)) was a Soviet archaeologist and ethnographer. From 1933 to 1953, he worked in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. In the 1930s, he discovered the Trialeti culture;^[1] and in 1940, he coined the term Kura-Araxes.^[2] He participated in the South Turkmenistan Complex Archaeological Expedition in the 1940s-1950s.^[3]

Kuftin became a member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences in 1946.^[4]

Selected works

• Book: Материальная культура Русской Мещеры. Часть 1: Женская одежда: рубаха, понева, сарафан . Material culture of Russian Meshchera. Part 1: Women's clothing: shirt, poniova, sarafan . pdf . Proceedings of the State Museum of the Central Industrial Region, 3 . ru . Moscow . [Tayminsky pechatnik] . 1926 . 490308640 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Moisheson, Boris. Armenoids in prehistory. 15 November 2012. May 2001. University Press of America. 978-0-7618-1780-2.
2. Book: Potts, D. T.. A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. 15 November 2012. 15 August 2012. John Wiley & Sons. 978-1-4443-6077-6. 676–.
3. Book: Shaw. Ian. Jameson. Robert. Dictionary of Archaeology. 15 November 2012. 15 April 2008. John Wiley & Sons. 978-0-470-75196-1. 81–.
4. Web site: Deceased academicians. Georgian National Academy of Sciences. 21 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160422062642/http://science.org.ge/newsite/?page_id=1919. 22 April 2016. dead.