Co-investigator in the project

I’m a senior researcher in the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS (Novosibirsk, Russia).

My research focus now is on Final Pleistocene – Early Holocene archaeology of Central Asia. I lead several field projects in Central Asia (Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia). Through this research I begun to reveal the process of neolithisation in the region (demographic processes, change of adaptation models, domestication of animals and plants) and peopling of high mountain regions, such as Pamir, Pamiro-Alai, and Tian-Shan.

Education

I’ve obtained my Master degree in History from the Novosibirsk State University. I completed the PhD in 2015 in Archaeology with thesis entitled «Tutkaulian culture in Mesolithic of western Central Asia» at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS. I got several short-term fellowships: in Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Jena, Germany) in 2017; in Bordeaux University (France) in 2018 and 2019; and in Nicolaus Copernicus University (Poland) in 2020-2021.

Selected publications

• Alisher kyzy S., Shnaider S.V., Kolobova K.A., Krivoshapkin A.I. 2020. New Data on the Mesolithic of Eastern Caspian: Lithic Industry of Dam-Dam-Cheshme-2 Site (based on A. P. Okladnikov’s materials). Stratum Plus, 1, 257–278. (Russian)

• Fedorchenko A.Yu., Taylor W.T.T., Sayfulloev N.N., Brown S., Rendu W., Krivoshapkin A.I., Douka K., Shnaider S.V. 2020. Early occupation of High Asia: New insights from the ornaments of the Oshhona site in the Pamir mountains. Quaternary International, 559, 174–187, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.07.026

• Shnaider S.V., Kolobova K.A., Filimonova T.G., Taylor W., Krivoshapkin A.I. 2020. New Insights Into The Epipaleolithic Of Western Central Asia: The Tutkaulian Complex. Quaternary International, 535, 139–154 (English), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.10.001

• Taylor W.T.T., Shnaider S., Spengler III R., Orlando L., Abdykanova A., Krivoshapkin A. 2019. Investigating ancient animal economies and exchange in Kyrgyzstan’s Alay Valley. Antiquity, 93: 367, DOI: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.4

• Taylor W., Shnaider S., Abdykanova A., Fages A., Welker F., et al. 2018. Early pastoral economies along the Ancient Silk Road: Biomolecular evidence from the Alay Valley, Kyrgyzstan. PLoS ONE, 13 (10): e0205646, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205646

• Fedorchenko A.Yu., Shnaider S.V., Krajcarz M.T., Romanenko M.E., Abdykanova A., Kolobova K.A., Alisher-kyzy S., Taylor W., Krivoshapkin A.I. 2018. Production technology of personal ornaments in western Central Asia in early holocene complexes (based on Obishir-5 site). Archaeology, Ethnography and Athropology of Eurasia, 1, 3–15 (Russian and English)

• Shnaider S.V., Taylor W., Abdykanova A., Kolobova K.A., Krivoshapkin A.I. 2018. Evidence for early human occupation at high altitudes in western Central Asia:  the Alay site. Antiquity 92: 363 (e1) (English), DOI: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.94

• Shnaider S.V., Krajcarz M.T., Viola T.B., Abdykanova A., Kolobova K.A., Fedorchenko A.Yu., Alisher-kyzy S., Krivoshapkin A.I. 2017. New investigations of Epipaleolithic in western Central Asia: Obishir-5. Antiquity, 91: 360, DOI: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2017.213