Ancient World

Bernhard Eduardovich Petri

Bernhard Eduardovich Petri (Russian: Бернгард Эдуардович Петри; 17 September 1884 – 25 November 1937) was a Russian anthropologist and archaeologist. Petri organized archeology and ethnographic expeditions to Lake Baikal, while employed by the Kunstkamera during the 1910s. Iron artefacts were discovered and used to propose the Kurumchi culture as the first Iron Age society of Baikalia. Petri became a professor at the Irkutsk State University and taught about the ancient history of the Indigenous peoples of Siberia. He documented the cultures of several reindeer herding societies across the East Siberian taiga for the Institute of the Peoples of the North throughout the 1920s and 1930s. In 1937 Petri was executed by the NKVD during the Great Purge.

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• ▸Betty Meggers
• ▸Corset controversy
• ▸Ernst von Herzog

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