ARCHAEOLOGIST V.S. VOLOSHIN – ON THE WAY TO THE TRUTH

Abstract

A famous Kazakhstan archaeologist Valery S. Voloshin is 70 years old now. Compared to present standards it is not old age yet, but nor youth. Concerning science there is already a whole path overpassed, and in a case with Valery S., as far as I can judge on a long-term collaboration and longer communication, his path is certainly exceptional, personal or even unique. The source in such cases is usually hidden in the identity of the person. In student’s years, for example, the strategy of archaeological investigation by bicycle accepted by him gave a very good result – tens of new sites of the Stone Age including settlement-workshop sites of the Paleolith of Vishnyovka-3–6 and Tuyemoynak, sites of the Neolithic of Vishnyovka-1, Bokaly-Bulak, Esinkabul-Bulak, Kokchetau-1, Molodyozhnoe and others were revealed. Congenial intuition and proactive work with literature helped to deal with the situation quickly: there were allocated complexes of Acheul (Vishnyovka-3), the Middle Paleolithic (Tuyemoynak), specific chipper group (Vishnyovka-4–6) – he used the method of how to register the artifacts` surface nature basing on signs of Aeolian corrosion and chemical aeration to divide the industries from open deposits.