Alexei Rezepkin

He graduated from the Department of Archaeology of the University of Leningrad, and started work at the Institute of History of Material Culture in 1976.

Starting in 1979, he was leading excavations in the territory of the North Caucasus and Transcaucasia (Adygea, Krasnodar Region, Karachay-Cherkessia, Abkhazia).

Rezepkin contributed significantly to the study of settlements and burials of the early Bronze Age in the North Caucasus.

In 1989 Rezepkin defended his Ph.D. thesis "Northwest Caucasus in the Early Bronze Age (based on burial sites of Novosvobodnaya type)".

Nedoluzhko, he conducted Russia's first complete sequencing of the DNA of ancient mitochondrial genome.

In favor of this view is the apparent lack of any abrupt change in European populations since the Neolithic, and until the first written sources appear.

Their 'Megalitism', their black-polished ceramic amphorae, bowls and cups, find a compelling analogy in the Funnelbeaker culture of Germany.