Valery Pavlovich Alekseyev, sometimes Alexeev (Russian: Вале́рий Па́влович Алексе́ев; 22 August 1929 – 7 November 1991) was a Soviet anthropologist, director of the Institute of Archaeology in Moscow (1987–1991) and member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, exceptionally without having been a member of the Communist Party.
In 2006, the Russian Academy of Sciences established the Valery Alekseyev Award for Outstanding Achievements in Anthropology and Archaeology.
[citation needed] The award-winning popular science book on human evolution Who Asked the First Question?
Origins of Human Choral Singing, Intelligence, Language and Speech (2006) is dedicated to the memory of Alekseyev and his lifelong friend, Georgian anthropologist Malkhaz Abdushelishvili.
Pershits) authored such university textbooks as The History of primitive society, which has already passed six editions (the last in 2007).