PhD in History, Head of Foreign Archaeology Sector, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia). Author and co-author of 215 research papers. Scientific interests: ancient cultures of the Pacific Rim and pre-Columbian America.
Posts by Andrei V. Tabarev:

On February 22nd of this year, in Panama City, one of the most important archaeologists of the continent, Richard G. Cooke, died. one of the most important archaeologists of the continent, Richard G. Cooke, died. 
Since first information from travelers and navy expeditions in XIX century the history of ancient South American cultures was in permanent focus of interest for Russian archaeologists and ethnographers.