As provided by the resolution of the Academic Council of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS of the 3rd of December, 2020, the title of the Honorary Doctor of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences is conferred on Professor Hermann Parzinger and Professor John W. Olsen.
John W. Olsen, Ph.D., is an American archaeologist and paleoanthropologist specializing in the early Stone Age prehistory and Pleistocene paleoecology of eastern Eurasia.
Hermann Parzinger is a German historian who is a specialist in the culture of the Scythians. He has been president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.
The stream will be available on the New Archaeology Youtube channel December, 22, 2020 at 15.00 GMT+7.