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The history of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine goes back to the spring of 1919, when the Commission for compiling the archaeological map of Ukraine was organized at the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Two years later it was reformed into the Archaeological Commission of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and on February 6, 1922 – into the Archaeological Committee at the History-and-Philology department of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. On its basis the All-Ukrainian Archaeological Committee was formed in 1924. The latter served as the foundation for setting up the Institute for History of the Material Culture of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR in compliance with a resolution of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1938 that Institute was named the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

In the years of its existence the Institute was headed by prominent scholars and employed famous academics: NAS academician P. P. Efimenko, NAS academician P. P. Tolochko; L. M. Slavin, S. M. Bibikov, F. P. Shevchenko, I. I. Artemenko – all NAS corresponding members; doctors of science: M. Ya. Rudynsky, V. P. Petrov, V. M. Danylenko, O. l. Terenozhkin, V. Y. Dovzhenok, M. Yu. Braichevsky and others. The present-day studies are carried out by academic schools famous in and outside this country and headed by NAS academician P. P. Tolochko, S. D. Kryzhytsky, V. D. Baran and O. P. Motsia – NAS corresponding members.

The aim of the research work at the Institute of Archaeology is the comprehensive study of archaeological relics, as well as elucidation of early and medieval history and culture of Ukraine: primary settling of the earliest tribes on the territory of the present-day Ukraine, origin and development of renewing forms in economy, socio-economic and ethnic development of the early population of Ukraine, history and culture of Scythians and Sarmatians, antique towns-states of the Northern Black Sea coastal territory, ethnogenesis and early history of the East Slavs, history and culture of Kyiv Rus and Kyiv as its capital.

The range of activities the Institute is engaged in also includes organization and conducting of archaeological research on sites of newly erected buildings. Institute’s researchers have examined thousands of ancient relics, excavated a great number of findings, which formed the basis of collections at the Museum of Historical Treasures, the National Museum of the History of Ukraine, the Museum of the History of Kyiv, the Archaeological Museum of the Institute of Archaeology, numerous museums of local lore.

«Archaeology» is the scholarly journal of the NAS Institute of Archaeology, published since 1989 four times a year. Its editor-in-chief is P. P. Tolochko.