A WORD OF GRATITUDE TO GALINA FEDOROVNA KOROBKOVA

Abstract

The paper is dedicated to the memory of the Doctor of Historical Sciences professor G. F. Korobkova, a recognized authority in the field of experimental traceological research whose work has received international recognition. Galina Fedorovna, being a student of S. A. Semenov – the founder of this field in the prehistoric archaeology, headed for decades the experimental traceological laboratory of the Leningrad branch of the Institute of archaeology of the USSR / Institute for the History of material culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She was supervisor of the 23 candidates of Sciences and 3 doctors of Sciences. She was in charge of experimental expeditions and summer schools, in which many famous specialists from Russia, former USSR republics, France, England, Holland, Spain, Cuba, Bulgaria, Mali, Ethiopia, Morocco and other countries were trained. The author reveals the contribution of G. F. Korobkova in the further development of the methodology of complex analysis of ancient tools and reconstruction of economic activities and the fundamentals of the economy of primitive societies of Eurasia.