Development of ukrainian archeology in the second half of the 19th - 30sof the 20th century in the context of women's history:a source-based review

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to analyze the source base of the activity issue of the Ukrainian women archaeologists in Naddniprianshchyna region during the second half of the 19th – 30s of the 20th century. The research methodology includes the application of a set of the following methods: dialectical, idiographic, prosopographic, comparative, historical feminology, microhistory, biographical. Inductive and deductive methods have been also used to reconstruct certain historical phenomena according to historical sources. The scientific novelty of the current scientific article consists in the implementation of a comprehensive general analysis of historical sources on the development issue of Ukrainian archeology in the second half of the 19th – 30s of the 20th century in the context of women’s history. Historical sources have been clearly systematized. The classification of sources according to the method of recording information has been applied as the most optimal. Analytical criticism of each group of sources has been carried out, the level of scientific significance and reliability of each group of sources has been determined. A chief focus is on the source base specificity of the current issue. A brief review of the researched sources has been carried out in central and regional archives. Conclusions. It has been determined that the specificity of the source base of the issue of women’s entry into the archaeological science of Ukraine is the use of a huge number of sources of a personal origin (ego-sources) – memoirs, archaeological diaries and reports, epistolary materials, etc. It has been found that the most optimal classification for the study of sources on the issue is the classification by the method of recording information, according to which the studied sources are divided into oral and written. Such a variety of oral sources as an interview, which is actively used in the framework of oral history to obtain oral testimony about a specific event or a specific historical personality, has been studied. The analysis of the interview text with candidate of historical sciences, a senior researcher of the Institute of Archeology V.M. Korpusova, who for a long time was a personal laboratory assistant of the famous female archaeologist M. I. Viazmitina, has been carried out.