Department of Archaeology . ... Department Head: Professor V.L.Yanin, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The department incorporates the Centres for Metallographic and Spectral Analysis, a Photographic Centre, and a Research Museum. ... The Stone Age and Early Bronze Age in Eurasia . ... Special Methods of Archaeological Research . ... Archaeology of the Ancient World and the Barbaric Periphery of the Northern Black Sea Region . ... Archaeology of Ancient Russian Towns . ...