Valery Alekseyev (anthropologist)

Valerij Pavlovič Alekseev (Валерий Павлович Алексеев,1929-1991) was a Russian anthropologist, director of the Institute of Archaeology in Moscow (1987-1991) and member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, exceptionally without having been a member of the Communist Party.

Alekseev proposed Homo rudolfensis in 1986.

Alekseev has published 20 books and some 500 articles.

• Историческая антропология и этногенез (historical anthropology and ethnogenesis) (1989)
• География человеческих рас (geography of the human race)
• The Origin of the Human Race, Progress Publishers (1986), ISBN 978-0828533256.
• Палеоантропология земного шара и формирование человеческих рас (global paleoanthropology and the formation of the human race)
• Происхождение народов Восточной Европы (origin of the peoples of Eastern Europe)
• Происхождение народов Кавказа (origin of the peoples of the Caucasus)

External links

• The Alexeev Manuscript, 1991 lectures held in Harvard.
• biography (ido.edu.ru)