World History: Exhibition “Perceiving the Past through Historical Reconstruction. Costume, Armor, Dwelling and Household Items of Peoples of Eurasia in the Middle Ages” runs in Stavropol

On October 18 2011 G. N. Prozritelev and G. K. Prave Stavropol State Museum Reserve is launching a presentation of the exhibition “Perceiving the Past through Historical Reconstruction. Costume, Armor, Dwelling and Household Items of Peoples of Eurasia in the Middle Ages”, which has been prepared in partnership with “Majar” Historical Re-Enactment Club (Stavropol), “Yuzhnaya Zastava” Military and Historical Club (Stavropol), and Stavropol Krai Art School.

The theoretical basis for reconstruction have become finds from archaeological sites between Chita and Vladikavkaz dated between 8th–14th Centuries.

The exhibition displays men’s, women’s and children’s clothes, headgears, shoes, accessories, jewelry reconstructed according to artifacts found in Moshchevaya Balka burial ground in Karachay-Cherkessia, Mayachny Bugor in Astrakhan Region, Verbovy Log in Rostov Region, Dzhukhta 2 in Stavropol Krai, Okoshki Mountain in Chita Region, Dala Karte near Dzivgis village in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Verkhny Chegem in Kabardino-Balkaria and others.

The highlight of the exhibition – is the reconstructed portable dwelling structure used by Turkic nomads – the Yurt.

Samples of ceramic tableware, which was produced and widely used by medieval peoples, have been made by ceramists based on the excavated materials in the cities of Vladikavkaz, Uvek (outskirts of the present-day Saratov), and Azov.