Alex Kaprielov

Archeologist.
Born 1940, repatriated 1992.
Graduated from Leningrad University, Russia.
M. A. (history, archeology) 1974: M. Sc. (archeology) 1962 - 1992 took part in archeological expeditions in USSR; Mongolia, Czechoslovakia.
Specialized in archeology, ethnography as a Senior Researcher for Archeology Institute, Ethnography Museum, State Hermitage (Leningrad, Russia).
13 publications.

Zoo-anthropomorphic is one of main branches of the archeological science, along with numismatics, heraldry, epigraphic, etc. New Findings in this field represent mental culture of early people. The author took with him to Israel primary information bank of 400 thousand imageries from 130 material, collected from literature sources and museums. He developed a novel system of features of these findings that enables a novel approach to cartographic, chronology, ethnographic classification of the prehistoric art.

The project is developed to computerization this data base with purpose to provide automated search, including the Internet access. To the date, 13 topics are included into the computerized data base of Institute for Advanced Studies in Arad, 30 thousand imageries are entered. Every image is followed with additional data (location of the finding, kind of the finding, material, place of storage and publication, date).

The computerized database of the project includes:

1. advertising for direct users;
2. advertising in specific magazines and via the Internet.

The author presented his results to the symposiums in Italy (September 1997) and in France (October 1997).