Rakhimjanova Saule
In 2009, she graduated from the Faculty of History and Law of Ualikhanov University. In 2018, she defended her Candidate's thesis on "Ceramic traditions of Eneolithic-Early Bronze Age on the territory of steppe Ob-Irtysh interfluve". Her supervisor is Doctor of History, Professor Y.F. Kiryushin.
After graduation from magistracy she worked as Junior Research officer at A. Margulan Archaeological Joint Scientific-Practical Centre at S. Toraigyrov Pavlodar State University. While working in the centre, she participated in excavation and prospecting works of the settlement Borly, Borly 4, site Shiderty 2, burial mound Shiderty 13, burial mound Kenzhekol 1, as a part of DAE under the direction of V.K. Merts. Later worked as a Researcher at the Research Institute of Archaeology and Culturogenesis at Kokshe Academy, took part in the CAE expedition to the Botay settlement under the direction of V.F. Zaibert. During her postgraduate studies at Altai State University worked in the laboratory of interdisciplinary study of Western Sibiria and Altai archaeology. At the same time she took part in excavation work in Khanty-Mansiysk region at the settlement Balinskoe 73 and Syroy Agan 6 and supervised together with E.A. Girchenko the excavations at the settlement Balinskoe 63.
After defence of the dissertation she worked in scientific-research institute "Khalyk kazynasy" National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan and department of archaeology of an era of a stone of Margulan Institute of Archaeology.
Research interests: ceramics of Neolithic-Early Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, stone typology.
Internships:
- 2011-2019. - Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ceramics History laboratory, training course, supervised by Doctor of History Tsetlin J.B.
- 2012-2019 y.o. - participation in experimental expedition on ceramics of Russian Federation, Samara under direction of Dr. I.N. Vasilieva, Dr. N.P. Salugina
- 2019 Archaeological Workshop "Contemporary Research Methods on Pottery Research". Nara, Japan - Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
- 2020 Exchange program on the methods of investigation, recording and conservation of archaeological remains. Nara, Japan.
- 2021 Open-doctoral program SNRS Sorbonne 1 University "Pottery production at the Eneolithic settlement Derkul 1 in the Northern Aral Sea region (Western Kazakhstan)".
1. Kachanovskaya M.G., Rakhimzhanova S.J. Technical and technological analysis of ceramics of Eneolithic settlement Botay in Kazakhstan (on materials of 2012 excavations)// Russian Archaeology. - 2014. №3. - P.19-25. (in Russian)
2.Rakhimzhanova S.J. Technological analysis of ceramics of the Eneolithic settlement Novoilinka III // Samara Scientific Herald. 4(13). Samara, 2015. (in Russian)
3. Stepanova N.F., Rakhimzhanova S.Zh., Kiryushin K.Yu. Results of preliminary study of ceramics of the settlement Novoilinka-III // Integration of archaeological and ethnographic research: collection of scientific works / edited by N.A. Tomilov; responsible: M.A. Korusenko, A.A. Tishkin, K.N. Tikhomirov, M.N. Seregin. - Barnaul; Omsk: Nauka Publishing House, 2015. P.282-286. (in Russian)
4. Rakhimzhanova S.J. Technological Analysis of Ceramics of Novoilinka III (Results of the Study of Ornamental Traditions) // Archaeology of Western Siberia and the Altai: The Experience of Interdisciplinary Research: Collected Articles / ed. by A.A. Tishkin. - Barnaul: Alt. Univ. 2015. (in Russian)
5. Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Yurii F Kiryushin, Saule Zh Rakhimzhanova, Svetlana Svyatko, Alexey A Tishkin and Tamsin C O'Connell Climatic or dietary change? Stable isotope analysis of Neolithic-Bronze Age populations from the Upper Ob and Tobol River basins // The Holocene. 2016. P. 1-11.
6. Leontieva, D. S., Rakhimzhanova S.J. Andronovo ceramics of the Bolshoi Log-I settlement in the South of Western Siberia // Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. - Kemerovo, 2016. - Vyp. 2. - P. 31-40. (in Russian)
7. Rakhimzhanova S.J. Technological analysis of ceramics of the Early Bronze Age settlement Shauke 1 // Samara Scientific Herald. Samara, 2017. Vol. 6. №2 (19). - P. 104-107. (in Russian)
8. Rakhimzhanova S. Zh. Pottery in the era of eneolithic on the territory of northern Kazakhstan / The Great Steppe: history and culture. Volume VI. Ancient technologies. The exhibition catalogue // Edited by A. Onggaruly. - Nur-Sultan, 2019. P. 37-42.
9. S. Rakhimzhanova, E. Ananyevskaya, V.Zaibert. Technological characteristics of the ceramics of the Botai culture in relation to the Eneolithic cultures of northern Kazakhstan/ Archaeological Research in Asia.Volume 29, March 2022.
Monographs:
1. A. Ongaruly, A. Asylbekov, A. Kairmagambetov, S. Rakhimjanova, A. Musagazhinova, A. Maulet, I. Bekzatkyzy. Saryarka Heritage in the middle of steppe Eurasia. Volume IV. - Edited by A. Ongaruly. - Nur-Sultan: The Museum of Kazakhstan Republic, 2020. 352 p. (in Russian)
2. Rakhimjanova S.Zh. Ceramics of the burial ground Katartobe / Katartobe. Necropolis of Zhetysu Sak elite // A. Ongaruly, Pyon-Yonghwan, Nam Sanvon, A. Nuskabay, M. Kyzirkhanov, 2020. P. 431-448. (in Russian)
1. "The oldest settlement of Siberia: the formation and dynamics of cultures in Northern Asia" 2015-2017, headed by A. Derevyanko;
2. BR05236868 "Study, preservation and popularization of the cultural heritage of Saryarka" 2018-2020, headed by A. Onggar;
3. AP08052885 "Dune sites of the Stone Age of the Ryn sands in Western Kazakhstan" 2020-2022, headed by Mamirov T.
4. IRN AP09260400 "Saka cultural complex of Western Saryarka and Northern Aral Sea region: interdisciplinary research" 2021-2023, headed by A. Onggar.