Leading researcher at the Department of Archaeology of the Era of Stone and Paleometal of the Institute of Archaeology named after A.Kh. Margulan CS MES RK.
Born February 25, 1948, Chandy, Beskaraigai district, Semipalatinsk region. In 1970, she graduated from the History Department of the Ust-Kamenogorsk Pedagogical Institute.
Since the 1970s, she took part and led the work of detachments in East Kazakhstan, Central Kazakhstan, Shulba, Semipalatinsk, Semirechensk, West Kazakhstan archaeological expeditions of the Institute. In 1997-1998, as deputy head of the Kazakh part of the expedition as part of the joint Kazakh-French archaeological expedition, she participated in excavations of mounds of early nomads, including mounds with permafrost on the Berel burial ground; in 2003, she took part in the work of the international Kazakh-German expedition to survey copper and tin ore deposits and settlements of metallurgists in East Kazakhstan and Pavlodar region. In 2004-2006, as the head of the Taldysai detachment, she took part in joint research of the Kazakh-Italian archaeological expedition on the settlement of ancient metallurgists near Jezkazgan, and subsequently, as the head of the Taldysai Settlement program of applied archaeological research, she led the Taldysai detachment in the Ulytau region. Currently, as the head and co-head of grant programs, she is engaged in archaeological research in the Bronze Age settlements of Taldysay Jezkazgan-Ulytau and Myrzhik of the North Betpakdala mining and metallurgical centers.
Scientific interests: metallurgy and metal production of the Bronze Age of Kazakhstan.
The objects of research by A.S. Yermolaeva are monuments of a wide chronological and territorial range, ranging from the Bronze Age to the Turkic time, including monuments of early nomads in the territory of Central, Eastern, Western Kazakhstan and Semirechye.
Author and co-author of more than 70 publications in scientific publications of Kazakhstan and abroad, including four collective and one personal monographs, as well as three album books.
She was awarded the badge of the Ministry of Education and Science "For Merits in the Development of Science in the Republic of Kazakhstan" in 2018.
Main publications:
Monographs, chapters in monographs
Akhinzhanov S.M., Yermolaeva A.S., Maksimova A.G., Samashev Z., Taimagambetov J.K., Trifonov Yu.I. Arheologicheskie pamyatniki v zone zatopleniya SHul'binskoj GES. Alma-Ata: «Nauka» AN KazSSR, 1987. – 278 p.
Artyukhova O.A., Kurmankulov J., Yermolaeva A.S., Yerzhanova A.E. Kompleks pamyatnikov v urochishche Taldasaj. Vol.1. – Almaty: Institut Arheologii im. A.H. Margulana, 2013. – 400 p.
Samashev Z., Yermolaeva A.S., Dzhumabekova G.S. Kazahskij Altaj v I tysyacheletii do n.e. Glava IV // Kazahstan v sakskuyu epohu. Collective monograph. Almaty: IA MES RK, 2018. p. 101-156
Beisenov A.Z., Yermolaeva A.S., Kurmankulov J. Issledovaniya poseleniya Myrzhyk // Arheologicheskie issledovaniya v Severnoj Betpakdale. Collective monograph. Almaty: IA MES RK, 2017. p. 35-67.
Book-albums
Maksimova A.G., Yermolaeva A.S., Maryashev A.N. Rock images of the Tamgaly tract. Alma-Ata: "ONER," 1985. - 144 p.
Samashev Z., Yermolaeva A.S., Kushch G.A. Ancient treasures of Kazakh Altai. Almaty: "Oner," 2008. - 200 p.
Kurmankulov J., Yermolaeva A.S., Yerzhanova A.E. Taldysay settlement is a monument of ancient metallurgy. - Almaty: A.Kh. Margulan Institute of Archaeology, 2012. - 132 p.
Articles
Rusanov I.A., Yermolaeva A.S. Metallurgiya medi na poselenii epohi bronzy Taldysaj (rekonstrukciya drevnego proizvodstva) // Archaeology of Kazakhstan in the era of independence: results, perspectives: materials of the international scientific conference dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the 20th anniversary of the A. Kh. Margulan Institute of Archaeology. December 12-15, 2011 in Almaty. Volume I. Almaty: A.Kh. Margulan Institute of Archaeology, 2011. - p. 36-58.
Ermolaeva A., Kurmankulov J., Erjanova A., Rusanov I. Die Siedlung Taldysaj – Ein Denkmal der technischen Kultur der alten Stamme der Region Zezkazgan-Ulytay (Zentral Kazakhstan). Unbekanntes Kazachstan // Archäologieim Herzen Asiens. – Bochum, 2013. – p. 441–454.
Yermolaeva A.S. Petrovsko-nutrtajskie zhilishcha-masterskie na poselenii Taldysaj // Topical problems of Eurasia archaeology: materials of the international scientific and practical conference. October 18-19, 2016 Almaty: A.Kh. Margulan Institute of Archaeology, 2016. p. 126-141.
Yermolaeva A.S., Yerzhanova A.E., Dubyagina E.V. Teplotekhnicheskie sooruzheniya nazemnogo tipa na poselenii Taldysaj // Scientific and technological progress: current and promising directions of the future: a collection of materials of the VI International Scientific and Practical Conference. August 18, 2017. Volume I. - Kemerovo: "West Siberian Scientific Center, 2017. p. 22-38.