On March 30, 2015, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences hosted the second scientific conference dedicated to the results of field work organized by the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as the activities of expeditions in which the Institute's employees took part. IV RAS field research is concentrated in the Middle East and North Africa regions of Egypt, Sudan, and Yemen, and specialists from other scientific institutions were also involved. In addition, the Institute's employees take part in comprehensive surveys in the Volga region, Siberia, Crimea, Tajikistan and Mongolia. The scientific reports, divided into two sessions, provided a comprehensive overview of the interim results of the expedition activities of the Institute of Information Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and showed various areas of research within a particular historical monument. The conference was opened by the report of the Director of the Institute of Information Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, corresponding member. V. V. Naumkina, Russian Academy of Sciences "Results of the field research of the IB RAS expedition on Socotra Island (Yemen)", which focused on the discovery of monuments of various times on the territory of Socotra Island in the Indian Ocean: from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages. So, during field work in the northern part of the island, Paleolithic tools made of fossilized shale dating back to the Oldowan period were identified (1.4 million years ago). It is noteworthy that in these places human settlements appeared only in the 4th-3rd millennium BC. e. The local population practiced seasonal cattle breeding (small cattle), as well as the cultivation of incense trees. Apparently, this one page 144 human activity could be served by stone boundaries with a length of 7 to 10 thousand km, which are lines of untreated stones that probably once protected the plantations of "dragon's ... Read more