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Human history periodization models

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The periodization of human history and the question whether it is subject to any regularities is constantly in the focus of researchers’ attention. The authors of the article below present their answer to this question as an original hypothesis based on empirical data, as well as on informatics and cybernetics modeling results.

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  1. S. N. Grinchenko
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Sergei Nokolaevich Grinchenko, Dr. Sci. (Eng.), is chief research fellow at the RAS Institute of Informatics Problems. Yuliya Leonidovna Shchapova, Dr. Sci. (Hist.), is a professor in the Department of Archeology at the History Faculty of Moscow State University.

Original Russian Text © S.N. Grinchenko, Yu.L. Shchapova, 2010, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2010, Vol. 80, No. 12, pp. 1069–1077.

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Grinchenko, S.N., Shchapova, Y.L. Human history periodization models. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 80, 498–506 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331610060055

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