Archeology and archeologists, the romance of expeditions and hard work, the history of distant times and the problems of the modern world, Sputnik sat down with the scientific director of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, academician Anatoly Derevyanko. Sputnik: Do scientists in general and archeologists in particular need fantasy and imagination? Derevyanko: From my point of view, these are ambiguous concepts. Fantsasy can be scientific, focused on the distant, distant future.
Let's say Leonardo da Vinci had an amazing imagination and cognitive system. This allowed him to look into the future not only through paintings, but also in technology and mechanics. This is both fantasy and imagination, and it is difficult to explain on what they are based.
Some inventions that have become commonplace today were foreseen by him many hundreds of years ago. Very special people have this gift - a gift of nature, a gift of the Almighty, it is difficult to explain. Scientific imagination and imagination are necessary.
In any science, even mathematics, there cannot be absolute truth. For this reason, I do not really like the division into “exact” and “inexact” sciences. It seems to me that any real science with well-founded ideas is accurate, but there is no absolute truth.
Any new discovery poses new challenges and new tasks for researchers. As an example, I can cite my own work. We have been working in Denisova .
