Dovdoin Bayar was a Mongolian archaeologist, historian, a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute, and an amateur boxer.
Education
Bayar started his career in archaeology under the instruction of the famous Mongolian archaeologists Namsrain Ser-Odjav and Dorjkhandyn Dorj, when he studied at Mongolian State University of Education. He obtained Doctor of Philosophy degree in the theme of “Stone sculptures of Eastern Mongolia”, and Doctor of Science degree in the theme of “Human Statues in Mongolian territory”. He mainly studied Mongolian archaeological records, human statues, and memorials of the Middle Ages.
Career
Bayar managed and participated in about 30 field expeditions in Mongolia, such as Mongolian-Russian joint expedition, Mongolian-German “Kharkhorum” expedition, ”Studying Human Statues of East Mongolia” expedition, Mongolian-Japanese “Gurvan Gol” expedition, Mongolian-Korean “Dornod Mongol” expedition, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s “Protecting ancient city of Kharkhorum” expedition, Mongolian-Turkish and Mongolian-Kazakhstan expedition. Bayar wrote eight monographs, co-authored more than ten books, and published about 200 articles in scientific journals. His main research theme was the lifestyle of nomads in the Middle Ages.
lieutenant was a significant discovery, for before his research, all such statues were considered Turkic.
Thus, he developed a new concept of Mongolian stone sculptures in Eurasian archaeological study. He broke the long-existed view of referring all human statues to the Turkic period, and distinguished the Mongolian statues which relate to XIII–XIV century out of the Turkic statue reasonably and indisputably.” As a result of his archaeological work, 13thto 14th-century Mongolian clothes, accessories, hair styles and appearances became better understood and were then used in the fine arts, such as in literature, stage, and screen works.
He was a judge, referee and a trainer of boxing and wrote a book "in Mongolia".