Kurgans of the Eastern Kugitang Piedmonts: Preliminary Report for Season 2017

• Authors: Havlík Jakub , Stančo Ladislav , Havlíková Hana
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The valleys of the Kugitang piedmont (Sherabad District, Surkhandarya Province, Uzbekistan) have been investigated by the Czech‑Uzbekistani expedition since 2011. Over the last three years, hundreds of stone features have been detected and preliminarily interpreted as kurgans (i.e. burial mounds); the purpose of these features, however, still remains unclear. Consequently, the kurgans started to be systematically investigated in 2017. This report presents preliminary results of the field survey, a morphological description and a basic spatial analysis of the kurgans within clusters, and the clusters themselves within the surrounding landscape.

Keywords

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Kurgans; Yaz culture; Pashkurt Valley; Central Asia; Bactria; landscape archaeology

Discipline

• ARCHAEOLOGY: ARCHAEOLOGY

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Studia Hercynia
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 160-182

Contributors

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Havlík Jakub

• Institute of Classical Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

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Stančo Ladislav

• Institute of Classical Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

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Havlíková Hana

• Institute of Classical Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University