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A systematic archaeological survey in the environs of Khaytabad Tepa (Southern Uzbekistan). Preliminary report on the 2021 pilot season

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Havlík J., Bobik J., Dědková V., Dontová K., Krčál J., Matznerová J., Paralovo E., Taasob R., Toshaliyev K., Ždimera J., Shaydullaev S.

Studia Hercynia

2022

vol. 26

issue 2

115-140

Tepa sites have oÁen been the focus of archaeological investigations in the lowland areas of Soviet and post- -Soviet Central Asia. is bias frequently led to paying only a lile aention to the surrounding landscape and its potential for the study of historical selement and land use. Moreover, in these environs archaeologists face particularly unfavourable conditions in the landscape, which has been radically transformed by decades of mechanised agriculture and selement growth. e newly launched project of the Czech-Uzbekistani Archaeological Mission aims to answer the challenges of research in the heavily exploited lowlands of southern Uzbekistan and explore the surroundings, supposedly an economic territory, of Khaytabad Tepa, a walled selement occupied between the Achaemenid period and the Middle Ages. For the investigation of various parts of a culturally and physically diverse landscape (village areas, fields, tepa mounds), a flexible methodology was developed, building on an intensive surface survey as the dominant research component to analyse the Khaytabad Tepa surroundings. Given the initial stage of the research, this report focuses on the background, objectives, and methodology of the project and evaluates the 2021 pilot season. e amount and chronological range of collected material point to the great potential of the adopted approach as well as the research area itself. e identified artefact scaers indicate a substantially more complex selement development than has been acknowledged so far: e collected poery assemblages largely correspond to the occupation timespan of the central walled selement. e widespread distribution of Iron Age and Middle Ages material suggests an extensive exploitation of the area in these particular periods.

Kurgans of the Eastern Kugitang piedmonts. Preliminary report on an archaeological surface survey in the 2022 season

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Havlík J., Dědková V., Toshaliyev K.

Studia Hercynia

2023

vol. 27

issue 1

203-236

The eastern Kugitang piedmonts, southern Uzbekistan, have recently shown to be a particularly rich region in terms of archaeology. Among a wide range of archaeological sites spreading chronologically from the Neolithic to Pre -Modern period, kurgan mounds turned out to be a particularly frequent feature characteristic for the areas surrounding the narrow river valleys. This report presents new data on the occurrence of kurgan mounds gathered by the Czech -Uzbekistani archaeological mission in the spring season 2022. By means of a targeted extensive surface survey, the Czech -Uzbekistani team focused on four principal areas: 1) north of the village of Karabag, 2) east of the village of Khojaulkan, 3) the valley of Alamlisay, and 4) the area between the villages of Khatak and Panjob. The survey yielded in total 188 kurgan mounds, not counting hundreds of other various archaeological features identified. The total number of kurgans recorded so far in the eastern Kugitang piedmonts exceeds four hundred, indicating an intensive past exploitation of the highland areas of the nowadays Surkhandarya province. This report focusses on the morphology and spatial distribution of newly detected kurgan mounds and attempts to put them in the context of previous research.

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A systematic archaeological survey in the environs of Khaytabad Tepa (Southern Uzbekistan). Preliminary report on the 2021 pilot season

Kurgans of the Eastern Kugitang piedmonts. Preliminary report on an archaeological surface survey in the 2022 season