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

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

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

Original language description

Tepa sites have often been the focus of archaeological investigations in the lowland areas of Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia. This bias frequently led to paying only a little attention to the surrounding landscape and its potential for the study of historical settlement 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 settlement growth. The 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 settlement 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. The amount and chronological range of collected material point to the great potential of the adopted approach as well as the research area itself. The identified artefact scatters indicate a substantially more complex settlement development than has been acknowledged so far: The collected pottery assemblages largely correspond to the occupation timespan of the central walled settlement. The widespread distribution of Iron Age and Middle Ages material suggests an extensive exploitation of the area in these particular periods.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Studia Hercynia

ISSN

1212-5865

e-ISSN

2336-8144

Volume of the periodical

26

Issue of the periodical within the volume

26/2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

115-140

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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