The regular meeting of European Archaeologists (EAA) took place in Rome this year. The Czech team from southern Kyrgyzstan presented ethnoarchaeological research on the production, distribution and use of tandyrs as a traditional craft in Central Asia (session 505: Ethnographies of Makers and Making: Traditional Craft and Technology in Contemporary Societies).

The second week at the Ak-Dzhar location brought new insights. Take a look with us into the secrets of life on the Silk Road.

Start of Ak-Dzhar 2024 research season.

This stunning photograph, which perfectly characterizes Mount Sulaiman Too and its surroundings, has no known author.

Animal bone remains from Kyrgyz sites are rarely published, so studying material from Ak-Dzhar near Osh can provide valuable information for understanding past and present communities. In the case of Ak-Dzhar, animal bones and other vertebrate remains were recovered mainly by hand-collecting of archaeological sondages; in a few cases, samples from the archaeological fills wereRead more about Animal bones and other archaeozoological remains from Ak-Dzhar, Southern Kyrgyzstan[…]

A day of archaeological research at the Ak-Jar site? Watch the following video.

The Silk Road is one of the most famous trade routes, which is necessarily associated not only with the exchange of goods and knowledge, but also with cultural customs and cultivated crops. The waypoints on this relatively branched route served as a kind of centers, on whose development it is possible to follow its dynamics.Read more about Archaeobotany on the Silk Road, research results in southern Kyrgyzstan[…]

As part of the autumn season of 2023, the team focused on the survey of the wider area of the Ak-Jar site in an attempt to reveal the significance and position of these mounds at one of the branches of the Silk Road. In this context, a survey of the basin of the Kurshab RiverRead more about New discoveries[…]

At the beginning of October 2023, a lecture on predictive modeling of the Silk Road route through the Pamirs (from Osh to Kashgar) was held at the Jalalabad University (Institute of History).

The end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century was in the spirit of interesting scientific cooperation between Germany and Russia (Soviet Union).