ethography
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Tandyr research – a presentation on EAA Rome
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).
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Photos by Stephen Graham – Kyrgyzstan before the Great War
Stephen Graham was a British journalist and traveler writing for “The Times” and “Country life” spending his early adult years in Central Asia (“Turkestan”). From the bunch of works he published before and during the Great War three are most interesting from my point of view: A Vagabond in the Caucasus (1911), , Undiscovered Russia (1915), Through Russian Central Asia (1916). He visited Kyrgyz people around 1914/15 and I would like to share two photos from these breathtaking trips. Kyrgyz prayers, 1914. Kyrgyz family, around 1914.
