Outputs

Primary terrain reports and datasets

  • Vařeka, P., Beránek, M., Chajbullin Koštial, J., Lisá, L., Vařeková, Z., 2021. Report on the survey and documentation of the Medieval bath-house (hammam) remains at the eastern foot of the Sulajman-Too sacred mountain in Osh, Osh District, southern Kyrgyzstan. Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic. Unpublished report.
  • Vařeka, P., Sultanov, E., Beránek, M., Chajbullin Koštial, J., Kočár, P., Lisá, L., Metlička, M., Straková, K., Vasylenko, S., Vatansever, A., 2021. Report on Archaeological Research of Ak-Dzhar Site, Osh Region. Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of West Bohemia in cooperation with the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic. Unpublished report.
  • Sultanov, E., Vařeka, P., Vatansever, A., Dosnazarov, A., Chajbullin Koštial, J., Hanáková, K., Kočár, P., Kroupa, T., Lisá, L., Metlička, M., Straková, K., Vasilenko, S., Murzabekov, E., 2022. Otchot ob arkheologicheskikh issledovaniakh gruppy tepe v mestnosti Ak-Dzhar Karasuiskogo r-na Oshskoi oblasti v 2022 godu. Institut istorii, arkheologii i etnologii NAN KR – Katedra arkheologii Filosofskogo fakulteta Zapadocheskogo universiteta – Institut gumanitarnykh i regionalnykh issledovanii NAN KR. Unpublished report.
  • Tashbayeva, K., Vatansever, A., Chajbullin Koštial, J., Kočár, P., Lisá, L., Metlička, M., Grigarová, E., Burçu, C. K., Straková, K., Tesařík, T., Murzabekov, E., 2023. Otchot ob arkheologicheskikh issledovaniakh gruppy tepe v mestnosti Ak-Dzhar Karasuiskogo r-na Oshskoi oblasti v 2023 godu. Institut istorii, arkheologii i etnologii NAN KR – Katedra arkheologii Filosofskogo fakulteta Zapadocheskogo universiteta – Institut gumanitarnykh i regionalnykh issledovanii NAN KR. Unpublished report.

3D models and visualizations

  • Sacred mountain of Sulejman-Too (UNESCO World Heritage Site) and the surrounding settlement landscape of the city of Osh. Regardless of historical and contemporary settlement, this mountain remains a dominant and symbolic place associated with different cults and traditions. During the first season, we created a 3D model of the mountain as a starting point for further analysis. Model by J. Chajbullin Koštial.

Scientific papers

  • Chajbullin Koštial, J., 2024. “We always remember for whom we make a tandyr”. Ethnoarchaeological research on tandyrs in southern Kyrgyzstan. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101629.
  • Lisá, L., Vařeka, P., Tashbayeva, K. I., Vatansever, A., Petr, L., Kočár, P., Chajbullin Koštial, J., Sůvová, Z., Weinerová, H., Světlík, I., Pachnerová Brabcová, K., Moska, P., Lisý, P., Juřičková, L., Grabka, D., Kuraszewicz, K., Bajer, A., Osmonova, S., Sultanov, E., 2024. In the Footsteps of the Silk Road: Czech-Kyrgyz Geo-environmental Project. Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica – Natural Sciences in Archaeology 15(1), 19–122. Online access.
  • Vařeka, P., Vatansever, A., Tashbaeva, K., Kočár, P., Lisá, L., Metlička, M., Chajbullin Koštial, J., Osmonova, S., Sůvová, Z., Dosnazarov, A., Grygarová, E., Tesařík, T., 2024. Arkhaeologycheskye isledovanya v Ak-Dzhare, Oshskaya oblast, Kyrgyzstan. In: Drevnye i srednevekovye kultury Ferganskoy doliny v kontekste vzaymodeystviya kochevykh i osedlykh obshchestv Centralnoy Azii. Bishkek, 50–77.
  • Vařeka, P., Chajbullin Koštial, J., Dosnazarov, A., Vatansever, A., Metlička, M., Smadiarov, S., Sultanov, E., 2025. Archaeological survey in South-Eastern Kyrgyzstan, Osh Region. Bulletin of the International Institute for Central Asian Studies 39, 25–37. https://doi.org/10.34920/2181-8592-2025.39en.003.
  • Kočár, P., Sůvová, Z., Vatansever, A., Lisá, L., Petr, L., Osmonova, S., Vařeka, P., Světlík, I., Pachnerová Brabcová, K., Juřičková, L., Metlička, M., Bajer, A., Rohovec, J., Chajbullin Koštial, J., Moska, P., 2026. A water reservoir from the 3rd to 5th century AD as a possible key for understanding the subsistence strategies and environment at the margin of the Fergana Basin in southern Kyrgyzstan. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 18, 37.
  • Vatansever, A., Lisá, L., Janovský, M., Kadyrov, A., Trubač, J., Chajbullin Koštial, J., Petr, L., Bajer, A., Světlík, I., Lisý, P., Kočár, P., Tashbaeva, K. I., in print. Written in the soil: Record of prehistoric subsistence agriculture in semi-arid foothills of Tien Shan, SW Kyrgyzstan. CATENA. Manuscript No. CATENA39188.
  • Vatansever, A., Lisá, L., Petr, L., Bajer, A., Chajbullin Koštial, J., Tashbaeva, K. I. et al., 2026. Prehistoric irrigation, fields, and rural settlement at Ravat, south-western Kyrgyzstan. Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica – Natural Sciences in Archaeology, online first.

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