A5015133890- Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Animal Diversity and Health Studies
- Soil and Environmental Studies
- Byzantine Studies and History
- Linguistics and Cultural Studies
- Islamic Studies and History
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Chinese history and philosophy
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Soviet and Russian History
- Livestock and Poultry Management
- High-pressure geophysics and materials
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Historical and Architectural Studies
- Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies
- Race, Genetics, and Society
- Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies
- Silkworms and Sericulture Research
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Academy of Sciences Republic of Uzbekistan
2018-2024
University of Pittsburgh
2022
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
2022
Washington University in St. Louis
2018
Aksaray University
2014
Ancient human movements through Asia DNA has allowed us to begin tracing the history of across globe. Narasimhan et al. identify a complex pattern migrations and admixture events in South Central by performing genetic analysis more than 500 people who lived over past 8000 years (see Perspective Schaefer Shapiro). They establish key phases population prehistory Eurasia, including spread farming peoples from Near East, with both westward eastward. The known as Yamnaya Bronze Age also moved...
Abstract The genetic formation of Central and South Asian populations has been unclear because an absence ancient DNA. To address this gap, we generated genome-wide data from 362 individuals, including the first eastern Iran, Turan (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan), Bronze Age Kazakhstan, Asia. Our reveal a complex set sources that ultimately combined to form ancestry Asians today. We document southward spread Eurasian Steppe, correlating with archaeologically known expansion...
Abstract The ancient ‘Silk Roads’ formed a vast network of trade and exchange that facilitated the movement commodities agricultural products across medieval Central Asia via settled urban communities mobile pastoralists. Considering food consumption patterns as an expression socio-economic interaction, we analyse human remains for carbon nitrogen isotopes in order to establish dietary intake, then model isotopic niches characterize diversity infer connectivity among urbanites nomadic...
Abstract The origins and dispersal of the chicken across ancient world remains one most enigmatic questions regarding Eurasian domesticated animals. lack agreement concerning timing centers origin is due to issues with morphological identifications, a direct dating, poor preservation thin, brittle bird bones. Here we show that chickens were widely raised southern Central Asia from fourth century BC through medieval periods, likely dispersing along Silk Road. We present archaeological...
During the first millennium A.D., Central Asia was marked by broad networks of exchange and interaction, what many historians collectively refer to as "Silk Road". Much this contact relied on high-elevation mountain valleys, often linking towns caravanserais through alpine territories. This cultural is thought have reached a peak in late these fostered spread domesticated plants animals across Eurasia. However, few systematic studies investigated cultivated that along trans-Eurasian during...
Тошбулоқ ёдгорлиги археологик жиҳатдан Ўзбекистон ҳудудида энг кенг кўламда ўрганилган архео-логик қазишма жойларидан бири ҳисобланади. Ушбу ёдгорлик Жиззах вилоятининг тоғли ҳудудидажойлашган бўлиб, у билан биргаликда қадимги қабристон ҳам топилган. Мақолада бу ерда очилган ин-сон қолдиқлари, жумладан, бош чаноқларнинг ўрганилишида икки хил ёндашувлар – “геометрик-мор-фометрик таҳлил” ва “краниология методи” қиёслаб кўрилди. Бош чаноқлар геометрик-морфометрикжиҳатдан тадқиқ қилинган,...
The article presents the findings of an expert survey conducted to identify key challenges faced by migrant women during their integration into local communities in a monitoring mode. survey, carried out between August and November 2023, was supported International Labor Organization (ILO) under UN, Ministry Foreign Affairs Kingdom Norway, NGO "Sana Sezim". Migrant represent one most vulnerable demographic group, as they migrate alone or with children, addition migrating families. targeted...
Here we present the results of archaeological survey and excavations carried out in southeastern Uzbekistan during summer 2011. The sites are among first systematically recovered pastoralist settlements mountains Uzbekistan. Our data include material culture chronology that document mobile communities southern Central Asia at least as early middle 2nd millennium b.c. Based on AMS/14C chronology, detailed site stratigraphies, evident reuse numerous settlement within our dataset, discuss...
Central Asia is positioned at a crossroads linking several zones important to hominin dispersal during the Middle Pleistocene. However, scarcity of stratified and dated archaeological material paleoclimate records makes it difficult understand occupation dynamics this time period, especially in arid zones. Here we compile analyze paleoclimatic data from Pleistocene Asia, including examination new layer-counted speleothem-based multiproxy record hydrological changes southern Uzbekistan end...
Archaeological studies of Early Islamic communities in Central Asia have focused on lowland urban communities. Here, the authors report recent geophysical survey and excavation an cemetery at Tashbulak south-eastern Uzbekistan. AMS dating places establishment mid-eighth century AD, making it one earliest burial grounds documented Asia. Burials conform to prescriptions for grave form body deposition. The consistency ritual suggests existence a funerary community practice, challenging...
Abstract The region of Transoxiana underwent an early agricultural-demographic transition leading to the earliest proto-urban centers in Central Asia. agronomic details this cultural shift are still poorly studied, especially regarding role that long-generation perennials, such as grapes, played cultivation system. In paper, we present directly dated remains grape pips from urban Sapalli and Djarkutan, south Uzbekistan. We also linear morphometric data, which illustrate a considerable range...
Abstract The origins and dispersal of the chicken across ancient world remains one most enigmatic questions regarding Eurasian domesticated animals1,2. lack agreement timing center origin is due, in large part, to issues with morphological identifications, a direct dating, poor preservation thin bird bones. Historical sources attest prominence chickens southern Europe southwest Asia by last centuries BC3. Likewise, art historical depictions anthropomorphic rooster-human chimeras are...
<title>Abstract</title> Aerial lidar (light detection and ranging) has emerged as a powerful technology for mapping archaeological urban landscapes, especially where dense vegetation obscures site visibility<sup>1,2</sup>. More recently, drone-based data recovery drastically improved the resolution of point clouds, allowing slight traces ancient structural features to be computationally detected at centimeters detail across large sites, particularly in contexts dynamic erosion such...