- Hepatitis B Virus Studies
- Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- HIV Research and Treatment
- Hepatitis C virus research
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Historical and Architectural Studies
- Marine and environmental studies
- Landslides and related hazards
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography
2023-2025
Ancient DNA traces the history of hepatitis B Hepatitis virus (HBV) infections represent a worldwide human health concern. To study this pathogen, Kocher et al . identified 137 remains with detectable levels dating between 400 and 10,000 years ago. Sequencing analyses these ancient viruses suggested common ancestor 12,000 20,000 There is no evidence indicating that HBV was present in earliest humans as they spread out Africa; however, likely populations before farming. Furthermore, Americas...
For the first time in recent decades, a large-scale study of Hisobi Mard or counting by human body, which is unique solar calendar known only this region and lacking analogues other cultures, has been conducted vast terri-tory Pamir Darvaz. As result research, extensive body materials collected allowing comparison knowledge modern informants with data Soviet ethnographers 70–90 years ago. It found that about not changed decades. Thus, despite natural changes society caused political, social...
С целью изучения народных календарно-астрономических знаний жителей Республики Таджикистан летом 2022 г. была проведена этнографическая экспедиция по долине реки Зеравшан. Было опрошено 39 информаторов-таджиков из 23 кишлаков в Горно-Матчинском, Айнинском и Педжикентском районах, территория которых находится р. Собранный материал показал достаточно высокий уровень традиционных астрономических населения. В Пенджикентском районе, где имеются компактные поселения этнических узбеков, знания...
This paper presents the evolution of Pamir house over past 100 years since explorations Russian ethnographer Mikhail S. Andreev took place. Despite availability studies 1920s–1950s on Tajik traditional dwelling (Pisarchik, 1958a; Voronina, 1951, 1975; review studies: Mamadnazarov, 1978; Muradov, 2021), classical Andreev’s work (1958), conducted in valley Khuf River (Pamir), remains topical. The Gorno-Badakhshan variant construction (Pamir and region), distinguished basis its ingenuity,...
The article is based on the materials of excavations burial mounds in Sarazm-2 area Zeravshan valley. Afanasievo culture were discovered here for first time. In Late Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age valley, close contacts local agricultural population with carriers can be traced, which reflected material ancient pastoralists. open up possibility a new approach study genesis at end IV millennium BC.