SEVERAL RESULTS OF BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ETHNOECOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN TAJIKISTAN

Abstract

The article describes several topics of joint Russian-Tajik research conducted since 2013 in the Khatlon velayat of the Republic of Tajikistan within the framework of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the N. N. Miklukho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of Russian Academy of Sciences and the A. Donish Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. Th e text includes several interconnected blocks: archaeological excavations, ethnoecological study of the subsistence systems of the modern and medieval populations, and collection and analysis of human remains. Th e article gives brief information about the archaeological excavations of the Shakhidon burial ground of the 7th–8th centuries (Baljuvan jamoat), anthropological characteristics of the population buried in it and information about the economy of the population of the dekh Shaidon, where the site is located, as well as materials on other regions of the Republic.

Keywords

• middle asia
• paleoecology
• medieval history
• early nomads
• funeral (burial) rituals
• modern and medieval subsistence system
• human
• animal and plant remains