Archaeological Survey in the Surroundings of Kayrit (South Uzbekistan), Preliminary Report for Season 2015

Abstract

This text represents an overview of the results of the extensive surface survey, conducted in the hinterland of the site of Burgut Kurgan, south Uzbekistan, during its excavations in 2015. The basic data on the settlements, kurgans and related phenomena are presented here, as well as a preliminary interpretation of the whole as a complex cultural landscape of the Late Bronze / Early Iron Age.

Keywords

• Pashkhurt Valley
• Kayrit village
• Burgut Kurgan
• surface survey
• kurgans
• petroglyphs
• Bactria
• Yaz culture
• Early Iron Age
• Late Bronze Age
• Middle Ages