Eurasien-Abteilung

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut

Im Dol 2-6

14195 Berlin

International Conference

A millennium of history The Iron Age in Central Asia

(2nd and 1st millennia BC)

23rd - 24th June 2014

Organized by the Eurasien-Abteilung, DAI

Opening at 9:00 am Gartensaal im Wiegandhaus

Podbielskiallee 69-71 14195 Berlin

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A millennium of history: The Iron Age in Central Asia (2nd and 1st millennia BC)

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin, 23rd - 25th June 2014

Program

Venue Gartensaal im Wiegand-Haus Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Podbielskiallee 69-71 14195 Berlin Information and contact nikolaus.boroffka@dainst.de johanna.lhuillier@dainst.de Arrival of Participants Sunday 22nd, June 2014 Monday, 23rd June 2014 9:00 Welcoming of the participants 9:15 Welcome address by Prof. Svend Hansen (Director of the Eurasia Department, DAI, Berlin) 9:30 Introduction by Nikolaus Boroffka and Johanna Lhuillier (Eurasia Department, DAI, Berlin)

SECTION: SETTLEMENTS AND ARCHITECTURE

10:00 Claude Rapin (CNRS, Paris): Monumental architecture in Sogdiana during the Achaemenid period 10:30 Wu Xin (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem): Kyzyltepa and Cities Ex Novo in Central Asia during the Achaemenid Period 11:00: Coffee break 11:30 Anjelina Drujinina (Institute for History, Archaeology and Ethnography, Academy of sciences of Tajikistan, Dushanbe): Sites of the Achaemenid period in southern and central Tajikistan 12:00 Philippe Marquis (DAFA, Kabul): Balk Oasis, a huge potential 12:30-14:00 Lunch

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14:00 Nazaryj Bulawka (Warsaw University, Warsaw): Settlement pattern of the Yaz culture in the deltas of Tejen River in Turkmenistan 14:30 Aydogdy Kurbanov (Eurasia Department, DAI, Berlin; Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Ashgabat): History of research of Iron Age sites in southern Turkmenistan during the Soviet period

SECTION: FUNERARY PRACTICES AND RELIGION

15:00 Kazim Abdullaev (Institute of Archaeology, Samarkand): The genesis of a Zoroastrian funerary tradition in Bactria and Sogdia (Archaeological evidence and figurative art) 15:30 Julio Bendezu-Sarmiento (DAFA, Kabul) and Johanna Lhuillier (Eurasia Department, DAI, Berlin): Funerary practices of the Iron Age in southern Central Asia (between 1500 and the middle of the 1st millennium BC). The Sine Sepulchro Cultural Complex of Tansoxiana. 16:00 Coffee break 16:30 Marcin Wagner (Institute of Archaeology, Warsaw): The fire temple at Topaz Gala depe in southern Turkmenistan. 17:00 Viktor Mokroborodov (University of Tashkent, Tashkent): Kindyktepa, a temple of the middle of the 1st millennium BC in southern Uzbekistan. 19:00 Dinner Day 2: Tuesday, 24th June 2014

SECTION: REGIONAL CASE STUDIES: UZBEKISTAN

09:30 Ladislav Stančo (Charles University, Prague): New data on the Early Iron Age in the Sherabad district, South Uzbekistan. 10:00 Johanna Lhuillier (Eurasia Department, DAI, Berlin), Julio Bendezu-Sarmiento (DAFA, Kabul) and Samariddin Mustafakulov (Afrasiab Museum, Samarkand): Excavation at Dzharkutan (Uzbekistan): Some new elements about the transition from Bronze Age to Iron Age in southern Central Asia. 10:30 Coffee break

SECTION: REGIONAL CASE STUDIES: TAJIKISTAN

11:00 Mike Teufer (Eurasia Department, DAI, Berlin): Excavation at Saridjar and Karimberdy (South Tajikistan). 11:30 Gunvor Lindström (Eurasia Department, DAI, Berlin): Oxus Temple reconsidered: evidence of nomadic invasions in the 2nd cenury BC.

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12.00-13:30 Lunch

SECTION: REGIONAL CASE STUDIES: TURKMENISTAN

13:30 Viktor N. Pilipko (Institute of Archaeology, Moscow): Dashly-30, a settlement of the early Iron Age in southern Turkmenistan. 14:00 Barbara Cerasetti (University of Bologna, Bologna) and Lynne M. Rouse (Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis): The Influence of Late Bronze Age Sedentary-Mobile Interactions on the Iron Age: Mobile Pastoral Occupation Sites in the Murghab Alluvial Fan, Turkmenistan. 14:30 Coffee break

SECTION: CENTRAL ASIA AND ITS CONNECTIONS WITH IRAN

15:00 Olivier Lecomte (CNRS, Paris) and Julio Bendezu-Sarmiento (DAFA, Kabul): Central Asian roots of the Median culture: The case of Ulug depe. 15:30 Joaquin María Córdoba (Universidad Autónoma, Madrid): New perspectives on the Iron Age in Dehistan. New results of the archaeological excavations of the Turkmeno-Spanish project (Mai 2014). 16:00 Coffee break 16:30 Ali A. Vahdati (Iranian Center for Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organisation, Tehran): The Early Iron Age in Northern Khorasan. 17:00 Wouter Henkelman (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris): Bactrians in Persepolis / Persians in Bactria. 17:30 Final discussion 19:00 Dinner Day 3: Wednesday, 25th June 2014 Morning: Visit to the Pergamon Museum End of the conference. Departure of Participants