Mobility, Exchange Networks and Technocultural Transfers in Southern Central Asia During the Bronze Age

青铜时代中亚南部的流动性、交换网络和技术文化转移

• 批准号: 392943887
• 负责人: Dr. Elise Luneau
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Geschichte, Archäologie und Ethnographie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/392943887?language=en
• 关键词: Mobility; Exchange; Networks; Technocultural; Transfers

This project aims to provide new data on the populations (Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex or BMAC/Oxus civilization, Andronovo Cultural Community, Vakhsh culture) who settled in the region located between the Amu-Darya and Syr-Darya rivers in Central Asia during the Bronze Age, in the search for clues to multicultural processes, by using modern methods that are as yet pioneer work in this area and these populations. Field work in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan will focus on surveys with the primary aim of finding new archaeological features, in particular settlements, whose number is sparse compared with burials, and to map the occupation patterns of the Bronze Age populations in all ecological niches. The surveys will be conducted in places suitable for detecting potential campsites of pastoralists and evidence of intermingling between different cultural groups. The Nuratau Mountains (Uzbekistan) has already proven to be a particularly favourable area for finding remains related to the Andronovo groups, and seems promising for collecting important new datasets on these populations. As a corresponding aspect, the Hissar valley (Tajikistan) represents a milestone between two major occupation areas of the Oxus populations in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan as well as between the "steppe" in the North and the "oasis" in the South. The surveys will target all of the ecological areas, especially in the hills and highlands that are still completely unexplored, and will also include geomorphological and landscape studies. Methodologically, extensive and intensive walking surveys in precise areas first defined by cartographic studies will be supplemented with small trial excavations when necessary to better understand the date and type of archaeological features. The entire documentation will be integrated in a database and a GIS platform. Research will also be oriented towards the study of pottery, applying innovative methods. In the region under study, several pottery collections from new joint expeditions or old excavations have been studied and already or soon published. Research can now be concerned with a more accurate characterization of the Bronze Age ceramic complexes through different kinds of analyses, especially innovative archaeometric methods in addition to the necessary elaboration of the typology and chronology. The objective is to reconsider the distribution of ceramic features in the area under study in order to refine the connections between sites and to better understand the influx and historical development of the "northern" mobile populations in southern Central Asia. A greater and more detailed identification of the diverse ceramic traditions of the different cultural groups should enable circulation networks to be traced and clues of techno-cultural transfers between the various populations who occupied the area at that time to be detected.

该项目旨在提供关于青铜器时代在中亚阿姆河和锡尔河之间地区定居的人口（大夏-马吉安纳考古复合体或BMAC/Oxus文明、安德罗诺沃文化社区、Vakhsh文化）的新数据，以通过使用在该地区和这些人口中尚属先驱工作的现代方法来寻找多元文化进程的线索。在乌兹别克斯坦和塔吉克斯坦的实地工作将侧重于调查，主要目的是发现新的考古特征，特别是与墓葬相比数量稀少的定居点，并绘制青铜时代人口在所有生态位中的居住模式。调查将在适合于发现潜在牧民营地和不同文化群体混合的证据的地方进行。努拉陶山脉（乌兹别克斯坦）已经被证明是寻找与安德罗诺沃群体有关的遗骸的特别有利的地区，并且似乎有希望收集关于这些人群的重要新数据集。作为一个相应的方面，希萨尔河谷（塔吉克斯坦）是乌兹别克斯坦和塔吉克斯坦境内奥克苏斯人两个主要占领区之间以及北方“草原”和南方“绿洲”之间的一个里程碑。调查将针对所有生态地区，特别是尚未完全开发的丘陵和高地，还将包括地貌和景观研究。从方法上讲，在制图研究首先确定的精确地区进行广泛和深入的步行调查，必要时将辅之以小型试掘，以更好地了解考古特征的日期和类型。整个文件将纳入一个数据库和一个地理信息系统平台。研究也将面向陶器的研究，采用创新的方法。在所研究的地区，一些新的联合探险或旧发掘的陶器收藏品已被研究，并已或即将出版。现在的研究可以通过不同的分析，特别是创新的考古测量方法，以及对类型学和年代学的必要阐述，来更准确地描述青铜时代的陶瓷复合体。其目的是重新考虑研究区域内陶瓷特征的分布，以完善遗址之间的联系，并更好地了解中亚南部“北方”移动的人口的流入和历史发展。对不同文化群体的不同陶瓷传统进行更深入、更详细的识别，应该能够追踪流通网络，并发现当时居住在该地区的不同人口之间的技术文化转移的线索。