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

该项目旨在提供有关青铜时代在中亚阿姆河-达里亚河和锡尔达里亚河之间定居的人口(巴克特里亚-马吉亚纳考古建筑群或BMAC/Oxus文明、安德罗诺沃文化社区、瓦赫什文化)的新数据，利用该地区和这些人口中迄今具有开创性工作的现代方法，寻找多元文化进程的线索。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，并绘制所有生态位中青铜时代人口的占领模式。调查将在适合发现牧民潜在露营地和不同文化群体之间相互融合的证据的地方进行。努拉托山脉(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，似乎很有希望收集关于这些群体的重要新数据集。作为一个相应的方面，希萨尔山谷(塔吉克斯坦)是乌兹别克斯坦和塔吉克斯坦两个主要的奥克苏斯人占领区之间的一个里程碑，也是北部的“草原”和南部的“绿洲”之间的一个里程碑。这些调查将针对所有生态区，特别是仍未完全开发的丘陵和高地，还将包括地貌和景观研究。在方法上，将在最初由制图研究确定的精确区域进行广泛和密集的步行调查，并在必要时辅以小规模试掘，以更好地了解考古特征的日期和类型。整个文档将集成在一个数据库和一个地理信息系统平台中。研究还将以陶器研究为导向，应用创新的方法。在正在研究的地区，对新的联合探险或旧发掘的几件陶器收藏品进行了研究，并已经或即将出版。现在，研究人员可以通过不同类型的分析，特别是创新的考古方法，以及必要的类型学和年代学的阐述，更准确地描述青铜时代陶瓷复合体的特征。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“北部”流动人口的涌入和历史发展。对不同文化群体的不同陶瓷传统进行更多和更详细的识别，应该能够追踪流通网络，并能够发现当时占领该地区的不同人口之间技术文化转移的线索。

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.