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Project

Landscape and social archaeology of the nomadic populations in the Altay Mountains, from the Bronze Age to the Turkic period (2nd millenium BC - 1500 AD)
Code
3G004209
Duration
01 January 2009 → 31 December 2014
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Archaeology
    • Theory and methodology of archaeology
    • Other history and archaeology
Keywords
Central Asia archaeology landscape
 
Project description
 

The Altay Mountains are covered with funeral and ritual monuments of nomadic people (2nd Mill. BCE - mid 2nd Mill. CE). For years archaeological inventories of valleys have been realised. These data will allow us to realise a study of the archaeological landscape and of the sociological structures of these cultures. Another goal is to publish the complete inventory of the researched valleys.