Joint Czech-Uzbek Archaeological Expedition in Uzbekistan is carried out since 2002 under direction of doc. Ladislav Stančo with several project dealing with various topics.
The beginnings of the archaeological investigations of the Institute in Uzbekistan are connected with the excavations of the tell site of Jandavlattepa (2002-2006) in southern Uzbekistan and subsequent field survey of the Sherabad Oasis, supplemented by short excavations at the site of Kayrit. Afterwards, the focus of the research switched to the piedmont of the Kugitang Mountains and Pashkhurt Valley in the Sherabad District. Since 2015 several projects are being undertaken in this region focusing on the historical developments of the area. Site of Burgut Kurgan was excavated in cooperation with the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan (DAFA). Survey of the peidmont of the Baysun Mountains, together with Sarimask and Susiztag Ranges was undertaken within framework of the project “On the Mountain of Oxyartes” (Neuron Impuls 2016).
Selected publications
- Abdullaev, K. – Stančo, L. 2011 (eds.): Jandavlattepa. The Excavation Report for Seasons 2002-2006, vol. 1. Prague.
- Augustinová, A. – Stančo, L. 2016: The Petroglyphs of Pashkhurt Valley in the Surkhan Darya Province (South Uzbekistan) – Preliminary Report, Studia Hercynia XX/2, 122–138.
- Augustinová, A. – Stančo, L. – Damašek, L. – Mrva, M. – Shaydullaev, Sh. 2017: Archaeological Survey of the Oases of Zarabag, Karabag and Kampyrtepa in the Piedmont of the Kugitang Mountains, South Uzbekistan – Preliminary Report for the Season 2016, Studia Hercynia XXI/1, 104–148.
- Havlík, J. – Stančo, L. – Havlíková, H. 2017:Kurgans of the Eastern Kugitang Piedmonts: Preliminary Report for Season 2017, Studia Hercynia XXI/2, 160–182 .
- Lhuillier, J. 2016: Pottery from Burgut Kurgan and Kayrit Oasis, Preliminary Report for Season 2015, Studia Hercynia XX/2, 112–121.
- Stančo, L. 2009: The activities in Uzbekistan in the 2008 season: testing the Google Earth programme as a tool for archaeological prospecting. Studia Hercynia XIII, s. 115-122, Pls. 60-62.
- Stančo, L. 2016: Archaeological Survey in the Surroundings of Kayrit (South Uzbekistan), Preliminary Report for Season 2015, Studia Hercynia XX/2, 73–85.
- Stančo, L. 2018: New data on the Iron Age in the Šerabad district, South Uzbekistan. In: Johanna Lhuillier, Nikolaus Boroffka (eds.), A Millennium of History. The Iron Age in southern Central Asia (2nd and 1st Millennia BC). Dedicated to the memory of Viktor Ivanovič Sarianidi. Proceedings of the conference held in Berlin (June 23-25, 2014). Archäologie in Iran und Turan, Band 16, 171–188.
- Stančo, L. – Tušlová, P. eds. 2019: Sherabad Oasis: Tracing Historical Landscape in Southern Uzbekistan. Prague.
- Stančo, L. 2018: Getting rotary: introduction of rotary quern stones in Ancient Bactria. In: Sagdullaev, A. S. (ed.), The problems of history, archaeology and ethnology of Central Asia. Tashkent, 118-128.
- Stančo, L. – Pažout, A. 2020: Which way to Roxane: Mobility networks in the heartland of Central Asia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 32, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102391.
- Tušlová, P. 2012: Systematic Field Survey in the Sherabad District, Report of the 2011Season. Studia Hercynia XVI, 15-21.
text: Anna Augustinová, transl. Adam Pažout
