The Iron Gate and its environs in the Hellenistic period. Preliminary report for archaeological research in the Baysun District (South Uzbekistan), Season 2019

0568202 - ARÚ 2023 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Stančo, L. - Kysela, J. - Shaydullaev, S. - Bek, Tomáš - Kmošek, M. - Toshaliyev, K. - Mrvová, P. - Votroubeková, T. - Matznerová, J.
The Iron Gate and its environs in the Hellenistic period. Preliminary report for archaeological research in the Baysun District (South Uzbekistan), Season 2019.
Studia Hercynia. Roč. 26, č. 2 (2022), s. 91-114. ISSN 1212-5865. E-ISSN 2336-8144
Institutional support: RVO:67985912
Keywords : Darband wall * surface survey * metal detectors * Bactria * Hellenistic period * Baysun Mountains * Kugitang Piedmonts
OECD category: Archaeology
Method of publishing: Open access
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/178774

This report summarizes the starting points, methods and results of the archaeological research of the Czech-Uzbek team investigating the Hellenistic settlements in the vicinity of Darband, in the upper reaches of the Sherabad Darya, in the Baysun District of southern Uzbekistan in season 2019. A significant amount of archaeological material has been obtained using a systematic surface metal detector survey and targeted excavations of a limited scope. We were able to confirm that some of these sites, such as Daganajam Tepa and perhaps also Mirzali, were inhabited only in the Hellenistic period, while in the case of the others, a settlement in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC was only one of their occupation phases (Kapchigay Tepa, Darband wall).
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0339540