Институт археологии и этнографии СО РАН совместно с Национальным университетом Кыргызстана им. Ж. Баласагына, Ошским государственным университетом и международной лабораторией ZooSCAn при поддержке фонда “История отечества” и Российского научного фонда (РНФ) проводит Центральноазиатскую археологическую полевую школу (ЦААПШ). В рамках полевой школы будут проведены мастер-классы, практикумы, экскурсии в музеи и на археологиеские объекты, а также участие […]

The Eastern Pamir (eastern Tajikistan) is a high-mountain plateau with elevations up to 7000 m, currently characterized by extremely severe environmental conditions and harboring a specialized montane fauna, which in part is shared with that of the Tibetan Plateau. The modern bird fauna of High Asia comprises a diversity of both ancient and recently diverged […]

Along the Tian Shan and Alay mountain ranges of Central Asia, sheep and other domestic livestock form the core economy of contemporary life. Although it was here that the movements of their ancient predecessors helped to shape the great trade networks of the Silk Road, domestic animals were thought to have come relatively late to […]

New discoveries made through ancient DNA show that early animal domestication took root in the mountains of Central Asia more than 8000 years ago, nearly three millennia earlier than previously recognized. Central Asia is a land of animals, and a land of social connections. For centuries, people in the high mountains of the continental interior […]

Along the Tian Shan and Alay mountain ranges of Central Asia, sheep and other domestic livestock form the core economy of contemporary life. Although it was here that the movements of their ancient predecessors helped to shape the great trade networks of the Silk Road, domestic animals were thought to have come relatively late to […]