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L’évolution des recherches archéologiques en Asie centrale

Le site d’Ajakagytma et le complexe culturel de Kel’teminar au sein des processus de néolithisation en Asie centrale

travaux de la MAFANAC
Frédérique Brunet, Muhiddin Hudžanazarov and Karol Szymczak
p. 191-205

Abstracts

In Central Asia, the specific context of the neolithisation process, which began at the end of the Pleistocene and lasted until the early 4th millennium BC, is characterized by multi-faceted transformations involving cultural, technical, economic, social, and symbolic factors. Our multidisciplinary research, as part of the MAFANAC expedition (financially supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs), aims at reviewing and clarifying these major changes. In Uzbekistan our study, which relies strongly on academic partnership with the Institute of Archaeology of Academy of Sciences of this Republic, focuses on the Neolithic culture of Kel’teminar (7th-4th millennia BC), located at a geographic and cultural crossroad between steppe and oasis, and thus presenting an interesting case of interaction. This thorough investigation of Kel’teminar is combined with fieldwork in the Kyzyl-Kum desert, especially in two regions (Zeravshan and Akchadaria) where we are excavating the very well-preserved site of Ajakagytma, as well as undertaking systematic geo-archaeological surveys. This new research has yielded significant results for a new characterization of the Kel’teminar culture in several spheres: origins and cultural evolution, material culture, technical traditions, chronology, settlement, subsistence and social organization. The research also opens up new prospects for reconsidering the emergence of sedentary (oasis) vs nomadic (steppe) societies, a well known and much debated issue for later cultures in Central Asia.

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References

Bibliographical reference

Frédérique Brunet, Muhiddin Hudžanazarov and Karol Szymczak, Le site d’Ajakagytma et le complexe culturel de Kel’teminar au sein des processus de néolithisation en Asie centraleCahiers d’Asie centrale, 21/22 | 2013, 191-205.

Electronic reference

Frédérique Brunet, Muhiddin Hudžanazarov and Karol Szymczak, Le site d’Ajakagytma et le complexe culturel de Kel’teminar au sein des processus de néolithisation en Asie centraleCahiers d’Asie centrale [Online], 21/22 | 2013, Online since 30 September 2014, connection on 20 January 2026. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/asiecentrale/1814

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About the authors

Frédérique Brunet

Frédérique Brunet (CNRS-UMR7041 ArScAn, équipe « Archéologie de l’Asie centrale », Nanterre, France), archéologue, est spécialiste de l’Asie centrale ; ses recherches portent sur le thème de la néolithisation dans cette région (du Paléolithique supérieur au Chalcolithique). frederique.brunet@mae.u-paris10.fr

Muhiddin Hudžanazarov

Muhiddin Hudžanazarov (Institut d’archéologie de l’Académie des Sciences de la République d’Ouzbékistan, Samarcande, Ouzbékistan), archéologue, est spécialiste de l’art rupestre en Asie centrale et travaille particulièrement sur les pétroglyphes d’Ouzbékistan. sarmish@mail.ru

Karol Szymczak

Karol Szymczak (Institut d’archéologie de l’Université de Varsovie, Pologne), archéologue, travaille particulièrement sur le Paléolithique et le Mésolithique d’Europe orientale ; il a également participé à l’étude du Néolithique en Iraq. karolszymczak@op.pl

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