Abstrakt
The article discusses the results of a four weeks pilot project of systematic field survey in an area of Sherabad district, South Uzbekistan. Survey was conducted in order to detect new archaeological sites and to test the presence of flat scatters in the surroundings of the vertical settlement mounds visible in landscape relief.
The project's additional aim was to evaluate the suitability of systematic archaeological surface survey in the area of southern part of the province of Surkhan Darya.