Abstrakt
The Czech-Uzbekistani archaeological team conducted between 2008 and 2011 archaeological surface survey in the Sherabad district, South Uzbekistan. This effort yielded substantial amount of fresh archaeological data linked predominantly to the Kushan and Medieval periods.
The aim of this paper is to make fellow scholars acquaint with the selected results of this research and. The attention will be paid to the nomad burials, known as kurgans.
In frame of the survey, piedmont steppe area northwest of Sherabad has been studied that covers more than half of the Sherabad District surface. The main tool used for site detection in the irrigated lowlands, i.e. satellite imagery (Corona, Ikonos, Google Earth) was much less useful in this area and the same goes for Soviet topographic maps.
The topographical anomalies were not that obvious in these sources. To gain new archaeological data for the general map, we conducted field survey in selected parts of the region.
During this work, we were able to find several clusters of kurgans in the piedmont steppes in the vicinity of villages Karabag and Loilagan. Subsequently, we mapped all of detected kurgans and in this field season (2014) we started excavations of selected objects in order to get chronologically sensitive material for the dating of these objects.