Abstrakt
The presented paper focuses on the recent research of rock-art in south Uzbekistan. Except one case represented by site with rock paintings in a small shelter Zaraut Kamar, there was no rock-art known in this area four years ago.
In 2015 during the Czech-Uzbekistani archaeological expedition the first stones with petroglyphs were discovered and subsequently this phenomenon became an object of research. The discussed rock-art lies in Surkhandarya Province in the steppe landscape in Piedmont of the Kugitang Mountains.
It is represented by petroglyphs depicted on the loose lying stones with black patina. Based on the stylistic and iconographic analogies, it is possible to date most of them to the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age with some cases overlapping into the Medieval Period.
The data presented here summarize the results after three seasons of research (2015-2017). Over 170 stones with petroglyphs were collected.
They were represented mostly by the motives of animals, less by human figures, vehicles or geometric patterns. The character of the motives is similar as at another sites with the rock-art in Central Asia and the research of questioned petroglyphs here help to fill the gap in the knowledge of this topic.