Archaeological excavations at Lungi Tepa, south Uzbekistan. Preliminary Report for Season 2019

Abstract

This report summarises the preliminary results of the first season of excavations at the site of Lungi Tepa in the Kugitang Piedmonts, south Uzbekistan. The research was conducted by an international (Czech-New Zealand-Uzbek) archaeological-bioanthropological team in autumn 2019.

The excavations focused on obtaining stratigraphic data from the Medieval settlement of Lungi Tepa and uncovering an adjacent burial ground in order to get well-dated reference material for future in-depth study of the High Medieval chronology of the studied region.

Keywords

• Central Asia
• Tokharistan
• Lungi Tepa
• High Medieval Period
• Late Medieval Period
• archaeology
• excavation
• bioanthropology
• burials
• settlement
• stratigraphy.