Dzhankent (Kazakhstan): a ‘nomad capital’ on the Northern Silk Road

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• Irina Arzhantseva (HSE University, Moscow) and Heinrich Härke (HSE, Tübingen and Reading), Azilkhan Tazhekeev ( Korkyt-Ata State University of Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan)
• Friday 21 May 2021, 14:00-15:00
• https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kceCuqTMiH93IllEJRVJITG89RI8ya4Wj.

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Prof. Irina Arzhantseva is an archaeologist of early medieval Eurasia and an associate professor at HSE University, Moscow. She has contributed to and directed projects in Russia (from Siberia to the North Caucasus), Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. From 1990 she was a researcher at Moscow State University and from 2000, director of the Centre for Eurasian Archaeology, and from 2011 principal researcher in the Institute of Ethnography and Anthropology at the Russian Academy of Sciences. She has also held visiting fellowships at Cambridge, Oxford, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and is co-director of the Dzhankent project, Kazakhstan. She specializes in the history and interdisciplinary methods of archaeology.

Prof. Heinrich Härke holds affiliations with HSE , Moscow, Tübingen and Reading and has held teaching and research positions at all three. He has excavated Roman and early medieval sites across the UK, Central and Eastern Europe, with a special interest in Eurasian nomads, burial practice and migrations. Since 2011 he has been excavating at the early medieval site of Dzhankent, and is planning fieldwork at other sites in southern central Kazakhstan.

Dr Azilkhan Tazhekeev has worked on excavations in Kazakhstan since his student days. He has participated in the Dzhankent project since 2011, and in the same year became the first director of the new Research Centre for Archaeology and Ethnography, Korkyt-Ata State University of Kyzylorda (Kazakhstan).

Join us to hear more about the ‘nomad capital’ of Dzhankent.

This talk is part of the King's Silk Roads series.

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