Archaeological survey and excavation of the Mingtepa Site in Andijan Region, Uzbekistan: Sino-Uzbek Joint Archaeological Team

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Archaeological survey and excavation of the Mingtepa Site in Andijan Region, Uzbekistan

Sino-Uzbek Joint Archaeological Team

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From the journal Chinese Archaeology Volume 19 Issue 1

Abstract

Since 2012, the Institute of Archaeology of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan organized joint archaeological team and conducted five terms of archaeological survey and excavation to the Mingtepa Ancient City Site in Uzbekistan. The excavation showed that the Mingtepa Ancient City Site is a large-scale city site with nested inner and outer cities; confirmed the coexistence relationships among the architectural sites with high rammed-earth platform foundations, city walls, gates, roads and handicraft workshop remains, which are the scientific evidences for the in-depth researches on the layout and cultural connotations of the inner city; the burials found on the east wall of the outer city provided rare data of the terminus ante quem of the abandoning of the outer city.

Keywords: Abandoned cities–Central Asia; bastions; Fergana Valley; Silk Road–Uzbekistan; Western Han to Western Jin Dynasties (206 BCE–316 CE)

Postscript

The archaeological excavation and research of the Central Asian Archaeological Team of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences are strongly supported by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the Bureau of International Cooperation of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and unsparingly reinforced by the Centers for Scientific Archaeology and Archaeological Data and Information, and the archaeological teams of the Department of Han to Tang Archaeology of our institute. The authors of this report hereby gratefully present acknowledgement for all of their efforts. The Central Asian Archaeological Team of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences organized Sino-Uzbek Joint Archaeological Team together with the scholars of the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan to conduct the fieldwork. The leaders of the joint archaeological team were the directors of the two institutions, Dr. Wei Wang 王巍 and Dr. Amridin Berdimuradov (Амридин Бердимурадов), and the executive leaders were Dr. Yanshi Zhu 朱岩石 and Dr. B. H. Matbabaev (Б. X. Матбабаев). The Chinese scholars who have participated in the detection and excavation were Yanshi Zhu, Tao Liu 刘涛, Ailijiang Aisha 艾力江, Suili He 何岁利, Guoxiang Qian 钱国祥, Ling Chen 陈凌 and Xiyang Tang, 唐熙阳, and technicians including Cunjin Wang 王存金, Qinglin Han 韩庆林, Heqing Fu 付合庆, Zhijun Wang 王治军, Songpo Guo 郭松坡, Xiaozhen Feng 冯小振, Chongli Tan 谭崇礼, Xiangyang Wang 王向阳, Zhenyuan Li 李振远, Zhongpu Zhang 张忠朴, Yanmin Han 韩燕民, Tangkuan Wang 王堂宽, Yan Zhao 赵岩, etc.; The Uzbek participants of the fieldworks included B. H. Matbabaev, M. Isamiddinov, G. Ivanov, B. Abudullaev, H. Hoshimov, Z. Raxmonov, A. Alihunov, etc.

The original report authored by Yanshi Zhu and B. H. Matbabaev is published in Kaogu 考古 (Archaeology) 2017.9:22–38. This modified version was translated into English by Xiaolei Ding 丁晓雷.

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Abandoned cities–Central Asia; bastions; Fergana Valley; Silk Road–Uzbekistan; Western Han to Western Jin Dynasties (206 BCE–316 CE)