Sogdiane: state of the art and research in progress (1)

The symposium will be held on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 July 2025 at the ENS, in the Jean Jaurès amphitheatre (entrance via 28 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris).

Program

Final Bronze - Earliest Iron Age

9.00am - 9.30am: "Connecting the Dots: the site of Kimirek-kum 1 and the complicated Bronze-Iron Age transition in Central Asia"
Lynne Rouse, German Archaeological Institute

9.30am - 10.00am: "Current Research in the Pashkurt Valley, southern Uzbekistan: new sites and pathways of connectivity during the Final Bronze Age - Early Iron Age"
Johanna Lhuillier, CNRS UMR 5133 Archéorient

10.00am - 10.30am: Q&A

Antiquity (750 BCE - 200 CE)

10.00am - 11.30am: "Archaeological and Archaeometric Research on Turquoise from the Inner Kyzylkum"
Mariana Castro, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World - New York University

11.30am - 12.00pm: "New Archaeological Data on Bukhara and its Oasis Hinterland during Antiquity (ca. 750 BCE- A.D. 100)"
Sören W. Stark, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World - New York University ; Djamal K. Mirzaakhmedov and Sirodj Dj. Mirzaakhmedov, Institute of Archaeology - Cultural Heritage Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan ; Zachary W. Silvia, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World - Brown University

12.00pm - 12.30pm: Q&A

2pm - 2:30pm: "Finds of Greek, Cilician, Phoenician, and Hellenistic Coins in the Bukharan Oasis"
Anvar Kh. Atakhodjaev, Institute of Archaeology - Cultural Heritage Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan ; Aleksandr I. Naymark, Hofstra University

2:30pm - 3pm: "Military Installations in the Bactro-Sogdian Borderlands in the 3^rd-2^nd Centuries BC: state of research"
Ladislav Stančo, Charles University

3 pm - 3:30pm: "Sogdian Culture of the 1^st Century CE According to Numismatic Data"
Aleksandr Naymark, Hofstra University

3:30pm - 4:15pm: Q&A

Pre-Islamic Late Antiquity (200 - 750 CE)

4:45pm - 5:15pm: "Problems of the Formation of the Culture of Bukharan Sogd during the 3^rd-5^th Centuries A.D."
Asan Torgoev, State Hermitage Museum

5:15pm - 5:45pm: "Studies of the Bukhara Archaeological Expedition at the Fire Temple of Paikend: new data"
Andrey Omel'chenko, State Hermitage Museum

5:45pm - 6:15pm: Q&A