Wednesday, 10th January 2024

19:00 Dinner at Hotel Kreuz,
Zeughausgasse 41, 3011 Bern
Invited Speakers only

 

Thursday, 11th January 2024

Venue: Room 224, Mittelstrasse 43, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
 
08:30 Registration  
09:00 Welcome address and opening remarks Baumer Christoph
Society for the Exploration of EurAsia, Hergiswil (CH)
09:20 Mobility – What does that mean? Novák Mirko
Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Bern, Bern (CH)










Session 1: Bronze age

Chair: Alisher Begmatov

09:35 The mistress of the animals. A motif conquers the world Gorgerat Laurent
Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig (CH)
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10:00 Mobility in the past: understanding GKC society through the excavation of Togolok 1 (southern Turkmenistan) Cerasetti Barbara
ISMEO – The International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies (IT)
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10:25 Discussion    
10:45 Coffee break    

Chair: Rocco Rante

11:10 Materials of the satellite settlement Gonur 20 in the mirror of intercultural interactions in Central Asia Fribus Alexey
Institute for the History of Material Culture (RU)
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11:35 Sa'ensayi culture - migrants from Lower Volga with BMAC bronzes in Eastern Tian Shan Kovalev Alexey
Institute of Archaeology Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)
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12:00 The stranger from Ulug – a long way from home Kroll Sonja
CNRS, MNHN, UMR 7209 (FR)
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12:25 Discussion    
12:50 Lunch    
 

Chair: Sara Peterson

14:00 Sedendism, mobility and migration in the settlements of the Oxus civilisation    Bendezu-Sarmiento Julio
 
14:25 Ethno-cultural processes in the South of Tajikistan in the Early – Middle Bronze Age. Vinogradova Nataliya Mateevna
Istituto per gli Studi Orientali, Accademia delle Scienze della Russia (RU)
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 14:50 Not only cultural interaction. Agricultural exploitation and water management in the Murghab (southern Turkmenistan) during the Late Bronze Age. Arciero Roberto
Leiden University (NL)
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15:15 The Mobility of Goods, Ideas and Technologies from the Oxus Civilization Graveyard of Adji Kui in Margiana (South Turkmenistan) Bonora Gian Luca
ISMEO – The International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies (IT)
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15:40 Discussion    
16:05 Coffee break    



















Chair: Michael Shenkar

16:30 Regions of ancient irrigation, mountain passes, and transmission of goods, peoples, cultures Kliakhandler Igor
Independent Researcher (US)
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16:55 Transfer of ideas, migration of people or commonality of basic ideas? Dubova Nadezhda
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)
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17:20 Discussion    

Venue: Room 101, Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012 Bern
 
18:00 Keynote: The population genomic history of western Eurasia Willerslev Eske
University of Copenhagen (DK)
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19:30 Dinner Speakers only  
 
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Program subject to change.