Saturday, 13th January 2024
Venue: Room 224, Mittelstrasse 43, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Session 5: Early middle ages continued
Chair: Gian Luca Bonora
| 08:30 | “Zoroastrian” (= "Sogdian"?) Burials of the chui valley | Kolchenko Valerii Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the NAS KR (KG)U) |
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| 08:55 | From Late Antique to Early Medieval Sogdiana: A View from Novel Excavations in Samarkand | Begmatov Alisher University of Vienna (AT) |
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| 09:20 | Man-environment interactions in ancient Sogdiana through isotopic analysis | Armaroli Elena University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (IT) |
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| 09:45 | Discussion | ||
| 10:10 | Coffee break |
Chair: Nadezhda Dubova
| 10:35 | Introduction and Spread of Non-Native Economic Crops to the Chu Valley in the Second Half of the First Millennium CE: Archaeobotanical Evidence from the Novopokrovka-2 Site | Mir-Makhamad Basira Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology (DE) |
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| 11:00 | Investigating the history and evolution of plague in Eurasia | Spyrou Maria University of Tübingen (DE) |
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| 11:25 | Discussion | ||
| 11:50 | Lunch |
Session 6: Later middle age
Chair: Fiona Kidd
| 13:15 | The Architecture and the Decoration of the Late Sogdian Palace at Sanjar- Shah | Shenkar Michael The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL) |
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| 13:40 | Interdisciplinary Approaches to Deciphering the Complex History of Kesken-Kuyuk Kala: A Study in Medieval Central Asian Urbanism | Voyakin Dmitriy International Institute for Central Asian Studies (KZ) |
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| 14:05 | A Tale of Two Women: Medieval Dress, Jewelry, and Archaeogenetics Uncovered at Usharal-Ilibalyk (Kazakhstan) | Stewart Charles Benedictine College (Kansas, US) |
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| 14:30 | Preliminary results of comprehensive studies of medieval Christian necropolises of Ilibalyk and Suleiman-tepa | Sorokin Denis (KZ) |
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| 14:55 | Discussion | ||
| 15:20 | Coffee break |
Chair: Michael Frachetti
| 15:45 | Mobility, clashes, meetings: developping of a new architectural model at Vardana with the advent of Islam | Vincenzi Ilaria (SP) | |
| 16:10 | The End of the “Silk Road”: Plague, Natural Disasters and Transformation of Central Asia, c.1330-1400 |
Slavin Philip (GB) | |
| 16:35 | Mobile Utensils: Goods, Motifs, Scripts, and Peoples on the Move | Ilyasov Djangar Institute of Art Studies, Academy of Sciences of Republic of Uzbekistan (UZ) |
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| 17:00 | Discussion | ||
| 17:25 | Conclusion & discussion | Novák Mirko, Rutishauser Susanne |
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| 17:55 | Closure of Conference | Novák Mirko, Baumer Christoph |
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| 19:00 | Dinner | Speakers only |
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Program subject to change.