Talk by Prof Farhod Maksudov, National Centre of Archaeology, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences

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Date/time:

Friday 9 June 2023 11:00am to 1:00pm

Location:

SG2 and Zoom

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Cambridge Central Asia Forum in collaboration with the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge invites you to a talk by

Farhod Maksudov, National Center of Archaeology, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences

on 

'Nomadic Oecumene as the Periphery of Sedentary World and the Center of Islamization: archaeology of the earliest Islamic community in highland Central Asia'

Date: 9 June 

Time: 11am

Venue: SG2, Alison Richard Building and On Zoom (https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtdO6qrTktG9L6qyVW3RJrl_ipKRUUx3PI)

Abstract: The talk will present the results of the recent Uzbek-American archaeological mission in the higlands of Uzbekistan, namely the Tashbulak cemetery in Jizzakh Province (Pamir mountains). 

Recent publication: Bullion, E., Maksudov, F., Henry, E., Merkle, A., & Frachetti, M. (2022). Community practice and religion at an Early Islamic cemetery in highland Central Asia—ADDENDUM. Antiquity, 96(388), 1059-1059. doi:10.15184/aqy.2022.71 

Everyone is welcome.