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New Discoveries
New carvings and composition
A series of new petroglyph has been described during fieldwork in Sarmishsay Gorge in 2005. (Photo)
Archaeological findings in Sarmishsay.
This direction of research has a primary importance for mapping archeological structures and monuments, and also natural conditions in Sarmishsai, in order to determine the limits of the territory to be protected. Sources of cultural and natural legacy, concentrated in reasonably extensive part of the monument, constitute Cultural and Natural Landscape of Sarmishsai. The research for identification and distribution of archeological landmarks and monuments was equally important, as the main source material for further investigation of the region, its cultural traditions and rituals, economic and social significance.
Drawings of materials collected in the vicinity of kurgans (nauses) at the uppermost side between group 11 and 12. Within the whole of the archaeological complex of Sarmishsai, in a compact area of 300 ha, there are situated the remains of more than one hundred sites of different types of monuments. In total, the archaeological monuments are well preserved and wonderfully harmonize with their natural environment as the remains of stone structures – dwellings, enclosures for pasturing cattle, burial fences and mounds. Most actively the area was used by the pastoral tribes of the Early Iron Age and later by Uzbeks in the modern time (XIX – early XX c.). The present level of knowledge allows to regard the cultural archaeological landscape of Sarmishsai as a bright example of the development, within a limited area, of the traditional forms of husbandry, land use and social organization of the pastoral peoples in the arid zone of Central Asia.
(Photo) Burial-ground Sarmish 11, archaeologist during excavations in spring, 2004.
(Photo) Archaeological excavations on nauses (kurgans), located over the top of the hills, spatially occupying areas between groups 11 –12, near Kampyr Ulde; (Alexey Gritsina with students during the analyzing of findings.
On the monument uncolored ceramics and other archaeological findings were collected, which could be dated XI – XII centuries.
(Pictures) Drawings of materials collected in the vicinity of kurgans (nauses) at the uppermost side between group 11 and 12.