June 2025 – start of the Kiik Kamar excavations
We’ve started the excavations. The topmost layers consist of a thick fumiers. We’re openning bigger suface in order to avoid […]
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Kiik Kamar
This season we excavate Kiik Kamar Cava in south-eastern Uzbekistan.It is circa 100sqm single chamber cave with a big triangular
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Fieldwork – Basecamp
Due to unbelievable hospitality of Uzbek people in Kashkadarya our research and fieldwork team has the oportunity to set up
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Local Expertise Guides Our Archaeological Search
In order to find new archeological sites we use three approaches. The first one is interviewing the local people.Shepherds, beekeepers,
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INASIA ERC supporting the local community
We put special emphasis on involving local people in the project. A family-friendly approach means anyone willling to work with
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Fieldwork Realities: Broken UAZ, Registan Detour, and the Road to the Zaravshan Caves
As a cave archeologist would tell you: it’s always good to have a rope with you!The magnificent plan of reaching
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We are starting the first 2025 fieldwork season within the INASIA project!
From the 4th of June, we set off to excavate the newly discovered Middle Palaeolithic cave site with confirmed preservation
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Early Blade Technologies in Central Asia and the Challenge to Upper Paleolithic Chronologies
The ERC_INASIA project is shedding new light on one of the big questions in human history: When and how did
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Breaking New Ground in the High Mountains of Uzbekistan
INASIA_ERC is the first-ever high-mountain archaeological project in Uzbekistan, supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under Horizon Europe.Our research
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Investigating the Initial Upper Paleolithic in Central Asia’s Highlands through Multidisciplinary Archaeological Research
🌍 Over the next five years, INASIA_ERC will undertake intensive archaeological surveys and fieldwork in the mountain caves of the