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 […]
Fieldwork
Fieldwork
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
Publications
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
Conference
Advances in Stone Age Archaeology of Central Asia
On the 26th April, our PI, Małgorzata Kot, took part in the Symposium:⛏️ Advances in Stone Age Archaeology of Central
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Prof. Małgorzata Kot granted an ERC Consolidator 2024 – video interview
Our PI, Małgorzata Kot, talks about the main concept behind the INASIA project in the Uniwersytet Warszawski video: Professor Małgorzata
Fieldwork
Preparation for the project
⛏️ 3 years of pilot studies🔦16 Central Asian caves⛰️10 test trenches🧗🏾♂️200km of high mountain treks through Tian Shan and Pamir-Alay
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Project introduction
INASIA is a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant 2024 – led by the Principal Investigator Małgorzata Kot, PhD –