Sogdiana : state of the art and research in progress

Colloque international sur l'archéologie de l'Asie Centrale

Ce colloque se conçoit comme la deuxième partie de la conférence "Reconstructing Sogdiana. Discoveries and historical narratives" qui s'est tenue les 11 et 12 avril 2025 au Tang Center for Silk Road Studies (UC Berkeley), en partenariat avec le Collège de France et l'Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (New York University). L'objectif est de produire une étude actualisée et chronologiquement équilibrée des nouveaux documents, des opérations archéologiques et des problématiques corrélées qui permettent d'appréhender l'histoire de la Sogdiane (l'ancien pays de Samarkand et Boukhara, nœud des Routes de la Soie), entre la fin de l'âge du bronze (débutant vers 1500 avant notre ère) et la période islamique pré-mongole (avant 1220 après notre ère).

 

Sogdiana
Tête de figurine en terre cuite, Bukhara, 3ème siècle de n-è, Uzbek-American Expedition in Bukhara (UzAmEB)

Programme 

July 2

Final Bronze – Earliest Iron Age 


9H00-9H30
Lynne Rouse, German Archaeological Institute
Connecting the Dots: the site of Kimirek-kum 1 and the complicated Bronze-Iron Age transition in Central Asia

9H30-10H00  
Johanna Lhuillier, CNRS UMR 5133 Archéorient 
Current Research in the Pashkurt Valley, southern Uzbekistan: new sites and pathways of connectivity during the Final Bronze Age – Early Iron Age

10H-10H30 : Questions & Answers


Antiquity (750 BCE – 200 CE) 


11H-11H30  
Mariana Castro, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World – New York University 
Archaeological and Archaeometric Research on Turquoise from the Inner Kyzylkum

11H30-12H00  
Sören W. Stark, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World – New York University; Djamal K. Mirzaakhmedov and Sirodj Dj. Mirzaakhmedov, Institute of Archaeology – Cultural Heritage Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan; Zachary W. Silvia, Joukowsky 
Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World – Brown University
New Archaeological Data on Bukhara and its Oasis Hinterland during Antiquity (ca. 750 BCE- A.D. 100)

12H00-12H30 : Questions & Answers

12H30-14H00 : Lunch Break
 

Antiquity (750 BCE – 200 CE) 


14H-14H30 
Anvar Kh. Atakhodjaev, Institute of Archaeology – Cultural Heritage Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan; Aleksandr I. Naymark, Hofstra University
Finds of Greek, Cilician, Phoenician, and Hellenistic Coins in the Bukharan Oasis 

14H30-15H 
Ladislav Stančo, Charles University
Military Installations in the Bactro-Sogdian Borderlands in the 3rd-2nd Centuries BC: state of research

15H-15H30  
Aleksandr Naymark, Hofstra University 
Sogdian Culture of the 1st Century CE According to Numismatic Data.

15H30-16H15 : Questions & Answers
 

Pre-Islamic Late Antiquity (200 – 750 CE) 


16H45-17H15 
Asan Torgoev, State Hermitage Museum
Problems of the Formation of the Culture of Bukharan Sogd during the 3rd-5th Centuries A.D.

17H15-17H45 
Andrey Omel’chenko, State Hermitage Museum
Studies of the Bukhara Archaeological Expedition at the Fire Temple of Paikend: new data

17H45-18H15 : Questions & Answers

Pre-Islamic Late Antiquity (200 – 750 CE) 


9H-9H30 
Muminkhan Saidov, Institute of Archaeology – Cultural Heritage Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Preliminary Results of the Study of the Kyzlartepa

9H30-10H00 [in Russian, with translation]:
Alisher Sandibaev, Institute of Archaeology – Cultural Heritage Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Kuldor-tepa and Kurgon-tepa: two newly discovered temples of the Early Medieval period in Central Sogdiana

10H-10H30 
Michael Shenkar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
New Material on Late Sogdian History, Art, and Religion from the Excavations at Sanjar-Shah

10H30-11H : Questions & Answers

11H30-12H00 
Vikentyi Parshuto, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World – New York University
A Border Crossing Point in Late Antique Sogdiana – Early Medieval Soghd.

12H-12H30  
Shujing Wang, Peking University
A Preliminary Study on the Archaeological Contexts of the Sogdian Writings from the Burials in Eastern Central Asia

12H30-13H15 : Questions & Answers

13H15- 14H45 : Lunch Break

Pre-Mongol Middle Ages (750 – 1200 CE) 


14H45 – 15H15  
Nadine Schibille, CNRS Centre Ernest-Babelon
Changing Landscapes of Glass Production during the Early Islamic Period 

15H15 – 15H45  
Viola Allegranzi, Institute of Iranian Studies – Austrian Academy of Sciences
Shaping the Islamic Space in Medieval Bukhara and Samarkand : a fresh look at architectural inscriptions

15H45 – 16H15  
Yury Karev, CNRS UMR 8546 AOROC
In Search of the Fortress of al-Muqannaʽ : surveys in the Hissar mountains 

16H15 – 17H00 : Questions & Answers
 

Mis à jour le 23/6/2025