Participation in an archaeological expedition to southern Uzbekistan

The international expedition to southern Uzbekistan returns home. It was attended by specialists from the Institute of Geology and Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences together with archaeologists from University of Brisbane, Charles University and University in Temez. They worked in the Kaptar Kamar Cave in the foothills of the Kugitang and confirmed the presence of an Early Iron Age (Yaz I) settlement in the cave and probably the first find of site-specific Neolithic pottery. The sedimentary archive of the Kaptar Kamar Cave provided valuable information about the Holocene climate in Central Asia. Preliminary fieldwork report. Photogalery.