Basira Mir-Makhamad
Biographic Data
| ID | 1506766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Basira Mir-Makhamad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Basira |
| FAMILY NAME | Mir-Makhamad |
| SIGNATURE | MIR-MAKHAMAD B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1414-0392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Regional variability in faecal bile acids and its implications for species identification in archaeology
Faecal bile acids (BAs) are increasingly used in archaeological studies to detect domesticated species and reconstruct herding practices. However, it is unclear how environmental factors influence BA profiles and how much these profiles vary across regions. This uncertainty raises questions about their reliability for species-specific identifications across diverse settings. To address this, we analysed faecal BA profiles from free-grazing sheep …
Seeds of Time
Recent excavations at Tilla Bulak have produced the first systematically collected dataset of archaeobotanical remains from a Bronze Age site in the Surkhandarya Plain, southern Uzbekistan. The rich assemblage is dominated by economic crops, primarily hulled barley, wheat, and broomcorn millet, along with legumes, grape, and wild fruits, including pistachio, plum, and apple. The identification of a complex cultivation strategy illustrates the bre…
The Cotton Road
Cotton is one of the most culturally significant crops in Central Asia today, and it has a complex history, long predating the collective-labour and intensive-irrigation systems of the Soviet period. In this paper, we explore the ancient history of cotton cultivation in Central Asia. We aim to understand when cotton cultivation switched from low-investment to intensive large-scale agriculture and to theorise about the dispersal routes, type of co…
Testing the applicability of Watson’s Green Revolution concept in first millennium ce Central Asia
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00334-023-00924-2
Food globalization in southern Central Asia
The Silk Road is a modern name for a globalization phenomenon that marked an extensive network of communication and exchange in the ancient world; by the turn of the second millennium AD, commercial trade linked Asia and supported the development of a string of large urban centers across Central Asia. One of the main arteries of the medieval trade routes followed the middle and lower Zarafshan River and was connected by mercantile cities, such as…
Beyond Technology
The Bell Beaker site near Brodek u Prostějova (Czechia) has yielded remains of a large timber construction accompanied by four symmetrical ritual deposits with numerous artefacts, including more than fifty ceramic vessels. Their decoration consists of incised patterns, in nineteen cases with preserved white inlaid incrustations. To investigate the social relations at this extraordinary site, a multi-analytical and micro-destructive approach was e…
The first comprehensive archaeobotanical analysis of prehistoric agriculture in Kyrgyzstan
Qarakhanids on the Edge of the Bukhara Oasis
The urban center of Paykend was an exchange node just off the main corridor of the Silk Road in the Bukhara Oasis on the edge of the hyperarid Kyzyl–Kum Desert. The city was occupied from the end of 4 century B.C.E. to the mid–12 century C.E.; our study focuses on the Qarakhanid period (C.E. 999 – 1211), the last imperial phase of urban occupation at Paykend before its abandonment. In this study, we present the results of an analysis of archaeobo…
The first comprehensive archaeobotanical analysis of prehistoric agriculture in Kyrgyzstan
Qarakhanids on the Edge of the Bukhara Oasis
The urban center of Paykend was an exchange node just off the main corridor of the Silk Road in the Bukhara Oasis on the edge of the hyperarid Kyzyl–Kum Desert. The city was occupied from the end of 4 century B.C.E. to the mid–12 century C.E.; our study focuses on the Qarakhanid period (C.E. 999 – 1211), the last imperial phase of urban occupation at Paykend before its abandonment. In this study, we present the results of an analysis of archaeobo…
Food globalization in southern Central Asia
The Silk Road is a modern name for a globalization phenomenon that marked an extensive network of communication and exchange in the ancient world; by the turn of the second millennium AD, commercial trade linked Asia and supported the development of a string of large urban centers across Central Asia. One of the main arteries of the medieval trade routes followed the middle and lower Zarafshan River and was connected by mercantile cities, such as…
Testing the applicability of Watson’s Green Revolution concept in first millennium ce Central Asia
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00334-023-00924-2
Beyond Technology
The Bell Beaker site near Brodek u Prostějova (Czechia) has yielded remains of a large timber construction accompanied by four symmetrical ritual deposits with numerous artefacts, including more than fifty ceramic vessels. Their decoration consists of incised patterns, in nineteen cases with preserved white inlaid incrustations. To investigate the social relations at this extraordinary site, a multi-analytical and micro-destructive approach was e…
The first comprehensive archaeobotanical analysis of prehistoric agriculture in Kyrgyzstan
Qarakhanids on the Edge of the Bukhara Oasis
The urban center of Paykend was an exchange node just off the main corridor of the Silk Road in the Bukhara Oasis on the edge of the hyperarid Kyzyl–Kum Desert. The city was occupied from the end of 4 century B.C.E. to the mid–12 century C.E.; our study focuses on the Qarakhanid period (C.E. 999 – 1211), the last imperial phase of urban occupation at Paykend before its abandonment. In this study, we present the results of an analysis of archaeobo…
Beyond Technology
The Bell Beaker site near Brodek u Prostějova (Czechia) has yielded remains of a large timber construction accompanied by four symmetrical ritual deposits with numerous artefacts, including more than fifty ceramic vessels. Their decoration consists of incised patterns, in nineteen cases with preserved white inlaid incrustations. To investigate the social relations at this extraordinary site, a multi-analytical and micro-destructive approach was e…
Testing the applicability of Watson’s Green Revolution concept in first millennium ce Central Asia
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00334-023-00924-2
Food globalization in southern Central Asia
The Silk Road is a modern name for a globalization phenomenon that marked an extensive network of communication and exchange in the ancient world; by the turn of the second millennium AD, commercial trade linked Asia and supported the development of a string of large urban centers across Central Asia. One of the main arteries of the medieval trade routes followed the middle and lower Zarafshan River and was connected by mercantile cities, such as…
The Cotton Road
Cotton is one of the most culturally significant crops in Central Asia today, and it has a complex history, long predating the collective-labour and intensive-irrigation systems of the Soviet period. In this paper, we explore the ancient history of cotton cultivation in Central Asia. We aim to understand when cotton cultivation switched from low-investment to intensive large-scale agriculture and to theorise about the dispersal routes, type of co…
Regional variability in faecal bile acids and its implications for species identification in archaeology
Faecal bile acids (BAs) are increasingly used in archaeological studies to detect domesticated species and reconstruct herding practices. However, it is unclear how environmental factors influence BA profiles and how much these profiles vary across regions. This uncertainty raises questions about their reliability for species-specific identifications across diverse settings. To address this, we analysed faecal BA profiles from free-grazing sheep …
Seeds of Time
Recent excavations at Tilla Bulak have produced the first systematically collected dataset of archaeobotanical remains from a Bronze Age site in the Surkhandarya Plain, southern Uzbekistan. The rich assemblage is dominated by economic crops, primarily hulled barley, wheat, and broomcorn millet, along with legumes, grape, and wild fruits, including pistachio, plum, and apple. The identification of a complex cultivation strategy illustrates the bre…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Paleoethnobotany (4 works) · Central asia (3 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Assemblage (archaeology (2 works) · Biology (2 works)