Lynne M Rouse
Biographic Data
| ID | 220294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynne M Rouse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynne M |
| FAMILY NAME | Rouse |
| SIGNATURE | ROUSE L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Zentrale |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2354-0099 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Ecological insights from plant and animal assemblages from a Late Bronze/Early Iron Age channel stratigraphy in the Kyzylkum Desert of Uzbekistan
The Kyzylkum Desert of Uzbekistan preserves former branches of the Zerafshan River that once supported settlements such as the Late Bronze/Early Iron Age site of Kimirek-kum 1 (KK1). Here we reconstruct past ecosystems surrounding KK1 through multiproxy analysis of a stratified channel deposit, Trench H-2, that formed part of the site’s circular enclosure. The sequence was investigated using 14 C and OSL dating, sediment composition and grain-siz…
Archaeological investigations at the late 2nd millennium BCE site of Kimirek-Kum 1, Uzbekistan
Meta‐analysis of an integrated archaeobiological and environmental dataset
We present the results of multivariate and exploratory statistical analyses of a large dataset that includes zooarchaeological, archaeobotanical, chrono‐cultural and proxy environmental data. Data are drawn from published specialist reports from 39 archaeological sites and include 49 distinct chronological contexts dated from the Chalcolithic to Bronze Age ( c .5300–1500 BCE) in southern Central Asia. Results support broad observations on the sta…
Inhabiting the central Asian mountains
Occupation and local resource exploitation at Kimirek-kum 1 (Uzbekistan)
The Final Bronze/Early Iron Age in the Old Zerafshan Delta, Uzbekistan
The transition between the Final Bronze and Early Iron Age remains one of the least understood periods in the archaeology of southern Central Asia. In this paper, we introduce the newly discovered site of Kimirek-kum-1 (floruit ca. 1250–1050 cal b.c.) in the old delta of the Zerafshan River in present-day Uzbekistan. Combined pedestrian survey, geomagnetic prospection, hand augering, and stratigraphic excavation, conducted between 2021 and 2023, …
[Re]Integrating a dispersed agenda
Amid resurgent geopolitical fissures and in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a growing awareness in the sector of the need for, and concern about, national and international collaboration in archaeological projects. This article reflects on present-day challenges for international collaboration in central Eurasian archaeology and furthers a much-needed discussion about (re)integrating local narratives with inter-regional trends in…
Faunal remains from Ojakly, a Late Bronze Age mobile pastoralist campsite in the Murghab region, Turkmenistan
Exploring Landscape Archaeology and UAV-Based Survey in the Kochkor Valley, Kyrgyzstan
From the earliest archaeological investigations along Central Asia’s Tien Shan range, researchers have noted the diversity of highland communities and their participation in complex subsistence, exchange, and political systems. However, landscape archaeological approaches that might address socio-economic integrations have been limited by discontinuous, sometimes skewed datasets. Here, we present the results of UAV-based survey at Kok-Sai, an upl…
The Agro-pastoralism debate in Central Eurasia
Pluralising power
Archaeological research on Bronze Age central Eurasia often recognizes 'exotic' materials and practices as the outcome of migration and trans-regional exchange. In this analysis, we bring together two significant datasets that have long referred to one another but have rarely conversed analytically: 'southern' ceramics in northern central Eurasia and reciprocal 'northern' ceramics in southern Central Asia. Taking the amalgamation of technical tra…
On the fly
Silent partners
Civilizations are as complex as the human relationships that engendered them, and outlining these relational qualities within open notions of mobility and interaction frames a reconceptualization of Central Asia’s past. Recent Eurasian archaeological research deconstructs deterministic political-economic or hierarchical typologies of civilization and the overly simplified narrative that roots it in urban centres perpetually juxtaposed with nomadi…
High-Altitude Agro-Pastoralism in the Kyrgyz Tien Shan
The highlands of Central Asia posed considerable challenges to early agriculturalists, yet the processes of human subsistence strategies there remain poorly understood. In this paper, we present results from the excavation of the Chap in Kyrgyzstan. The recovery of a rich macrobotanical assemblage consisting of several crop species and crop processing debris, together with skeletal remains of pastoral livestock, indicate a localized agro-pastoral…
Not just “nomadic jars”
A Beginner's Guide to Mesoscale Survey with Quadrotor-UAV Systems
Quadrotor-UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) systems are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in archaeological field research for the production of digital elevation models and orthophoto mosaics of sites, monuments, and landscapes. In order to make up for the lack of suitable imagery to use in a larger project on the landscapes surrounding Bronze Age tell sites in the Murghab delta of eastern Turkmenistan, we developed a protocol for the deployment of o…
Mixing metaphors
Micro-dynamics and macro-patterns
The breadth of dietary economy in Bronze Age Central Asia
Agriculturalists and pastoralists
Ojakly
Excavations at Ojakly (site 1744) in the Murghab alluvial fan in Turkmenistan mark the first systematic collection of archaeological materials related to Bronze Age mobile pastoralists in the region, and the earliest evidence to date of their occupation patterns, subsistence practices, and ceramic production activities. Because the appearance of mobile pastoral groups in the Murghab during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1950–1500 b.c.) is traditionally…
Specialization and social inequality in Bronze Age SE Arabia
Agriculturalists and pastoralists
Ojakly
Excavations at Ojakly (site 1744) in the Murghab alluvial fan in Turkmenistan mark the first systematic collection of archaeological materials related to Bronze Age mobile pastoralists in the region, and the earliest evidence to date of their occupation patterns, subsistence practices, and ceramic production activities. Because the appearance of mobile pastoral groups in the Murghab during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1950–1500 b.c.) is traditionally…
Not just “nomadic jars”
Specialization and social inequality in Bronze Age SE Arabia
High-Altitude Agro-Pastoralism in the Kyrgyz Tien Shan
The highlands of Central Asia posed considerable challenges to early agriculturalists, yet the processes of human subsistence strategies there remain poorly understood. In this paper, we present results from the excavation of the Chap in Kyrgyzstan. The recovery of a rich macrobotanical assemblage consisting of several crop species and crop processing debris, together with skeletal remains of pastoral livestock, indicate a localized agro-pastoral…
The Agro-pastoralism debate in Central Eurasia
Pluralising power
Archaeological research on Bronze Age central Eurasia often recognizes 'exotic' materials and practices as the outcome of migration and trans-regional exchange. In this analysis, we bring together two significant datasets that have long referred to one another but have rarely conversed analytically: 'southern' ceramics in northern central Eurasia and reciprocal 'northern' ceramics in southern Central Asia. Taking the amalgamation of technical tra…
Silent partners
Civilizations are as complex as the human relationships that engendered them, and outlining these relational qualities within open notions of mobility and interaction frames a reconceptualization of Central Asia’s past. Recent Eurasian archaeological research deconstructs deterministic political-economic or hierarchical typologies of civilization and the overly simplified narrative that roots it in urban centres perpetually juxtaposed with nomadi…
Mixing metaphors
The breadth of dietary economy in Bronze Age Central Asia
Exploring Landscape Archaeology and UAV-Based Survey in the Kochkor Valley, Kyrgyzstan
From the earliest archaeological investigations along Central Asia’s Tien Shan range, researchers have noted the diversity of highland communities and their participation in complex subsistence, exchange, and political systems. However, landscape archaeological approaches that might address socio-economic integrations have been limited by discontinuous, sometimes skewed datasets. Here, we present the results of UAV-based survey at Kok-Sai, an upl…
On the fly
[Re]Integrating a dispersed agenda
Amid resurgent geopolitical fissures and in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a growing awareness in the sector of the need for, and concern about, national and international collaboration in archaeological projects. This article reflects on present-day challenges for international collaboration in central Eurasian archaeology and furthers a much-needed discussion about (re)integrating local narratives with inter-regional trends in…
A Beginner's Guide to Mesoscale Survey with Quadrotor-UAV Systems
Quadrotor-UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) systems are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in archaeological field research for the production of digital elevation models and orthophoto mosaics of sites, monuments, and landscapes. In order to make up for the lack of suitable imagery to use in a larger project on the landscapes surrounding Bronze Age tell sites in the Murghab delta of eastern Turkmenistan, we developed a protocol for the deployment of o…
Specialization and social inequality in Bronze Age SE Arabia
Agriculturalists and pastoralists
Ojakly
Excavations at Ojakly (site 1744) in the Murghab alluvial fan in Turkmenistan mark the first systematic collection of archaeological materials related to Bronze Age mobile pastoralists in the region, and the earliest evidence to date of their occupation patterns, subsistence practices, and ceramic production activities. Because the appearance of mobile pastoral groups in the Murghab during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1950–1500 b.c.) is traditionally…
The breadth of dietary economy in Bronze Age Central Asia
Micro-dynamics and macro-patterns
A Beginner's Guide to Mesoscale Survey with Quadrotor-UAV Systems
Quadrotor-UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) systems are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in archaeological field research for the production of digital elevation models and orthophoto mosaics of sites, monuments, and landscapes. In order to make up for the lack of suitable imagery to use in a larger project on the landscapes surrounding Bronze Age tell sites in the Murghab delta of eastern Turkmenistan, we developed a protocol for the deployment of o…
Mixing metaphors
Not just “nomadic jars”
On the fly
Silent partners
Civilizations are as complex as the human relationships that engendered them, and outlining these relational qualities within open notions of mobility and interaction frames a reconceptualization of Central Asia’s past. Recent Eurasian archaeological research deconstructs deterministic political-economic or hierarchical typologies of civilization and the overly simplified narrative that roots it in urban centres perpetually juxtaposed with nomadi…
High-Altitude Agro-Pastoralism in the Kyrgyz Tien Shan
The highlands of Central Asia posed considerable challenges to early agriculturalists, yet the processes of human subsistence strategies there remain poorly understood. In this paper, we present results from the excavation of the Chap in Kyrgyzstan. The recovery of a rich macrobotanical assemblage consisting of several crop species and crop processing debris, together with skeletal remains of pastoral livestock, indicate a localized agro-pastoral…
Pluralising power
Archaeological research on Bronze Age central Eurasia often recognizes 'exotic' materials and practices as the outcome of migration and trans-regional exchange. In this analysis, we bring together two significant datasets that have long referred to one another but have rarely conversed analytically: 'southern' ceramics in northern central Eurasia and reciprocal 'northern' ceramics in southern Central Asia. Taking the amalgamation of technical tra…
Faunal remains from Ojakly, a Late Bronze Age mobile pastoralist campsite in the Murghab region, Turkmenistan
Exploring Landscape Archaeology and UAV-Based Survey in the Kochkor Valley, Kyrgyzstan
From the earliest archaeological investigations along Central Asia’s Tien Shan range, researchers have noted the diversity of highland communities and their participation in complex subsistence, exchange, and political systems. However, landscape archaeological approaches that might address socio-economic integrations have been limited by discontinuous, sometimes skewed datasets. Here, we present the results of UAV-based survey at Kok-Sai, an upl…
The Agro-pastoralism debate in Central Eurasia
Inhabiting the central Asian mountains
Occupation and local resource exploitation at Kimirek-kum 1 (Uzbekistan)
The Final Bronze/Early Iron Age in the Old Zerafshan Delta, Uzbekistan
The transition between the Final Bronze and Early Iron Age remains one of the least understood periods in the archaeology of southern Central Asia. In this paper, we introduce the newly discovered site of Kimirek-kum-1 (floruit ca. 1250–1050 cal b.c.) in the old delta of the Zerafshan River in present-day Uzbekistan. Combined pedestrian survey, geomagnetic prospection, hand augering, and stratigraphic excavation, conducted between 2021 and 2023, …
[Re]Integrating a dispersed agenda
Amid resurgent geopolitical fissures and in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a growing awareness in the sector of the need for, and concern about, national and international collaboration in archaeological projects. This article reflects on present-day challenges for international collaboration in central Eurasian archaeology and furthers a much-needed discussion about (re)integrating local narratives with inter-regional trends in…
Archaeological investigations at the late 2nd millennium BCE site of Kimirek-Kum 1, Uzbekistan
Meta‐analysis of an integrated archaeobiological and environmental dataset
We present the results of multivariate and exploratory statistical analyses of a large dataset that includes zooarchaeological, archaeobotanical, chrono‐cultural and proxy environmental data. Data are drawn from published specialist reports from 39 archaeological sites and include 49 distinct chronological contexts dated from the Chalcolithic to Bronze Age ( c .5300–1500 BCE) in southern Central Asia. Results support broad observations on the sta…
Ecological insights from plant and animal assemblages from a Late Bronze/Early Iron Age channel stratigraphy in the Kyzylkum Desert of Uzbekistan
The Kyzylkum Desert of Uzbekistan preserves former branches of the Zerafshan River that once supported settlements such as the Late Bronze/Early Iron Age site of Kimirek-kum 1 (KK1). Here we reconstruct past ecosystems surrounding KK1 through multiproxy analysis of a stratified channel deposit, Trench H-2, that formed part of the site’s circular enclosure. The sequence was investigated using 14 C and OSL dating, sediment composition and grain-siz…
Archaeology (20 works) · Geography (19 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (18 works) · Bronze Age (11 works) · History (10 works) · Livestock (8 works) · Pastoralism (8 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (8 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (7 works) · History (7 works)