Ирина Аржанцева
Biographic Data
| ID | 5642245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ирина Аржанцева |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ирина |
| FAMILY NAME | Аржанцева |
| SIGNATURE | АРЖАНЦЕВА И |
| AFFILIATIONS | Russian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9213-5583 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
First Millennium Urbanism in Central Asia
Despite its apparent size and length of its existence, the Dzhety-asar culture of Kazakhstan remains one of the great unknowns of Central Asian archaeology, comprising, as it did, several dozen now-ruined settlements with an almost thousand-year long occupational history. First settled around the 1st century BC and gradually abandoned in the second half of the 1st millennium AD , the Dzhety-asar towns and manors were located to the east of the Ar…
Roundtable studying the Anthropocene in Central Asia
The emerging and vibrant field of environmental humanities to date has not received considerable attention in Central Asia. In light of the Anthropocene crises, there is a real urgency for maturing this field and investigating the methodological and epistemological challenges that environmental topics demand, often working across disciplinary habits and time scales. This roundtable brings together Central Asianists from a range of backgrounds to …
The history of the earliest rigid-structure saddles in the light of archaeological data from the Southern Aral Sea area
The article deals with terracotta statuettes of saddled horses and fantastic beasts coming from ar- chaeological sites of Chorasmia and its cattle-breeding periphery. Among them, a group of figurines with saddles of the so-called horned type stands out, which are well attested in iconographic and material pieces of evidence of the Roman Imperial era from Western Europe. A great importance of the invention of the “horned” saddles for the developme…
Interfaces and Crossroads, Contexts and Communications
In the late first millennium ad, the Aral Sea region comprised two broad cultural zones: in the south the civilizations of Central Asia, in the north the steppe nomads. On their interface, in the delta of the Syr-Darya, there is an isolated cluster of urban sites, including Dzhankent. Fieldwork results show that in the ninth to eleventh centuries ad this site was a fortified urban settlement, but it had a predecessor from the sixth/seventh centur…
Project “Nomad state formation and urbanization
The Patrimonial Project of Dzhankent
The archaeological site of Dzhankent, in addition to its geographical position and the wealth of finds from there, occupies a special place for several other reasons, too. It was the first site in Central Asia to be excavated (1740-1741) and photographed (1858), and it has recently become one of the national symbols of independent Kazakhstan (since 1991). Over the period of more than 270 years during which it has been studied, Dzhankent has been …
Contested landscapes of Soviet Central Asia
A group of rectangular and circular enclosures in southwest Kazakhstan, originally thought to be prehistoric or early historical, has turned out to date from the 1950s and 1960s. They were built as livestock pens (kora) to protect rice paddies from free-grazing cattle. Rice cultivation had been introduced to the region east of the Aral Sea by deported ethnic Koreans from the Soviet Far East after the native pastoral nomadism had been destroyed by…
The Khorezmian Expedition
The article discusses the history of the Khorezmian Archaeological-Ethnographic Expedition from its inception (1937) to its end (1997) after the dissolution of the USSR. Three stages are distinguished: pre-war beginnings (1937 to 1941); post-war heyday (1945 to 1976), the most prolific and successful stage of work; and final decline (1976 to 1997) during which work was eventually wound down in the wake of the collapse of the USSR. The charismatic…
Continuous Aquatic Soundings of the Lake Tere-Khol’ Water Area in the Republic of Tuva (Russia)
Introduction The archaeological site of Por-Bajin (meaning « Clay House » in the local Tuva language) occupies a small island in Lake Tere-Khol’, eight kilometers west of the Kungurtuk settlement in the southwestern part of the Republic of Tuva, Southern Siberia (Fig. 1).It consists of a rectangular enclosure around a complex of buildings and courtyards which is dominated by a central building. Its building materials and technology suggest that P…
Geophysical investigations on Por-Bajin island, Tuva (Russia)
In 2007-2008, the cultural fund « Fortress Por-Bajin » undertook extensive archaeological excavations on the 8th/9th century AD monument of Por-Bajin. By the end of the summer season 2008, the total excavated area was about 2 hectares. Some 1 000 people took part in this project: archaeologists, architects, soil scientists, geomorphologists and other specialists. Considering the extreme remoteness of the site, the fund developed its own infrastru…
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The Khorezmian Expedition
The article discusses the history of the Khorezmian Archaeological-Ethnographic Expedition from its inception (1937) to its end (1997) after the dissolution of the USSR. Three stages are distinguished: pre-war beginnings (1937 to 1941); post-war heyday (1945 to 1976), the most prolific and successful stage of work; and final decline (1976 to 1997) during which work was eventually wound down in the wake of the collapse of the USSR. The charismatic…
Roundtable studying the Anthropocene in Central Asia
The emerging and vibrant field of environmental humanities to date has not received considerable attention in Central Asia. In light of the Anthropocene crises, there is a real urgency for maturing this field and investigating the methodological and epistemological challenges that environmental topics demand, often working across disciplinary habits and time scales. This roundtable brings together Central Asianists from a range of backgrounds to …
Interfaces and Crossroads, Contexts and Communications
In the late first millennium ad, the Aral Sea region comprised two broad cultural zones: in the south the civilizations of Central Asia, in the north the steppe nomads. On their interface, in the delta of the Syr-Darya, there is an isolated cluster of urban sites, including Dzhankent. Fieldwork results show that in the ninth to eleventh centuries ad this site was a fortified urban settlement, but it had a predecessor from the sixth/seventh centur…
Zilgi
Continuous Aquatic Soundings of the Lake Tere-Khol’ Water Area in the Republic of Tuva (Russia)
Introduction The archaeological site of Por-Bajin (meaning « Clay House » in the local Tuva language) occupies a small island in Lake Tere-Khol’, eight kilometers west of the Kungurtuk settlement in the southwestern part of the Republic of Tuva, Southern Siberia (Fig. 1).It consists of a rectangular enclosure around a complex of buildings and courtyards which is dominated by a central building. Its building materials and technology suggest that P…
Geophysical investigations on Por-Bajin island, Tuva (Russia)
In 2007-2008, the cultural fund « Fortress Por-Bajin » undertook extensive archaeological excavations on the 8th/9th century AD monument of Por-Bajin. By the end of the summer season 2008, the total excavated area was about 2 hectares. Some 1 000 people took part in this project: archaeologists, architects, soil scientists, geomorphologists and other specialists. Considering the extreme remoteness of the site, the fund developed its own infrastru…
The Khorezmian Expedition
The article discusses the history of the Khorezmian Archaeological-Ethnographic Expedition from its inception (1937) to its end (1997) after the dissolution of the USSR. Three stages are distinguished: pre-war beginnings (1937 to 1941); post-war heyday (1945 to 1976), the most prolific and successful stage of work; and final decline (1976 to 1997) during which work was eventually wound down in the wake of the collapse of the USSR. The charismatic…
Contested landscapes of Soviet Central Asia
A group of rectangular and circular enclosures in southwest Kazakhstan, originally thought to be prehistoric or early historical, has turned out to date from the 1950s and 1960s. They were built as livestock pens (kora) to protect rice paddies from free-grazing cattle. Rice cultivation had been introduced to the region east of the Aral Sea by deported ethnic Koreans from the Soviet Far East after the native pastoral nomadism had been destroyed by…
The Patrimonial Project of Dzhankent
The archaeological site of Dzhankent, in addition to its geographical position and the wealth of finds from there, occupies a special place for several other reasons, too. It was the first site in Central Asia to be excavated (1740-1741) and photographed (1858), and it has recently become one of the national symbols of independent Kazakhstan (since 1991). Over the period of more than 270 years during which it has been studied, Dzhankent has been …
Project “Nomad state formation and urbanization
The history of the earliest rigid-structure saddles in the light of archaeological data from the Southern Aral Sea area
The article deals with terracotta statuettes of saddled horses and fantastic beasts coming from ar- chaeological sites of Chorasmia and its cattle-breeding periphery. Among them, a group of figurines with saddles of the so-called horned type stands out, which are well attested in iconographic and material pieces of evidence of the Roman Imperial era from Western Europe. A great importance of the invention of the “horned” saddles for the developme…
Interfaces and Crossroads, Contexts and Communications
In the late first millennium ad, the Aral Sea region comprised two broad cultural zones: in the south the civilizations of Central Asia, in the north the steppe nomads. On their interface, in the delta of the Syr-Darya, there is an isolated cluster of urban sites, including Dzhankent. Fieldwork results show that in the ninth to eleventh centuries ad this site was a fortified urban settlement, but it had a predecessor from the sixth/seventh centur…
Roundtable studying the Anthropocene in Central Asia
The emerging and vibrant field of environmental humanities to date has not received considerable attention in Central Asia. In light of the Anthropocene crises, there is a real urgency for maturing this field and investigating the methodological and epistemological challenges that environmental topics demand, often working across disciplinary habits and time scales. This roundtable brings together Central Asianists from a range of backgrounds to …
First Millennium Urbanism in Central Asia
Despite its apparent size and length of its existence, the Dzhety-asar culture of Kazakhstan remains one of the great unknowns of Central Asian archaeology, comprising, as it did, several dozen now-ruined settlements with an almost thousand-year long occupational history. First settled around the 1st century BC and gradually abandoned in the second half of the 1st millennium AD , the Dzhety-asar towns and manors were located to the east of the Ar…
Ancient history (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · History (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (8 works) · History (8 works) · Central asia (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts (3 works) · Politics (3 works)