KAZAH–MAGYAR RÉGÉSZETI KUTATÁSOK A ZSETISZU VIDÉKÉN
KAZAKH–HUNGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN THE ZHETISU REGION

Summary/Abstract: The idea of the cooperation was raised in 2005 by Aiman Dosymbaeva, archaeologist and Head of the Department of Turkic Heritage. As a leader of a research group consisted mainly of young specialists, she took aim to a previously hardly investigated area of the early mediaeval archaeology, namely, the early Turkic heritage – primarily burials, barrows and sanctuaries located in mountains. The research group very soon had to face many questions, answering which their own efforts seemed to be insufficient. Among these questions the main concerned the problem of relations between nomad tribes and the early towns (mostly located on the Silk Road). Aiman Dosymbaeva suggested us to join their project, but focusing especially on urban and fortified settlements. These settlements, mainly early urban centres were located on the northernmost route of the Silk Road, and existed as early from the 8th–9th C until 13th–15th C.

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