ABOUT THE ECOLOGY OF THE LOCATION OF THE NOMADS OF THE MOUNTAIN USTRUSHANA
Keywords:
Mountainous Ustrushana, Malguzar, Tashbulak, GIS, landscape archeology, nomad, siteAbstract
The article comments on the results of archaeological research conducted in the mountainous regions of the Jizzakh region, the Molguzar ridge, in particular, the results of archaeological research conducted at the Tashbulаk archaeological site located in this area. At the same time, the ecology of settlement and the economic relations of the pastoralists of the mountainous Ustrushana were clarified. The studies used standard archaeological methods combined with high-tech methods, such as creating a database and conducting spatial data analysis in a GIS environment, analyzing space photographs taken using satellites with remote sensing technology, creating an archaeological forecast model, and radiocarbon dating.
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