Vol. 3 No. 11 (2023)
Articles

Kakhramontepa in Southern Uzbekistan: A 4th–6th-century AD monument in context

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  • Nikolaus G. O. Boroffka,
  • Leonid M. Sverchkov
Nikolaus G. O. Boroffka
Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany
Leonid M. Sverchkov
Fine Arts Scientific Research Institute, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17204/dissarch.2023.265

Published 2024-03-26

Keywords

  • Central Asia,
  • Uzbekistan,
  • Kidarites,
  • Kakhramontepa,
  • Early Middle Ages

How to Cite

Boroffka, N. G. O. ., & Sverchkov, L. M. (2024). Kakhramontepa in Southern Uzbekistan: A 4th–6th-century AD monument in context. Dissertationes Archaeologicae, 3(11), 265–281. https://doi.org/10.17204/dissarch.2023.265

Abstract

The paper presents a brief overview of the excavation results from the early medieval, 4th–5th-century AD fortress of Kakhramontepa in southern Uzbekistan, with a wide range of analogies from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Nearby burial groups were also surveyed, some of which belong to the same period. Based on the joint evaluation of the fortress, the find material, the structure of the burials, and written sources, the entire complex could be attributed to the Kidarites, one of the enigmatic peoples known from historical sources and difficult to identify in the archaeological record.

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