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SUMMARY:Dzhankent (Kazakhstan): a ‘nomad capital’ on the Northern Silk
  Road -  Irina Arzhantseva (HSE University\, Moscow) and Heinrich Härke (
 HSE\, Tübingen and Reading)\, Azilkhan Tazhekeev ( Korkyt-Ata State Unive
 rsity of Kyzylorda\, Kazakhstan)
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CONTACT:Katie Campbell
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Irina Arzhantseva is an archaeologist of early medieval 
 Eurasia and an associate professor at HSE University\, Moscow. She has con
 tributed to and directed projects in Russia (from Siberia to the North Cau
 casus)\, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. From 1990 she was a researcher at Mosc
 ow State University and from 2000\, director of the Centre for Eurasian Ar
 chaeology\, and from 2011 principal researcher in the Institute of Ethnogr
 aphy and Anthropology at the Russian Academy of Sciences. She has also hel
 d visiting fellowships at Cambridge\, Oxford\, London\, Barcelona and Berl
 in\, and is co-director of the Dzhankent project\, Kazakhstan. She special
 izes in the history and interdisciplinary methods of archaeology.\n\n \n\n
 Prof. Heinrich Härke holds affiliations with HSE\, Moscow\, Tübingen and
  Reading and has held teaching and research positions at all three. He has
  excavated Roman and early medieval sites across the UK\, Central and East
 ern Europe\, with a special interest in Eurasian nomads\, burial practice 
 and migrations. Since 2011 he has been excavating at the early medieval si
 te of Dzhankent\, and is planning fieldwork at other sites in southern cen
 tral Kazakhstan.\n\n \n\nDr Azilkhan Tazhekeev has worked on excavations i
 n Kazakhstan since his student days. He has participated in the Dzhankent 
 project since 2011\, and in the same year became the first director of the
  new Research Centre for Archaeology and Ethnography\, Korkyt-Ata State Un
 iversity of Kyzylorda (Kazakhstan).\n\n\nJoin us to hear more about the 
 ‘nomad capital’ of Dzhankent.
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