Research in Taraz and Talas Valley

The Taraz expedition of the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR continued the study of medieval Taraz.

In the eastern part of the citadel of the settlement, a section was laid to clarify the construction of the city wall and the stratigraphy of the monument. It was found that the city functioned in the second half of the 13th-16th centuries. The earliest materials of the section date back to the 7th-8th centuries. A rich collection of ceramics is collected in the layers of the 10th-12th centuries. A dish covered with a transparent glaze over a white engobe is of interest and decorated along the edge with a frieze of epigraphic ornament.

The search and survey of medieval settlements and settlements in the valleys of Talas, Assy and Ters continued. In the recovered material from the settlement in the region of Burno-Oktyabrskoye, we note the bottom of a bronze dish, decorated with an engraved image of a winged lion in a medallion. The dish dates from the end of the 12th-beginning of the 13th century.

A section of the Great Silk Road was studied from Barkuabe station to Taraz. Found remains of an ancient crossing over the Assu river testify that the caravan road went along the canyon of the Assy river. In the valley of the Assy river, a settlement was also excavated in the first half of the 1st millennium BC. Residential buildings with outdoor hearths and fireplaces have been opened.