Archaeology Digs in Asia

Each year, archaeology digs are undertaken all over Asia, including field schools and professional excavations. Here's a sample.

Field schools listed below with dates older than the current year may indicate an ongoing project that has not yet established dates for this season.

Baga Gazaryn Chuluu Survey (Mongolia)
June 15 - August 7, 2007. Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads. Pedestrian survey and small-scale excavation at the site of Baga Gazaryn Chuluu; occupations dated from the Upper Paleolithic to the 19th and 20th century AD.

Institute for Field Research (Asia)
The Institute for Field Research conducts work throughout the globe, including Asia.

Moscow and the Komi Republic (Russia)
May 30-June 30, 2012. University of Northern British Columbia and theSyktyvkar State University in the Komi Republic. Ethnographic field school will begin with one week of coursework in Prince George followed by 30 days traveling from Moscow past the Arctic Circle to the reindeer herding camps of the Russian Tundra.

University of Sydney Central Asian Programme
Various dates to be determined. University of Sydney. Under the auspices of USCAP, three collaborative archaeological programmes are currently in progress in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and China.

Xiongnu Cemeteries of the Altai Mountains (Mongolia)
July 14-August 5, 2009. Silkroad Foundation. The Mongol-American Khovd Archaeology Project aims to advance material investigations of the peoples and cultures of the Altai Mountains, a crucial region between the nomads of the Mongolian steppes and the Silk Roads area within present-day northwest China.

Yangguanzhai (China)
June 23-July 27, 2013. Institute for Field Research (UCLA). The Yangguanzhai Neolithic site in the Wei River Valley was discovered in 2004. Located in the area from which the earliest Chinese dynasties emerged, the site contains rich deposits of Neolithic houses, storage pits, ceramic kilns, children’s burials, trash pits, and a large moat.

Boncuklu (Turkey)
June 30-August 3, 2013. Institute for Field Research (UCLA). Turkey has evidence of one of the earliest transitions from hunting and gathering to village farming in the world, but the early Neolithic of central Turkey is poorly understood. The Boncuklu project is investigating the appearance of the first villages and farmers in central Turkey.

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