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Aida Abdykanova, Ph.D.

Ph.D., Chair, Associate Professor

Anthropology and International Development

Division of Social Sciences

 

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Dr. Aida Abdykanova is an Archeologist and an Associate Professor in the Anthropology and International Development department and MA in Anthropology and International Development Program at the American University of Central Asia. She holds her Ph.D. from the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2007, Russia) and received her specialized degree in History and Regional Studies from Kyrgyz State National University named after Jusup Balasagyn (2003, Kyrgyzstan). 

Dr. Abdykanova joined AUCA in 2007. Since 2014, she has served as an archeological expert of the Cultural Heritage Management department at the Ministry of Culture, Information, and Tourism of the Kyrgyz Republic. She is the Head of the Naryn Archaeological Project (NAP) at the University of Central Asia (UCA), which aims to conduct complex research on archaeological complexes on the territory of the UCA Naryn Campus from the period of Mesolithic Age through the Middle Ages. Currently, she is the co-director of the Kyrgyz-Russian archaeological project focused on excavations at Mesolithic and Neolithic sites Obishir and Surungur in Batken. 

Dr. Abdykanova participated in a series of seminars on the study of cultural heritage in Central Asia organized by the National Research Institute and Cultural Property in Tokyo, the Institute of History and Cultural Heritage of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic (2011-2015), and the Cultural Heritage Preservation Training course in Asia and the Pacific in 2013, preservation and restoration of wooden structures (2013, Japan). She is a member of the World Archaeological Congress, the Iaido Shiseikan Federation, and the All Japan Kendo Federation. 

  • Archaeology of Central Asia
  • Cultural Heritage Management
  • Human Evolution
  • Rock Art
  • A closer look at clasts and groundmass: Micromorphological features in sediments with archaeological significance in Obishir and Katta Sai complexes (Central Asia). Co-Author // Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 51. 104118. 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104118. 2023. Holocene vertebrate fauna in Fergana Valley, Kyrgyzstan, based on fossils from the Obishir5 rock shelter. Co-Author // Geobios. Volume 76, 2023, Pages 37-51, ISSN 0016-6995, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2023.01.002.
  • Unique Ground Burial Structure of Ak-Suu-4 Cemetery Burial No. 1 (Chui Valley, Kyrgyzstan. Co-Author // Theory and Practice of Archaeological Research. Vol. 34 (1). 2022. Barnaul. Pp.146-162.
  • Depositional history of a talus cone in an arid intermontane basin in Central Asia – an interdisciplinary study at the Late Pleistocene – Late Holocene Obishir-I site, Kyrgyzstan. Co-Author // Geoarchaeology. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21892
  • Palaeoenvironmental conditions of the Palaeolithic–Neolithic transition in the Fergana Valley (Central Asia) – New data inferred from fossil mollusсs in Obishir-V rock shelter (Kyrgyzstan). Co-Author // Quaternary International. Volumes 605–606, 20 December 2021, Pages 287-299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.11.009
  • Evidence for Early Dispersal of Domestic Sheep into Central Asia: genetic, archaeozoological, and biomolecular insights from Obishir V. Co-Author // Nature Human Behavior (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01083-y
  • New data about the fauna of Obishir V site. Co-Author // Problems of Archaeology, Ethnography, Anthropology of Siberia and Neighboring Territories. Volume XXVI. Novosibirsk, 2020. Pp.238-243.
  • The first combined archaeological and archaeometric analyses on Bronze Age pottery from Kyrgyzstan (Uch Kurbu site). Co-Author // Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 31:102302. DOI:10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102302
  • Early pastoral economies and herding transition in eastern Eurasia. Сo-Author // Scientific Reports. (2020) 10:1001 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-57735-y 2019. New discoveries about ancient Naryn // Cultural Heritage and Humanities Unit, Research Reports, #3 2019 [https://www.ucentralasia.org/Content/Downloads/CHHU-RP3-Eng.pdf]
  • Investigating ancient animal economies and exchange in Kyrgyzstan's Alay Valley (CoAuthor) // Antiquity 93(367), February 2019. DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2019.4 2018. The new evidences of symbolic behavior of Epipaleolithic in Central Tyan-Shyan. (CoAuthor). // Archaeology, Ethnography and Anthropology of Eurasia. (in process) (in Russian)
  • Personal Ornament Production Technology in the Early Holocene Complexes of Western Central Asia: Insights from Obishir-5. (Co-Author). // Archaeology, Ethnography and Anthropology of Eurasia. 46 (1), 2018. С.3-5. [http://www.archaeology.nsc.ru/journarticleru/73/1104]
  • The effect of geographical margins on cereal grain size variation: Case study for highlands of Kyrgyzstan. Co-Author // Journal of Archaeological Science. Reports 20 (2018) 400-410.
  • Результаты археологической разведки в Алайской долине в 2017 году. Со-автор. // Проблемы археологии, этнографии, антропологии Сибири и сопредельных территорий. 2017. Новосибирск. - С. 250-254, 2017
  • Геоэлектирическое строение археологического памятника Обишир-5 (Кыргызстан) по данным электротомографии // Теория и практика археологических исследований. No4 (20), 2017. Барнаул. - С. 150-157, 2017
  • Алайская стоянка – первое расселение человека в высокогорьях западной части Центральной Азии. Со-автор // Проблемы археологии, этнографии, антропологии Сибири и сопредельных территорий. 2017. Новосибирск. Россия, 2017
  • New investigations of the Epipaleolithic in western Central Asia: Obishir-5. Co-author // Antiquity. 91 360, e3 (2017): 1–7, 2017
  • Результаты археологических раскопок на памятнике Обишир 5 в 2016 году (со-автор) //Проблемы археологии, этнографии и антропологии Сибири и сопредельных территорий. Новосибирск, 2016. – Том. XXII. – С. 194-198, 2016
  • Восстание 1916 в Кыргызстане: мнение экспертов и активистов (со-автор). Акипресс. История кыргызов и Кыргызстана. 27 июля, 2016
  • Результаты археологических раскопок на памятнике Обишир 5 в 2015 году (со-автор) // Проблемы археологии, этнографии и антропологии Сибири и сопредельных территорий. Новосибирск, 2016. – Том. XXI. – С. 174-178, http://kghistory.akipress.org/unews/un_post:7896 
  • Ecology and subsistence at the Mesolithic and Bronze Age site of Aigyrzhal-2, Naryn Valley, Kyrgyzstan (Co-Author) // Quaternary International xxx (2015). pp. 1-15. Web link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618215006655 (in English), 2015
  • Intro to Archaeology
  • Archaeology of Central Asia
  • Ancient Turkic Inscriptions
  • History of Kyrgyzstan
  • Human Evolution
  • Races, Human Diversity, and Biology

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