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- WESTERN KAZAKHSTAN AS ONE OF THE CENTERS OF THE ULUS OF JOCHI IN THE XIII–XIV CENTURIES
Institute of Archaeology named after A.Kh. Margulan. Dostyk Ave., 44, Shevchenko Str. 28, Almaty, 050010, Republic of Kazakhstan, Arman A. Bisembaev, Associate Professor. Aktobe Regional University named after K. Zhubanov. Aliya Moldagulova Ave., 34, Aktobe, 030000, Republic of Kazakhstan, Gaziz A. Akhatov, Institute of Applied Archaeology Ltd. Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan, et al.
Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya, 2025
The article is devoted to the latest research of monuments of the Ulus of Jochi period in the territory of Western Kazakhstan. The study of monuments of the developed and late Middle Ages was carried out in three main directions – processing and analysis of available materials, obtained as a result of research on the territory of the region from the second half of the XIX century to the present time, conducting exploration activities to identify the most promising areas of the location of Golden Horde monuments and reconnaissance excavations. The survey of the Uil-Kobda local microdistrict was associated with the study of a large necropolis and settlement of Koptam, neighbourhood of the Abat Baytak cult mausoleum. Kyzyltam mausoleum, located on the Kargaly reservoir shore, was also a marker of the center of a large nomadic group in the Late Middle Ages. The stages of gradual adoption of Islam by the population are clearly visible on the monuments of the Ulus of Jochi, when the burial rites undergo "standardization", and the sets of inventory show the spread of a common fashion, the so-called "imperial" style. The forced migration policy of the Mongolian khans is visible on the burial monuments, and there are objects associated with the Southern Siberia population. - OGUZ OUTPOST ZHEZDY ON THE NORTHERN CLIFFS OF USTYURT: SOME RESULTS OF THE STUDY
, Gaziz A. Akhatov, Arman A. Bisembaev, , Alexey I. Khavansky, and
Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya, 2025
The article discusses the preliminary results of the study of an interesting monument - a small settlement of the Oguz of the Zhezdy period, located in the north of Ustyurt. The territory of the plateau is characterized by severe natural and geographical conditions. Three periods of human habitation in this place have been identified. The first dates back to the Bronze Age, when there was a settlement synchronous with Toksanbai. The second period, the Hunno-Sarmatian time, is marked by burial complexes and pottery finds. The settlement reached its maximum prosperity during the period of the Oghuz Yabgu State, the political center of which in the IX–XI centuries was located south of the Aral Sea in Zhankent. This is evidenced by a cultural layer filled with ceramics from the IX–XI centuries AD. At the site, a part of the wall and three dwellings with a sufa, a heated floor and the remains of a tandoor were investigated. The central dwelling with its complex architecture, pointed entrance and supports holding up the domed ceiling has been fully studied. In the southern part of the fortress, a dwelling was cleaned, which had a sufu-kan, next to the fireplace near the western wall, a long corridor-entrance from the north and another fireplace near the eastern wall. The cultural layer of the settlement contained a large amount of ceramics and animal bones, among which saiga bones predominated. On Ustyurt, on the northern borders, small mobile military garrisons were kept to protect caravan routes and borders. The study of the Zhezdy fortress allows us to trace the foundation and functioning of state formations of the early and developed Middle Ages of Western Kazakhstan. - The study of monuments of the Ulus Jochi era on the territory of Aktobe region
Арман Ауганович Бисембаев, Алексей Хаванский, Рамазан Жанузак, Газиз Ахатов, Даниял Майтеков
Kazakhstan Archeology, 2022
Статья посвящена последним исследованиям памятников эпохи Улуса Джучи на территории Актюбинской области. Изучение памятников развитого и позднего средневековья проводилось по трем основным направлениям – обработка и анализ имеющихся материалов, полученных в результате исследований по территории области со 2-й пол. XIX в. по нынешнее время; проведение разведочных мероприятий по выявлению наиболее перспективных районов расположения золотоордынских памятников и рекогносцировочные раскопки. Обследование по Уило-Кобдинскому локальному микрорайону было связано с исследованием крупного некрополя и поселения Коптам, окрестностей культового мавзолея Абат Байтак. Расположенный на берегу Каргалинского вдхр. мавзолей Кызылтам так же в позднем средневековье был маркером центра крупной кочевой группы. На памятниках Улуса Джучи отчетливо прослеживаются этапы постепенной исламизации населения, когда погребальный обряд проходит «стандартизацию», а в комплектах инвентаря наблюдается распространение общей моды, т. н. «имперского» стиля. По погребальным памятникам прослеживается принудительная переселенческая политика монгольских ханов, присутствуют объекты, связанные с южносибирским населением. - CHRONOLOGY OF THE GOLDEN HORDE IN KAZAKHSTAN: 14C DATING OF JOCHI KHAN MAUSOLEUM
Irina P Panyushkina, Emma R Usmanova, Kanat Z Uskenbay, Mukhtar B Kozha, Dzhambul A Dzhumabekov, Gaziz A Akhatov, A J Timothy Jull
Radiocarbon, 2022
We present accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon (AMS 14C) dating results of the “Jochi Khan Mausoleum”—the proposed burial place of the oldest son of Gengghis Khan in Ulytau, Kazakhstan. The Ulytau region retains 34 burial complexes of Islamic tradition associated with the Golden Horde history (1221–1438 CE). However, there is no calendar-dated chronology of the medieval mausoleums in this region, which complicates their historical interpretation. Three 14C dates from construction timbers and burial of the Jochi Khan mausoleum are calibrated to 1220–1400 CE interval (95.4% range) with the mid-point at 1245 CE for the coffin, 1330 CE for the entry door, and 1350 CE for a masonry wall. The 14C-calibration suggests that the mausoleum was built about 100 years after the death of Jochi (1225 CE) and renovated at least once in the middle of the 14th century. Apparently, the wood for the coffin was harvested sometime in the interval 1220–1270 CE. The calendar ages of the coffin and the mausoleum are ca. 75 years apart. It is possible that the old coffin was placed into a newly constructed mausoleum. However, there is no historical evidence confirming this important re-burial of Jochi. The dating results challenge the attribution of the mausoleum to Jochi Khan. This study demonstrates that the age of the Islamic mausoleums in Ulytau can be successfully dated with 14C. While requiring further data assembly, this first 14C dataset can form the basis of the calendar chronology of the Golden Horde in Kazakhstan. Historical attribution of the mausoleums must be collaborated with the calendar chronology. - JUCHI KHAN MAUSOLEUM: REALITIES, LEGENDS AND RITUALS
Эмма Радиковна Усманова, Канат Зулкарышулы Ускенбай, Мухтар Бакадырулы Кожа, Ирина Петровна Панюшкина, Лидия Николаева Соловьева, Газиз Аманжолович Ахатов
Arkheologiia Evraziiskikh Stepei, 2022
По народным поверьям Джучи-хан, старший сын Чингиз-хана, похоронен в мавзолее (Казахстан, Улытау). Мавзолей построен в стиле исламской архитектуры XIV в. В письменных источниках и легендах рассказывается о смерти Джучи на охоте на куланов. А.Х. Маргулан, исследовавший погребения мавзолея, на основании легенд и артефактов, предположил в нем захоронение Джучи-хана. Радиокарбонное датирование деревянных деталей из мавзолея определило этапы его строительства и дату позднего изготовления погребального ящика по сравнению с датой смерти Джучи в 1225 году. Накопление новых данных по архитектуре и обрядности позволило высказать версию о том, что погребение Джучи-хана отсутствует в мусульманском мавзолее. Сочетание исламских и доисламских черт в обрядности мавзолея могут свидетельствовать о погребении представителя рода Джучи, принявшего ислам. Мавзолей был назван в честь Джучи и до сих пор является местом поклонения его памяти. - Ancient genomic time transect from the Central Asian Steppe unravels the history of the Scythians
Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone, Elmira Khussainova, Nurzhibek Kahbatkyzy, Lyazzat Musralina, Maria A. Spyrou, Raffaela A. Bianco, Rita Radzeviciute, Nuno Filipe Gomes Martins, Caecilia Freund, Olzhas Iksan, Alexander Garshin, Zhassulan Zhaniyazov, Bakhytzhan Bekmanov, Egor Kitov, Zainolla Samashev, Arman Beisenov, Natalia Berezina, Yakov Berezin, András Zsolt Bíró, Sándor Évinger, Arman Bissembaev, Gaziz Akhatov, Aslan Mamedov, Akhan Onggaruly, Dmitriy Voyakin, Aidos Chotbayev, Yeldos Kariyev, Alexandra Buzhilova, Leyla Djansugurova, Choongwon Jeong, Johannes Krause
Science Advances, 2021
Ancient genomic time-transect across the Central Asian Steppe sheds new light onto the origins and demise of the Scythians. - The effect of animal herding practices on the diversity of human stable isotope values in North Central Asia
Elina Ananyevskaya, Gaziz Akhatov, Valeriy Loman, Evgeniy Dmitriev, Antonina Ermolayeva, Valeriy Evdokimov, Andrius Garbaras, Alexander Goryachev, Alexey Kukushkin, Igor Kukushkin, Zholdasbek Kurmankulov, Andrei Logvin, Yana Lukpanova, Akan Onggar, Sergazy Sakenov, Justina Sapolaite, Irina Shevnina, Emma Usmanova, Zhanbolat Utubayev, Viktor Varfolomeev, Dmitryi Voyakin, Sergei Yarygin, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute
Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, 2020 - The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia
Vagheesh M. Narasimhan, Nick Patterson, Priya Moorjani, Nadin Rohland, Rebecca Bernardos, Swapan Mallick, Iosif Lazaridis, Nathan Nakatsuka, Iñigo Olalde, Mark Lipson, Alexander M. Kim, Luca M. Olivieri, Alfredo Coppa, Massimo Vidale, James Mallory, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Egor Kitov, Janet Monge, Nicole Adamski, Neel Alex, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Francesca Candilio, Kimberly Callan, Olivia Cheronet, Brendan J. Culleton, Matthew Ferry, Daniel Fernandes, Suzanne Freilich, Beatriz Gamarra, Daniel Gaudio, Mateja Hajdinjak, Éadaoin Harney, Thomas K. Harper, Denise Keating, Ann Marie Lawson, Matthew Mah, Kirsten Mandl, Megan Michel, Mario Novak, Jonas Oppenheimer, Niraj Rai, Kendra Sirak, Viviane Slon, Kristin Stewardson, Fatma Zalzala, Zhao Zhang, Gaziz Akhatov, Anatoly N. Bagashev, Alessandra Bagnera, Bauryzhan Baitanayev, Julio Bendezu-Sarmiento, Arman A. Bissembaev, Gian Luca Bonora, Temirlan T. Chargynov, Tatiana Chikisheva, Petr K. Dashkovskiy, Anatoly Derevianko, Miroslav Dobeš, Katerina Douka, Nadezhda Dubova, Meiram N. Duisengali, Dmitry Enshin, Andrey Epimakhov, Alexey V. Fribus, Dorian Fuller, Alexander Goryachev, Andrey Gromov, Sergey P. Grushin, Bryan Hanks, Margaret Judd, Erlan Kazizov, Aleksander Khokhlov, Aleksander P. Krygin, Elena Kupriyanova, Pavel Kuznetsov, Donata Luiselli, Farhod Maksudov, Aslan M. Mamedov, Talgat B. Mamirov, Christopher Meiklejohn, Deborah C. Merrett, Roberto Micheli, Oleg Mochalov, Samariddin Mustafokulov, Ayushi Nayak, Davide Pettener, Richard Potts, Dmitry Razhev, Marina Rykun, Stefania Sarno, Tatyana M. Savenkova, Kulyan Sikhymbaeva, Sergey M. Slepchenko, Oroz A. Soltobaev, Nadezhda Stepanova, Svetlana Svyatko, Kubatbek Tabaldiev, Maria Teschler-Nicola, Alexey A. Tishkin, Vitaly V. Tkachev, Sergey Vasilyev, Petr Velemínský, Dmitriy Voyakin, Antonina Yermolayeva, Muhammad Zahir, Valery S. Zubkov, Alisa Zubova, Vasant S. Shinde, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Matthias Meyer, David Anthony, Nicole Boivin, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Douglas J. Kennett, Michael Frachetti, Ron Pinhasi, David Reich
Science, 2019
Ancient human movements through Asia Ancient DNA has allowed us to begin tracing the history of human movements across the globe. Narasimhan et al. identify a complex pattern of human migrations and admixture events in South and Central Asia by performing genetic analysis of more than 500 people who lived over the past 8000 years (see the Perspective by Schaefer and Shapiro). They establish key phases in the population prehistory of Eurasia, including the spread of farming peoples from the Near East, with movements both westward and eastward. The people known as the Yamnaya in the Bronze Age also moved both westward and eastward from a focal area located north of the Black Sea. The overall patterns of genetic clines reflect similar and parallel patterns in South Asia and Europe. Science , this issue p. eaat7487 ; see also p. 981 - Elite burial monuments of Juchi ulus period studied in the aktobe region
, Arman A. Bissembaev, Gaziz A Akhatov, and
Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya, 2019
- , - A purse of the 14th century juchid coins from a warrior's burial on jailausay (Sarytau II) Cemetery
Stratum Plus, 2019 - WORKS OF THE RECENT YEARS ON MONUMENTS OF EARLY NOMADS OF THE ILEK MICROREGION (preliminary results)
Арман Ауганович Бисембаев, Алексей Иванович Хаванский, Газиз Аманжолович Ахатов, Мейрам Нурланович Дуйсенгали, Аслан Маликович Мамедов, Нурбол Т. Бидагулов, Асель Бейбутовна Уразова, Нурсултан Майлибаевич Баиров, Виктор Алексеевич Амелин
Kazakhstan Archeology, 2019 - Human settlements on the northern shores of Lake Aral and water level changes
N. G. O. Boroffka, H. Obernhänsli, G. A. Achatov, N. V. Aladin, K. M. Baipakov, A. Erzhanova, A. HöRnig, S. Krivonogov, D. A. Lobas, T. V. Savel’eva, B. Wünnemann
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2005 - A kettle from the foreshore of the Aral sea
Eurasia Antiqua, 2003 - Prospecting at the north Aral sea, Kazakhstan
Archaologische Mitteilungen Aus Iran Und Turan, 2003
