Residents' communities feature to make innovative tourism development strategies.
Residents play an indispensable role in developing policies and sustainable tourism …

Invented in the 19th century as an allegory for large-scale human interaction across Eurasia,
the idea of “the Silk Road” continues to shape archaeological investigations of trade, travel …

The study of the cultural materials associated with the Neanderthal physical remains from
the sites in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Siberian Altai and adjacent areas documents …

Central Asia is positioned at a crossroads linking several zones important to hominin
dispersal during the Middle Pleistocene. However, the scarcity of stratified and dated …

Abstract In central Eurasian archaeology, Soviet-and post-Soviet investigations and more
recent biologically-focused analyses are often subtly presented as two extremes of …

An 'oasis' signifies a refugium of safety, recovery, relaxation, fertility, and productivity in an
inhospitable desert, a sweet spot in a barren landscape where life-giving water spills forth …

This article examines the key cultural trends and events in the evolution of the Upper
Paleolithic in the foothills of the Northern Tien Shan (Zailisky Alatau, Kazakhstan). It outlines …

The paper presents the results of multidisciplinary studies on the open-air loess site Katta
Sai 2 located in the western piedmonts of Tian Shan in Uzbekistan. Two archaeological …

The area of the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor (IAMC) follows the foothills and piedmont
zones around the northern limits of Asia's interior mountains, connecting two important areas …

Stratified, well preserved sites preserving unambiguous geological and archeological data
from which human-environmental interactions can be reconstructed, are rare. More …