ON THE REPORTING SESSION OF A.KH. MARGULAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY

Abstract

For the first time after a long break A.Kh. Margulan Institute of Archaeology in the beginning of April 2019 held a reporting session. Reports of managers of field studies carried out in the field season 2018 were heard at the session. The spectrum of works carried out covers a wide chronological framework – from the Paleolithic to the New Age. The studies were carried out within the framework of implementing the tasks of the program-targeted and grant financing of the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The staff of the expeditions of A.Kh. Margulan Institute of Archaeology carried out works on monuments located in the west, north-west, centre, south, south-east of Kazakhstan. The field studies included excavations and exploration-search activities. As a result of these works, new data were obtained on the Stone and Bronze ages, the era of Early iron, the Middle Ages and the New Age. The expeditions of A.Kh. Margulan Institute of Archaeology were attended by experts from Nur-Sultan, Aktobe, Almaty, Jezkazgan, Karagandy, Kostanay, Shymkent, etc.
In the resolution adopted at the end of the session, the decision about the need to return the tradition of the annual reporting sessions to Almaty to A.Kh. Margulan Institute of Archaeology was sounded as the main point.