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 红唇直播. 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).听
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.听
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.听
- 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,.
- 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 鈥 an interdisciplinary study at the Late Pleistocene 鈥 Late Holocene Obishir-I site, Kyrgyzstan. Co-Author // Geoarchaeology. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21892
- Palaeoenvironmental conditions of the Palaeolithic鈥揘eolithic transition in the Fergana Valley (Central Asia) 鈥 New data inferred from fossil mollus褋s in Obishir-V rock shelter (Kyrgyzstan). Co-Author // Quaternary International. Volumes 605鈥606, 20 December 2021, Pages 287-299.
- Evidence for Early Dispersal of Domestic Sheep into Central Asia: genetic, archaeozoological, and biomolecular insights from Obishir V. Co-Author // Nature Human Behavior (2021).
- 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. 小o-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. 小.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.
- 袪械蟹褍谢褜褌邪褌褘 邪褉褏械芯谢芯谐懈褔械褋泻芯泄 褉邪蟹胁械写泻懈 胁 袗谢邪泄褋泻芯泄 写芯谢懈薪械 胁 2017 谐芯写褍. 小芯-邪胁褌芯褉. // 袩褉芯斜谢械屑褘 邪褉褏械芯谢芯谐懈懈, 褝褌薪芯谐褉邪褎懈懈, 邪薪褌褉芯锌芯谢芯谐懈懈 小懈斜懈褉懈 懈 褋芯锌褉械写械谢褜薪褘褏 褌械褉褉懈褌芯褉懈泄. 2017. 袧芯胁芯褋懈斜懈褉褋泻. - 小. 250-254, 2017
- 袚械芯褝谢械泻褌懈褉懈褔械褋泻芯械 褋褌褉芯械薪懈械 邪褉褏械芯谢芯谐懈褔械褋泻芯谐芯 锌邪屑褟褌薪懈泻邪 袨斜懈褕懈褉-5 (袣褘褉谐褘蟹褋褌邪薪) 锌芯 写邪薪薪褘屑 褝谢械泻褌褉芯褌芯屑芯谐褉邪褎懈懈 // 孝械芯褉懈褟 懈 锌褉邪泻褌懈泻邪 邪褉褏械芯谢芯谐懈褔械褋泻懈褏 懈褋褋谢械写芯胁邪薪懈泄. No4 (20), 2017. 袘邪褉薪邪褍谢. - 小. 150-157, 2017
- 袗谢邪泄褋泻邪褟 褋褌芯褟薪泻邪 鈥 锌械褉胁芯械 褉邪褋褋械谢械薪懈械 褔械谢芯胁械泻邪 胁 胁褘褋芯泻芯谐芯褉褜褟褏 蟹邪锌邪写薪芯泄 褔邪褋褌懈 笑械薪褌褉邪谢褜薪芯泄 袗蟹懈懈. 小芯-邪胁褌芯褉 // 袩褉芯斜谢械屑褘 邪褉褏械芯谢芯谐懈懈, 褝褌薪芯谐褉邪褎懈懈, 邪薪褌褉芯锌芯谢芯谐懈懈 小懈斜懈褉懈 懈 褋芯锌褉械写械谢褜薪褘褏 褌械褉褉懈褌芯褉懈泄. 2017. 袧芯胁芯褋懈斜懈褉褋泻. 袪芯褋褋懈褟, 2017
- New investigations of the Epipaleolithic in western Central Asia: Obishir-5. Co-author // Antiquity. 91 360, e3 (2017): 1鈥7, 2017
- 袪械蟹褍谢褜褌邪褌褘 邪褉褏械芯谢芯谐懈褔械褋泻懈褏 褉邪褋泻芯锌芯泻 薪邪 锌邪屑褟褌薪懈泻械 袨斜懈褕懈褉 5 胁 2016 谐芯写褍 (褋芯-邪胁褌芯褉) //袩褉芯斜谢械屑褘 邪褉褏械芯谢芯谐懈懈, 褝褌薪芯谐褉邪褎懈懈 懈 邪薪褌褉芯锌芯谢芯谐懈懈 小懈斜懈褉懈 懈 褋芯锌褉械写械谢褜薪褘褏 褌械褉褉懈褌芯褉懈泄. 袧芯胁芯褋懈斜懈褉褋泻, 2016. 鈥 孝芯屑. XXII. 鈥 小. 194-198, 2016
- 袙芯褋褋褌邪薪懈械 1916 胁 袣褘褉谐褘蟹褋褌邪薪械: 屑薪械薪懈械 褝泻褋锌械褉褌芯胁 懈 邪泻褌懈胁懈褋褌芯胁 (褋芯-邪胁褌芯褉). 袗泻懈锌褉械褋褋. 袠褋褌芯褉懈褟 泻褘褉谐褘蟹芯胁 懈 袣褘褉谐褘蟹褋褌邪薪邪. 27 懈褞谢褟, 2016
- 袪械蟹褍谢褜褌邪褌褘 邪褉褏械芯谢芯谐懈褔械褋泻懈褏 褉邪褋泻芯锌芯泻 薪邪 锌邪屑褟褌薪懈泻械 袨斜懈褕懈褉 5 胁 2015 谐芯写褍 (褋芯-邪胁褌芯褉) // 袩褉芯斜谢械屑褘 邪褉褏械芯谢芯谐懈懈, 褝褌薪芯谐褉邪褎懈懈 懈 邪薪褌褉芯锌芯谢芯谐懈懈 小懈斜懈褉懈 懈 褋芯锌褉械写械谢褜薪褘褏 褌械褉褉懈褌芯褉懈泄. 袧芯胁芯褋懈斜懈褉褋泻, 2016. 鈥 孝芯屑. XXI. 鈥 小. 174-178, 听
- 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: (in English), 2015
- Intro to Archaeology
- Archaeology of Central Asia
- Ancient Turkic Inscriptions
- History of Kyrgyzstan
- Human Evolution
- Races, Human Diversity, and Biology