Preliminary report of the first season work of the International Pluridisciplinary Archaeological Expedition to Bactria 2007

Abstract

A prior long-term and complex evaluation of the already available data on the geophysical prospecting during the first season work carried out at 2006, at the archaeological site of Tchinguiz Tepe of Termez, took place to decide the strategy to follow during the campaign of 2007. This previous evaluation of the information, on one hand, leaded to the decision to increase the geophysical prospecting at Tchinguiz Tepe, on the other hand, to decide the exact location of areas where the archaeological interventions. would carry out. The main objective at the beginning of this new season was to crosscheck the reliability of the measurements and, at the same time, to establish the unknown up to the present archaeological and chronological sequence of Tchinguiz Tepe. Meanwhile, the geophysical prospecting also was extended to the outskirts of the city were the localisation of an unknown up to now Buddhist Monastery was possible.