Publications

2024
"The So-Called “Fravašis” and the “Heaven and Hell” Paintings, and the Cult of Nana in Panjikent". Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies [Internet]. 2024;62 (2) :246–262. Publisher's Version
Peters C. “Archaeological and Molecular Evidence for Ancient Chickens in Central Asia”. Nature Communications. 2024;15 (2697).
Mir-Makhamad B. “Agriculture Along the Upper Part of the Middle Zarafshan River During the First Millennium AD: A Multi-Site Archaeobotanical Analysis”. PLoS ONE. 2024;19 (3).
“The ‘Eternal Fire’, Achaemenid Zoroastrianism and the Origin of the Fire Temples”. In: Barnea, G. and Kratz, R. G. (eds.), Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire. Professor Shaul Shaked in Memoriam. Berlin: De Gruyter ; 2024. pp. 379-390. shenkar_firetemples.pdf
2023
“Empires Without Historiography: History, Epos and Memory in Ancient Iran” (in Hebrew). Historia: Journal of the Historical Society of Israel. 2023;50 :95-111. shenkar_iranian_historiography_hebrew.pdf
Biran M, Tabaldiev K, Akmatov K, Kolchenko V. “The Kök-Tash Underground Mausoleum in North-Eastern Kyrgyzstan: The First-Ever Identified Qara Khitai Elite Tomb?”. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 2023;33 (3) :713-745. biran_et_al_kok_tash.pdf
“New Discoveries in Central Asia and the Origin of the Fire Temples” (in Russian). In: in Udaydullo, N.K. (ed.), Takht-i Sangin as an Example of the Synthesis of the Civilizations of East and West. Dushanbe: Tajik Academy of Sciences (in Russian) ; 2023. pp. 183-199. shenkar_origin_of_the_fire_temples.pdf
Kurbanov S, Pulotov A, Aminov F. “Archaeological Excavations of Sanjar-Shah in 2021” (in Russian). Arkheologicheskie raboty v Tadzhikistane. 2023;44 :135–152. sanjar2021.pdf
Kurbanov S, Pulotov A, Aminov F. “Archaeological Excavations of Sanjar-Shah in 2020” (in Russian). Arkheologicheskie raboty v Tadzhikistane. 2023;44 :50–64. sanjar2020.pdf
Kurbanov S, Pulotov A, Aminov F. “Archaeological Excavations of Sanjar-Shah in 2019” (in Russian). Arkheologicheskie raboty v Tadzhikistane. 2023;43 :188–209. sanjar2019.pdf
Kurbanov S, Pulotov A, Aminov F. “Archaeological Excavations of Sanjar-Shah in 2018” (in Russian). Arkheologicheskie raboty v Tadzhikistane. 2023;43 :138–187. sanjar2018.pdf
2022
Kurbanov S, Pulotov A, Aminov F. “Eastern Zaravshan Valley in the Early Islamic Period (8th-9th centuries): New Evidence from Sanjar-Shah Excavations (2016-2019)”. In: in Baumer Ch. and Novak, M. (eds.), Cultures in Contact Central Asia as Focus of Trade, Cultural Exchange and Knowledge Transmission. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag ; 2022. pp. 327-351. shenkar_kurbanov_pulotov_aminov_sanjar-shah.pdf
Kurbanov S, Pulotov A, Aminov F. “Archaeological Excavations of Sanjar-Shah in 2017” (in Russian). Arkheologicheskie raboty v Tadzhikistane. 2022;42 :163-189. sanjar2017.pdf
Kurbanov S, Pulotov A, Aminov F. “Archaeological Excavations of Sanjar-Shah in 2016” (in Russian). Arkheologicheskie raboty v Tadzhikistane. 2022;42 :163-189. sanjar2016.pdf
“The Arab Conquest and the Collapse of the Sogdian Civilization”. In: in Tor, D. and Inaba, M. (eds.), The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia in the First Millennium CE: From the Pre-Islamic to the Islamic Era. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press ; 2022. pp. 95-125. shenkar_the_arab_conquest_and_the_collapse.pdf
2020
“The Languages of Central Asian Archaeology”. Bulletin of the International Institute for Central Asian Studies. 2020;29 :116-118. shenkar_the_languages_of_central_asian_archaeology.pdf
The Origin of the Sogdian Civic Communities (nāf). Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 2020;63 (3) :357-388.
2019
Kurbanov S. Sanjar-Shah: A Sogdian Town in the Zeravshan Valley: Some Preliminary Results of the Recent Archaeological Investigations. In: Urban Cultures of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Karakhanids. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag ; 2019. pp. 307-322.
Religious Imagery and Image-Making in Pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia. In: The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World. London: Gingko Library ; 2019. pp. 124-142. shenkar_religious_imagery_and_image-making.pdf
The Chorasmian Gad: On the ‘Colossal’ Figure from Akchakhan-kala. In: Inner and Central Asian Art and Archaeology. Vol. 2. Turnhout: Brepols ; 2019. pp. 9-31.

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