Aydogdy Kurbanov


Aydogdy Kurbanov is a Turkmen archaeologist and historian whose main area of research is prehistoric and late antiquity of Central Asia. He has been the head of the Department of Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography at the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan.

Education

Kurbanov completed a Ph.D. at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. He had also been a "Gerda Henkel visiting research fellow" at the German Archaeological Institute.
He speaks the English, French, Russian, Turkish, Turkmen, and German languages.

Academic career and research

Kurbanov had been a postdoctoral researcher in history at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan, with "The Eastern frontiers of the Sasanian Empire: Case Study in Southern Turkmenistan" as his research project, and had also served as the head of the institute's Department of Archaeology. He has also worked at the Eurasian department of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin.
With financial grants from National Geographic, he executed two research projects in Turkmenistan, namely "Defining the eastern frontiers of the Sasanian empire. Survey in the ancient Abiverd and Merv regions. " and "Exploring the Neolithic to Chalcolithic transition in Central Asia. Excavations in Dashly–depe. ".
From June 1 to July 2018, he was a guest researcher for the Directeurs d’Études Associés programme, which is the "oldest international mobility programme" at the :fr:Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'homme|Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme , that was started in 1975 by the joint efforts of the French Secretary of State for Universities, Department for Higher Education and Research, and Fernand Braudel.
He has also excavated in Turkmenistan.

Works

Books

Some of the books co–authored by Kurbanov are as follows:

Research papers

Some of the research papers authored by Kurbanov are as follows: