Archaeological sites

Aq Kupruk is also an archaeological

Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...

 site consists of four sites, numbered I, II, III and IV.

• Aq Kupruk I, or Ghar-i Asb, is a rock shelter of the Kushan-Sasanian period, containing some fregmentary Buddhist frescos and some simple architecture.
• Aq Kupruk II, or Ghār-i Mār, is another rock shelter, probably the most productive of the three sites, producing material rom all periods except the Kushan-Sasanian. About 10% of the occupation area was excavated.
• Aq Kupruk III, is an open air site on the river terrace consisting of two periods, both in the Epi-Palaeolithic.
• Aq Kupruk IV, was excavated briefly by McBurney nearer to the village, producing a "Middle Mousterian
  Mousterian
  Mousterian is a name given by archaeologists to a style of predominantly flint tools associated primarily with Homo neanderthalensis and dating to the Middle Paleolithic, the middle part of the Old Stone Age.-Naming:...
  
  " type of industry differing to that found by Dupree
  Louis Dupree (professor)
  Professor Louis Duprée was an American archaeologist, anthropologist, and scholar of Afghan culture and history. He was the husband of Nancy Hatch Duprée, who is the Board Director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University in Afghanistan and author of five books about Afghanistan...
  
  .

Finds included an extensive and sophisticated stone tool industry, very early stone sculpture, domisticated sheep and goat remains, fragments of beaten copper from the ceramic

Ceramic

A ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetallic solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling. Ceramic materials may have a crystalline or partly crystalline structure, or may be amorphous...

  Neolithic

Neolithic

The Neolithic Age, Era, or Period, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 BC in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world. It is traditionally considered as the last part of the Stone Age...

, many projectile points, terracotta and simple jewellery.

Collections:

1. AMNH
   American Museum of Natural History
   The American Museum of Natural History , located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States, is one of the largest and most celebrated museums in the world...
   
    - excavated material.
2. BIAS - flint and stone.
3. Kabul Museum
   Kabul Museum
   The National Museum of Afghanistan , also known as the Afghan National Museum or the Kabul Museum, is a two-story building located 9 km southwest of the center of Kabul City in Afghanistan. It was built in 1922 during the reign of King Amanullah Khan...
   
    - excavated material, stone head.

Field-work:

1. 1959 Dupree, American Universities Field Staff - survey.
2. 1960 Hayashi & Sahara, Kyoto University
   Kyoto University
   , or is a national university located in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest Japanese university, and formerly one of Japan's Imperial Universities.- History :...
   
    - survey.
3. 1962 & 65 Dupree, AMNH - excavations.
4. 1971 McBurney, Cambridge University - sondage.

External links

• Satellite map at Maplandia.com

Further reading

• Hayashi and Sahara in Mizuno. S. (ed) 1962. Haibāk and Kashmir-Smast. Kyoto: 54-5, 105.
• Dupree, L.
  Louis Dupree (professor)
  Professor Louis Duprée was an American archaeologist, anthropologist, and scholar of Afghan culture and history. He was the husband of Nancy Hatch Duprée, who is the Board Director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University in Afghanistan and author of five books about Afghanistan...
  
  et al. 1972. Prehistoric Research in Afghanistan (1959-1966) (4.12). Philadelphia.
• McBurney, C.B.M. 1972. 'Report of an archaeological survey in northern Afghanistan'. July-August 1971'. Afghanistan 25, 2: 22-32.
• Davis in Allchin, R. and Hammond, N. (eds) 1978. The Archaeology of Afghanistan. London: 55-63.
• Shaffer in Allchin, R. and Hammond, N. (eds) 1978. The Archaeology of Afghanistan. London: 74-81, 89-90.
• Gupta, S.P. 1979. Archaeology of Soviet Central Asia and the Indian Borderlands (2 vol). New Delhi.
• Derevyenko and Liu Zun-E in Dani, A.H. and Masson, V.M. (eds) 1992. History of Civilizations of Central Asia (volume 1): The dawn of civilization - earliest times to 700 B.C. Paris.
• Sarianidi in Dani, A.H. and Masson, V.M. (eds) 1992. History of Civilizations of Central Asia (volume 1): The dawn of civilization - earliest times to 700 B.C. Paris.