Guest Lecture: “Tien Shan – Altai Region: Cultural Landscape and Interactions during the Early Iron Age”

The Department of Archaeology, Ethnology, and Museology of the Faculty of History at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University invites you to a guest lecture by Dr. Shai Hui Cho, Professor at the Northwest University and Leading Researcher at the Silk Road Research Center (People’s Republic of China).

Lecture topic:
“Tien Shan – Altai Region: Cultural Landscape and Interactions during the Early Iron Age”

Date: October 24, 2025
Time: 11:00
Venue: Al-Farabi KazNU, Faculty of History, Auditorium 4-1 (U. Kh. Shalekenov Museum of Ethnography)

The mountain regions of Tien Shan and Altai were important centers of exchange between the eastern and western steppe cultures. The structure of the cultures of the Tien Shan and Altai regions during the Early Iron Age is discussed, with special attention given to the cultural situation in the Xinjiang region during the 1st millennium BCE. Based on this, the formation of early nomadic states and the origins of the Pazyryk culture are examined.