The International conference “The Bronze Age and Iron Age and Tangible and Intangible Culture of the Turkmen People” started its work in the Turkmen capital.
Scientists from 30 countries of the world had arrived in Ashgabat to participate the conference organized by the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan. These included archaeologists, ethnographers, historians, orientalists, linguists, anthropologists from the United States the United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Italy, France, Hungary, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, India, China, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and other countries. Among them were world-renowned scientists, including those who had been conducting research in our country for many years.
In his welcome address to conference participant President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov expressed belief that this forum would significantly contribute to identifying the common goals of international scientific cooperation, substantiating new scientific views, devising modern approaches to restoration, protection and study of historical and cultural monuments.
The Turkmen leader noted that Turkmenistan which had played a crucial role in historical interaction between different cultures, the processes of development of scientific thought was gaining reputation worldwide as being a country uniting and connecting peoples of the planet. The Turkmen land is the cradle of earliest civilizations which made a profound contribution to world culture is of particular interest to many well-known scientists and historians.
In their reports presented at the plenary meeting foreign guests from China, the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan and Tajikistan raised the important issues related to cooperation in the study of the cultural heritage Turkmen people, archaeology and historical science. The reports presented the research results and scientific works interpreting various materials and artefacts found during the excavations carried out in the territory of unique monuments such as Margiana, Gonur depe, Ulug-depe, Akdepe and the others.
The work of the international forum was continued in the sections which were held in the conference halls of the Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography and the Institute of History in the afternoon. Scientists delivered a number of interesting reports and presentations on the issues of their research. These included the study of monuments and artefacts dating back to the Bronze Age and Iron Age found in Turkmenistan in the context of the cultural heritage of Eurasia and the entire world, development of interregional cultural and economic relations between the ancestors of the Turkmen people and other nations in this historical period. The sections on the issues of Turkmenistan's cooperation with different countries of the world in the sphere of science and culture in the epoch of new Revival took place at the Turkmen State Institute of Culture. Turkmen specialists acquainted their foreign counterparts with the multifaceted research activity carried out in our country and latest information on the study of the Bronze Age and Iron Age by giving the examples of unique archaeological monuments in Turkmenistan.
It was noted during the conference sections that cultural and scientific contacts were an essential component the policy of any state and represented it in the world arena. In this context Turkmenistan is an illustrative example of the state where important and interesting projects of humanitarian cooperation are initiated at the national level and facilitate constructive and versatile partnership based on the common spiritual values. The progress is a result of interaction of cultures and collaboration in various fields of science. In this regard the historical heritage which as if root system of world culture is of particular importance.
The wide geographical coverage of conference participants representing neighbouring and remote countries allowed conducting an ‘interactive’ panoramic review of the issues under discussion, presenting different points of view and devising the general conception of further development of the dialogue in the spheres of science and culture and developing science-based approaches to actualization and popularization of historical knowledge.
The large scale of the conference conditioned the versatile character of discussions which brought together specialists and experts in such disciplines as history, culturology, archaeology, anthropology, ethnography, philosophy, social linguistics and art history.
Conference participants visited the Nisa State Historical and Cultural Reserve, the Main National Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Ashgabat and walked along the Path of Health at the foothills of the Kopetdag Mountains.
A variety of national and historical contexts of the development of tangible and intangible culture of the Bronze Age and Iron Age, the local and global development factors and the role of interaction and intercommunication between different peoples in by-gone epoch and in modern science were discussed on the second day of the conference.
Scientists from 30 countries of the world had arrived in Ashgabat to participate the conference organized by the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan. These included archaeologists, ethnographers, historians, orientalists, linguists, anthropologists from the United States the United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Italy, France, Hungary, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, India, China, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and other countries. Among them were world-renowned scientists, including those who had been conducting research in our country for many years.
In his welcome address to conference participant President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov expressed belief that this forum would significantly contribute to identifying the common goals of international scientific cooperation, substantiating new scientific views, devising modern approaches to restoration, protection and study of historical and cultural monuments.
The Turkmen leader noted that Turkmenistan which had played a crucial role in historical interaction between different cultures, the processes of development of scientific thought was gaining reputation worldwide as being a country uniting and connecting peoples of the planet. The Turkmen land is the cradle of earliest civilizations which made a profound contribution to world culture is of particular interest to many well-known scientists and historians.
In their reports presented at the plenary meeting foreign guests from China, the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan and Tajikistan raised the important issues related to cooperation in the study of the cultural heritage Turkmen people, archaeology and historical science. The reports presented the research results and scientific works interpreting various materials and artefacts found during the excavations carried out in the territory of unique monuments such as Margiana, Gonur depe, Ulug-depe, Akdepe and the others.
The work of the international forum was continued in the sections which were held in the conference halls of the Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography and the Institute of History in the afternoon. Scientists delivered a number of interesting reports and presentations on the issues of their research. These included the study of monuments and artefacts dating back to the Bronze Age and Iron Age found in Turkmenistan in the context of the cultural heritage of Eurasia and the entire world, development of interregional cultural and economic relations between the ancestors of the Turkmen people and other nations in this historical period. The sections on the issues of Turkmenistan's cooperation with different countries of the world in the sphere of science and culture in the epoch of new Revival took place at the Turkmen State Institute of Culture. Turkmen specialists acquainted their foreign counterparts with the multifaceted research activity carried out in our country and latest information on the study of the Bronze Age and Iron Age by giving the examples of unique archaeological monuments in Turkmenistan.
It was noted during the conference sections that cultural and scientific contacts were an essential component the policy of any state and represented it in the world arena. In this context Turkmenistan is an illustrative example of the state where important and interesting projects of humanitarian cooperation are initiated at the national level and facilitate constructive and versatile partnership based on the common spiritual values. The progress is a result of interaction of cultures and collaboration in various fields of science. In this regard the historical heritage which as if root system of world culture is of particular importance.
The wide geographical coverage of conference participants representing neighbouring and remote countries allowed conducting an ‘interactive’ panoramic review of the issues under discussion, presenting different points of view and devising the general conception of further development of the dialogue in the spheres of science and culture and developing science-based approaches to actualization and popularization of historical knowledge.
The large scale of the conference conditioned the versatile character of discussions which brought together specialists and experts in such disciplines as history, culturology, archaeology, anthropology, ethnography, philosophy, social linguistics and art history.
Conference participants visited the Nisa State Historical and Cultural Reserve, the Main National Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Ashgabat and walked along the Path of Health at the foothills of the Kopetdag Mountains.
A variety of national and historical contexts of the development of tangible and intangible culture of the Bronze Age and Iron Age, the local and global development factors and the role of interaction and intercommunication between different peoples in by-gone epoch and in modern science were discussed on the second day of the conference.
