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The aim of the excavations at Tilla Bulak is the analysis
of a Late Bronze Age settlement under functional aspects. patterns of use of architectural units is insufficient. The excavation of a representative part of one settlement should help in clarifying many of our questions. Tilla Bulak is among the smaller settlements of the Middle Asian Late Bronze Age, giving us the possibility to approach this question with a reasonable amount of expenditure. At the same time, we will try to reconstruct the local Late Bronze Age settlement system through a survey within the plain of Pashkurt. Whereas the Surkhandarya plain, the Sapalli Culture’s core region, underwent severe remodeling of the landscape through intensive cotton cultivation during the last decades, the Pashkhurt landscape has remained fairly unaltered through human agency, offering us good chances for obtaining a coherent picture. | ||||