Meeting with historian and ethnographer Nodyr Kuziyev: On 11 September, we met with Nodyr Kuziyev, historian and ethnographer of Bukhara University. The meeting took place within the framework of the project on creating a database and interactive platform of Central Asian petroglyphs. Kuziyev emphasized the importance of ethnographic interpretation of petroglyphs, noting that questions such as “Why was this particular animal depicted?” or “Why in this form?” are rarely studied, yet they are crucial for understanding the meaning of ancient images and their relation to the worldview of that time.…
