INFORMATION LETTER
Dear Colleagues,
From April 24 to 26, 2024, the A. Kh. Margulan Institute of Archaeology will host the International Scientific Conference for students and young scientists “Akhinzhanov Readings – 2024”.
The conference will cover the following thematic areas:
1. History of archaeological research in Kazakhstan. The role of personality in science;
2. Archaeology of the Stone Age and Paleometallic Period;
3. Kazakhstan in the Early Iron Age: cultural contacts;
4. Archaeology of the medieval period: dialogue of civilizations;
5. Interdisciplinary research in archaeology;
6. Issues of ethnoarchaeology and ethnography;
7. Current problems of preservation and utilization of historical and cultural heritage.
Working languages of the conference: Kazakh, Russian, and English.
The conference is planned to be conducted in-person with the option for remote participation through Zoom platform.
Participants' expenses are covered by the sending party.
Applications for participation and presentation texts for publication are accepted until February 28, 2024. Materials received after this date will be rejected.
A compilation of conference materials is planned to be published by the beginning of the conference.
Applications and abstracts should be submitted to: Akhinzhanov_conf@archeo.kz
The application file and articles must be named with the last name and initials of the first author (Musaeva RS_application.doc; Musaeva RS_article).
Application Form:
1. Full Name (Last name, First name);
2. Presentation Topic;
3. University or Research Institution (Full name), Faculty, Course;
4. Supervisor's Full Name, Academic Title, and Position;
5. Section Name, Presentation Title;
6. Presentation Format (Online, Offline);
7. Contact Phone Numbers/WhatsApp and E-mail.
Author Guidelines
Articles must be original, and previously published material cannot be repeated.
Requirements for manuscript sections:
1. Margins 2 cm; Times New Roman font, size 12, line spacing 1.15. There should be no additional space before or after paragraphs.
The total manuscript length should not exceed 15,000 characters (including spaces), including tables, figure captions, and annotations. The bibliography is not included in this limit and is provided separately at the end of the article. The article should contain no more than 3 illustrations.
2. Last name and initials of the author(s) should by specified on the first page after the title of the paper.
3. Then, a detailed Abstract should be given (at least 150 words or 800 characters including spaces). The Abstract should include the following aspects of the paper contents: subject, topic, purpose of the work (specified if not fully disclosed in the title); methods of work (described if characterized by novelty or of interest from the viewpoint of the work); results of the work (major results, author's conclusions, original discoveries); conclusions can be accompanied by recommendations, assessments, suggestions, hypotheses described in the work. The following should be avoided in the Abstract: phrases duplicating the title of the work; descriptive generalizations, unnecessary introductory phrases (for instance, “the author of the paper is addressing...”), complex grammar structures; generally known provisions; information of a historiographic nature, if it does not constitute the main content of the work; the names of previously published works should not be given.
4. Keywords Up to 10 keywords should be given, facilitating the indexing of the paper in search engines. The keywords should reflect the main content of the paper and disclose the following aspects of the work: region, chronology, subject matter, special terminology.
5. Bibliographic references to literature and sources in the text are given in square brackets: the name of the author without initials (except for the works of namesakes) or a shorten name (if the publication does not have an author), the year of publication by comma; link to page, figure, etc. [Margulan 1948: 3; Akishev K.А. 1978; Akishev K.А., Akishev А.K. 1997: 35].
6. References to the figures are given in parentheses, the item position in the figure is indicated in italics: (рис. 1, 2; 2, 1). Attribution of figures and the source from which the illustration was obtained must be explicitly stated.
For example:
The lower course of the Syr Darya, Jeti-Asar Range ([Levina 1996: 31])
Fig. 2. Stone Age sites investigated by Yu.A. Motov: 1 – map of the studied sites; 2 – Kastek site; 3 – Karakastek site; 4 – location of Burgan; 5 – Maybulak site (photo by D.V. Ozheryelyev)
7. The list of literature is compiled in alphabetical order (surname and initials of the author, title of the work, place, publishing house, year of publication, pages) in the original language. For collections, it is necessary to specify the responsible editor(s); for conference materials – the city, date of the conference, responsible editor. At the end of the article, a list of accepted abbreviations should be provided.