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THE HISTORY AND MAIN PROBLEMS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL 
INVESTIGATIONS OF CENTRAL ASIA OF THE “ACHAEMENID” TIME 
(by the Example of the Southern Territories of Modern Uzbekistan)
V. V. Mokroborodov
The article deals with the fi rst stages of archaeological investigations in the south of Central 
Asia of the “Achaemenid” epoch (the 6th -4th centuries BC) in the Pre-revolutionary, Soviet 
and post soviet periods. It treats some problems connected with formation of the systems of 
periodization, describes in details the history of discovery and investigation of the archaeological 
sites of the mid 1st millennium BC in the south of modern Uzbekistan and gives information on 
similar works in adjacent territories
Key words: archaeological investigations, Uzbekistan, Central Asia, “Achaemenid” epoch