La gestione dell'acqua come oggetto d'indagine per la ricostruzione delle dinamiche insediamentali e delle trasformazioni del territorio. Il caso di Samarcanda nella Media Valle dello Zeravshan (Uzbekistan)

The Project dealt with the development of settlement pattern and the irrigation system in Samarkand oasis. The main topic of the research is the dating of the Dargom canal, the main water supply of Samarkand in the ancient times as well as today. The Project provided a new hypothesis on the chronology of Dargom, dated back to the Early centuires of the Current Era, in relation with the different phases of the settlement patterns. The researches were carried out with several international teams and schoalrs belonging to several disciplines.