INFORMATION LETTER

Dear colleagues!

We invite you to take part in the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Margulan Readings–2026”, which is scheduled to be held on 18–20 March 2026 in Almaty at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

Within the framework of this traditional conference, current issues in archaeological science and related disciplines – such as paleoanthropology, archaeogenetic, archaeometallurgy, archaeozoology, archaeobotany, digital archaeology and AI, GIS, conservation, restoration, and reconstruction – will be discussed.

A roundtable will also be held, where the amendments and additions introduced in 2025 to certain legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan concerning the protection of historical and cultural heritage sites will be presented.

The main objective of the conference is to introduce new results of archaeological research into scholarly circulation and to promote the implementation of advanced methodologies.

Conference Focus Areas:
•    History of Archaeological Science in Kazakhstan: Personalities  
•    Archaeology of the Stone Age and Paleometal Era  
•    Archaeology of the Early Iron Age  
•    Medieval Archaeology  
•    Archaeology of the Modern Period  
•    Ethnoarchaeology and Paleoethnography  
•    Interdisciplinary Research in Archaeology  
•    Geomatics and Digital Archaeology. Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology;
•    Issues of Conservation, Restoration, and Reconstruction  
•    Current Challenges in the Preservation, Protection, and Utilization of Archaeological Heritage

Working languages of the conference: Kazakh, Russian, English.

Based on the results of the conference, two publications are planned:  
1.    Conference Proceedings "Margulan Readings–2026" by the end of April 2026;
2.    Annual Collection "Field Research in Kazakhstan. 2025" by the start of the conference.

Analytical articles summarizing research and the results of interdisciplinary studies are accepted for inclusion in the conference proceedings “Margulan Readings–2026”. Manuscripts must be formatted in accordance with the requirements for inclusion in the List of International Scientific Conferences (List 5) of the Register of Publications recommended for disseminating the results of scientific work by the Committee for Quality Assurance in Science and Higher Education of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Appendix 1).

Articles that present only factual information on material obtained during archaeological fieldwork, without an in-depth analytical section, will be published in the annual collection “Field Research in Kazakhstan. 2025” (Appendix 2).

This publication is intended to introduce into scholarly circulation new data from field investigations, which also contributes to establishing scientific connections between organizations engaged in fieldwork and research centers and laboratories conducting thematic studies and requiring new field materials.

PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS

To meet the requirements for publications included in List 5 of the register of recommended editions for publication by the Committee for Quality Assurance in Science and Higher Education of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, it is necessary to submit application forms, completed according to the attached template, by 18 December 2025. The conference program will be prepared no later than 18 February 2026.

APPLICATION FORM
of the participant of the scientific and practical conference "Margulan readings–2026"

1. Last name, first name, patronymic of the author  
2. Country, city  
3. Place of work  
4. Position  
5. Academic degree, academic title  
6. Title of the report* (*Co-authored reports should be submitted with a single application, and the details of each co-author should be listed sequentially, separated by semicolons; if the information is repeated (e.g., country and/or city, place of work, postal address, etc.), do not duplicate it. Please ask all co-authors to register on the website archeo-margulan.kz)  
7. The publication in which the article is planned to be published (Conference Proceedings "Margulan Readings–2026" or the annual collection "Field Research in Kazakhstan. 2025").

Conference Proceedings "Margulan Readings–2026"    
Annual Collection  
"Field Research in Kazakhstan.  
2025"
Applications for publication in the conference proceedings "Margulan Readings–2026" should be sent to the following email address: margulan_conf@archeo.kz 
To submit materials for publication in the conference proceedings "Margulan Readings–2026", please use the electronic submission on the conference proceedings website: archeo-margulan.kz. Applications and materials for publication in the annual collection "Field Research in Kazakhstan. 2025" should be sent to the following email address: dala.zert@archeo.kz.

8.    E-mail, contact phone  
9.    Form of participation (online/offline) 
10.  Presentation format and required technical equipment.

The editorial board of the proceedings reserves the right to select materials for publication.
Manuscripts that are not formatted according to the requirements or do not align with the conference topics will not be considered.

Previous volumes of the annual international conference proceedings "Margulan Readings" are available on the website of the Margulan Institute of Archaeology:
https://archeo-margulan.kz/index.php/home/issue/archive

Conference Organizing Committee Address:  
050010, Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Dostyk Avenue, 44, Margulan Institute of Archaeology, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Contact addresses:
For publication inquiries in the "Margulan Readings" conference proceedings:
Asem Kassenova, Deputy Director for Science, mobile phone: +7 707 518 12 30.
Darkhan Baitileu. E-mail: margulan_conf@archeo.kz  

For publication inquiries in the collection "Field Research in Kazakhstan. 2025":
Yerlan Amirov, Head of the Monitoring and Protection Archaeology Group, mobile phone: +7 701 537 57 33. E-mail: dala.zert@archeo.kz

Sincerely, 
The Organizing Committee

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