Aktas Kystagy

Aktas Kystagy was a winter settlement near the right bank of the Syr Darya. Its inhabitants combined livestock keeping with cultivation, and their homes were built of clay with animal enclosures adjoining them. The remains of more than twenty dwellings can be seen as low mounds. Around Aktas, other winter quarters followed an old river channel; pottery found among them attests to a long history of settlement in the river country.