Origins of the Bronze Age Oasis Civilization in Central Asia

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Harvard University Press, Nov 28, 1994 - History - 200 pages

The Murghad River delta, the site of ancient Margiana, was extensively settled during at least part of the Bronze Age, between 2200 and 1750 B.C. Oases in an otherwise desert region, settlements were situated along deltaic branches of the river or canals dug from those branches. Excavations at one of the largest and most complex of these sites, Gonur depe, have been ongoing for many years under the direction of Victor Sarianidi. During the 1988–89 field season, Fred Hiebert excavated part of Gonur in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of Turkmenistan and the Institute of Archaeology in Moscow.

Published here, the results provide a key to understanding the large corpus of material of the Bactro-Margiana Archaeological Complex extracted over the past 30 years from this and neighboring sites of the Oxus civilization.

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THE STRATIGRAPHY
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PALEOCLIMATE
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SOUTHERN SITES
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Altyn depe archaeological artifacts Asian assemblage awls axes Bactria Bar-Yosef base bifaces bladelets BMAC bone bowls Bronze Age brown building complex burials burin Central Asia ceramics cm below datum context cores culture cupholes debitage deposits desert domestic architecture Early Neolithic edge El-Khiam points excavations Figure figurines flakes flint floor foothill zone fragments Geoksyur Gilgal Gonur depe Gonur south grey Hagdud truncations Hatula Israel Jericho Jordan Valley Kelleli Khiamian Kopet Dag late Namazga layer Lechevallier levels loci Locus Margiana material med.-fine chaff microliths Mureybet Murgab Nahal Namazga Natufian Netiv Hagdud oases oasis Paléorient percent Period Phase PPNA PPNB Pre-Pottery Neolithic projectile points radiocarbon dates region retouched Room Salibiya samples Sarianidi settlement sherds sickle blades similar small finds south mound southern Levant spalls species specimens steatite stone subtype Sultanian surface Takhirbai Tchernov terracotta tion Togolok 21 tranchet Upper Area Varia vessels wall width

Bibliographic information

TitleOrigins of the Bronze Age Oasis Civilization in Central Asia
Volume 42 of American School of Prehistoric Research Bulletins Series
Issue 42 of Bulletin (American School of Prehistoric Research), American School of Prehistoric Research
AuthorFredrik Talmage Hiebert
Editionillustrated
PublisherHarvard University Press, 1994
ISBN0873655451, 9780873655453
Length200 pages
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History / Ancient / General
History / Asia / Central Asia
Social Science / Archaeology
  
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