The world of the Oxus civilization /
"This collection of essays presents a synthesis of current research on the Oxus Civilization, which rose and developed at the turn of the 3rd to 2nd millennia BC in Central Asia. First discovered in the 1970s, the Oxus Civilization, or the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex, has engendered...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2021.
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Table of Contents:
- <P>Introduction </P><I><P>Bertille Lyonnet and Nadezhda A. Dubova</P></I><B><P>PART I: THE OXUS CIVILIZATION BACKGROUND </P></B><P>1. Questioning the Oxus Civilization or Bactria- Margiana Archaeological Culture (BMAC): an overview </P><I><P>Bertille Lyonnet and Nadezhda A. Dubova</P></I><P>2. The Oxus Civilization and Mesopotamia: a philologist's point of view 6</P><I><P>Micha e l Guichard</P></I><P>3. Environmental changes in Bactria and Sogdiana (Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan) from the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age: interaction with human occupation </P><I><P>Eric Fouache, Lucie Cez, Val e rie Andrieu- Ponel, and Rocco Rante</P></I><P>4. The rise of the early urban civilization in southwestern Central Asia: from the Middle Chalcolithic to the Middle Bronze Age in</P><P>southern Turkmenistan </P><P><EM>Ljubov' B. Kircho</EM></P><B><P>PART II: THE CORE AREA </P></B><P>5. The architecture of the Bactria- Margiana Archaeological Culture </P><I><P>Ruslan G. Muradov</P></I><P>6. Some thoughts on the imaginary representations in the Bactria- Margiana Archaeological Culture </P><I><P>Elena V. Antonova</P></I><P>7. Myths and gods in the Oxus Civilization </P><I><P>Annie Caubet</P></I><P>8. BMAC glyptics: typology, context, function, and background </P><I><P>Sylvia Winkelmann</P></I><P>9. Chlorite containers from the Oxus Civilization: between technical choices and iconographic codes </P><I><P>Massimo Vidale</P></I><P>10. The Royal Necropolis at Gonur Depe: an attempt at systematization (plan, constructions, rituals) </P><I><P>Nadezhda A. Dubova</P></I><P>11. Polychrome inlayed and painted mosaics from Gonur Depe (Turkmenistan) </P><I><P>Nadezhda A. Dubova</P></I><P>12. Animal burials at Gonur Depe </P><I><P>Robert M. Sataev</P></I><P>13. Funerary rituals and archaeothanatological data from BMAC graves at Ulug Depe (Turkmenistan) and Dzharkutan (Uzbekistan) </P><I><P>Julio Bendezu- Sarmiento</P></I><P>14. Bioarchaeology of the BMAC population: a short review </P><I><P>Vladimir V. Kufterin</P></I><P>15. Animal exploitation at Gonur Depe </P><I><P>Robert M. Sataev</P></I><P>16. Life in the countryside: the rural archaeology of the Sapalli culture </P><P><EM>Kai Kaniuth</EM></P><P>17. Who interacted with whom? Redefi ning the interaction between BMAC people and mobile pastoralists in Bronze Age southern Turkmenistan </P><I><P>Barbara Cerasetti</P></I><P>18. The end of the Oxus Civilization </P><I><P>Elise Luneau</P></I><B><P>PART III: THE SURROUNDING AREAS </P></B><P>19. The BMAC presence in eastern Iran: state of affairs in December 2018
- towards the Greater Khorasan Civilization? </P><I><P>Raffaele Biscione and Ali A. Vahdati</P></I><P>20. The relationship between the Oxus Civilization and the Indo- Iranian borderlands </P><I><P>Benjamin Mutin and C.C. Lamberg- Karlovsky</P></I><P>21. Interaction between the worlds of South Asia and Central Asia </P><I><P>Shereen Ratnagar</P></I><P>22. The Oxus Civilization/ BMAC and its interaction with the Arabian Gulf: a review of the evidence </P><I><P>Pierre Lombard</P></I><P>23. The formation of the Oxus Civilization/ BMAC in southwestern Tajikistan</P><I><P>Natal'ja M. Vinogradova</P></I><P>24. The Zeravshan regional variant of the Bactria- Margiana Archaeological Complex: interaction between two cultural worlds </P><I><P>Nona A. Avanesova</P></I><P>25. The classical Vakhsh culture: a Bronze Age culture of the 3rd and early 2nd millennium BC in southern Tajikistan </P><I><P>Mike Teufer</P></I><P>26. The Oxus Civilization and the northern steppes </P><I><P>Gian Luca Bonora</P></I><B><P>PART IV: METALS AND METAL DEPOSITS</P></B><P>27. Archaeometallurgical studies on BMAC artifacts </P><P><EM>Steffen Kraus</EM></P><P>28. Metal sources (tin and copper) and the BMAC </P><I><P>Jennifer Garner</P></I><P>29. The acquisition of tin in Bronze Age Southwest Asia </P><I><P>Vincent C. Pigott</P><P>Appendix: Radiocarbon dates related to the BMAC/ Oxus Civilization </I></P><I><P>Michel Fontugne, Ganna I. Zajtseva, Bertille Lyonnet, Nadezhda A. Dubova, and Natalja D. Burova</P></I>
