Environmental changes in Bactria and Sogdiana (Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan) from the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age

Fouache, Éric; Cez, Lucie; Andrieu‐Ponel, Valérie; Rante, Rocco

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“…;Cremaschi, 1998;Markofsky et al, 2017), which corresponded with a transformation of the settlement system in this area (Salvatori, 2008b). Similar population displacements or reorganizations, also attributed to hydro-environmental changes, are attested in other Central Asian alluvial fan regions, including on the Balkh and Zeravshan rivers (Fouache et al, 2012(Fouache et al, , 2021. Fouache et al (2021, p. 82) suggest two major factors impacted settlement patterns in southern Central Asia, both of which are related to the availability of water, and include: a change to a river's course or a decline in its flow.…”

Section: Environmental Settingmentioning

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“…Although some aspects of Holocene climate change in Central Asia remain unclear, general aridification and its variation through time has been considerably researched (Staubwasser et al, 2003;Staubwasser and Weiss, 2006;Chen et al, 2008;Luneau, 2018;Fouache et al, 2021). Pollen data recovered from lake cores in the eastern Pamirs [e.g., Lake Karakul, Tajikistan (Heinecke et al, 2017) and Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan (Ricketts et al, 2001)], as well as the northwestern Himalayas (e.g., lake Tso Moriri; Leipe et al, 2014) mark an environmental shift beginning after 5000 B.C.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Agriculture in the Karakum: An archaeobotanical analysis from Togolok 1, southern Turkmenistan (ca. 2300–1700 B.C.)

Billings

Cerasetti²,

Forni³

et al. 2022

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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Southern Central Asia witnessed widespread expansion in urbanism and exchange, between roughly 2200 and 1500 B.C., fostering a new cultural florescence, sometimes referred to as the Greater Khorasan Civilization. Decades of detailed archeological investigation have focused on the development of urban settlements, political systems, and inter-regional exchange within and across the broader region, but little is known about the agricultural systems that supported these cultural changes. In this paper, we present the archaeobotanical results of material recovered from Togolok 1, a proto-urban settlement along the Murghab River alluvial fan located in southeastern Turkmenistan. This macrobotanical assemblage dates to the late 3rd - early 2nd millennia B.C., a time associated with important cultural transformations in southern Central Asia. We demonstrate that people at the site were cultivating and consuming a diverse range of crops including, barley, wheat, legumes, grapes, and possibly plums and apples or pears. This, together with the associated material culture and zooarchaeological evidence, suggest a regionally adapted mixed agropastoral economy. The findings at Togolok 1 contribute to the ongoing discussion of dietary choices, human/landscape interactions, and the adaptation of crops to diverse ecosystems in prehistoric Central Asia.

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Section: Environmental Settingmentioning

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Section: Environmental Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agriculture in the Karakum: An archaeobotanical analysis from Togolok 1, southern Turkmenistan (ca. 2300–1700 B.C.)

Billings

Cerasetti²,

Forni³

et al. 2022

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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A ‘Shoehorn’ at Altyn Depe: A Biased Application of the Urban Revolution Model of Vere Gordon Childe (1950)

Vidale,

Bonora

2023

Journal of Urban Archaeology

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Traditions et renouvellements dans l’approche des anciens systèmes d’irrigation de l’Asie centrale

Cez

2024

Le Passé Au Fil De L’eau

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Les expéditions soviétiques ont étudié les anciens systèmes d’irrigation de l’Asie centrale selon une démarche innovante d’archéologie du paysage, de la photo-interprétation jusqu’à la fouille des vestiges hydrauliques. Sous la doxa des valeurs matérielles des modes de production, l’histoire du perfectionnement des techniques d’irrigation produite dans une perspective évolutionniste dit peu de choses des contraintes et des pratiques de gestion de l’eau liées à la fonctionnalité des réseaux. À Sarazm, en rive gauche du Zeravchan, notre étude géoarchéologique documente les caractéristiques d’un canal de haute terrasse du début de l’âge du Bronze. L’étude micromorphologique de son comblement révèle les modalités de fonctionnement et de maintenance de l’ouvrage dans un contexte sismique.

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Environmental changes in Bactria and Sogdiana (Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan) from the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age

Cited by 4 publications

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Agriculture in the Karakum: An archaeobotanical analysis from Togolok 1, southern Turkmenistan (ca. 2300–1700 B.C.)

Agriculture in the Karakum: An archaeobotanical analysis from Togolok 1, southern Turkmenistan (ca. 2300–1700 B.C.)

A ‘Shoehorn’ at Altyn Depe: A Biased Application of the Urban Revolution Model of Vere Gordon Childe (1950)

Traditions et renouvellements dans l’approche des anciens systèmes d’irrigation de l’Asie centrale

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