The world of the Oxus civilization / edited by Bertille Lyonnet and Nadezhda A. Dubova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lyonnet, Bertille, editor.

Dubova, N. A., editor.

Series:

Routledge worlds

Routledge handbooks

The Routledge worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Ancient.

Civilization.

History.

Asia, Central--History.

Asia, Central.

Asia, Central--Civilization.

Asia, Central--Antiquities.

Central Asia.

Antiquities.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, 932 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Bertille Lyonnet is Directrice de Recherches Emeritus at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, as an archaeologist. She has worked in Central Asia (Afghanistan, Tadjikistan, and Uzbekistan), northeastern Syria, the northern Caucasus, and Azerbaijan. A specialistin ceramics, she has always shown aparticular interest in the interrelations between the different areas of the world where she hasworked. She is the author of several books and over 150 articles. Nadezhda A. Dubova is a main researcher and head of theCenter of HumanEcology at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (IEA) of the Russian Academy of Sciences,Moscow, Russia. She was the head and/ora member of more than 60 physical anthropological and archaeological expeditions in Russia, Central Asia, Iran, and the Moldova Republic. She now heads the International Russian-Turkmen Margiana archaeological expedition. She gives lectures at different universities (Lomonosov Moscow, Ufa (Bashkortostan), Voronezh, South Kazakhstan (Shimkent), and Bern (Switzerland)). She is the author and editor of more than 400 publications on physical anthropology, human ecology, Eurasian archaeology, and theoretic problems of anthropology.

Summary:

"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 many different interpretations, which are explored in this volume by an international group of archaeologists and researchers. Contributors cover all aspects of this fascinating Bronze Age culture: architecture, material culture, grave goods; religion; migrations; and trade and interactions with neighboring civilizations, from Mesopotamia to the Indus, and the Gulf to the northern Steppes. Chapters also examine the Oxus Civilization's roots in previous local cultures, explore its environmental and chronological context, or the possibly coveted metal sources, and look into the reasons for its decline. The World of the Oxus Civilization offers a broad and fascinating examination of this society, and provides an invaluable updated resource for anyone working on the culture, history and archaeology of this region and on the multiple interactions at work at that time in the Ancient Near East"-- Provided by publisher.

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>

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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9781315193359

1315193353

9781351757829

1351757822

9781351757836

1351757830

9781351757812

1351757814

OCLC:

1140351967

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