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1 online resource (viii, 463 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps. |
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Schriften zur Vorderasiatischen Archäologie ; v. 12
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Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie ; Bd. 12.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Map of Central Asia with the main places mentioned in this volume; Christoph Baumer and Mirko Novák: Foreword; Turkmenistan; Lyubov B. Kircho: Altyn-Depe, The Formation of the Earliest Urban Centre in Central Asia; Nadezhda A. Dubova: Gonur Depe -- City of Kings and Gods, and the Capital of Margush Country (Modern Turkmenistan). Its discovery by Professor Victor Sarianidi and recent finds |
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Christian Hübner, Mirko Novák, and Sylvia Winkelmann: The Swiss IAW-EurAsia Project on Urban Development and Land Use in Gonur Depe (Turkmenistan). A geo-magnetic surveyBarbara Cerasetti, Roberto Arciero, Marialetizia Carra, Antonio Curci, Jacopo: De Grossi Mazzorin, Luca Forni, Elise Luneau, Lynne M. Rouse, Robert N. Spengler III. Bronze and Iron Age Urbanisation in Turkmenistan Preliminary results from the excava on of Togolok 1 on the Murghab alluvial fan; Carlo Lippolis: Parthian Nisa. Landscape, topography and settlement planning |
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Aydogdy Kurbanov: Settlement Patterns during the Sasanian Era in Southern Turkmenistan. Preliminary survey results in the Abiverd and Merv regions 2014-2015Uzbekistan; Julio Bendezu-Sarmiento and Johanna Lhuillier: Habitat and Occupancy during the Bronze Age in Central Asia. Recent work at the sites of Ulug-depe (Turkmenistan) and Dzharkutan (Uzbekistan); Johanna Lhuillier: The Settlement Pattern in Central Asia during the Early Iron Age; Bruno Genito: The Uzbek-Italian Excavations at Kojtepa (Samarkand Area) Uzbekistan. First results and work perspectives |
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Nigora D. Dvurechenskaya: The Hellenistic Fortress of UzundaraFiona Kidd and Sören Stark: Urbanism in Antique Sogdiana? A view from the Bukhara oasis; Simone Mantellini: Urbanscape vs. Landscape, or Urbanscape as Landscape? A case from ancient Samarkand (Sogdiana); Andrei V. Omel'chenko: New Excavations in the Paikend City-Site. The Sogdian pottery assemblage of the Hellenistic period; Silvia Pozzi, Sirojiddin Mirzaachmedov, and Munira Sultanova: Preliminary Results of Archaeological Investigations at Vardāna. A focus on the Early Medieval period |
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Djamaliddin Mirzaachmedov, Silvia Pozzi, Shuxrat Adilov, Munira Sultanova, and Sirojiddin Mirzaachmedov: Vardanzeh. The dynamics of settlement on the citadel based on the materials from medieval pottery complexesKonstantin A. Sheyko, Genadiy P. Ivanov, and Djangar Ya. Ilyasov: Archaeological Research at the Qarshovul Tepa Site, Uzbekistan; Farhad Maksudov, Elissa Bullion, Edward R. Henry, Taylor Hermes, Ann Merkle, and Michael D. Frachetti: Nomadic Urbanism at Tashbulak. A new highland town of the Karakhanids; Tajikistan/Kyrgyzstan |
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For the first time a comprehensive presentation of the development of urban cultures in Central Asia from the Early Bronze Age (around 3000 BC) to the Middle Ages (about 1200 AD) is exemplarily illuminated in this book on the basis of individual research projects. The treated area extends from Turkmenistan to Mongolia and was home to cultures such as the Bronze Age Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC), the Sogdian of the Iron Age, the early Parthian or various early medieval ones, namely in the Zhetysu (?Seven Stream country?) in the southeast of Kazakhstan. The urban civilizations that developed here were closely interrelated, on the one hand, with the cultures of the nomadic ranchers who traversed and inhabited this vast region and, on the other hand, with the more developed neighboring civilizations of the Near East and the Far East. Thus, the region became a diverse exchange zone of cultural and religious influences and also played a major role in the transmission of cultural impulses.0The richly illustrated book reflects the contributions of a conference that took place in Bern in 2016 and includes 28 contributions from 50 researchers from 14 countries. The results of many of the excavations presented here will be published in English for the first time. Each article is accompanied by an extensive bibliography and a Russian abstract. |
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Michael Shenkar and Sharof Kurbanov: Sanjar-Shah: A Sogdian Town in the Zeravshan Valley. Some preliminary results of the recent archaeological investigations |
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JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
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Cities and towns -- Asia, Central -- History -- Congresses.
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Cities and towns. |
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Central Asia. |
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History. |
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Asia, Central -- Congresses.
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Asia, Central -- History.
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Asia, Central -- Civilization.
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Civilization. |
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Excavations (Archaeology) |
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Baumer, Christoph, editor.
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Novák, Mirko, 1965- editor.
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International Congress on Central Asian Archaeology (1st : 2016 : Bern, Switzerland)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Baumer, Christoph. Urban Cultures of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Karakhanids : Learnings and conclusions from new archaeological investigations and discoveries. Proceedings of the First International Congress on Central Asian Archaeology held at the University of Bern, 4-6 February 2016. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, ©2019 9783447111690 |
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9783447198363 (electronic book) |
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3447198362 (electronic book) |
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