8. South Asia from a Central Asian perspective

Hiebert, Fredrik T.

doi:10.1515/9783110816433.192

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“…The dominant view asserts that the oases of Margiana and Bactria represent the center of a new and vigorous commercial power that spread throughout the Indo-Iranian borderlands toward the end of the mature-Harappan period, around 2000 B.C. (Hiebert and Lamberg-Karlovsky, 1992;Lamberg-Karlovsky, 1993, 1994bSarianidi, , 1994Hiebert, 1994Hiebert, , 1995. In fact, the presence of characteristic Oxus Civilization artifacts in Pakistani Baluchistan led Hiebert and Meadow (1991) to assert that this Central Asian civilization represented a strong presence on the edge of the Indus Valley-a presence that certainly affected the Indus Civilization near the end of the mature-phase (for another view see Jarrige, 1997).…”

Section: Interregional Influences Of the Oxus Civilizationmentioning

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Biological affinities and adaptations of Bronze Age Bactrians: III. An initial craniometric assessment

Hemphill

1998

Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

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Discovery of a previously unknown Bronze Age civilization (Oxus Civilization) centered on the oases of Central Asia immediately raised questions concerning the origin and interregional impacts of this civilization. Fifteen craniometric variables from 12 Bronze Age samples--encompassing 544 adults from Central Asia, Iran, the Indus Valley, and Anatolia--are compared to test which, if any, of the current hypotheses offered by archaeologists are best supported by the pattern of phenetic affinities possessed by the Oxus Civilization inhabitants of the north Bactrian oasis. Craniometric differences between samples are compared with Mahalanobis generalized distance, and patterns of phenetic affinity are assessed with two types of cluster analysis (WPGMA, neighbor-joining method), multidimensional scaling, and principal coordinates analysis. Results obtained by this analysis indicate that current hypotheses for both the origin and interregional impacts of Oxus Civilization populations are incomplete.

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Section: Interregional Influences Of the Oxus Civilizationmentioning

confidence: 99%