Five Seasons of Excavations in the Tash-k'irman Oasis of Ancient Chorasmia, 1996-2000. An Interim Report

Helms, S. W.; Yagodin, Vadim N.; Betts, Alison; Khozhaniyazov, Gairatdin; Kidd, Fiona

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“…His attributes are a rooster on a staff and a short sword, while the details of his crown are not distinct. 65 All matters considered, Srōsh appears a likely candidate. Turning this proposal into certitude will be possible only when all fragments are cleaned and the figure entirely reconstructed.…”

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“…5 This multi-disciplinary group mapped sites, ancient canals and river beds, and conducted extensive excavations at most of the major monuments. Since 1995 excavations in the Tash-k'irman oasis, one of the last unstudied areas on the east bank of the Amu-dar'ya, have been conducted under the auspices of the University of Sydney Central Asian Program (USCAP) 6 and the Karakalpak Branch of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences as the Karakalpak-Australian Expedition (KAE) with a particular focus on the major site of Akchakhan-kala (Kidd, Negus-Cleary and Baker-Brite 2012;Kidd and Betts 2010;Yagodin et al 2009;Betts et al 2009;Kidd et al 2008;Betts et al 2005;Helms et al 2002;Helms et al 2001;Helms and Yagodin 1997).…”

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The Akchakhan-kala Wall Paintings: New Perspectives on Kingship and Religion in Ancient Chorasmia

Betts

Yagodin

Grenet³

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Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology

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The Akchakhan-kala Wall Paintings: New Perspectives on Kingship and Religion in Ancient Chorasmia

Betts

Yagodin

Grenet³

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Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology

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“…Throughout the first millennium BC and first millennium AD at Kyuzely-gyr and other Prisarykamysh sites, in spite of the new canals there remain few traces of ancient agricultural fields; the emphasis on pastoralism continues; settlements lay in dispersed, low-density patterns reflective of semi-mobility; and the landscape is marked with numerous ‘nomadic’ kurgan burial sites (Negus Cleary, 2015a; Tsalkin, 1966: 108–157; Vaynberg, 1979a, 1979b). Monumental art at Kyuzeli-gyr and Kalaly-gyr 1 and textual sources indicate links with the Achaemenid Empire (Betts, 2006; Betts et al, 2009, 2016; Helms et al, 2001, 2002; Kidd et al, 2008; Yagodin et al, 2010). This suggests to us that the power of newly established elites in Khorezm was not, at least initially, built upon a shift to intensive farming, but rather may have come from exchange .…”

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Millet cultivation in Central Asia: A response to Miller et al.

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In a recent special issue of The Holocene, Miller et al. review the evidence for the spread of millet ( Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica) across Eurasia. Among their arguments, they contend that millet cultivation came to Eurasian regions with hot, dry summers when irrigation was introduced, as part of a region-wide shift toward agricultural intensification in the first millennium BC. This hypothesis seems to align with the pattern of agricultural change observed in the Khorezm oasis, a Central Asian polity of the first millennium BC and first millennium AD. While we wholeheartedly accept this hypothesis for its explanatory value regarding trends across Eurasia, in this paper we nevertheless suggest that the introduction of millet to Central Asia needs further explication. Specifically, we seek to address the underlying assumption that this introduction was predicated upon centrally organized, state-level land development, increased sedentism, and the rise of Mesopotamian-style social complexity. We describe how millet cultivation in Khorezm was preceded by multi-resource strategies that included the cultivation of summer crops, and emphasize that this earlier history mattered significantly to the evolution of Khorezmian society and agriculture in the first millennium BC. In contrast to the imperial systems of West Asia, in Khorezm the introduction of complex irrigation works supported the expansion and greater stratification of pre-existing agropastoral lifeways, and helped to buttress the rise of nomadic elites within an agrarian zone. We believe the example of Khorezm is important because it helps to explain the emergence of integrated mobile-sedentist societies in the first millennium AD in Central Asia as a result of agricultural change. It also provides cultural and historical context to the spread of millet cultivation in the first millennium BC, suggesting that this phenomenon had significantly different implications for societies across Eurasia.

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Environmental change, agricultural innovation, and the spread of cotton agriculture in the Old World

Brite

Marston

2013

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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Five Seasons of Excavations in the Tash-k'irman Oasis of Ancient Chorasmia, 1996-2000. An Interim Report

Cited by 7 publications

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The Akchakhan-kala Wall Paintings: New Perspectives on Kingship and Religion in Ancient Chorasmia

The Akchakhan-kala Wall Paintings: New Perspectives on Kingship and Religion in Ancient Chorasmia

Millet cultivation in Central Asia: A response to Miller et al.

Environmental change, agricultural innovation, and the spread of cotton agriculture in the Old World

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