Late Bronze Age in North-Eastern Iran: An Alternative Approach to Persisting Problems

Mousavi, Ali

doi:10.1080/05786967.2008.11864739

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“…Numerous scholars (Dolukhanov 1981(Dolukhanov , 1988Gentelle 2001;Koshelenko et al 1994;Ljapin 1990;Mousavi 2008;Vinogradov and Mamedov 1974) assert that the climatic conditions were more humid during the Mid-Holocene, 2 between 8950 and 3950 BP. A drastic drying of the climate then happened, around 3950/3750 BP, inducing important environmental changes and impacting human societies.…”

Section: The Environmental Hypothesis As Responsible For the Changes mentioning

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Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of the Oxus Civilization in Southern Central Asia

Luneau¹

2019

Socio-Environmental Dynamics Along the Historical Silk Road

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During the Final Bronze Age (around 3750/3700 BP), the proto-urban sedentary cultural entity in southern Central Asia-known as the Oxus civilization or Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex-underwent major social transformations in different field aspects leading to a deep cultural change in the middle of the 4th millennium BP. Among the different reasons suggested to explain these sociocultural changes, the hypothesis of global climate change in Central Asia at the beginning of the 4th millennium BP has been emphasized by different scholars. In this paper, I will examine current paleo-environmental data in relation with the climate evolution during the Mid-and Late Holocene. A critical assessment of the hypothesis of climatic change in Central Asia at the beginning of the 4th millennium BP allows to stimulate the discussion anew. I argue that the present data do not support a drastic climate change during the first half of the 4th millennium BP as a responsible factor for the fall of the Oxus civilization, although local environmental modifications should also not be underestimated and further investigated in a more integrated perspective of co-evolution of the ecological environment and the human societies.

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Section: The Environmental Hypothesis As Responsible For the Changes mentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of the Oxus Civilization in Southern Central Asia

Luneau¹

2019

Socio-Environmental Dynamics Along the Historical Silk Road

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Arsenical copper and bronze metallurgy during Late Bronze Age of north-eastern Iran: evidences from Shahrak-e Firouzeh archaeological site

Oudbashi

Mehofer

Basafa

et al. 2020

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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Temporal pattern of dental caries at the western flank of the Central Plateau of Iran, c. 2700 BCE – 1600 CE

Ilkhan,

Trębicka,

Sołtysiak

2024

International Journal of Paleopathology

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Late Bronze Age in North-Eastern Iran: An Alternative Approach to Persisting Problems

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of the Oxus Civilization in Southern Central Asia

Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of the Oxus Civilization in Southern Central Asia

Arsenical copper and bronze metallurgy during Late Bronze Age of north-eastern Iran: evidences from Shahrak-e Firouzeh archaeological site

Temporal pattern of dental caries at the western flank of the Central Plateau of Iran, c. 2700 BCE – 1600 CE

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