This dissertation focuses on the interactions of mobile pastoralist groups with sedentary
farming communities in the Late Bronze Age period (1950-1500 BCE) in the Murghab …

Excavations at Ojakly (site 1744) in the Murghab alluvial fan in Turkmenistan mark the first
systematic collection of archaeological materials related to Bronze Age mobile pastoralists …

Archaeological investigations of pastoral economies often emphasize exchange relations
with agricultural populations, though for Bronze Age Eurasia the notion of a ubiquitous …

The publication of data relevant to prehistoric socio-economies in southern Central Asia is
growing, and it intersects with long-standing questions about how mixed farming-herding …

Here we present the results of archaeological survey and excavations carried out in
southeastern Uzbekistan during the summer of 2011. The sites are among the first …

Due to the nature of their lifestyle and inherent mobility nomadic groups of the past have left
little if any discernible imprint in excavated archaeological records. This is regrettable since …

An important aspect of the development of more complex forms of social organization was
the emergence of larger more integrated communities that structured human interaction in …

The domestication of certain species plants and animals some 10,000 years ago ushered a
drastic change of life in the Near East that enabled humans to exercise an unprecedented …

Cultural developments in fourth and early third millennium Baluchistan and the adjoining
Indus Plains are the prelude to the urban civilisation of the third millennium BC In analysing …

The 5th millennium BC occupation of Southern Iran, known as the Bakun period, has been
interpreted variously and contrastingly as either evidence for incipient complexity among …