Nomads, or highly specialized mobile pastoralists, are prominent features in Central Asian
archaeology, and they are often depicted in direct conflict with neighboring sedentary …

The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Archaemenid Empire is the first modern
academic study to provide a synthetic, diachronic analysis of the archaeology and early …

Central Asia (CA) is one of the world's most significant arid regions, which is markedly
impacted by global warming. A better understanding of the dynamical processes governing …

ABSTRACT The highlands of Central Asia posed considerable challenges to early
agriculturalists, yet the processes of human subsistence strategies there remain poorly …

Geometric morphometric methods (GMM), which were developed to characterize the shape
and size of biological organisms, have been applied within zooarchaeology over the past …

Archaeological excavations at the Dali site complex located in southeastern Kazakhstan
provide a rich picture of Bronze Age life spanning from the early third to late second …

Civilizations are as complex as the human relationships that engendered them, and
outlining these relational qualities within open notions of mobility and interaction frames a …

Southern Central Asia witnessed widespread expansion in urbanism and exchange,
between roughly 2200 and 1500 BC, fostering a new cultural florescence, sometimes …

From its origins, the latest phase of the Oxus Civilization is described as a collapse. From ca.
1800/1700 BC and for over 300 years, it testifies of arrhythmic and uneven changes at …

Abstract 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 …