Sarazm

A Site along the Proto-Silk Road at the Intersection of the Steppe and Oasis Cultures: Results from Excavation VII

By (author) Benjamin Mutin

Book cover: Sarazm

Extent: 258, 258 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Asian/Pacific Studies & Religions

Series: OXUS

Series volume number: 1

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(January 2024)

ISBN: 9782503602943

Price: $138.00

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Sarazm, in modern-day Tajikistan, is rightly famous as an archaeological site. A Chalcolithic and Bronze Age settlement, it formed part of a cultural and economic network that stretched from the steppe of Central Asia across to the Iranian Plateau and the Indus. Between 1984 and 1994, fieldwork led by a joint Tajik-French project took place at Excavation VII, yielding unique archaeological contexts and materials that shed light on Sarazm’s multicultural nature, its evolution through time, and the varied activities that took place at the site. Now, in this new volume, the first comprehensive description and analysis of all available data from Excavation VII is presented, and the data from this excavation contextualized both at site level and within the broader setting of the Steppe and Oasis cultures of the IVth and IIIrd millennia BCE. The author offers functional, cultural, and chronological conclusions about the exposed occupations, as well as putting forward new interpretations and hypotheses on this important settlement.

  • By (author) Benjamin Mutin