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Tazabagyab culture

Tazabagyab culture
Geographical rangeLower Amu Darya
PeriodLate Bronze Age
Datesca. 1850–1500 BC
Preceded byKelteminar culture
Andronovo culture
Suyarganovo culture (in lower Amu Darya river)
Zamanbaba culture (in lower Zeravshan river)
Followed byAmirabad culture
Begazy–Dandybai culture (in lower Amu Darya river)

The Tazabagyab culture is from the late Bronze Age, ca. 1850 BC to 1500 BC,[1] and flourished in the lower Zeravshan valley, as well as along the lower Amu Darya towards the south shore of the Aral Sea; this last region is known as Khwarazm or Khorezm. Earlier it was thought to be from ca. 1500 BC to 1100 BC and regarded a southern offshoot of the Andronovo culture, composed of Indo-Iranians,[2] but Stanislav Grigoriev, in a recent study asserts that Tazabagyab is not part of the Andronovo cultural horizon.[3]

  1. ^ Garner, Jennifer, (2020). "Metal sources (tin and copper) and the BMAC", in The World of the Oxus Civilization, Chapter 28, Routledge, Table 28.1: "Andronovo-Tazabag'jab, 1850-1500 BC (after Parzinger and Boroffka 2003: 280, fig. 1)"
  2. ^ Mallory & Adams 1997, pp. 566–567.
  3. ^ Grigoriev, Stanislav, (2021). "Andronovo Problem: Studies of Cultural Genesis in the Eurasian Bronze Age", in Open Archaeology 2021 (7), p.5: "...In western literature, for example, the Tazabagyab culture of the southern Aral Sea region is sometimes viewed as a variant of the Andronovo culture (Mallory & Adams, 1997, p. 566). But experts on the Andronovo culture do not consider Tazabagyab as Andronovo..." .

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