Geographical range Aral Sea region Dates c. 2000 BC – 1000 BC | Period Bronze Age Preceded by Kelteminar culture | |
The Suyarganovo culture - archaeological culture of the Bronze Age, II millennium b.c. - I millennium b.c. The population of Suyarganovo culture lived in Aral, near Akcha Darya river (Amu Darya delta), the area of the historic Khwarezm.
Contents
- Post Kelteminar
- Kamyshli
- Kaunda
- The ethnic origin
- The anthropological types
- Archaeological dwellings
- Literature
- References
In the middle of the II-nd thousand b.c., the population of Suyarganovo culture coexists with the tribes of the Tazabagyab culture. Typical ceramics - flat-bottomed vessels (often with a red or orange color) with a short neck (often with carvings) and rounded torso. Homes and dwellings of Suyarganovo occupies a large area, mostly along the banks of fluvial channels.
Post-Kelteminar
Main activity - hunting and fishing. Dwellings - columnar construction - ground, oval shape. The arrowheads, knives, scrapers from flint and quartzite. Flat-bottomed pottery modeled with a mixture of wood and seashells.
Kamyshli
Main activity - irrigation farming. Kamyshli stage after migration a new population, historically associated with the south, to the territory of Turkmenistan (Anau archaeological culture) and the Iranian plateau.
Kaunda
Main activity - herding. Bronze sickles and edged knives. Pottery was burned and carefully covered with relief ornament. Characterized by large dwellings of 250×150 m (Kaunda-1). The instruments were made of stone and bronze. Dwellings - rectangular huts. Closely associated with the population Tazabagyab archaeological culture.
The ethnic origin
The anthropological types
The basic anthropological type of population from Suyarganovo culture - Indo-dravidian, at a latest Kaunda stage with minor Eastern Mediterranean anthropological type characteristic of Andronovo tribes
Archaeological dwellings
Kamyshli, Dzanbas-6 Kokcha-2, Bazar-2, Kaunda-1 and others.
Literature
- Гулямов Я. Г., История орошения Хорезма с древнейших времен до наших дней, Ташкент, 1957;
- Толстов С. П., Итина М. A., Проблема суярганской культуры//CA, 1960, № 1;
- Толстов С. П., По древним дельтам Окса и Яксарта, М., 1962.