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Recent Research in Central Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Philip L. Kohl
Philip L. Kohl*
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Department of Anthropology, Wellesley College
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This article summarizes recent prehistoric research in western Central Asia (Western Turkestan) or the area of internal drainage towards the Caspian and Aral Seas, stretching from the Pamir massif and Fergana valley in the east to the Caspian in the west, and from the Aral in the north to the Hindu Kush watershed in Afghanistan and the eastern extension of the Alborz chain and the Iranian plateau in the south (Figure 1). This vast area contains distinct ecological zones ranging from high intermontane valleys to piedmont and alluvial plains, yet despite this diversity and its inevitable consequences for cultural development, certain shared features unite the area into a logical unit of analysis. Western Turkestan is a land of interior drainage with access to no seas other than the landlocked Caspian and Aral basins.

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Annual Review of Old World Archaeology
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American Antiquity , Volume 50 , Issue 4 , October 1985, pp. 789 - 795
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1985

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