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The Early Culture of Khwarizm*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sergei P. Tolstov
Sergei P. Tolstov*
Affiliation:
Director of the Institute of Ethnography, Moscow
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Extract

These brief remarks of Al Makdisi, from his account of the first colonization of Khwarizm, contain much of interest. For evidently in early medieval times there still survived in Khwarizm a vague traditional memory of an ancient culture, when the sandy islands of the great Oxus delta and the lowlands round the Sea of Aral were inhabited by sedentary fisher-folk, the ancestors of the creators of the brilliant but little known civilization of ancient Khwarizm.

Type
Research Article
Information
Antiquity , Volume 20 , Issue 78 , June 1946 , pp. 92 - 99
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1946

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This translation from the Russian did not run very fluently in the from in which it was received, and there were some obvious minor errors of translation to be corrected. It has therefore been entirely recast and rewritten by one of the Editors, and few lines have been omitted. In the process every effort has been made to express, and when necessary to clarify, the author's meaning. The excavation described is the first to be undertaken in an important region, and the general conclusions reached will be closely studied and may well prove to be correct. But it may perhaps be suggested that further excavation and research, which we hope will be undertaken, is required to establish them upon a secure basis. O.G.S.C.