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Investigating early agriculture in Central Asia: new research at Jeitun, Turkmenistan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

D. R. Harris ,
V. M. Masson ,
Y. E. Berezkin ,
M. P. Charles ,
C. Gosden ,
G. C. Hillman ,
A. K. Kasparov ,
G. F. Korobkova ,
K. Kurbansakhatov  and
A. J. Legge
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D. R. Harris
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31–34 Gordon Square, London WC1H OPY, England
V. M. Masson
Affiliation:
Institute of History of Material Culture, Academy of Sciences, 191041 St Petersburg, Dvortzovaya nab. 18, Russia
Y. E. Berezkin
Affiliation:
Institute of History of Material Culture, Academy of Sciences, 191041 St Petersburg, Dvortzovaya nab. 18, Russia
M. P. Charles
Affiliation:
Department of Prehistory & Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, England
C. Gosden
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, La Trobe University, Bundoora VIC 3083, Australia
G. C. Hillman
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31–34 Gordon Square, London WC1H OPY, England
A. K. Kasparov
Affiliation:
Institute of History of Material Culture, Academy of Sciences, 191041 St Petersburg, Dvortzovaya nab. 18, Russia
G. F. Korobkova
Affiliation:
Institute of History of Material Culture, Academy of Sciences, 191041 St Petersburg, Dvortzovaya nab. 18, Russia
K. Kurbansakhatov
Affiliation:
South-Turkmenistan Multi-disciplinary Archaeological Expedition of the Turkmenistan Academy of Sciences, Ashkabad, Turkmenistan, CIS.
A. J. Legge
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Centre for Extra-Mural Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, 26 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DQ, England
S. Limbrey
Affiliation:
Department of Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Birmingham, PO Box 363, Birmingham B15 2TT, England
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Abstract

In 1989 ANTIQUITY published a special section of papers on the archaeology of the steppe zone, to notice the special role of that great sweep of land that links the northern fringes of early prehistoric agriculture in Europe and Asia. A new international team has now returned to Jeitun, the key early agricultural site in Turkmenistan, on the edge of the Kara Kum desert.

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 255 , June 1993 , pp. 324 - 338
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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