The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in the Margiana Lowlands: Facts and Methodological Proposals for a Redefinition of the Research Strategies

Volume II in the series on The Archaeological Map of the Murghab Delta focuses on The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in the Margiana Lowlands. Contents: In Memoria of Iminjan Suleymanovich Masimov 1940-2006; Introduction (Sandro Salvatori and Maurizio Tosi); 1) Transects and Other Techniques for Systematic Sampling (Maurizio Cattani and Sandro Salvatori); 2) A GIS for the Archaeology of the Murgab Delta (Barbara Cerasetti); 3) The Murgab Delta in Central Asia 1990-2001: the GIS from Research Resource to a Reasoning Tool for the Study of Settlement Change in Long-Term Fluctuations (Maurizio Cattani, Barbara Cerasetti, Sandro Salvatori and Maurizio Tosi); 4) Non-graphic Information Systems and Diachronic Transformations in Margiana (Joshua Wright); 5) The Margiana Settlement Pattern from the Middle Bronze Age to the Parthian-Sasanian: a Contribution to the Study of Complexity (Sandro Salvatori); 6) Cultural Variability in the Bronze Age Oxus Civilisation and its Relations with the Surrounding Regions of Central Asia and Iran (Sandro Salvatori); 7) Unpublished Stamp-seals from the North-western Murgab Delta (Iminjan S. Masimov ¿ and Sandro Salvatori); 8) A New Cylinder Seal from Ancient Margiana: Cultural Exchange and Syncretism in a "World Wide Trade System" at the End of the 3rd Millennium BC (Sandro Salvatori); 9) Excavations at Sites No. 1211 and No. 1219 (Final Bronze Age) (Maurizio Cattani); 10) The Final Phase of the Bronze Age and the "Andronovo Question" in Margiana (Maurizio Cattani); 11) An Aspect of the Early Iron Age (Yaz I) Period in Margiana: Ceramic; 12) Iron-working and Ceramic Recycling on the Surface of a Late Iron Age Fort at the North-eastern Fringe of the Murgab Delta (Massimo Vidale, Enrico Battistella and Giuseppe Guida); 13) An Egyptian Vessel at Site No. 203 (Sabina Malgora).