History of Civilizations of Central Asia: The dawn of civilization, earliest time to 700 B.C

Afghanistan agricultural Altyn-depe Amu Darya ancient animal archaeological arrowheads artefacts Asian Bactria Baluchistan beads Beshkent blades bone Bronze Age burial cave cemeteries centres ceramic clay complex copper cores decorated desert early eastern economy evidence excavated figurines flakes flint forms Gansu goat graves groups Harappan Hissar implements India Indus Civilization Indus valley Iran Iranian Iron Age Kalibangan Kazakhstan knives Kopet Dag Late layer material Mehrgarh Mesolithic microliths Middle Palaeolithic Mohenjo-daro Mongolia motifs mountain Mousterian mud-brick Mundigak Murghab Neolithic Neolithic cultures northern oases ornaments Painted Grey Ware painted pottery Pakistan pebble period Phase pits plain population pots pottery Proto-Indian Proto-Indo-Iranians Proto-Iranian rectangular region remains river scrapers seals second millennium B.C. settlements Shahr-i Sokhta shape similar southern Soviet Central Asia stage steppe stone tools structures surface terracotta third millennium B.C. tion tombs tradition tribes Upper Palaeolithic urban Vakhsh vases vessels walls western