Monuments of the Early Iron Age of the Aral-Caspian Region as a Historical Source

2016

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DOI 10.1080/09720073.2016.11892141
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Abstract

Studying antiquities of the Aral-Caspian region early Iron Age is the urgent task of modern archeologyin the course of solving the ethnic and cultural problems. At the same time special attention should be funerarymonuments and places of worship, carrying a large amount of defining ethnic and ethno differentiating information.These monuments due to the wide use of stone, apparently extracted from a deep canyon, are well preserved. Fromthe standpoint of historical geography and archeology, the area is very valuable, as it is situated at the crossroadsof ancient cultures and civilizations. It is a transboundary area that formerly served as the staging point onmigration routes, ancient and medieval times. It was an important link in the cultural diffusion processes on theterritory of Kazakhstan, between the Central and West Asia and the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. The authorsmade a comparative analysis of a chronologically and culturally related neighboring monuments and remoteregions of Eurasia. The authors identified common trends in the establishment, development and transformationof the early Iron Age cultures.