Agro-Pastoral Strategies and Food Production on the Achaemenid Frontier in Central Asia: A Case Study of Kyzyltepa in Southern Uzbekistan

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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Papers
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Achaemenid
zooarchaeology
archaeobotany
Kyzyltepa
agro-pastoralism
Agricultural and Resource Economics
Agricultural Economics
Agronomy and Crop Sciences
Archaeological Anthropology
Asian History
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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
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Wu, Xin
Crabtree, Pam
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This article discusses aspects of the agro-pastoral economy of Kyzyltepa, a late Iron Age or Achaemenid period (sixth–fourth century BC) site in the Surkhandarya region of southern Uzbekistan. The analysis integrates archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological analyses with textual references to food production and provisioning in order to examine local agro-pastoral strategies. Preliminary results suggest an economy that included both an intensive agricultural component, with summer irrigation of millet, and a wider-ranging market-oriented pastoral component that provided meat to the settlement.

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2015-01-01
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Iran
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