University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Papers
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
2015
Publication Source
Iran
Volume
LIII
Start Page
93
Last Page
117
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Achaemenid, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, Kyzyltepa, agro-pastoralism
Recommended Citation
Wu, X., Miller, N. F., & Crabtree, P. (2015). Agro-Pastoral Strategies and Food Production on the Achaemenid Frontier in Central Asia: A Case Study of Kyzyltepa in Southern Uzbekistan. Iran, LIII 93-117. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/penn_museum_papers/1
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Date Posted: 18 March 2016
This document has been peer reviewed.