Кайраккумская культура: ареал, хронология, происхождение
Kayrakkum Culture: Areal, Chronology, Origin

Summary/Abstract: The study of the Kayrakkum culture sites made it possible to clarify and supplement the long-standing arguments of B. A. Litvinsky regarding its origin and distribution, as well as to indicate the difference between the Kayrakkum materials and the Andronovo archaeological complex of the Eurasian steppe belt. In many ways, the discovery of the Farkhor burial ground in Southwestern Tajikistan helped to understand the genesis of the cultures of Late Bronze Age Transoxiana. The archaeological materials from Farkhor find direct analogies among the evidence obtained from the well-known Zamanbaba site located in the lower reaches of the Zaravshan River. Here, to the west of the Bukhara region, in the 3rd — beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, the influence from the Near East impulse, the formation and further spread of two major cultures of the Central Asian steppe circle — Kayrakkum and Tazabagyab took place. The Tazabagyab culture occupied the west of Transoxiana down to the lower reaches of the Amu Darya, while the Kayrakkum culture was distributed to the east, up to the Ferghana Valley in the upper reaches of the Syr Darya and along the eastern edge of the Tarim basin.

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