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VI   CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER XV. OASES.—COntinued.

The oasis as a geological problem.—Continued.

Physiographic classification of oases    3°1-303

I. Delta oases    301

1. Of rivers    3oI

2. Of small streams    3°I

II. River-bank and flood-plain oases    302

III. High-valley oases    302

IV. Spring and well oases    302

V. Lake-shore oases    302-303

Relations between erosion and burial in the obliteration of kurgans (oasis culture deposits) 303-307

   The ancient Alai Valley route from Bactra to Kashgar 307-310

Objective criteria of ancient long-used routes    307'x.

The three controlling factors of trade routes    307-3o8

Advantages of the Alai Valley route    30$-310'

Oases of the Zerafshan    31_0=316

River-bank (type II) oases of the lower Zerafshan   

    310-3311:

311

High-valley (type III) oases of the upper Zerafshan    311-316

H issar    316-317

Abandoned oases of Fergana    317-320

   Kara Tepe (Western) 317-318

Eeman Tepe    318

River-cut mounds of Millitinskaya    318-320

Anau    320-33°

Peculiarities of Anau as an oasis of type Ib    32o

The building of a tilting delta    321

Erosion cycles of the Anau Su in the mountains    322

Recent decrease of surface drainage    322-324

Shape of the Anau Delta and its surface irregularities wrought by man's débris of occupa-

tion and his control of alluvial depositions    324-327
The ancient and the modern dunes of Kara Kum and the interbedding of the delta mar-

gins with them •    327-328

Analysis of shaft sections of the deposits from man, water, and wind.    328-330

Physiographic reconstruction of the past in Anau    33o

Oases of the Murg-ab Delta    330-337

The river Murg-ab and the type peculiarities of the Mery oases, past and present    330-333

Irregularities of the delta surface wrought by man's débris of occupation and his control

of alluvial depositions   `   333

The great mound of Odontche Tepe    334

Analysis of shafts at Ghiaur Kala. The deposits from man, water, and wind    334-336

The stratigraphie order [(1) loess, (2) dune-sand, (3) alluvium] explained by climatic

change to dry and recession of the delta    336-337

PART VI. ANIMAL REMAINS FROM THE EXCAVATIONS AT ANAU, AND THE HORSE OF ANAU IN ITS RELATION TO THE RACES OF DOMESTIC HORSES. J. ULRICH DUERST.

CHAPTER XVI. INTRODUCTION AND DESCRIPTION OF MATERIAL    341-343

CHAPTER XVII   

Carnivora   

Foxes of Anau I and II   

Wolf of Anau I anatomically compared   

Domestic Dog of Anau II anatomically compared with prehistoric and recent domestic

and wild dogs.    

Probably imported into Anau    

Roden tia   

Remains of mouse   

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