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0070 Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.1
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[Photo] 11 Twelve Cesturies of Deformation on Citadel of Ghiaur Kala, Merv.
[Photo] 12 Deformation of the Walls of Ghiaur Kala during about Twelve Centuries.

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apparently contemporaneous ending of the life of this culture and beginning
of irrigation, while there are only 4 feet of iron culture now standing on the top
of the kurgan. The great deformation that this hill has suffered is evidence
that it has lost a considerable amount of its original height, and it is likely that
the difference between the 17.5 feet of iron culture required by our ratio, and
the 4 feet now standing, is a minimum measure of that wastage. I have, therefore,
in the column of cultures, added this 13.5 feet to the present thickness of culture-
strata of the South Kurgan.

Let us turn now to the record of the shafts near the North Kurgan. We
have seen that while the main mass of the kurgan is based at a depth of 20 feet