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0075 Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.1
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[Photo] 13 Odonoche Tepe. 80 feet high. On Merv Oasis.
[Photo] 14 Enecting a Kibitka.

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This occurred at about the time that the alluvial growth reached its maxi-
mum height as shown in shaft B, for this growth stopped at the beginning of irri-
gation, and irrigation began at about the time of the founding of Anau. It is,
indeed, not unlikely that a similar diversion of the stream caused the abandon-
ment of the North Kurgan and the subsequent choice of the site of the South
Kurgan.
The fact that a settlement had attained to a height of 50 or 60 feet above
the plain would perhaps seem to us a reason for choosing a new site, but such does
not appear to have been a motive in Central Asia. Height was apparently much