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CONTENTS.   XI

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CHAPTER VII. RESULTS.—Continued.

Analytical description of the finds from North and South Kurgans.—Continued. Pottery of South Kurgan.—Continued.

Pottery from the upper strata, Culture IV    245-249

Wheel-made pottery    146-149

Hand-made pottery    249

The minor antiquities of metal, bone, clay, stone, and faience of both kurgans    149-173

Copper ornaments from middle and lower strata of North Kurgan, Culture I    250

Copper objects from upper strata of North Kurgan, Culture II    151

Copper ornaments and implements from lower and middle strata of South Kurgan, Cul-

ture III    151-155

Copper from upper strata of South Kurgan, Culture IV    155-157

Lead from North Kurgan    157

Ornaments of stone, clay, and faience (beads, etc.) :

From lower and middle strata of North Kurgan, Culture I    157

From upper strata of North Kurgan, Culture II    158

From middle and lower strata of South Kurgan, Culture III    159, 16o

From upper strata of South Kurgan, Culture IV    26o

Of uncertain position in South Kurgan    162

Useful objects of stone, clay, and bone from Cultures I and II, North Kurgan (whorls,

flints, mace-heads, etc.)    163-166
From Culture III, South Kurgan (whorls, flints, arrow-heads, mace-heads, sling-

stones, seals, and stamps, vessels of marble and alabaster)    166-17o

From Culture IV, South Kurgan (whorls, etc.)    17o

Images of terra-cotta, Culture III    171-172

Fragments of glazed pottery in South Kurgan    173

CHAPTER VIII. RESULTS.

Comparative summary of the four cultures    275-277

CHAPTER IX. CONCLUDING REMARKS    179-186

Decoration of Anau pottery wholly different from old European systems    179

The only possible comparison would be with that of lowest strata at Susa    179

Painting of pottery an essential characteristic of oldest cultures of Turkestan and Persia,

which were probably not far different in age    279

Comparison of Anau with ancient Europe in regard to elements of culture and social peculiarities   179

Burial in contracted position in Europe, Africa, and Palestine    28o

Obsidian arrow-point in Culture III probably from the Caucasus    181

Analogies in the ornamental copper pins    181

The sickle in Culture III has analogous forms only in VI city of Troja    182

A knife-blade in Culture III resembles one in Altai-Ural bronze age    182

Insufficiency of the established equations for chronological determinations    182

The seal with a man, a lion, and a griffin clearly from Western Asia    182

The three-edged copper arrow-point of Culture IV    183

   Its analogies in Europe, Asia, and Egypt 183-186

Culture IV approximately between moo and 500 B. c    186

Culture III ended by moo B. a    186

Its brilliant period corresponds with flourishing period of Mycenean culture or earlier    186

Its beginning as yet undatable    186

The cultures of North Kurgan still older    186

Beginning of Culture I in III millennium B. C    186

Footnote by R. P. on the Chronology of Anau    186

CHAPTER X. THE EXCAVATIONS IN GHIAUR KALA (OLD MERV)    187-20 I

General summary, description of site    187

Upper Digging, on the Citadel    188-192

Lower Digging and Outer Digging I    192

Outer Digging II and Galleries I to III    193