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Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2 |
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Profile of Afrosiab. |
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that some light on the antiquity, and especially on the introduction, of glazed
ware might come from a study of gully sections through its culture remains. This
work proved difficult, if not impossible, without excavation. In the gullies two
habits have conspired against reliable sections; first, creeping down of muddy
débris during wet weather; and second, refilling of narrow parts choked up in
various ways, after which reexcavation leaves sections of washed-down débris in
which all horizons of the culture-strata are mixed together. Some gullies, 30 feet
in depth, are so narrow from top to bottom that when a wall caves in, refilling
takes place behind. The large gully running to the Obu Siob canal opposite the
mill widens and deepens downwards with several terraces, and has been artificially
dammed across at regular intervals, thus refilling to form cross-terraces that are
cultivated. Reexcavation of this valley would leave sections of most unreliable
data. But though unreliable in general, there are a few gully sections in Afrosiab
that give clean exposures of undisturbed strata. In two or three, through its
central plateau of débris there appears to be a total depth of 30 to 35 feet of
culture-strata resting on the original loess foundation. Through its northern wall
along the Obu Siob cliff a tunneling gully shows the culture débris thinning out
to but a few feet in thickness.
HIGH-VALLEY (TYPE III) OASES OF THE UPPER ZERAFSHAN.
So often conquered and swept by migrating hordes, the lowland oases of the
Zerafshan now present a mixture of races, though according to the ethnologist
there is still a predominance of Tadjik, excepting perhaps in Bokhara. And this
mixture continues some way up into the mountain valley, where for about 16
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