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Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2 |
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A Village built of Cobble-stones laid with Sun-dried Brick (Zerafshan Gorge). |
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smaller and only one-storied, about 8 feet high. All have flat roofs of ordinarily
8 inches of clay over brush laid on split saplings and hewn timbers. Proceeding
upstream we find occasional courses of cobbles built into the house walls, and the
proportion increases as we proceed till in the upper part of the valley we see houses
built entirely of cobbles, cemented with clay, while even this cement is lacking in
the last two or three villages near its glacier, where many of them are mere squalid
huts with rounded corners and brush roofs, usually protected with felt.
An important fact about these people is that they have no tradition of arrival
in the land, but boast of having been there from the beginning of man. All the
old mullahs questioned insisted upon this, and it points to a very ancient Aryan
civilization of the valley. For thousands on thousands of years they may have
lived there, undisturbed and isolated from the rest of Asia, building up a simple
civilization uninterrupted, hardly feeling an echo from the tumultuous struggles
that so often destroyed all culture on the plains.
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