Talgar Alluvial Fan Dataset
Claudia Chang and Perry A. Tourtellotte

Comparative
Archaeology Database
University of Pittsburgh
http://www.cadb.pitt.edu
Email: cadb@pitt.edu

Survey Methodology and Preliminary Conclusions



Conclusions

The density of Iron Age kurgans and settlements on the Talgar Fan is actually quite high, suggesting that the Talgar Fan was a densely populated oasis during the first millennium B.C. through the middle of the second millennium B.C. There was a hierarchy of site types: villages, hamlets, and seasonal camps.

This material will be assembled into a GIS data base along with other recorded information on sites and kurgans archived at the Institute of Archaeology. The end result will include an inventory of sites on the Talgar Fan as well as a tool for cultural resource management of historical and cultural resources in the Talgar area. Given the eventual privatization of the large collectives, future surveys on the Talgar alluvial fan will become increasingly difficult.

Test excavations should be conducted at sherd scatters and at the loci of single finds in order to evaluate the nature of sub-surface finds.


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