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Article

Adaptive Dynamics of Settlement Models in the Urban Landscape of Termez (Uzbekistan) from c. 300 BCE to c. 1400 CE

by
Enrique Ariño
1,*,
Paula Uribe
2,
Jorge Angás
3,
Raquel Piqué
4,
Rodrigo Portero
1,
Verónica Martínez-Ferreras
5 and
Josep M. Gurt
5
1
Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Salamanca, C/Cervantes s/n, 37002 Salamanca, Spain
2
Department of Antiquity Sciences, University of Zaragoza, c. Corona de Aragón, 42 (Edificio Cervantes), 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
3
Department of Antiquity Sciences, ARAID—University of Zaragoza, c. Corona de Aragón, 42 (Edificio Cervantes), 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
4
Department of Prehistory, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Edifici B Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
5
ERAAUB, Department of Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Barcelona, Carrer de Montalegre, 6-8, 08001 Barcelona, Spain
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Land 2023, 12(8), 1550; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12081550
Submission received: 5 July 2023 / Revised: 31 July 2023 / Accepted: 1 August 2023 / Published: 4 August 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Resilience in Historical Landscapes)
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Abstract

The archaeological site of Ancient Termez is located in southern Uzbekistan. Despite the arid environment, the city benefited from its strategic position near two rivers, the Amu Darya and the Surkhan Darya. Its significance was mainly related to the expansion of trade routes connecting Eurasia. The city comprises several enclosures that attest long-term human-environment interactions. In order to identify the adaptive dynamics of the settlement models during an extended chronology covering the period from c. 300 BCE to c. 1220 CE (Greco-Bactrian/Yuezhi, Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian, and Islamic periods), a multidisciplinary study has been carried out, which includes: (1) archaeological excavations in several areas of the urban complex; (2) pedestrian surveying inside some enclosures and in the urban periphery; (3) an aerial survey based on high-resolution satellite imagery; (4) AMS dating of charcoal and bone samples; (5) archaeobotanical investigation through anthracological analysis; (6) zooarchaeological studies. The results point to variations in the development of the inhabited spaces, in which abandonment and occupation took place. The zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical data demonstrate the exploitation of natural resources in different environments (i.e., arid areas and irrigated land) and a certain evolution during the period considered.
Keywords: archaeological survey; remote sensing; Anthracology; Zooarchaeology; ancient Termez; central Asia; ancient period; medieval period archaeological survey; remote sensing; Anthracology; Zooarchaeology; ancient Termez; central Asia; ancient period; medieval period

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Ariño, E.; Uribe, P.; Angás, J.; Piqué, R.; Portero, R.; Martínez-Ferreras, V.; Gurt, J.M. Adaptive Dynamics of Settlement Models in the Urban Landscape of Termez (Uzbekistan) from c. 300 BCE to c. 1400 CE. Land 2023, 12, 1550. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12081550

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Ariño E, Uribe P, Angás J, Piqué R, Portero R, Martínez-Ferreras V, Gurt JM. Adaptive Dynamics of Settlement Models in the Urban Landscape of Termez (Uzbekistan) from c. 300 BCE to c. 1400 CE. Land. 2023; 12(8):1550. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12081550

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Ariño, Enrique, Paula Uribe, Jorge Angás, Raquel Piqué, Rodrigo Portero, Verónica Martínez-Ferreras, and Josep M. Gurt. 2023. "Adaptive Dynamics of Settlement Models in the Urban Landscape of Termez (Uzbekistan) from c. 300 BCE to c. 1400 CE" Land 12, no. 8: 1550. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12081550

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Ariño, E., Uribe, P., Angás, J., Piqué, R., Portero, R., Martínez-Ferreras, V., & Gurt, J. M. (2023). Adaptive Dynamics of Settlement Models in the Urban Landscape of Termez (Uzbekistan) from c. 300 BCE to c. 1400 CE. Land, 12(8), 1550. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12081550

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