Bronze Age Archaeology in Turkmenistan

Introduction: In the past years a number of conferences were organized in Ashgabat and Mary in which recent research results about the archeological heritage of Turkmenistan were communicated to a Turkmen and international audience demonstrating cultural assets that compare to those of the most famous Bronze Age cultures world-wide. In the following article an experienced archeologist from the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin presents a short characterization of the most important prehistoric sites in Turkmenistan.

It is evident, that the presentation of this cultural heritage to a larger audience world-wide would strongly spur the interest in Turkmen culture and Turkmenistan altogether. A good start could be an exhibition of bronze-age artifacts from sites like Gonur depe in international centers with a decade-long proven record in archeology as proposed by the German archeological institutes in Hamburg and Berlin. These exhibitions would address a huge number of people who could be the future tourists coming to Turkmenistan and also familiarize them with the present-day country...

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