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SUBMITTER: Mir-Makhamad B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10977675 | biostudies-literature | 2024
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mir-Makhamad Basira B Lurje Pavel P Parshuto Vikentiy V Pulotov Abdurahmon A Aminov Firuz F Shenkar Michael M Saidov Muminkhon M Semenov Nikita N Kurbanov Sharof S Mirzaakhmedov Sirojiddin S Rakhmanov Khusniddin K Dal Martello Rita R Spengler Robert R
PloS one 20240328 3
The Zarafshan River runs from the mountains of Tajikistan and terminates in the sands of the Kyzyl-Kum Desert in Uzbekistan; it served as a communication route and homeland for the Sogdians. The Sogdians are historically depicted as merchants existing from the end of the first millennium BC through the first millennium AD. While recent research has provided the first glimpse into cultivation, commerce, communication, and consumption in the Lower Zarafshan, the agricultural heartland of the Middl ...[more]