Namazga-Tepe

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Namazgadepe (also Namazga Depe, Namazga Tepe Tepe or Namasga ) is next Jeitun one of the oldest archaeological places in Central Asia. The 70 -acre Tepe ( hill ) is located 80 kilometers southeast of Ashgabat in Turkmenistan near the Iranian border and is considered a major witness early agriculture in the region. In Namasga Tepe, the phases I-VI can be distinguished.

In Namasga Tepe estuarine areas were regulated by Liman irrigation and used for the cultivation of grain. During the development of this culture it came to technical innovations such as the use of carts and wagons for the use of cattle as draft animals and for the use of the potter's wheel. Findings prove relations to Iran, Afghanistan and Harappakultur.

The oldest settlement layers are assigned to the Chalcolithic period. In Namazga I contact to Tappe Sialk and other cultures of the region can be substantiated. Namazga II is 5300-4300 BC during the Phase III Changes have been made in the funeral ritual in ceramic design and especially in the skull shape on immigration. In the Bronze Age layers ( Namazga IV and V, 2400-1700 BC) we find evidence for metal use. Even in Namasa I was copper known, but were the three early-stage Farming village cultures, always progressed their technological knowledge. From Namasga IV pottery wheels were used and the settlements were attached by a mudbrick wall and considerably larger. In film, there are five multi-room mud-brick houses with streets, clay two and four-wheel car models and bronze tools.

One can distinguish between different styles of painted pottery, which was made ​​on the potter's wheel and fired in two-storey round, rounded and angular ovens. The partly very complex furnaces had corbelled dry stone. Get were only the lower chambers of the fire pottery kilns, which also contained a central pillar or partitions. The inner diameter of the round ovens are between one and 2.25 meters. The dimensions of the walls from 0.3 to 0.45 m.

Some clay figures of Karadepe similar to those of Obed- time ( Ubaid culture) of Mesopotamia. They found clay and stone seal. The different rich offerings of the dead suggest a social hierarchy. Figures of mother goddesses provide insights into the religious ideas in Nemasga Tepe.

The first excavations were carried out in the 1950s. The site is for the creation of a Bronze Age chronology for the region of importance. Turkmenistan was on the threshold of Bronze Age culture, but remained a fringe.