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| Geographical range | Lower Amu Darya |
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| Period | Late Bronze Age |
| Dates | ca. 1850–1500 BC |
| Preceded by | Kelteminar culture Andronovo culture Suyarganovo culture (in lower Amu Darya river) Zamanbaba culture (in lower Zeravshan river) |
| Followed by | Amirabad culture Begazy–Dandybai culture (in lower Amu Darya river) |
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The Tazabagyab culture is from the late Bronze Age, ca. 1850 BC to 1500 BC,[1] and flourished in the lower Zeravshan valley, as well as along the lower Amu Darya towards the south shore of the Aral Sea; this last region is known as Khwarazm or Khorezm. Earlier it was thought to be from ca. 1500 BC to 1100 BC and regarded a southern offshoot of the Andronovo culture, composed of Indo-Iranians,[2] but Stanislav Grigoriev, in a recent study asserts that Tazabagyab is not part of the Andronovo cultural horizon.[3]
- ^ Garner, Jennifer, (2020). "Metal sources (tin and copper) and the BMAC", in The World of the Oxus Civilization, Chapter 28, Routledge, Table 28.1: "Andronovo-Tazabag'jab, 1850-1500 BC (after Parzinger and Boroffka 2003: 280, fig. 1)"
- ^ Mallory & Adams 1997, pp. 566–567.
- ^ Grigoriev, Stanislav, (2021). "Andronovo Problem: Studies of Cultural Genesis in the Eurasian Bronze Age", in Open Archaeology 2021 (7), p.5: "...In western literature, for example, the Tazabagyab culture of the southern Aral Sea region is sometimes viewed as a variant of the Andronovo culture (Mallory & Adams, 1997, p. 566). But experts on the Andronovo culture do not consider Tazabagyab as Andronovo..." .