Jety-Asar Culture Fortresses

Description: Ancient valleys of the south Syrdarya were populated since early 1st millenium BC by the Sakae and later by their successors who left the Chirik-Rabat culture, but they were abandoned in the late 3rd - early 2nd cc. BC when their inhabitants, probably Dahae of classical sources, moved in the SSW direction to the Parthian territories. To the north of them were the tribal groups of represented by the Jety-Asar culture lasting with no interruption from the late Bronze Age till the end of 9th century AD. All the important populated sites were strongly fortified surrounded by kurgan necropoles.

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