Archaeological culture · c. 6000–4500 BCE
Jeitun culture
The earliest farmers of Central Asia, living in small villages of clay-block houses along the northern foothills of the Kopet Dag in Turkmenistan and the neighbouring Gorgan plain. They grew barley and wheat, kept sheep and goats and still hunted for part of their food.
Their culture shows close links with early farming villages in Iran.
See Jeitun culture on the map in 6000 BCE
- On the map
- 6000–4500 BCE
How we know
No writing existed; it is known from excavated sites dated by radiocarbon.
Sites
- Jeitun c. 6000 BCE, for a few centuries