Archaeological culture · c. 1500–500 BCE

Yaz culture

The early Iron Age culture of Margiana, Bactria and Sogdia, which followed the BMAC. Its people lived in rural settlements around fortified mudbrick platforms and citadels, dug irrigation canals, and used hand-made and later wheel-made pottery with iron sickles and arrowheads.

Burials almost disappear in this period, and many scholars link it to the early Iranian world of the Avesta.

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1500–550 BCE