ALTYN-DEPE

'Altyn-Depe' (Алтын-Депе, the Turkmen for "Golden Hill") is a Bronze Age (BMAC) site in Turkmenistan, near Ashgabat, inhabited in the 3rd to 2nd millennia BC, abandoned around 1600 BC.
Namazga V and Altyn-Depe were in contact with the Late Harappan culture (ca. 2000-1600 BC), and Masson (1988) tends to identify the culture as Proto-Dravidian. The site is notable for the remains of its "proto-Zoroastrian" ziggurat^[2].

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1. Altyn-Depe (University Museum Monographs, No. 55) by V. M. Masson and Henry N. Michael (1988) p.68 ISBN 978-0934718547.
2. V. M. Masson and V. I. Sarianidi, ''Central Asia: Turkmenia before the Achaemenids'' (trans. Tringham, 1972); review: Charles C. Kolb, American Anthropologist (1973), 1945-1948

External links

★ "Bronze Age in Eurasia", by Valery Pavlovich Alexeev (1991)

★ http://stantours.com/tm_rg_ahal_ad.html