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A hydromorphic re-evaluation of the forgotten river civilizations of Central Asia
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The Aral Sea basin in Central Asia and its major rivers, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, were the center of advanced river civilizations, and a principal hub of the Silk Roads over a period of more than 2,000 y. The region’s decline has been traditionally attributed to the devastating Mongol invasion of the early-13th century CE. However, the role of changing hydroclimatic conditions on the development of these culturally influential potamic societies has not been the subject of modern geoarchae...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1073/pnas.2009553117
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- Publisher:
- National Academy of Sciences Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Journal website
- Volume:
- 117
- Issue:
- 52
- Pages:
- 32982-32988
- Publication date:
- 2020-12-14
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-11-02
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1091-6490
- ISSN:
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0027-8424
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- English
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1145547
- Local pid:
- pubs:1145547
- Deposit date:
- 2020-11-16
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- National Academy of Sciences
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- Copyright © 2020 National Academy of Sciences
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This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from National Academy of Sciences at https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009553117
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