Very rare ancient bronze age Sapalli culture redware pottery chalice

  
A very rare Sapalli redware chalice, decorated with an incised line decoration around the rim. The chalice is intact and in superb grade, heavy earth accreations adhered to the foot and very small chip to rim, otherwise intact. Dates to circa 1000BC, Uzbekistan. Measures 30cm height and 18cm diameter. According to the Russian archaeologist E. Kuzmina, writing in 2007 in The Prehistory of the Silk Road, links the Zaman-Baba culture found in the Bukhara Oasis in the third millennium BCE to the spread of Indo-Aryans across Central Asis. [1] Since 3000 BCE an advanced Bronze Age culture called the Sapalli Culture thrived at such sites as Varakhsha, Vardan, Paykend, and Ramitan. In 1500 BCE a combination of factors-climatic drying, iron technology, and the arrival of Aryan nomads-triggered a population shift to the oasis from outlying areas. Together both the Sapalli and Aryan people lived in villages along the shores of a dense lake and wetland area in the Zeravshan Fan the Zeravshan (Zarafshan) River had ceased draining to the Oxus.

By 1000 BC both groups had merged into a distinctive culture. Around 700 BCE this new culture, called Sogdian, flourished in city-states along the Zeravshan Valley. By this time, the lake had silted up and three small fortified settlements had been built. By 500 BCE these settlements had grown together and were enclosed by a wall, thus Bukhara was born.

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1. Era: 1000BC
2. Originating Region: Uzbekistan
3. Original/Reproduction: Original