Timeline
Every guide, in its time.
Read across eras and regions, then open a guide to see the sources behind its dates. A shared date is a question to investigate, not evidence of contact.
1 of 57 guides in Central Asia
3000–1000 BCE 1
- 2250–1700 BCE
Can one civilization have two chronologies?
Gonur Depe and the Oxus civilization: a Bronze Age world with two clocks.
Murghab delta, Turkmenistan · Central Asia · Early cities
Enter the Oxus civilization of Central Asia through its largest site and learn why two published chronologies are kept as separate candidates.
Keep the habit
Dates are ranges. Read them that way.
Each guide names its period, its place, and the records that support them.
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