000K utf8 1100 $c2022 1500 eng 2050 urn:nbn:de:gbv:8:3-2022-00717-0 2051 10.3389/fevo.2022.995490 3000 Billings, Traci N. 3010 Arciero, Roberto 3010 Boivin, Nicole 3010 Carra, Marialetizia 3010 Cerasetti, Barbara 3010 Dal Martello, Rita 3010 Forni, Luca 3010 Rouse, Lynne M. 3010 Spengler, Robert N. 4000 Agriculture in the Karakum$dAn archaeobotanical analysis from Togolok 1, southern Turkmenistan (ca. 2300–1700 B.C.) [Billings, Traci N.] 4209 Southern Central Asia witnessed widespread expansion in urbanism and exchange, between roughly 2200 and 1500 B.C., fostering a new cultural florescence, sometimes referred to as the Greater Khorasan Civilization. Decades of detailed archeological investigation have focused on the development of urban settlements, political systems, and inter-regional exchange within and across the broader region, but little is known about the agricultural systems that supported these cultural changes. In this paper, we present the archaeobotanical results of material recovered from Togolok 1, a proto-urban settlement along the Murghab River alluvial fan located in southeastern Turkmenistan. This macrobotanical assemblage dates to the late 3rd - early 2nd millennia B.C., a time associated with important cultural transformations in southern Central Asia. We demonstrate that people at the site were cultivating and consuming a diverse range of crops including, barley, wheat, legumes, grapes, and possibly plums and apples or pears. This, together with the associated material culture and zooarchaeological evidence, suggest a regionally adapted mixed agropastoral economy. The findings at Togolok 1 contribute to the ongoing discussion of dietary choices, human/landscape interactions, and the adaptation of crops to diverse ecosystems in prehistoric Central Asia. 4950 https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.995490$xR$3Volltext$534 4950 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:8:3-2022-00717-0$xR$3Volltext$534 4961 https://macau.uni-kiel.de/receive/macau_mods_00003150 5051 930 5550 Age 5550 archaeobotany (palaeoethnobotany) 5550 Bronze 5550 Central Asia 5550 Murghab 5550 palaeoeconomy