LOST CIVILIZATION:: Looking for the ‘origin’ of civilization? Before Sumer, Egypt, Assyria(?) the ‘Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex’ (BMAC, aka: Oxus/O’Chus civilization) is the archaeological designation for an early Bronze Age civilization of Central Asia, dated to ca. 2300–1700 BCE. It is in northern Afghanistan, eastern Turkmenistan, southern Uzbekistan and western Tajikistan, centered on the upper ‘Amu Darya’ (old ‘Oxus River’ aka: O’Chus river). Archeological research on the BMAC was confined to Soviet journals. and these findings are largely unknown to the West. The region shows mud-brick houses were (c.6000 cal. BCE) whose inhabitants were farmers who kept herds of goats and sheep and grew wheat and barley, that originated in southwest Asia. The region then was once a prairie, not yet turned to desert, and had a number of fresh water inland seas left over from the Pleistocene extinction event (c10,500bc). Lacking water feed, these bodies of water dryed up over the millenniums, except for the Aral sea. It was an urban civilization that reached its heights Bronze Age c. 2300 BCE that grew grapes, practiced irrigation engineering, farming of wheat and barley. They had an impressive material culture including monumental architecture, bronze tools, ceramics, and jewelry of semiprecious stones. Models of two-wheeled carts from c. 3000 BCE were found predating wheel vehicle in the west by perhaps 1000 years. The religious monument showed a great understanding if geometry and zoraster (proto-gnostic?) temple form. It is believed they may have had a form of writing based in geometric forms suggesting they may have bee linked to prehistoric culture of Xinjiang (western China, Afanasevo culture). In fact the grape and wine making originated from the area of ‘Tufen,’ in the Xinjiang region and was brought west to the mid-east and Europe later. What is unusual about the people of the Xinxiang region is the exhibit proto-Gaelic culture. The earliest mummies found there date as early as 2000bc and are Caucasian type, having red and auburn hair. The Chinese to not arrive in west china until about 200bc BMAC is also associated with proto Scythians (Andronova culture) who were a nomadic people which allowed them to migrate seasonally for fresh grazing areas for their great herds of cattle and horses to the north of the BMAC complex. What is controversial about the BMAC civilization, and perhaps why western scholars ignore it, is they appear to be the first real advanced civilization. If not the first civilization, they certainly were far more advanced than anything at the time. And the culture and language suggest proto Indo-European who can be identified with Indian Sanskrit and Tocharian. In non-biblical myth, this is area of king Cush (Chus), his son Ninus (Nimrud) and grandson Dionysus and the legendary Empress (‘Diana’) and Queen-mother (Rianna) ‘Semiramis’, mother of Dionysus. Ninus’ capital was Nisa (in Turkmenistan). Hittite text (c1600bc) refer to Nisa as a possible place of their origin. Western scholars ignore BMAC, and possible eastern origins of western indo European civilization (us) and identify Nisa with Nesesh in turkey. Photo: BMAC settlement: turkotek/misc_00040/tamgas_files/gomur_tepe1.jpg
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:58:28 +0000
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