Viktor Sarianidi

Viktor Ivanovich Sarianidi or Victor Sarigiannides (September 23, 1929 – December 22, 2013) was a Soviet archaeologist. He discovered the remains of a Bronze Age culture in the Karakum Desert in 1976. The culture came to be known as the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex. Quotes In Drevnosti Strani Margush he states, “Contrary to the archaeological evidence is the statement that pottery of steppe character was ‘plentiful’ on the sites of south Turkmenistan. Pottery of the Andronovo type do not exceed 100 fragments in all of south Turkmenistan” (p. 63). As rigorous approaches to data retrieval were not practised such a figure must be merely impressionistic. Drevnosti Strani Margush , Sarianidi quoted in ARCHAEOLOGY AND LANGUAGE The case of the Bronze Age Indo-Iranians by Carl C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, in : Bryant, E. F., & Patton, L. L. (2005). The Indo-Aryan controversy : evidence and inference in Indian history. Routledge. 160, Sarianidi, V. I., 1990. Drevnosti Strani Mareush (The Ancient State of Margush). Ashkabad: Akademia Nauk Turkmenskoi. As far as Sarianidi (1993b) is concerned, the Andronovo tribes "penetrated to a minimum extent. . . not exceeding the limits of normal contacts so natural for tribes with different economical structures, living in the border-lands of steppes and agricultural oases" (17).' Sarianidi, quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 10 Sarianidi, V. 1993b. "Margiana in the Ancient Orient." International Association for the Study of the Cultures of Central Asia Information Bulletin 19:5-28. External links Category:1929 births Category:2013 deaths Category:Archaeologists from Russia