The Iron Age in Merv Oasis

In this short article the author in the volume devoted to the joint Italian/Russian/Turkmenian activities in south Turkmenistan entitled Archaeological Map of the Murghab delta is dealing with the development of the Iron Age in Central Asia. In particular the author is dealing with the important archaeological horizon of Yaz I-III, first individuated in the Murghab delta by the Soviet scholars right in the Yaz Tepe site