IMPORT/EXPORT IN AN INTEGRATED CULTURAL SYSTEM

Abstract

From the middle of the third to the beginning of the second millennium BCE, there were extensive relations between south-eastern Iran and the Oxus culture: the evidence attests to strong cultural homogeneity between these regions. A period of intercultural relations or an Integrated Cultural System (= ICS) began in the mid third millennium BCE, lasting until the first centuries of the second millennium BCE (ca. 1800 BCE).