An appreciation of ethnic jewellery and adornment Still no
actual alphabetic messages have been found on a single artifact
excavated from or picked up from the surface of one of the sites
of the Bactria-Margiana Archeological Complex. Geographically,
the more or less agreed upon boundaries of this area would be
Southern Turkmenistan, Eastern Iran and most of Afghanistan
reaching over to the Indus Valley in what is now Pakistan. The
time frame of the most significant cultural items produced by
these migrating farmers and animal domesticators inhabiting the
oases and river plains was 4,500 years ago to 3,600 years ago.
They did not disappear after this time, but other cultures
blended with theirs so thoroughly that the area congealed into a
trade system that spread all products far and wide throughout
the Middle East, often including parts of Europe, and always
including North Africa and the Arabian Gulf. But in the pre-
literate period for the Bactria-Margiana culture -- 4,500 -
3,600 years ago -- the people us