"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."
January 1, 1970