Spatial morphogenesis in ancient Bactria: interactions and paradigms in a fractal landscape

Abstract

A quantitative analyses of the spatial morphogenesis of ancient Bactria is presented on the results provided by the excavations and surveys undertaken during de 1970´s in the eastern of this region, through sunchronic and diachronic scales, which comprise almost III milenia of Central Asia´s history, ranging from the Bronze Age to the Kushan Period. Based in a perspective from Spatial Archaeology this analytical framework allows examining the impact of the Greco-Bactrian development inn this landscape, as well as evaluating some issues concerning the paradigmatic discourse which pervades the interaction between Greek and other populations settled in Bactria during antiquity.