Introduction PART I: THE OXUS CIVILIZATION BACKGROUND
1. Questioning the Oxus Civilization or Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Culture (BMAC): an Overview 2 The Oxus Civilization and Mesopotamia: A Philologist’s Point of View
3. Environmental Changes in Bactria and Sogdiana (Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan) from the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age: Interaction with Human Occupation
4. The Rise of the Early Urban Civilization in Southwestern Central Asia (from the Middle Chalcolithic to the Middle Bronze Age in Southern Turkmenistan) PART II: THE "CORE AREA"
5. The Architecture of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Culture
6. Some Thoughts on the Imaginary Representations in the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Culture
7. Myths and Gods in the Oxus Civilization
8. BMAC Glyptics: Typology, Context, Function, and Background
9. Chlorite Containers from the Oxus Civilization: Between Technical Choices and Iconographic Codes
10. The "Royal Necropolis" at Gonur Depe: an Attempt at Systematization (Plan, Constructions, Rituals)
11. Polychrome Inlayed and Painted Mosaics from Gonur Depe (Turkmenistan)
12. Animal Burials at Gonur Depe
13. Funerary Rituals and Archaeothanatological Data from BMAC Graves at Ulug-Depe (Turkmenistan) and Dzharkutan (Uzbekistan)
14. Bioarchaeology of the BMAC Population: A Short Review
15. Animal Exploitation at Gonur Depe
16. Life in the Countryside: the Rural Archaeology of the Sapalli Culture
17. Who Interacted with Whom? Re-Defining the Interaction between BMAC People and Mobile Pastoralists in Bronze Age Southern Turkmenistan
18. The End of the Oxus Civilization PART III: THE "SURROUNDING AREAS"
19. The BMAC Presence in Eastern Iran: State of Affairs in December
2018. --Towards the Greater Khorasan Civilization?
20. The Relationship between the Oxus Civilization and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands
21. Interaction between the Worlds of South Asia and Central Asia
22. The Oxus Civilization/BMAC and its Interaction with the Arabian Gulf: A Review of the Evidence
23. The Formation of the Oxus Civilization/BMAC in Southwestern Tajikistan
24. The Zeravshan Regional Variant of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex: Interaction between Two Cultural Worlds
25. The "Classical Vakhsh Culture": a Bronze Age Culture of the 3rd and early 2nd Millennium BC in Southern Tajikistan
26. The Oxus Civilization and the Northern Steppes PART IV: METALS AND METAL DEPOSITS
27. Archaeometallurgical Studies on BMAC Artifacts
28. Metal Sources (Tin and Copper) and the BMAC
29. The Acquisition of Tin in Bronze Age Southwest Asia APPENDIX: Radiocarbon Dates Related to the BMAC/Oxus Civilization