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Social complexity in prehistoric Eurasia : monuments, metals, and mobility / edited by Bryan K. Hanks, Katheryn M. Linduff.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social archaeology--Eurasia.
- Social archaeology.
- Steppe archaeology--Eurasia.
- Steppe archaeology.
- Prehistoric peoples--Eurasia.
- Prehistoric peoples.
- Monuments--Eurasia--History.
- Monuments.
- Metallurgy--Eurasia--History.
- Metallurgy.
- Social mobility--Eurasia--History.
- Social mobility.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Eurasia.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Eurasia--Antiquities.
- Eurasia.
- China--Antiquities.
- China.
- Soviet Union--Antiquities.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (439 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- Challenges current interpretations of social and cultural change in prehistoric Eurasia, through a thematic investigation of archaeological patterns.
- Contents:
- Introduction : reconsidering steppe social complexity within world prehistory / Bryan K. Hanks and Katheryn M. Linduff
- Framing complexity. Introduction / Ludmila Koryakova ; Differentiated landscapes and non-uniform complexity among Bronze Age societies of the Eurasian steppe / Michael D. Frachetti ; The Sintashta genesis : the roles of climate change, warfare, and long-distance trade / David W. Anthony ; Settlements and cemeteries of the Bronze Age of the Urals : the potential for reconstructing early social dynamics / Andrei V. Epimakhov ; The Maikop singularity : the unequal accumulation of wealth on the Bronze Age Eurasian steppe? / Philip L. Kohl
- Mining, metallurgy, and trade. Introduction / Katheryn M. Linduff ; Formation of the Eurasian steppe belt cultures : viewed through the lens of archaeometallurgy and radiocarbon dating / Evgenii N. Chernykh ; Late prehistoric mining, metallurgy, and social organization in north central Eurasia / Bryan K. Hanks ; The bronze-using cultures in the northern frontier of Ancient China and the metallurgies of Ancient Dian area in Yunnan Province / Rubin Han and Xiaocen Li ; Production and social complexity : Bronze Age metalworking in the Middle Volga / David L. Peterson ; Early metallurgy and socio-cultural complexity : archaeological discoveries in northwest China / Jianjun Mei
- Frontiers and border dynamics. Introduction / Thomas Barfield ; Violence on the frontiers? Sources of power and socio-poilicital change at the easternmost parts of the Eurasian steppe during the late second and early first millennia BCE / Gideon Shelach ; First-millennium BCE beifang artifacts as historical documents / Emma C. Bunker ; Blurring the boundaries : foragers and pastoralists in the Volga-Urals region / Laura M.S. Popova
- Social power, monumentality, and mobility. Introduction / Francis Allard ; Re-writing monumental landscapes as inner Asian political process / William Honeychurch, Joshua Wright, and Chunag Amartuvshin ; Socially integrative facilities and the emergence of societal complexity on the Mongolian steppe / Jean-Luc Houle ; Pre-Scythian ceremonialism, deer stone art, and cultural intesification in northern Mongolia / William W. Fitzhugh.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-19121-1
- 1-282-31785-7
- 9786612317859
- 0-511-60434-3
- 0-511-60507-2
- 0-511-60356-8
- 0-511-60477-7
- 0-511-60278-2
- OCLC:
- 609845617
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