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Social complexity in prehistoric Eurasia : monuments, metals, and mobility
- Title
- Social complexity in prehistoric Eurasia : monuments, metals, and mobility / edited by Bryan K. Hanks, Katheryn M. Linduff.
- Publication
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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- Description
- xx, 417 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Forword: From myth to method : advances in the archaeology of the Eurasian steppe -- Introduction: Reconsidering steppe social complexity within world history -- Differentiated landscapes and non-uniform complexity in Bronze Age societies of the Eurasian steppe -- The Sintashta genesis : the roles of climate change, warfare, and long-distance trade -- Settlements and cemeteries of the Bronze Age of the Urals : the potential for reconstructing early social dynamics -- The Maikop singularity : the unequal accumulation of wealth on the Bronze Age Eurasian steppes? -- Formation of the Eurasian steppe belt cultures : viewed through the lens of archaeometallurgy and radiocarbon dating -- Late prehistoric mining, metallurgy, and social organization in North Central Eurasia -- The bronze-using cultures in the northern frontier of ancient China and the metallurgies of ancient Dian area in Yunnan Province -- Production and social complexity : Bronze Age metalworking in the Middle Volga -- Early metallurgy and socio-cultural complexity : archaeological discoveries in Northwest China -- Violence on the frontiers? : sources of power and socio-political change at the easternmost parts of the Eurasian steppe during the late second and early first millennium BCE -- First-millennium BCE Beifang artifacts as historical documents -- Blurring the boundaries : foragers and pastoralists in the Volga-Urals region -- Re-writing monumental landscapes as inner Asian political process -- Socially integrative facilities and the emergence of societal complexity on the Mongolian steppe -- Pre-Scythian ceremonialism, deer stone art, and cultural intensification in northern Mongolia.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-5169
- ISBN
- 9780521517126 (hbk.)
- 0521517125 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2008040587
- OCLC
- YBP 2008040587
- Title
- Social complexity in prehistoric Eurasia : monuments, metals, and mobility / edited by Bryan K. Hanks, Katheryn M. Linduff.
- Imprint
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Added Author
- Hanks, Bryan K., 1967-Linduff, Katheryn M.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-5169