Social complexity in prehistoric Eurasia
Subtitle: monuments, metals, and mobility
By: edited by Bryan K. Hanks, Katheryn M. Linduff.
Contributors: Hanks, Bryan K., 1967-; Linduff, Katheryn M.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780521517126
Subjects: Social archaeology -- Eurasia; Steppe archaeology -- Eurasia; Prehistoric peoples -- Eurasia; Monuments -- Eurasia -- History; Metallurgy -- Eurasia -- History; Social mobility -- Eurasia -- History; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Eurasia; Eurasia -- Antiquities; China -- Antiquities; Soviet Union -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: From myth to method : advances in the archaeology of the Eurasian steppe; title: Differentiated political landscapes and non-uniform complexity in Bronze Age steppe archaeology; title: Climate change, conflict, and the origins of the Sintashta-Arkaim complex; title: Settlements and necropolises of the Bronze Age of the Urals : opportunities for the reconstruction of social dynamics; title: The Maikop singularity : a unique example of the unequal accumulation of wealth on the Bronze Age Eurasian steppes?; title: Formation of the Eurasian steppe belt of stockbreeding cultures : viewed through the prism of archaeometallurgy and radiocarbon dating; title: Modeling early metallurgical production and community organization; title: Technology and exchange : the metallic artifacts excavated in the ancient Dian region of Yunnan Province from 5th c. BC to 2nd c. AD; title: Metal making and social complexity in the Bronze Age steppes : material culture practices and value; title: Early metallurgy and socio-cultural complexity : a view based on archaeological discoveries in eastern Central Asia; title: Violence on the frontiers? : sources of power and socio-political change at the easternmost parts of the Eurasian steppes during the early first millennium BCE; title: First millennium BCE Beifang artifacts as historical documents; title: Blurring the boundaries : uncovering the complex interactions between foragers and pastoralists in the Volga-Ural region; title: Re-writing monumental landscapes as inner Asian political process; title: "Socially integrative facilities" and the emergence of societal complexity on the Mongolian steppe; title: Deer stones and Khirigsuurs : pre-Scythian Bronze Age ceremonialism and art in northern Mongolia.