The early Slavs
Subtitle: Eastern Europe from the initial settlement to the Kievan Rus
By: Pavel M. Dolukhanov.
Publisher: Longman
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780582236271; 9780582236189
Subjects: Slavs -- History.; Europe, Eastern -- History.
Description: xiii, 237 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: List of Illustrations ... vii; title: Preface	... ix; title: Transliteration of Cyrilic Names ... xii; title: ◦; title: 1. THE SLAVS AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN RUSSIA ... 1; title: ◦; title: 2. GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING ... 8; title: ─ Geology and landforms ... 8; title: ─ Hydrology ... 13; title: ─ Climate ... 14; title: ─ Vegetation and soils ... 14; title: ─ Population and ethnic groups ... 18; title: ◦; title: 3. THE INITIAL SETTLEMENT ... 23; title: ─ Palaeolithic beginnings ... 23; title: ─ The Last Ice Age ... 29; title: ─ The Mousterian ... 30; title: ─ The Upper Palaeolithic	... 34; title: ─ The Late Glacial ... 41; title: ─ Early languages ... 44; title: ◦; title: 4. POSTGLACIAL FARMERS AND HUNTERS ... 47; title: ─ The Holocene ... 47; title: ─ The Mesolithic ... 51; title: ─ Early Neolithic	... 62; title: ─ Middle Neolithic ... 76; title: ◦; title: 5. THE BEAKER FOLKS ... 81; title: ─ The Post-optimum ... 81; title: ─ The Corded Ware ... 82; title: ─ The steppe groups ... 91; title: ─ The Bronze Age ... 96; title: ◦; title: 6. THE AGE OF CHANGE ... 109; title: ─ The Iron Age ... 109; title: ─ The northern hill-forts ... 113; title: ─ The Cimmerians, Scythians, Greeks and ...  117; title: ◦; title: 7. THE SLAVS, BALTS AND FINNS ... 137; title: ◦; title: 8. THE SLAVS IN EUROPE ... 146; title: ─ Pax Romana ... 146; title: ─ The Zarubintsy and Chernyakhovian ... 148; title: ─ The rise of the Slavs ... 160; title: ─ The Slavs in the north ... 167; title: ◦; title: 9. THE VIKINGS AND THE RUS ... 171; title: ─ The Little Optimum ... 171; title: ─ The Vikings in Europe	... 173; title: ─ The Scandinavians and the Slavs ... 177; title: ─ The beginnings of Russian statehood ... 193; title: ◦; title: Conclusions ... 198; title: Glossary ... 201; title: Bibliography ... 210; title: Index ... 231