Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia : Monuments, Metals and Mobility
Bryan. Hanks
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press, , 2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (439 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD From Myth to Method: Advances in the Archaeology of the Eurasian Steppe; References; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Reconsidering Steppe Social Complexity within World Prehistory; Volume Organization; Concluding Remarks; References; PART ONE FRAMING COMPLEXITY; CHAPTER 2 Introduction; CHAPTER 3 Differentiated Landscapes and Non-uniform Complexity among Bronze Age Societies of the Eurasian Steppe; CHAPTER 4 The Sintashta Genesis: The Roles of Climate Change, Warfare , and Long-Distance Trade. - CHAPTER 10 The Bronze-Using Cultures in the Northern Frontier of Ancient China and the Metallurgies of Ancient Dian Area in Yunnan ProvinceCHAPTER 11 Production and Social Complexity: Bronze Age Metal working in the Middl e Vol ga; CHAPTER 12 Early Metallurgy and Socio-Cultural Complexity: Archaeological Discoveries in Northwest China; PART THREE FRONTIERS AND BORDER DYNAMICS; CHAPTER 13 Introduction; CHAPTER 14 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 Millennia BCE. - CHAPTER 15 First-Millennium BCE Beifang Artifacts as Historical DocumentsCHAPTER 16 Blurring the Boundaries: Foragers and Pastoralists in the Volga-Urals Region; PART FOUR SOCIAL POWER, MONUMENTALITY, AND MOBILITY; CHAPTER 17 Introduction; CHAPTER 18 Re-writing Monumental Landscapes as Inner Asian Political Process; CHAPTER 19 Socially Integrative Facilities and the Emergence of Societal Complexity on the Mongolian Steppe; CHAPTER 20 Pre-Scythian Ceremonialism, Deer Stone Art, and Cultural Intensification in Northern Mongolia; INDEX. - CHAPTER 5: Settlements and Cemeteries of the Bronze Age of the Urals: The Potential for Reconstructing Early Social DynamicsCHAPTER 6 The Maikop Singularity: The Unequal Accumulation of Wealth on the Bronze Age Eurasian Steppe?; PART TWO MINING, METALLURGY, AND TRADE; CHAPTER 7 Introduction; CHAPTER 8 Formation of the Eurasian Steppe Belt Cultures: Viewed through the Lens of Archaeometallurgy and Radiocarbon Dating; CHAPTER 9 Late Prehistoric Mining, Metallurgy, and Social Organization in North Central Eurasia. - Challenges current interpretations of social and cultural change in prehistoric Eurasia, through a thematic investigation of archaeological patterns.
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| Emner | China -- Antiquities.
Eurasia -- Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Eurasia. Metallurgy -- Eurasia -- History. Vis mer... Monuments -- Eurasia -- History.
Prehistoric peoples -- Eurasia. Social archaeology -- Eurasia. Social mobility -- Eurasia -- History. Soviet Union -- Antiquities. Steppe archaeology -- Eurasia. Arkeologi Asia Europa Forhistorisk tid Kina Minnesmerker : (NO-TrBIB)HUME12105 Monumenter Samhandling Sentral-Asia Sosial mobilitet Stepper sosialarkeologi asia arkeologi steppearkeologi monumemterantikviteter utgravinger |
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| ISBN | 9780521517126
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