Beyond the Steppe And the Sown: Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology (Colloquia Pontica)

CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 12
INTRODUCTION DAVID L. PETERSON, LAURA M. POPOVA AND ADAM T. SMITH......Page 14
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS......Page 16
LIST OF FIGURES......Page 18
I. LOCAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES......Page 26
CHAPTER ONE THE EARLY INTEGRATION OF THE EURASIAN STEPPES WITH THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST: MOVEMENTS AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA --- PHILIP L. KOHL......Page 28
CHAPTER TWO THREE DEADLY SINS IN STEPPE ARCHAEOLOGY: CULTURE, MIGRATION AND ARYANS1 --- DAVID W. ANTHONY......Page 65
CHAPTER THREE GENERAL MIGRATION PROCESSES IN THE ARAL SEA AREA IN THE EARLY IRON AGE --- LEONID T. YABLONSKY......Page 88
II. REGIONAL STUDIES......Page 112
CHAPTER FOUR COMMUNITY ORGANISATION AMONG COPPER AGE SEDENTARY HORSE PASTORALISTS OF KAZAKHSTAN --- SANDRA OLSEN, BRUCE BRADLEY, DAVID MAKI AND ALAN OUTRAM......Page 113
CHAPTER FIVE PERSPECTIVES ON CHALCOLITHIC TURKMENISTAN: THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL IN THE KOPET DAG --- LAUREN ZYCH......Page 137
CHAPTER SIX THE DZHUNGAR MOUNTAINS ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT: RECONSTRUCTING BRONZE AGE LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS OF EASTERN KAZAKHSTAN --- MICHAEL D. FRACHETTI......Page 147
CHAPTER SEVEN THE KURA-ARAXES ‘CULTURE’ IN THE NORTH-EASTERN CAUCASUS: PROBLEMS IN ITS IDENTIFICATION AND CHRONOLOGY --- RABADAN MAGOMEDOV......Page 167
CHAPTER EIGHT THE MIDDLE BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT PATTERN OF THE EASTERN ANATOLIAN HIGH PLATEAU IN LIGHT OF NEW EVIDENCE --- AYNUR ÖZFIRAT......Page 185
CHAPTER NINE BEFORE ARGISHTI: THE ROOTS OF COMPLEX SOCIETIES IN CAUCASIA. NOTES FROM THE TSAKAHOVIT PLAIN, ARMENIA --- ADAM T. SMITH......Page 197
CHAPTER TEN SURVEY AND SETTLEMENT IN NORTHERN MONGOLIA: THE STRUCTURE OF INTRA-REGIONAL NOMADIC ORGANISATION --- WILLIAM HONEYCHURCH AND CHUNAG AMARTUVSHIN......Page 208
CHAPTER ELEVEN RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE KHANUY RIVER VALLEY, CENTRAL MONGOLIA --- FRANCIS ALLARD, DIIMAAJAV ERDENEBAATAR AND JEAN-LUC HOULE......Page 227
III. NEW DIRECTIONS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE......Page 250
CHAPTER TWELVE BETWEEN THE STEPPE AND THE SOWN: PREHISTORIC SINOP AND INTER-REGIONAL INTERACTION ALONG THE BLACK SEA COAST --- ALEXANDER A. BAUER......Page 252
CHAPTER THIRTEEN OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND THROUGH THE GRASS: VISUAL INFORMATION AS ‘TEXT’ FOR THE ‘TEXTLESS’ --- KAREN S. RUBINSON......Page 272
CHAPTER FOURTEEN INNOVATION, CHANGE, CONTINUITY: CONSIDERING THE AGENCY OF RUSA II IN THE PRODUCTION OF THE IMPERIAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF URARTU IN THE 7TH CENTURY BC --- TUĞBA TANYERI-ERDEMIR......Page 289
CHAPTER FIFTEEN SEQUENCES OF SIGNS: EURASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY FROM A PERSPECTIVE OF CULTURAL SEMIOTICS GREGORY E. ARESHIAN......Page 307
CHAPTER SIXTEEN WRITING THE LANDSCAPE: PETROGLYPHS OF INNER MONGOLIA AND NINGXIA PROVINCE (CHINA) --- PAOLA DEMATTÈ......Page 321
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN REFINING THE DEFINITION OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE SOUTHERN ZONE OF THE CIRCUMPONTIC METALLURGICAL PROVINCE: COPPER ALLOYS IN ARMENIA DURING THE EARLY AND MIDDLE BRONZE AGE --- LAURA A. TEDESCO......Page 335
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN THE SAMARA BRONZE AGE METALS PROJECT: INVESTIGATING CHANGING TECHNOLOGIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF VALUE IN THE WESTERN EURASIAN STEPPES --- DAVID L. PETERSON, PAVEL F. KUZNETSOV AND OLEG D. MOCHALOV, WITH A BRIEF APPENDIX BY AUDREY G. BROWN AND EMMETT BROWN......Page 347
CHAPTER NINETEEN UNDERSTANDING THE PRODUCTIVE ECONOMY DURING THE BRONZE AGE THROUGH ARCHAEOMETALLURGICAL AND PALAEO-ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AT KARGALY (SOUTHERN URALS, ORENBURG, RUSSIA) --- PEDRO DÍAZ DEL RÍO, PILAR LÓPEZ GARCÍA, JOSE ANTONIO LÓPEZ SÁEZ, M. ISABEL MARTINEZ NAVARRETE, ANGEL L. RODRÍGUEZ ALCALDE, SALVADOR ROVIRA-LLORENS, JUAN M. VICENT GARCÍA AND IGNACIO DE ZAVALA MORENCOS......Page 368
CHAPTER TWENTY WHY HAVE SIBERIAN ARTEFACTS BEEN EXCAVATED WITHIN ANCIENT CHINESE DYNASTIC BORDERS? --- KATHERYN M. LINDUFF......Page 383
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE SENSING THE SHADOW EMPIRE: NEW APPROACHES TO THE PROBLEM OF THE KHAZAR STATE --- IRINA R. SHINGIRAY......Page 396
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO RECENT XERORADIOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF KURA-ARAXES CERAMICS MARYFRAN HEINSCH AND PAMELA VANDIVER......Page 407
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST AND CULTURAL INTERACTION IN PREHISTORIC EURASIA IN LIGHT OF CERAMIC STUDIES --- IRINA S. ZHUSHCHIKHOVSKAYA......Page 420
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR TRADE CERAMICS FROM BOHAI SITES OF RUSSIAN PRIMOR’E --- EVGENIA I. GELMAN......Page 436
IV. PALAEO-ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT......Page 448
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE MEDITERRANEAN AGRICULTURE IN SOUTH-WESTERN CRIMEA: PALAEO-ENVIRONMENTS AND EARLY ADAPTATIONS CARLOS E. CORDOVA AND PAUL H. LEHMAN......Page 450
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE BLACK SEA STEPPE BETWEEN THE ENEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGE: MIGRATIONS OR ECONOMIC CHANGES? YURI RASSAMAKIN......Page 473
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN PASTORALISM DURING THE LATE BRONZE AGE IN RUSSIA: PAST INTERPRETATIONS AND NEW GOALS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH --- LAURA M. POPOVA......Page 484
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT EARLY MARITIME ADAPTATION ON THE SOUTHERN COAST OF THE FAR EAST OF RUSSIA IN ANCIENT TIMES --- ALEXANDER N. POPOV AND DAVID R. YESNER......Page 494
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE PAN-REGIONAL INTERACTION VS ECOLOGICALLY INDUCED CHANGE: AN EXAMINATION OF THE RAPID TRANSITION FROM THE LATE NEOLITHIC ERA TO THAT OF PALAEOMETAL AMONG MARITIME POPULATIONS OF THE PRIMOR’E REGION OF THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST --- JIM CASSIDY AND NINA A. KONONENKO......Page 502
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 518
INDEX......Page 526