The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia

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ABBREVIATIONS......Page 19
PREFACE......Page 21
CHAPTER 1 ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE......Page 27
ANGLO-AMERICAN THEORETICAL ARCHAEOLOGY FROM CA.1960 TO THE PRESENT – A BRIEF OVERVIEW......Page 28
BACK TO THE FUTURE – OR TOWARDS AN INTERPRETATIVE AND EXPLANATORY CULTURE HISTORY......Page 34
THE DEVOLUTION OF URBAN SOCIETY – MOVING BEYOND NEO-EVOLUTIONARY ACCOUNTS......Page 36
STEPPE ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE IDENTIFICATION (AND PROLIFERATION) OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL CULTURES......Page 41
CHRONOLOGICAL CONUNDRUMS – THE APPLICATION OF CALIBRATED C14 DETERMINATIONS FOR THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE EURASIAN STEPPES......Page 45
INHERENT LIMITATIONS OF THE PRESENT STUDY......Page 47
CHAPTER 2 THE CHALCOLITHIC PRELUDE: FROM SOCIAL HIERARCHIES AND GIANT…......Page 49
THE PRODUCTION AND EXCHANGE OF COPPER FROM THE BALKANS TO THE VOLGA IN THE FIFTH AND FOURTH…......Page 54
THE FORM AND ECONOMY OF THE GIGANTIC TRIPOL’YE SETTLEMENTS – NUCLEATION OF POPULATION AND THE…......Page 65
AN OVERVIEW OF THE SOCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE CHALCOLITHIC FROM THE NORTHERN BALKANS TO THE…......Page 72
THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOUTHEASTERN EUROPEAN COPPER AGE – SINGLE- AND MULTICAUSAL EXPLANATIONS FROM…......Page 76
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH E. N. CHERNYKH......Page 80
CHAPTER 3 THE CAUCASUS – DONOR AND RECIPIENT OF MATERIALS, TECHNOLOGIES, AND PEOPLES TO AND FROM THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST......Page 83
THE CAUCASUS – PHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES AND A CONSIDERATION OF EARLIER CHALCOLITHIC DEVELOPMENTS......Page 88
THE MAIKOP CULTURE OF THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS – A REVIEW OF ITS KURGANS, SETTLEMENTS, AND METALS;…......Page 98
THE KURA-ARAXES CULTURAL-HISTORICAL COMMUNITY (OBSHCHNOST’) OF TRANSCAUCASIA – THE HISTORY OF ITS…......Page 112
THE CASPIAN COASTAL PLAIN OF SOUTHEASTERN DAGHESTAN AND NORTHEASTERN AZERBAIJAN – THE…......Page 128
THE EARLY KURGAN CULTURES OF TRANSCAUCASIA – THE ARRIVALS OF NEW PEOPLES, CHANGES IN SUBSISTENCE…......Page 139
CONCLUSION – SOME LATER DEVELOPMENTS IN CAUCASIAN PREHISTORY AND SHIFTS IN THE PRODUCTION AND EXCHANGE OF METALS......Page 147
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH R. M. MUNCHAEV......Page 148
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH M. G. GADZHIEV......Page 150
CHAPTER 4 TAMING THE STEPPE – THE DEVELOPMENT OF MOBILE ECONOMIES: FROM CATTLE HERDERS WITH WAGONS TO HORSEBACK…......Page 152
ARCHAEOLOGY ON THE WESTERN EURASIAN STEPPES – A SHORT SKETCH OF THE RECOGNITION OF CULTURAL…......Page 154
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON PRE–PIT GRAVE INTERCONNECTIONS ON THE WESTERN EURASIAN STEPPES......Page 158
HORSE DOMESTICATION AND THE EMERGENCE OF EURASIAN MOUNTED PASTORAL NOMADISM......Page 163
BRONZE AGE LIFE ON THE STEPPES: PIT GRAVES TO TIMBER GRAVES – MAJOR PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGES IN WAYS OF LIFE......Page 170
BRONZE AGE HERDING VS. EURASIAN MOUNTED PASTORAL NOMADISM......Page 184
THE TRANSFORMATION AND EASTWARD EXPANSION OF METALLURGY DURING THE LATE BRONZE AGE;…......Page 192
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH N. YA. MERPERT......Page 206
CHAPTER 5 ENTERING A SOWN WORLD OF IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE – FROM THE STEPPES TO CENTRAL ASIA AND BEYOND:…......Page 208
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN WESTERN CENTRAL ASIA FROM THE EXCAVATIONS AT ANAU TO THE DISCOVERY…......Page 210
PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE LAND – DESERTS, MOUNTAINS, AND SOURCES OF WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL…......Page 213
THE TWO WORLDS OF WESTERN CENTRAL ASIA: “CIVILIZED” AND “BARBARIAN”; ARCHAEOLOGICAL…......Page 218
SECONDARY STATES EAST OF SUMER CA. 2600–1900 BC – CYCLES OF INTEGRATION AND COLLAPSE; SHIFTS IN…......Page 240
JIROFT/HALIL RUD: A NEWLY DISCOVERED REGIONAL POLITY OR SECONDARY STATE EAST OF SUMER IN SOUTHEASTERN IRAN......Page 251
ARCHAEOLOGY, LANGUAGE, AND THE ETHNIC IDENTIFICATION OF MATERIAL CULTURE REMAINS – PITFALLS AND LESSONS......Page 259
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH V. I. SARIANIDI......Page 267
CHAPTER 6 THE CIRCULATION OF PEOPLES AND MATERIALS – EVOLUTION, DEVOLUTION,…......Page 270
MODELING THE “WORLD(S)” OF BRONZE AGE EURASIA......Page 271
THE FUNCTIONAL USE OF METALS, RISING MILITARISM, AND THE ADVENT OF IRON......Page 278
EVOLUTION AND DEVOLUTION IN BRONZE AGE EURASIA – CULTURE HISTORY IN ARCHAEOLOGY AS THE SEARCH FOR…......Page 282
APPENDIX......Page 287
PERIODIZATION (SUMMARY ADAPTED AND MODIFIED FROM TRIFONOV 2001: 78–81, “ABSOLUTE” DATES BASED ON THE…......Page 289
REFERENCES......Page 295
INDEX......Page 317