Beyond the Steppe and the Sown

Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology

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In this collection of 29 articles, leading researchers and a generation of new scholars join together in questioning the dominant opposing dichotomy in Eurasian archaeology of the ‘steppe and sown,’ while forging new approaches which integrate local and global visions of ancient culture and society in the steppe, mountain, desert and maritime coastal regions of Eurasia. This ground-breaking volume demonstrates the success of recently established international research programs and challenges readers with a wide variety of fresh new perspectives. The articles are conveniently divided into four sections on Local and Global Perspectives, Regional Studies, New Directions in Theory and Practice, and Paleoecology and Environment, and cover a broad period from the Copper Age to early Mediaeval times in the Independent States of the former USSR, as well as Turkey, China and Mongolia.
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2006
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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Preface
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures
Chapter One The Early Integration of the Eurasian Steppes with the Ancient Near East: Movements and Transformations in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Chapter Two Three Deadly Sins in Steppe Archaeology: Culture, Migration and Aryans
Chapter Three General Migration Processes in the Aral Sea Area in the Early Iron Age
Chapter Four Community Organisation among Copper Age Sedentary Horse Pastoralists of Kazakhstan
Chapter Five Perspectives on Chalcolithic Turkmenistan: The Global and the Local in the Kopet Dag
Chapter Six The Dzhungar Mountains Archaeology Project: Reconstructing Bronze Age Life in the Mountains of Eastern Kazakhstan
Chapter Seven The Kura-Araxes ‘Culture’ in the North-Eastern Caucasus: Problems in its Identification and Chronology
Chapter Eight The Middle Bronze Age Settlement Pattern of the Eastern Anatolian High Plateau in Light of New Evidence
Chapter Nine Before Argishti: The Roots of Complex Societies in Caucasia. Notes from the Tsakahovit Plain, Armenia
Chapter Ten Survey and Settlement in Northern Mongolia: The Structure of Intra-Regional Nomadic Organisation
Chapter Eleven Recent Archaeological Research in the Khanuy River Valley, Central Mongolia
Chapter Twelve Between the Steppes and the Sown: Prehistoric Sinop and Inter-regional Interaction along the Black Sea Coast
Chapter Thirteen Over the Mountains and through the Grass: Visual Information as ‘Text’ for the ‘Textless’
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
Chapter Fifteen Sequences of Signs: Eurasian Archaeology from a Perspective of Cultural Semiotics
Chapter Sixteen Writing the Landscape: Petroglyphs of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia Province (China)
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
Chapter Eighteen The Samara Bronze Age Metals Project: Investigating Changing Technologies and Transformations of Value in the Western Eurasian Steppes
Appendix Preliminary Faunal Report-Kamyshla Survey 2001
Chapter Nineteen Understanding the Productive Economy during the Bronze Age through Archaeometallurgical and Palaeo-environmental Research at Kargaly (Southern Urals, Orenburg, Russia)
Chapter Twenty Why Have Siberian Artefacts Been Excavated within Ancient Chinese Dynastic Borders?
Chapter Twenty-One Sensing the Shadow Empire: New Approaches to the Problem of the Khazar State
Chapter Twenty-Two Recent Xeroradiographic Analysis of Kura-Araxes Ceramics
Chapter Twenty-Three The Russian Far East and Cultural Interaction in Prehistoric Eurasia in Light of Ceramic Studies
Chapter Twenty-Four Trade Ceramics from Bohai Sites of Russian Primor’e
Chapter Twenty-Five Mediterranean Agriculture in South-western Crimean Palaeo-environments and Early Adaptations
Chapter Twenty-Six Cultural Transformations in the Black Sea Steppe between the Eneolithic and Bronze Age: Migrations or Economic Changes?
Chapter Twenty-Seven Pastoralism during the Late Bronze Age in Russia: Past Interpretations and New Goals for Future Research
Chapter Twenty-Eight Early Maritime Adaptation on the Southern Coast of the Far East of Russia in Ancient Times
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
Back Matter
List of Contributors
Index
Colloquia Pontica: Series on the Archaeology and Ancient History of the Black Sea Area
David L. Peterson is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His recent research concerns the interplay of technology and social practice in the construction of value in ancient metalwork from the Eurasian steppes and Caucasus.
Laura M. Popova is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She manages the Paleoecology Laboratory at the University of Chicago, and specialises in palaeobotanical analysis and ancient landscapes in the Eurasian steppes and Caucasus.
Adam T. Smith, Ph.D. (1996, University of Arizona), is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities, and co-director of the Joint American-Armenian Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies.
All those interested in the archaeology and early history of Eurasia, in the former Soviet Union, Turkey, China and Mongolia, as well as scholars of Old World archaeology in general.
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Publisher:
Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
xxiv, 512 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047408215