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1 online resource (xvii, 213 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-205) and index. |
| Contents |
Conceptualizing pastoralist landscapes -- An archaeology of bronze age Eurasia -- Continuity, variation, and change of the Eurasian steppe environment -- Between ethnography and history : pastoralism and society in Semirech'ye and the Dzhungar Mountains -- A pastoralist landscape in Semirech'ye : archaeology of the Koksu River Valley -- Bronze age pastoralism, landscape, and social interaction -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
Offering a fresh archaeological interpretation, this work reconceptualizes the Bronze Age prehistory of the vast Eurasian steppe during one of the most formative and innovative periods of human history. Michael D. Frachetti combines an analysis of newly documented archaeological sites in the Koksu River valley of eastern Kazakhstan with detailed paleoecological and ethnohistorical data to illustrate patterns in land use, settlement, burial, and rock art. His investigation illuminates the practical effect of nomadic strategies on the broader geography of social interaction and suggests a new model of local and regional interconnection in the third and second millennia B.C.E. Frachetti further argues that these early nomadic communities played a pivotal role in shaping enduring networks of exchange across Eurasia. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bronze age -- Eurasia.
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Bronze age. |
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Eurasia. |
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Pastoral systems, Prehistoric -- Eurasia.
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Pastoral systems, Prehistoric. |
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Eurasia.
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Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Eurasia.
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Eurasia -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities, Prehistoric. |
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General. |
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Antiquities. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pastoralist landscapes and social interaction in bronze age Eurasia Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008. 9780520256897 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2008015855 |
| ISBN |
9780520942691 ebook |
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0520942698 |
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9780520256897 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520256891 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1282360795 |
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9780520256897 |
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9781282360792 |
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9786612360794 |
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