Pastoralist Landscapes And Social Interaction In Bronze Age Eurasia

Author : Michael David Frachetti
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520942698
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pastoralist Landscapes and Social Interaction in Bronze Age Eurasia written by Michael David Frachetti and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Katherine V. Boyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Interactions written by Katherine V. Boyle and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview and reassessment of what is known about the people who colonized and occupied Eurasian steppe from the Neolithic to the Iron Age.

Author : Bryan K. Hanks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521517125
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia written by Bryan K. Hanks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges current interpretations of social and cultural change in prehistoric Eurasia, through a thematic investigation of archaeological patterns.

Author : Sangaralingam Ramesh
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031420721
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of India's Economic Development: 5000BC to 2022AD, Volume I written by Sangaralingam Ramesh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first of two volumes, explores India’s economic development from 5000BC through to the India’s independence period from 1947AD to 2022AD. The specific characteristics of economic development in India are examined to help determine development paths India can pursue to create sustainable development in the 21st century. The transition from the primary section to the secondary sector, through the process of industrialisation and in turn the move towards the services sector, is discussed in relation to climate change and the pressure on resources posed by population growth. This book aims to contextualise India’s economic development within the political economy of trade, sustainable development and culture with a particular focus on the institutions that have emerged in the Indian sub-continent since 5000BC. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in economic history, development economics, and the political economy.

Author : Shinu Anna Abraham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131543184X
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connections and Complexity written by Shinu Anna Abraham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of original research articles highlight the important cross-regional, cross-chronological, and comparative approaches to political and economic landscapes in ancient South Asia and its neighbors. Focusing on the Indus Valley period and Iron Age India, this volume incorporates new research in South Asia within the broader universe of archaeological scholarship. Contributions focus on four major themes: reinterpreting material culture; identifying domains and regional boundaries; articulating complexity; and modeling interregional interaction. These studies develop theoretical models that may be applicable researchers studying cultural complexity elsewhere in the world.

Author : David W. Anthony
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN 13 : 1938770323
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bronze Age Landscape in the Russian Steppes written by David W. Anthony and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language monograph that describes seasonal and permanent Late Bronze Age settlements in the Russian steppes, this is the final report of the Samara Valley Project, a US-Russian archaeological investigation conducted between 1995 and 2002. It explores the changing organization and subsistence resources of pastoral steppe economies from the Eneolithic (4500 BC) through the Late Bronze Age (1900-1200 BC) across a steppe-and-river valley landscape in the middle Volga region, with particular attention to the role of agriculture during the unusual episode of sedentary, settled pastoralism that spread across the Eurasian steppes with the Srubnaya and Andronovo cultures (1900-1200 BC). Three astonishing discoveries were made by the SVP archaeologists: agriculture played no role in the LBA diet across the region, a surprise given the settled residential pattern; a unique winter ritual was practiced at Krasnosamarskoe involving dog and wolf sacrifices, possibly related to male initiation ceremonies; and overlapping spheres of obligation, cooperation, and affiliation operated at different scales to integrate groups defined by politics, economics, and ritual behaviors.

Author : Victor H. Mair
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1934536687
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconfiguring the Silk Road written by Victor H. Mair and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Bronze Age through the Middle Ages, a network of trade and migration routes brought people from across Eurasia into contact. Their commerce included political, social, and artistic ideas, as well as material goods such as metals and textiles. Reconfiguring the Silk Road offers new research on the earliest trade and cultural interactions along these routes, mapping the spread and influence of Silk Road economies and social structures over time. This volume features contributions by renowned scholars uncovering new discoveries related to populations that lived in the Tarim Basin, the advanced state of textile manufacturing in the region, and the diffusion of domesticated grains across Inner Asia. Other chapters include an analysis of the dispersal of languages across the Eurasian Steppe and a detailed examination of the domestication of the horse in the region. Contextualized with a foreword by Colin Renfrew and introduction by Victor Mair, Reconfiguring the Silk Road provides a new assessment of the intercultural evolution along the steppes and beyond. Contributors: David W. Anthony, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Dorcas R. Brown, Peter Brown, Michael D. Frachetti, Jane Hickman, Philip L. Kohl, Victor H. Mair, J. P. Mallory, Joseph G. Manning, Colin Renfrew.

Author : Robert L. Anemone
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 082635968X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Geospatial Approaches to the Anthropological Sciences written by Robert L. Anemone and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial analysis reaches across all the subdisciplines of anthropology. A cultural anthropologist, for example, can use such analysis to trace the extent of distinctive cultural practices; an archaeologist can use it to understand the organization of ancient irrigation systems; a primatologist to quantify the density of primate nesting sites; a paleoanthropologist to explore vast fossil-bearing landscapes. Arguing that geospatial analysis holds great promise for much anthropological inquiry, the contributors have designed this volume to show how the powerful tools of GIScience can be used to benefit a variety of research programs. This volume brings together scholars who are currently applying state-of-the-art tools, techniques, and methods of geographical information sciences (GIScience) to diverse data sets of anthropological interest. Their questions crosscut the typical “silos” that so often limit scholarly communication among anthropologists and instead recognize a deep structural similarity between the kinds of questions anthropologists ask, the data they collect, and the analytical models and paradigms they each use.

Author : Nathalie Østerled Brusgaard
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789693128
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carving Interactions: Rock Art in the Nomadic Landscape of the Black Desert, North-Eastern Jordan written by Nathalie Østerled Brusgaard and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Safaitic rock art of the North Arabian basalt desert is one of the few surviving traces of the elusive herding societies that lived there in antiquity. This comprehensive study of over 4500 petroglyphs from the Jebel Qurma region of the Black Desert in North-Eastern Jordan is the first-ever systematic study of the Safaitic petroglyphs.

Author : Nicole Boivin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108429807
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization in Prehistory written by Nicole Boivin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges contemporary understandings of 'globalization' by focusing on the role of non-state prehistoric societies and their vast realms of connectivity.