The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia

Philip L. Kohl

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511618468

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This book provides an overview of Bronze Age societies of Western Eurasia through an investigation of the archaeological record. The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia outlines the long-term processes and patterns of interaction that link these groups together in a shared historical trajectory of development. Interactions took the form of the exchange of raw materials and finished goods, the spread and sharing of technologies, and the movements of peoples from one region to another. Kohl reconstructs economic activities from subsistence practices to the production and exchange of metals and other materials. Kohl also argues forcefully that the main task of the archaeologist should be to write culture-history on a spatially and temporally grand scale in an effort to detect large, macrohistorical processes of interaction and shared development.

'The book consists of six harmoniously and logically structured chapters. … interestingly written and well illustrated.'

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'This book - now available in paperback - will serve as a sourcebook for archaeologists interested in the region for the foreseeable future. An impressive array of evidence has been fused into a synthetic whole that generates a huge number of questions and provides an excellent platform for future research.'

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Frontmatter
pp i-viii

Contents
pp ix-xii

Illustrations and Maps
pp xiii-xvi

Abbreviations
pp xvii-xviii

Preface
pp xix-xxii

Frontispiece: Eurasian Steppe Zone and the Greater Ancient Near East
pp xxiii-xxiv

1 - Archaeological Theory and Archaeological Evidence
pp 1-22

2 - The Chalcolithic Prelude – From Social Hierarchies and Giant Settlements to the Emergence of Mobile Economies, ca. 4500–3500 BC
pp 23-56

3 - The Caucasus – Donor and Recipient of Materials, Technologies, and Peoples to and from the Ancient Near East
pp 57-125

4 - Taming the Steppe – The Development of Mobile Economies: From Cattle Herders with Wagons to Horseback Riders Tending Mixed Herds; the Continued Eastward Expansion of Large-Scale Metallurgical Production and Exchange
pp 126-181

5 - Entering a Sown World of Irrigation Agriculture – From the Steppes to Central Asia and Beyond: Processes of Movement, Assimilation, and Transformation into the “Civilized” World East of Sumer
pp 182-243

6 - The Circulation of Peoples and Materials – Evolution, Devolution, and Recurrent Social Formations on the Eurasian Steppes and in West Asia: Patterns and Processes of Interconnection during Later Prehistory
pp 244-260

Appendix
pp 261-268

References
pp 269-290

Index
pp 291-296

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