The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia
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- Author: Philip L. Kohl, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
- Date Published: June 2009
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521130158
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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.
Read more- A rich overview of the archaeological late prehistoric record of western Eurasia that has been compiled principally by Soviet/Russians throughout the 20th and into the 21st centuries
- The book integrates developments on the steppes of 'barbarian' western Eurasia with the emergence of development of early states in the 'civilized' ancient Near East to the south
- The book argues forcefully that the main task of the archaeologist should be to write culture-history on a spatially and temporally grand scale that detects large macro-historical processes of interaction and shared development
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'The book consists of six harmoniously and logically structured chapters. … interestingly written and well illustrated.' American Journal of Archaeology
See more reviews'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.' Minerva
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- Date Published: June 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521130158
- length: 322 pages
- dimensions: 249 x 175 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.57kg
- contains: 130 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Archaeological theory and archaeological evidence
2. The Chalcolithic Prelude - from social hierarchies and giant settlements to the emergence of mobile economies, ca. 4500–3500 BC
3. The Caucasus - donor and recipient of materials, technologies, and peoples to and from the ancient Near East
4. Taming the steppes - the development of miblie economies: from cattle herders with wagons to horseback riders tending mixed herds
the continued eastward expansion of large-scale metallurgical production and exchange
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
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.
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