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Author Frachetti, Michael D.

Title Pastoralist landscapes and social interaction in bronze age Eurasia / Michael D. Frachetti
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 213 p.)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-205) and index
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Subject Bronze age -- Eurasia
Pastoral systems, Prehistoric -- Eurasia
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Eurasia
Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Eurasia
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Antiquities
Antiquities, Prehistoric
Bronze age
Excavations (Archaeology)
Pastoral systems, Prehistoric
SUBJECT Eurasia -- Antiquities
Subject Eurasia
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021696400
ISBN 9780520942691
0520942698
0520256891
9780520256897
1282360795
9781282360792