The making of bronze age Eurasia / / Philip L. Kohl [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457622703321
• Autore: Kohl Philip L. <1946->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007
• ISBN: 1-107-16453-2; 1-280-75039-1; 0-511-61846-8; 0-511-26948-X; 0-511-27004-6; 0-511-26823-8; 0-511-32029-9; 0-511-26890-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxiii, 296 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge world archaeology
• Disciplina: 950/.1
• Soggetti: Bronze age - Eurasia; Excavations (Archaeology) - Eurasia; Eurasia Antiquities
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS; ABBREVIATIONS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1 ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CHAPTER 2 THE CHALCOLITHIC PRELUDE: FROM SOCIAL HIERARCHIES AND GIANT...; CHAPTER 3 THE CAUCASUS - DONOR AND RECIPIENT OF MATERIALS, TECHNOLOGIES, AND PEOPLES TO AND FROM THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST; CHAPTER 4 TAMING THE STEPPE - THE DEVELOPMENT OF MOBILE ECONOMIES: FROM CATTLE HERDERS WITH WAGONS TO HORSEBACK...; CHAPTER 5 ENTERING A SOWN WORLD OF IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE - FROM THE STEPPES TO CENTRAL ASIA AND BEYOND:...; CHAPTER 6 THE CIRCULATION OF PEOPLES AND MATERIALS - EVOLUTION, DEVOLUTION,...APPENDIX; REFERENCES; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.