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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822640603321

Autore

Frachetti Michael D

Titolo

Pastoralist landscapes and social interaction in bronze age Eurasia / / Michael D. Frachetti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-36079-5

9786612360794

0-520-94269-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

950.1

Soggetti

Bronze age - Eurasia

Pastoral systems, Prehistoric - Eurasia

Excavations (Archaeology) - Eurasia

Antiquities, Prehistoric - Eurasia

Eurasia Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-205) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. Conceptualizing Pastoralist Landscapes -- 2. An Archaeology of Bronze Age Eurasia -- 3. Continuity, Variation, and Change of the Eurasian Steppe Environment -- 4. Between Ethnography and History: Pastoralism and Society in Semirech'ye and the Dzhungar Mountains -- 5. A Pastoralist Landscape in Semirech'ye: Archaeology of the Koksu River Valley -- 6. Bronze Age Pastoralism, Landscape, and Social Interaction -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.