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Social Complexity In Prehistoric Eurasia
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Author : Bryan K. Hanks
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-08-31
Social Complexity In Prehistoric Eurasia written by Bryan K. Hanks and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-31 with History categories.
Challenges current interpretations of social and cultural change in prehistoric Eurasia, through a thematic investigation of archaeological patterns.
Social Complexity In Prehistoric Eurasia
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Author : Bryan K. Hanks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-14
Social Complexity In Prehistoric Eurasia written by Bryan K. Hanks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with Social Science categories.
Challenges current interpretations of social and cultural change in prehistoric Eurasia, through a thematic investigation of archaeological patterns.
Prehistoric Mobility And Diet In The West Eurasian Steppes 3500 To 300 Bc
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Author : Claudia Gerling
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2015-07-01
Prehistoric Mobility And Diet In The West Eurasian Steppes 3500 To 300 Bc written by Claudia Gerling and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-01 with History categories.
Questions concerning mobility and migration as well as subsistence strategies of past societies have always been of major importance in archaeological research. The West Eurasian steppes in the Eneolithic, the Early Bronze and the Iron Age were largely inhabited by cultural communities believed to show an elevated level of spatial mobility, often linked to their subsistence economy. In this volume, questions concerning the mobility and potential migration as well as the diet and economy of the West Eurasian steppes communities during the 4th, the 3rd and the 1st Millennia BC are approached by applying isotope analysis, specifically 87Sr/86Sr, δ18O, δ15N and δ13C analyses. Adapting a combination of different isotopic systems to a study area of vast spatial and chronological dimension allowed a wide variety of questions to be answered and establishes the beginning of a database of biogeochemical data for the West Eurasian steppes. Besides the characterisation of mobility and subsistence patterns of the archaeological communities under discussion, attempts to identify possible Early Bronze Age migrations from the steppes to the steppe-like plains in parts of Eastern Europe were made, alongside an evaluation of the applicability of isotope analysis to this context.
The Archaeology Of Inequality
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Author : Orlando Cerasuolo
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2021-09-01
The Archaeology Of Inequality written by Orlando Cerasuolo and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-01 with Social Science categories.
The Archaeology of Inequality explores the different aspects of social boundaries and articulation by comparing several interdisciplinary approaches for the analysis of the archaeological data, as well as actual case studies from the Prehistory to the Classical world. The book explores slavery, gender, ethnicity and economy as intersecting areas of study within the larger framework of inequality and exemplifies to what degree archaeologists can identify and analyze different patterns of inequality.
Subsistence And Society In Prehistory
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Author : Alan K. Outram
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-24
Subsistence And Society In Prehistory written by Alan K. Outram and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-24 with Business & Economics categories.
Explains how recent scientific advances have revolutionised our understanding of prehistoric diet, economy and society.
Tales Of Three Worlds Archaeology And Beyond Asia Italy Africa
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Author : Donatella Usai
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2020-01-31
Tales Of Three Worlds Archaeology And Beyond Asia Italy Africa written by Donatella Usai and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-31 with Social Science categories.
This book presents a series of papers in honour of Sandro Salvatori divided into three main sections reflecting his long years of work in Middle Asia, his time in Italy as an officer of the Archaeological Superintendency (Ministry of Cultural Heritage), and finally his studies on the prehistory of north-eastern Africa.
Live Stock And Dead Things
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Author : Hannah Chazin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2024-12-20
Live Stock And Dead Things written by Hannah Chazin and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-20 with Social Science categories.
Reconceptualizes human-animal relationships and their political significance in ancient and modern societies. In Live Stock and Dead Things, Hannah Chazin combines zooarchaeology and anthropology to challenge familiar narratives about the role of nonhuman animals in the rise of modern societies. Conventional views of this process tend to see a mostly linear development from hunter-gatherer societies, to horticultural and pastoral ones, to large-scale agricultural ones, and then industrial ones. Along the way, traditional accounts argue that owning livestock as property, along with land and other valuable commodities, introduced social inequality and stratification. Against this, Chazin raises a provocative question: What if domestication wasn’t the origin of instrumentalizing nonhuman animals after all? Chazin argues that these conventional narratives are inherited from conjectural histories and ignore the archaeological data. In her view, the category of “domestication” flattens the more complex dimensions of humans’ relationship to herd animals. In the book’s first half, Chazin offers a new understanding of the political possibilities of pastoralism, one that recognizes the powerful role herd animals have played in shaping human notions of power and authority. In the second half, she takes readers into her archaeological fieldwork in the South Caucasus, which sheds further light on herd animals’ transformative effect on the economy, social life, and ritual. Appealing to anthropologists and archaeologists alike, this daring book offers a reconceptualization of human-animal relationships and their political significance.
The Cultures Of Ancient Xinjiang Western China Crossroads Of The Silk Roads
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Author : Alison Betts
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2019-12-19
The Cultures Of Ancient Xinjiang Western China Crossroads Of The Silk Roads written by Alison Betts and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-19 with History categories.
One of the least known but culturally rich and complex regions located at the heart of Asia, Xinjiang was a hub for the Silk Roads, serving international links between cultures to the west, east, north and south. Trade, artefacts, foods, technologies, ideas, beliefs, animals and people traversed the glacier covered mountain and desert boundaries.
Inner Asia And The Spatial Politics Of Empire
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Author : William Honeychurch
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-11-05
Inner Asia And The Spatial Politics Of Empire written by William Honeychurch and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-05 with Social Science categories.
This monograph uses the latest archaeological results from Mongolia and the surrounding areas of Inner Asia to propose a novel understanding of nomadic statehood, political economy, and the nature of interaction with ancient China. In contrast to the common view of the Eurasian steppe as a dependent periphery of Old World centers, this work views Inner Asia as a locus of enormous influence on neighboring civilizations, primarily through the development and transmission of diverse organizational models, technologies, and socio-political traditions. This work explores the spatial management of political relationships within the pastoral nomadic setting during the first millennium BCE and argues that a culture of mobility, horse-based transport, and long-distance networking promoted a unique variant of statehood. Although states of the eastern steppe were geographically large and hierarchical, these polities also relied on techniques of distributed authority, multiple centers, flexible structures, and ceremonialism to accommodate a largely mobile and dispersed populace. This expertise in “spatial politics” set the stage early on for the expansionistic success of later Asian empires under the Mongols and Manchus. Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire brings a distinctly anthropological treatment to the prehistory of Mongolia and is the first major work to explore key issues in the archaeology of eastern Eurasia using a comparative framework. The monograph adds significantly to anthropological theory on interaction between states and outlying regions, the emergence of secondary complexity, and the growth of imperial traditions. Based on this approach, the window of Inner Asian prehistory offers a novel opportunity to investigate the varied ways that complex societies grow and the processes articulating adjacent societies in networks of mutual transformation.
Fitful Histories And Unruly Publics Rethinking Temporality And Community In Eurasian Archaeology
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-09-27
Fitful Histories And Unruly Publics Rethinking Temporality And Community In Eurasian Archaeology written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-27 with History categories.
Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics re-examines the relationship between Eurasia’s past and its present by interrogating the social construction of time and the archaeological production of culture. Traditionally, archaeological research in Eurasia has focused on assembling normative descriptions of monolithic cultures that endure for millennia, largely immune to the forces of historical change. The papers in this volume seek to document forces of difference and contestation in the past that were produced in the perceptible engagements of peoples, things, and places. The research gathered here convincingly demonstrates that these forces made social life in ancient Eurasia rather more fitful and its publics considerably more unruly than archaeological research has traditionally allowed. Contributors are Mikheil Abramishvili, Paula N. Doumani Dupuy, Magnus Fiskesjö, Hilary Gopnik, Emma Hite, Jean-Luc Houle, Erik G. Johannesson, James A. Johnson, Lori Khatchadourian, Ian Lindsay, Maureen E. Marshall, Mitchell S. Rothman, Irina Shingiray, Adam T. Smith, Kathryn O. Weber and Xin Wu.