The Urals and Western Siberia in the Bronze and Iron Ages

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Cambridge University Press, 24 mars 2014
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This book is the first synthesis of the archaeology of the Urals and Western Siberia. It presents a comprehensive overview of the late prehistoric cultures of these regions, which are of key importance for the understanding of long-term changes in Eurasia. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, the Urals and Western Siberia are characterized by great environmental and cultural diversity which is reflected in the variety and richness of their archaeological sites. Based on the latest achievements of Russian archaeologists, this study demonstrates the temporal and geographical range of its subjects starting with a survey of the chronological sequence from the late fourth millennium BC to the early first millennium AD. Recent discoveries contribute to an understanding of issues such as the development of Eurasian metallurgy, technological and ritual innovations, pastoral nomadism and its role in Eurasian interactions, and major sociocultural fluctuations of the Bronze and Iron Ages.
 

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Stabilization Colonization and Expansion in the Late
111
Final Bronze Age
161
part two the iron age forming eurasian interactions
187
At
203
The World of Cultures of CisUrals Forest Zone of Eastern
251
Social Trends in NorthCentral Eurasia during the Second
316
Notes
339
List of Plates Figures and Tables page
x
Preface
xxi
References
347
Introduction 1
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Page 209 - ... economic strategy without accounting for specific conditions and respective cultural attributes. One population can simultaneously practice economic patterns characterized as fully nomadic, seminomadic (seasonal pastoralism), and sedentary forms of stock breeding. The degree of mobility, herd composition, amplitude, and distance of migration obviously depend on local environment, social and economic levels of development, and the traditions of any given society (Khazanov 1984). By the 6th century...
Page 208 - ... nomadic cultures have a direct impact upon the Sargat. These groups are known from ancient written sources such as Herodotus, Hippocrates, and Strabo. Therefore, we can use these accounts as information. From the beginning one needs to say a few words about stock breeding. Approaches to stock breeding cannot be classified as one uniform economic strategy without accounting for specific conditions and respective cultural attributes. One population can simultaneously practice economic patterns...
Page 204 - Semi-nomadic pastoralism is characterized by extensive pastoralism and the periodic changing of pastures during the course of the entire, or the greater part of the year; but although pastoralism is the predominant activity, there is also agriculture in a secondary and supplementary capacity.
Page 336 - When we draw such a curve, covering several centuries and even millennia, we can distinguish a much-summarized tendency, consisting of many concrete "histories." These "histories" are reflected in various ceramic types and styles, architectural traditions, burial combinations, and other forms of material culture, which we cannot always easily coordinate. Evidently, social trends within a given time period are often far from a progressive step forward in evolution.
Page 321 - Regarding economic specialization, again it is not clearly evident. Yet, if one were to consider the domestic and communal character of the metallurgical production (the remains of metal production were found in almost every excavated dwelling structure), then we should ask, "Who raised the cattle?
Page 321 - If, however, a detailed analysis of all cultural components, in particular the funeral rite, does not distinguish strong internal stratification, corresponding to our understanding of wealth systems within prehistoric societies, we may then doubt the degree of social inequality within the representative communities (although it is clear that this criteria is not self-evident).
Page 359 - Richards, M. & V. Macaulay, 2000. Genetic data and the colonization of Europe: genealogies and founders, in Archaeogenetics: DNA and the Population Prehistory of Europe, eds C. Renfrew & K. Boyle. (McDonald Institute Monographs.) Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 139-51.
Page 329 - BC, extended their interests toward the forest zone of Eurasia. In fact, they divided northern Eurasia into several spheres of influence and formed their own close peripheries, the size of which were determined by the level of social maturity of its populations.
Page 313 - ... slopes of the Urals, were oriented to the nomads' needs, by supplying them with weaponry. These were metal producing cultures with a particular specialization.
Page 210 - The biological conditions of the steppe of eastern Europe and western Siberia were influenced either by global or by local climatic cycles. Therefore, their fluctuation was different on both sides of the Ural range and its northern and southern parts.

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Ludmila Koryakova is a professor at Ural State University and the Institute of History and Archaeology at the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She has received fellowships from the European Community (INTAS foundation), the Russian Academy of Sciences, CNRS, and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is the author of more than eighty publications in Russian, European, and American books and journals.

Andrej Vladimirovich Epimakhov is a PhD Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as an Assistant Professor at Southern Ural State University.

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