Philip L. Kohl

The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A rich overview of Bronze Age societies of western Eurasia through an investigation of the archaeological record.

This book provides an overview of Bronze Age societies of western Eurasia through an investigation of the archaeological record. Philip Kohl 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, macro-historical process of interaction and shared development.

Table of contents:
1. Archaeological theory and archaeological evidence; 2. The chalcolithic prelude: from social hierarchies and giant settlements to the emergence of mobile economies, c. 4500(?)1;3500 BC; 3. The caucasus - donor and recipient of materials, technologies, and peoples to and from the ancient Near East; 4. Taming the steppe - the development of mobile economies: from cattle herders with wagons to horseback riders tending mixed herds: the continued eastward expansion of large-scale metallurgical production and change; 5. Entering a sown world of irrigation - from the steppes to central Asia and beyond: processes of movement, assimilation and transformation into the 'civilized' world east of Sumer; 6. The circulation of peoples.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 803g
• ISBN-13: 9780521847803
• ISBN-10: 052184780X
• Artikelnr.: 21828657

Autorenporträt

Philip L. Kohl is Professor of Anthropology and Kathryn W. Davis Professor of Slavic Studies at Wellesley College. He is the author of The Bronze Age Civilization of Central Asia: Recent Soviet Discoveries, Recent Discoveries in Transcaucasia and co-editor of Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Archaeological theory and archaeological evidence; 2. The Chalcolithic
Prelude - from social hierarchies and giant settlements to the emergence of
mobile economies, ca. 4500-3500 BC; 3. The Caucasus - donor and recipient
of materials, technologies, and peoples to and from the ancient Near East;
4. Taming the steppes - the development of miblie economies: from cattle
herders with wagons to horseback riders tending mixed herds; the continued
eastward expansion of large-scale metallurgical production and exchange; 5.
Entering a sown world of irrigation agriculture - from the steppes to
Central Asia and beyond: processes of movement, assimilation, and
transformation into the 'civilized' world east of Sumer; 6. The circulation
of peoples and materials - evolution, devolution, and recurrent social
formations on the Eurasian steppes and in West Asia: patterns and processes
of interconnection during later prehistory.