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.
Introduction; Part I. The Bronze Age: The Rise of Economic and Cultural
Complexity: 1. The development of bronze metallurgy; 2. The achievements
and collisions of the early and middle Bronze Age; 3. Stabilization,
colonization and expansion in the late Bronze Age; 4. On the eve of a new
epoch: final Bronze Age; Part II. The Iron Age: Forming Eurasian
Interactions: 5. The transition to the Iron Age and new tendencies in
economic development; 6. The Southern Ural within the nomadic world: at the
cultural crossroads; 7. The world of cultures of Cis-Urals forest zone of
Eastern Europe: the maintenance of identities; 8. The forest-steppe
cultures of the Urals and western Siberia: on the northern periphery of the
nomadic world; 9. Social trends in north-central Eurasia during the second
and first millennia BC.
