Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia: Monuments, Metals and Mobility

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Edited by Bryan K. Hanks, University of Pittsburgh, Katheryn M. Linduff, University of Pittsburgh

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: January 2010
Print publication year:: 2009
Online ISBN:: 9780511605376
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511605376

Subjects:: Prehistory, Archaeology

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Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia challenges current interpretations of the emergence, development, and decline of social complexity in the steppe region of China and the former Soviet Union. Through a thematic investigation of archaeological patterns ranging from monument construction and use and production and consumption of metals to the nature of mobility among societies, the essays in this volume provide the most up-to-date thinking on social and cultural change in prehistoric Eurasia. Collectively, they challenge broader theoretical trends in Anglo-American archaeology, which have traditionally favored comparative studies of sedentary agricultural societies over mobile pastoralist or agro-pastoralist communities. By highlighting the potential and limitations of comparative studies of social complexity, this volume sets the agenda for future studies of this region of the world. It emphasizes how the unique nature of early steppe societies can contribute to more comprehensive interpretations of social trajectories in world prehistory.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-viii

Contributors
pp ix-xiv

Foreword: From Myth to Method: Advances in the Archaeology of the Eurasian Steppe
pp xv-xx

CHAPTER 1 - Introduction: Reconsidering Steppe Social Complexity within World Prehistory
pp 1-8

PART ONE - FRAMING COMPLEXITY
pp 9-10

CHAPTER 2 - Introduction
pp 11-18

CHAPTER 3 - Differentiated Landscapes and Non-uniform Complexity among Bronze Age Societies of the Eurasian Steppe
pp 19-46

CHAPTER 4 - The Sintashta Genesis: The Roles of Climate Change, Warfare, and Long-Distance Trade
pp 47-73

CHAPTER 5 - Settlements and Cemeteries of the Bronze Age of the Urals: The Potential for Reconstructing Early Social Dynamics
pp 74-90

CHAPTER 6 - The Maikop Singularity: The Unequal Accumulation of Wealth on the Bronze Age Eurasian Steppe?
pp 91-104

PART TWO - MINING, METALLURGY, AND TRADE
pp 105-106

CHAPTER 7 - Introduction
pp 107-114

CHAPTER 8 - Formation of the Eurasian Steppe Belt Cultures: Viewed through the Lens of Archaeometallurgy and Radiocarbon Dating
pp 115-145

CHAPTER 9 - Late Prehistoric Mining, Metallurgy, and Social Organization in North Central Eurasia
pp 146-167

CHAPTER 10 - The Bronze-Using Cultures in the Northern Frontier of Ancient China and the Metallurgies of Ancient Dian Area in Yunnan Province
pp 168-186

CHAPTER 11 - Production and Social Complexity: Bronze Age Metalworking in the Middle Volga
pp 187-214

CHAPTER 12 - Early Metallurgy and Socio-Cultural Complexity: Archaeological Discoveries in Northwest China
pp 215-232

PART THREE - FRONTIERS AND BORDER DYNAMICS
pp 233-234

CHAPTER 13 - Introduction
pp 235-240

CHAPTER 14 - Violence on the Frontiers? Sources of Power and Socio-Political Change at the Easternmost Parts of the Eurasian Steppe during the Late Second and Early First Millennia BCE
pp 241-271

CHAPTER 15 - First-Millennium BCE Beifang Artifacts as Historical Documents
pp 272-295

CHAPTER 16 - Blurring the Boundaries: Foragers and Pastoralists in the Volga-Urals Region
pp 296-320

PART FOUR - SOCIAL POWER, MONUMENTALITY, AND MOBILITY
pp 321-322

CHAPTER 17 - Introduction
pp 323-329

CHAPTER 18 - Re-writing Monumental Landscapes as Inner Asian Political Process
pp 330-357

CHAPTER 19 - Socially Integrative Facilities and the Emergence of Societal Complexity on the Mongolian Steppe
pp 358-377

CHAPTER 20 - Pre-Scythian Ceremonialism, Deer Stone Art, and Cultural Intensification in Northern Mongolia
pp 378-412

Index
pp 413-417

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