Pastoralist Landscapes and Social Interaction in Bronze Age Eurasia
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ancient near east
archaeologists
archaeology
Author_Michael David Frachetti
before common era
bronze age
bronze age art
burial
Category=NKD
cave paintings
early humans
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eq_isMigrated=2
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ethnohistorical data
eurasia
eurasian steppe
formative periods
human history
human settlements
innovations
kazakhstan
koksu river valley
land use
landscapes
networks
nomadic communities
nomads
paleoecological data
prehistory
regional connections
rock art
social interaction
trade routes
world art
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- ISBN 9780520256897
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jan 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Offering a fresh archaeological interpretation, this work reconceptualizes the Bronze Age prehistory of the vast Eurasian steppe during one of the most formative and innovative periods of human history. Michael D. Frachetti combines an analysis of newly documented archaeological sites in the Koksu River valley of eastern Kazakhstan with detailed paleoecological and ethnohistorical data to illustrate patterns in land use, settlement, burial, and rock art. His investigation illuminates the practical effect of nomadic strategies on the broader geography of social interaction and suggests a new model of local and regional interconnection in the third and second millennia B.C.E. Frachetti further argues that these early nomadic communities played a pivotal role in shaping enduring networks of exchange across Eurasia.
Michael D. Frachetti is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
