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xiii, 237 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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History, Slavs, Europe, eastern, history, Slavs, history, Slaves, HistoirePlaces
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The early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the initial settlement to the Kievan Rus
1996, Longman
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ... vii
Preface ... ix
Transliteration of Cyrilic Names ... xii
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1. THE SLAVS AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN RUSSIA ... 1
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2. GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING ... 8
─ Geology and landforms ... 8
─ Hydrology ... 13
─ Climate ... 14
─ Vegetation and soils ... 14
─ Population and ethnic groups ... 18
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3. THE INITIAL SETTLEMENT ... 23
─ Palaeolithic beginnings ... 23
─ The Last Ice Age ... 29
─ The Mousterian ... 30
─ The Upper Palaeolithic ... 34
─ The Late Glacial ... 41
─ Early languages ... 44
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4. POSTGLACIAL FARMERS AND HUNTERS ... 47
─ The Holocene ... 47
─ The Mesolithic ... 51
─ Early Neolithic ... 62
─ Middle Neolithic ... 76
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5. THE BEAKER FOLKS ... 81
─ The Post-optimum ... 81
─ The Corded Ware ... 82
─ The steppe groups ... 91
─ The Bronze Age ... 96
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6. THE AGE OF CHANGE ... 109
─ The Iron Age ... 109
─ The northern hill-forts ... 113
─ The Cimmerians, Scythians, Greeks and ... 117
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7. THE SLAVS, BALTS AND FINNS ... 137
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8. THE SLAVS IN EUROPE ... 146
─ Pax Romana ... 146
─ The Zarubintsy and Chernyakhovian ... 148
─ The rise of the Slavs ... 160
─ The Slavs in the north ... 167
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9. THE VIKINGS AND THE RUS ... 171
─ The Little Optimum ... 171
─ The Vikings in Europe ... 173
─ The Scandinavians and the Slavs ... 177
─ The beginnings of Russian statehood ... 193
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Conclusions ... 198
Glossary ... 201
Bibliography ... 210
Index ... 231
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-230) and index.
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