An edition of The early Slavs (1996)

The early Slavs

Eastern Europe from the initial settlement to the Kievan Rus

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An edition of The early Slavs (1996)

The early Slavs

Eastern Europe from the initial settlement to the Kievan Rus

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xiii, 237 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

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Publisher
Longman
Language
English
Pages
237

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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ... vii
Preface ... ix
Transliteration of Cyrilic Names ... xii
1. THE SLAVS AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN RUSSIA ... 1
2. GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING ... 8
─ Geology and landforms ... 8
─ Hydrology ... 13
─ Climate ... 14
─ Vegetation and soils ... 14
─ Population and ethnic groups ... 18
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
4. POSTGLACIAL FARMERS AND HUNTERS ... 47
─ The Holocene ... 47
─ The Mesolithic ... 51
─ Early Neolithic ... 62
─ Middle Neolithic ... 76
5. THE BEAKER FOLKS ... 81
─ The Post-optimum ... 81
─ The Corded Ware ... 82
─ The steppe groups ... 91
─ The Bronze Age ... 96
6. THE AGE OF CHANGE ... 109
─ The Iron Age ... 109
─ The northern hill-forts ... 113
─ The Cimmerians, Scythians, Greeks and ... 117
7. THE SLAVS, BALTS AND FINNS ... 137
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
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
Conclusions ... 198
Glossary ... 201
Bibliography ... 210
Index ... 231

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-230) and index.

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London, New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
DJK27 .D65 1996, DJK27.D65 1996, DJK27 .D65 2013eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 237 p. :
Number of pages
237
Dimensions
24 cm

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL808718M
Internet Archive
earlyslavseaster0000dolu
ISBN 10
0582236274, 0582236185
ISBN 13
9780582236271, 9780582236189
LCCN
95045474
OCLC/WorldCat
33277756, 60153016, 185367932, 889310541
Goodreads
4575929
1234239

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