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001 2008040587
003 DLC
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008 080912s2009 enk b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780521517126 (hbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aDS328$b.S63 2009
082 00 $a930$222
245 00 $aSocial complexity in prehistoric Eurasia :$bmonuments, metals, and mobility /$cedited by Bryan K. Hanks, Katheryn M. Linduff.
260 $aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2009.
263 $a0906
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPreface: From myth to method : advances in the archaeology of the Eurasian steppe -- Differentiated political landscapes and non-uniform complexity in Bronze Age steppe archaeology -- Climate change, conflict, and the origins of the Sintashta-Arkaim complex -- Settlements and necropolises of the Bronze Age of the Urals : opportunities for the reconstruction of social dynamics -- The Maikop singularity : a unique example of the unequal accumulation of wealth on the Bronze Age Eurasian steppes? -- Formation of the Eurasian steppe belt of stockbreeding cultures : viewed through the prism of archaeometallurgy and radiocarbon dating -- Modeling early metallurgical production and community organization -- Technology and exchange : the metallic artifacts excavated in the ancient Dian region of Yunnan Province from 5th c. BC to 2nd c. AD -- Metal making and social complexity in the Bronze Age steppes : material culture practices and value -- Early metallurgy and socio-cultural complexity : a view based on archaeological discoveries in eastern Central Asia -- Violence on the frontiers? : sources of power and socio-political change at the easternmost parts of the Eurasian steppes during the early first millennium BCE -- First millennium BCE Beifang artifacts as historical documents -- Blurring the boundaries : uncovering the complex interactions between foragers and pastoralists in the Volga-Ural region -- Re-writing monumental landscapes as inner Asian political process -- "Socially integrative facilities" and the emergence of societal complexity on the Mongolian steppe -- Deer stones and Khirigsuurs : pre-Scythian Bronze Age ceremonialism and art in northern Mongolia.
650 0 $aSocial archaeology$zEurasia.
650 0 $aSteppe archaeology$zEurasia.
650 0 $aPrehistoric peoples$zEurasia.
650 0 $aMonuments$zEurasia$xHistory.
650 0 $aMetallurgy$zEurasia$xHistory.
650 0 $aSocial mobility$zEurasia$xHistory.
650 0 $aExcavations (Archaeology)$zEurasia.
651 0 $aEurasia$xAntiquities.
651 0 $aChina$xAntiquities.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xAntiquities.
700 1 $aHanks, Bryan K.,$d1967-
700 1 $aLinduff, Katheryn M.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0828/2008040587.html