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Reconstruction of the Bronze Age of the Caspian Steppes: Life styles and life ways of pastoral nomads
Natalia Shishlina
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The Caspian Steppes have been attracting attention in the focus of many scholars for more than a hundred years, because the steppes that lie between the Lower Volga and the Lower Don regions, and border with the North Caucasus is an area where many cultural traditions formed and developed. Multiethnic and multicultural groups are behind such traditions. The objective of this book is to systematize the dating of Caspian Steppes' sites to different cultures, based on new archaeological sources that have appeared recently as a result of new excavations. The detailed analysis of key features of the burial rite and general categories of the material culture, i.e. grave offerings, provides a possibility to present in Chapter 1 characteristics of archaeological cultures and cultural groups of the Caspian Steppes in the Eneolithic–Middle Bronze Age. Application of the complex method of establishing culture sequence in Chapter 2 is aimed at revealing changes of cultural traditions in the region and establishing their absolute chronology. The database obtained gives grounds to evaluate the ethno-cultural historical process in the region under discussion through models of the economic cycle and production developed by ancient population is presented in Chapter 3. Amongst others, this book is based on the Bronze Age collections from the Eurasian Steppe and the Caucasus of the Archaeology Department of the State Historical Museum in Moscow, and data obtained from the excavation of the Steppe Archaeological Expedition of the State Historical Museum.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Dedication
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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CONTENTS
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LIST OF FIGURES
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LIST OF TABLES
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INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER 1: FUNERAL RITE AND MATERIAL CULTURE: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURAL TRADITION
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CHAPTER 2: EXPLOITATION OF THE CASPIAN STEPPES FROM THE ENEOLITHIC TO THE MIDDLE BRONZE AGE: A CHANGE OF CULTURAL TRADITIONS
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CHAPTER 3: PASTORAL EXPLOITATION OF THE CASPIAN STEPPES FROM THE ENEOLITHIC TO THE BRONZE AGE
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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APPENDIX 1: SEX AND AGE DETERMINATION OF THE DEAD FROM THE CASPIAN STEPPES KURGAN BURIAL GROUNDS
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APPENDIX 2: RADIOCARBON DATABASE OF THE BRONZE AGE CASPIAN STEPPES
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APPENDIX 3: SEASONALITY DATA OF THE BRONZE AGE CASPIAN STEPPES GRAVES
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Published: 2008
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407303567 (paperback)
- 9781407333830 (ebook)
BAR Number: S1876