The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia

ISBN: 9780521130158 出版年：2007 页码：322 Kohl Cambridge University Press

1. Archaeological theory and archaeological evidence 2. The Chalcolithic Prelude - from social hierarchies and giant settlements to the emergence of mobile economies, ca. 4500-3500 BC 3. The Caucasus - donor and recipient of materials, technologies, and peoples to and from the ancient Near East 4. Taming the steppes - the development of miblie economies: from cattle herders with wagons to horseback riders tending mixed herds the continued eastward expansion of large-scale metallurgical production and exchange 5. Entering a sown world of irrigation agriculture - from the steppes to Central Asia and beyond: processes of movement, assimilation, and transformation into the 'civilized' world east of Sumer 6. The circulation of peoples and materials - evolution, devolution, and recurrent social formations on the Eurasian steppes and in West Asia: patterns and processes of interconnection during later prehistory.