BOOKS - Pastoralist Landscapes and Social Interaction in Bronze Age Eurasia
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Pastoralist Landscapes and Social Interaction in Bronze Age Eurasia
Author: Michael David Frachetti
Year: December 6, 2008
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 14 MB
Language: English
Year: December 6, 2008
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 14 MB
Language: English
Offering a fresh archaeological interpretation, this work reconceptualizes the Bronze Age prehistory of the vast Eurasian steppe during one of the most formative and innovative periods of human history. Michael D. Frachetti combines an analysis of newly documented archaeological sites in the Koksu River valley of eastern Kazakhstan with detailed paleoecological and ethnohistorical data to illustrate patterns in land use, settlement, burial, and rock art. His investigation illuminates the practical effect of nomadic strategies on the broader geography of social interaction and suggests a new model of local and regional interconnection in the third and second millennia B.C.E. Frachetti further argues that these early nomadic communities played a pivotal role in shaping enduring networks of exchange across Eurasia.